BACK TO SCHOOL

2009

Oh the twins were so proud to pick out their own back packs. The boys have customized Rangers back packs. The artwork is on the straps so they can see them. SOmetime i am glad i am so artsy. HA HA

Here they are lined up before they go inside for their first official day. Tyrell was too cool to let e go to class with him. The twins were excited but a little bit nervous. They did great after a bit.
Here was the walk to school. A lot of them ran, Nikki held my hand for a while because she was so nervous. She went as far as to share that her stomach hurt.

We mad eit through the week all right. They had a good week and the twins think they should be able to walk to school all by themselves. They get mad when we wont let them. Ohhhhh they want to get old too fast.

JULY FAMILY FUN

We have found a FABULOUS lake spot!!!

Same lake just a different part and it is SO much cleaner and has actual sand and not just mushy silt.

You can see the Marina so it makes it feel more like an exotic destination and not a weird swamp.

We rafted and Bill triedtoconvince them there was an alligator near a buoy. They were too smart to beleive it. Even when the alligator allegedly drug meunder the water, they laughed.

The kids collected shells.

I did not get sunburned, all was well.

JUNE SUMMER FUN

THIS HAS BEEN SUCH A FUN SUMMER!

We went to Dinosaur Valley in Glen Rose TX and swam with the footprint fossils from real Dinosaurs. We went with the Holt's and The Green Family. The kids had a great time and of course Bill and I got sun burned and our kids just got more beautifully bronze.

Chicken fighting is good for the soul!

Bill is quite the cheater,he chose to try and chicken fight from below too. Joke is on him, he dislocated his shoulder trying to sweep my legs from under me.

"The Summer Fun Kid Crew"
Top left- Lani, Jessica,Tyrell, Anthony, Josh
Bottom left-Connor, Kaiyla, Sam, Nikki

Tyrell and Josh sizing up how big they think that Dinosaur would have been. We had a great time swimming and hiking to some other footprints after our picnic.

GIRLS CAMP OR BUST!!!

Leelani left for her very first Young Women's experiance and it happened to be GIRLS CAMP! YEAH FOR HER! I loved girls camp growing up. She will actually turn 12 a day after camp but they let her go.

What a wonderful way to be welcomed in.

I hope this will help make her feel part of the YW program faster.

They had a huge trailor they loaded all of the luggage in. Leelani was very excited to be able to go with them.
Ok the fact that she is grounded this month and she is going to camp
in the middle of the grounding probably make it seem extra sweet to her.

LAST PTA MEETING!

Well I Presided over my very last PTA meeting this year. It was a fun and interesting introduction into PTA. I was very touched the ladies got me a cake that said Thank You Paula and a card with gift cards to Texas Road House and for pedicures. YEAH that just made my day. It was a lot of hard work and it was very nice that they honored me in that way. It somehow really did make it all worth it. Next year I am the historian and I vowed to be at only one school too. I will have 4 going to the same school for a couple more years, that will be a pleasant break. So I will settle in to the PTA that I have the most children on. It was a learning experiance and I got to know a lot more people and feel more of the community. And more importantly i had many chances to embarass Leelani, and it doesn't get any better than that!

Leelani and I got our first ride in a stretch Hummer limo. It was huge and would seat 18. There was a group of ten of us for our friend Katie's birthday. We took the Limo and went bowling.

We went bowling. I have not been in ages and Leelani had never been. I am proud of her she never fell on her shoes and she never released the ball back into the crowd. So she did good.

Katie however took the biggest spread eagle belly flop I have ever seen halfway down the lane. But her mother was ready with the video camera, apparently she knows her daughter and knew it would be film worthy.

Leelani got to play with the camera on the way back home and strut her inner super model.

Ya know the limo thing is cool but i have to rant. The price of them are not too bad, (not that i paid i have looked into them before though) But they have a three hour minimum. So essentially you pay for it to take you somewhere, then you pay for it to sit in the parking lot while you eat, bowl whatever. So it is kind of a rip off that way. I bet they would have more clientell if they raise the hourly price just a smidge and then let people go hour by hour. I think it would open up the market more and have more people use them. But hey, if I ever have an extra bazillion dollars to buy a hummer limo service that is what i would do.

Twins B day!

THE TWINS TUNRED FIVE TODAY!!!

We had two seperate parties this year.

We had them at school so their school friends could attend.

We danced and danced!

They got to open a couple of presents at school.

And they danced some more...

Then it was Nikki's turn, we moved to her
classroom and sang and opened presents.

Then we came home and sang to them again and let them

eat their little seperate cakes...

And of course we opened up a few more presents.
It was a great day! I just can't believe how big they are getting.

My babies are FIVE!!!