Just two to share on Tuesday...

The first one is just a glimpse into some of our activities this week... Had a football game--a home game, played volleyball, played soccer in Midland/Odessa, practiced the trumpet, did homework, drove carpool...

Also, a family we've known since Tyler was in kindergarten or first grade lost their older son to suicide last week. Tyler spent quite a bit of time over there with his friend, Scott. Tyler was deeply affected by it all. It's so sad to think that Marc's life was cut short because he couldn't see any other way out.

The second one is for Ginny. :) I know how much she's enjoying the campaign and all things political right now.

Randomness

David and I ate at Freebirds on our last trip to Lubbock. Love that place! :)


We WON the volleyball game! Right now, we are the only undefeated 8th grade team. (And we've played all the harder teams! Yay!) For the winning point, Hadley had a super hard hit--one of those that makes people say WOW! They got it up, but ended up not being able to get it back over.

It pays to have friends in HIGH places. Literally! Lance got to play around in the press box during Friday night's game. He thought that was pretty cool. He was impressed with the snacks they had available up there. :) He sent us a text telling us to look for him. They didn't stay long--it's more fun to be in the fray.


About that game, we ended up losing in double overtime. It was exciting, but didn't end the way we hoped. Our playoff hopes are still alive, but just barely...

Ten on Tuesday

No pics today. Just notes from the week.

1. RAIN. RAIN. RAIN. So much rain that our middle school's basement level (most of the 6th grade classes) flooded. Lance got to spend the first half of the day in the band hall. He wasn't complaining!

2. I'm nearing completion of the first draft of my little project. It will go out for review, then back to me for revision. We hope to go live by mid-November. Yikes!

3. More appointments this week. September and October have been filled. I'm ready for a little break there...

4. David had Columbus Day off. We didn't do anything special, mostly because I was busy. It was a nice change of pace regardless.

5. Mom and Dad came to town this weekend. Just hung out. That was nice.

6. My brother and sister-in-law became godparents on Sunday. Yep, you read that right. Godparents!

7. I'm using this list to take a break from my project. Shh!

8. We have an important volleyball game this week. If we beat them, there's a great chance we'll be city champs!

9. We have an important soccer game this week as well--it won't determine our standings, but could really help or hurt our morale.

10. We have an important football game this week. We're hanging on to playoff hopes by a thread... :)

Notice a trend in the last three? :)

Super powers, graduation and such

Enthralled in a video game...

We went to our first "senior" meeting of the school year last night. OMGoodness! I just can't believe it. So much to know and do!

First off, we have a date for graduation.
May 29 at 8:00 at the Civic Center---Baccalaureate around Mother's Day weekend, date TBD

Save the date, ok? :) We bought his senior t-shirt, got info on caps/gowns and announcements, all night party and all that fun stuff. The college counselor also reminded us that we should be applying for schools between now and Thanksgiving and preparing for scholarship apps shortly after. Wow! David and I left a little overwhelmed. It's hard to believe he's ready for all that. We talked on the way home about all the possible scenarios, etc. When we got home, Tyler greeted us at the door to tell us what he and Lance had been cooking up while we were out. If they could each choose their own super powers, do you know what Ty's would be??? He would be able to fart out his belly button. Since Lance can already do that, he would be able to fart confetti. All this while we were trying to figure out what 3 colleges we should start with...Nice. Do you think he's ready?? David thinks we need to be on the lookout for schools that want kids that are special. ha!

Today, Hadley and Lance had well check-ups with our pediatrician. Lance got 2 shots. Hadley got FOUR! Poor things. They both thought they should be able to skip the rest of the day, but I was mean and made them go back. We did get to stop for a nice lunch before going back, though. I think that catches them up for a while. David, Tyler and I still need our flu shots, so we'll have to work on that later. The flu shots were an unexpected bonus today---our actual appointment for them wasn't until late October. I was happy to get it all done today--saves time and money. :) Enjoy the rest of your week!

Just another tidbit...

Lance had a chair test in band on Friday. Guess who is trumpet first chair??? Pretty cool, considering he never practices... :) Now he probably won't stay there unless he starts practicing, but it's cool nonetheless!

The post with lots of bffs.

Ok. A Lotus??? You're kidding me, right?? I don't know who this car belongs to, but one of the homecoming nominees rode in it for the parade. Ay yi yi. A Lotus! The other arrow points to a nondescript guy wearing a hat and sunglasses. It's our old friend Stan. He's just recently moved back to town. One of my bffs, his ex-wife, warned me that he was back in town. She was certain we'd run into him. And, we DID. I was expecting to see him at the store or church or someplace like that. Certainly NOT at the homecoming parade. But that's where he was. Weird, huh?
Of course, it was all about the football boys. The parade is huge--crazy for a high school football game. He enjoyed it. See the smile? 'Course that smile disappeared when he saw me with the camera.
We had to provide a poster for the float. I had no clue how it should look, but here's what I came up with--the balloons and streamers are attached to his poster. I guess it turned out ok.
Here's the birthday girl and one of her bffs, Alli, at the parade.
Here's Hadley and two of her bffs--Alli and David. Notice Alli's mum??? Too clever. She's such a fun girl. Love her! You can kind of tell here how tall David's gotten. He's 6 feet tall now... His dad came over to take pictures too and ended up bringing his big brother Josh and eating hamburgers with us. It was fun---very casual and fun. There's more, but that'll have to do it for now. Lots of work to do!