Power of Prayers...

This little angel is in need of our prayers.. can you pray for him today?
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March MATH Madness

This last weekend we headed down to Austin to compete in the MATH Pentathalon. The dude and a group of friends signed up and have been practicing after school each week since October (yes this along with soccer,karate, baseball... sigh....)Basically the whole "idea" (in case you have no clue) is the kids (aka: pentathletes) compete in a series of 5 games against other pentathletes. The games range in difficulty and are age appropriate.. the Level 1 games are for K and 1st grade while level 2 are for
2nd and 3rd and so on.

The dude and his best bud B with their Math Coach Mrs. Linscomb...


Now let me just get these out of the way.. the diva of course had to have HER picture taken (and then immediately viewed for her approval.. UGHHH...

This handsome young man is my younger brother and the kids Uncle Rick. He met up with us for the weekend since he lives in Austin. The diva just adores him :)

Some of the games....

The actual competition... (which was interesting as they were like the "Math Police".. gesh NO hanging on the rails.. no STANDING on the rails.. "mam, yes you with the camera.. hanging on the rail.. you need to BACK off!" Sooo... I did the best I could with my zoom and no flash..

And I just liked the colors with this one :)

The Pentathletes!!! :)

My Favorite Things....

Ok so I am normally not a "plugger" but when I was preordering Twilight on Amazon I saw this book titled Twilight: Director's Notebook: The Story of How We Made the Movie Based on the Novel by Stephenie Meyer . I figured it was a good buy. Anyone who knows me knows I LOVE to read, watch movies, then compare the two..lol.. Which I did with Twilight. After seeing the movie hmmm.. maybe 4 times.. I went back and re-read the book again.. found quite a few differences.. then watched the movie again. Anyway.. I had many questions.. as most fellow Twilighters do, about why certain things were added, deleted.. and of course, I just wanted to know everything I could about the movie!

Ths book satisfied my "thirst" for more information. Harwick provides pictures, funny notes, drawings, and real movie quotes about everything from why they picked certain clothing items to why scenes went the way they did, how they chose the actors and more. It is a WAY easy read, it reads more like a diary or comic then a book. And it is packed with trivia and candid info that any twilighter is going to devour!

So if you have a few extra bucks.. I HIGHLY recommend you pick it up! It is tops on my favorite things list!!

Spring Break and Baseball

We spent the majority of last week at baseball camp. The dude got a dose of Randy's and mine "alma-matter" at the DeSoto High School Baseball Camp. A couple of the boys on dude's team decided to join in the action so away we went.


Coach K....

Some hitting... (which this was kind of funny cause all our boys just "graduated"
from Tball and think themselves "way to cool" for this- funny how even the big guys go back to the basics...)
The dude....

K...

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sorry, no diva pics today.. but check back soon.. she has a new hair do and will be showing if off soon ;)

Jumpin' for the Heart

Longbranch had their annual Jump Rope for Heart last Friday. This holds a special place for us as the dude's Paw-Paw had heart surgery and his Uncle Brian has had 2 open heart surgeries due to a torn aeorta. The faculty and students a Longbranch also take this very seriously raising over 25,000 last year (I think they were 4th in the state!!) and at last count, were well on their way to that again this year. So Holley and I packed up the littles and went in for a fun day of Jumping. Here are a few pics of the event...





Cause there is NO way 5 and 6 year olds could jump ALL day.. they also play games and jump in other ways.. they did some hula hooping- here are the 2 hula masters Cagen and Brock :)






Then of course the littles had to get into the action...