**the crummy picture is due to the fact that it was 4am and I was lucky to even get one...:)
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Scout Camp 2011
Braeden left at 4am yesterday morning to head off to scout camp. He LOVES camping and loves being with these goofy boys. They are going to have tons of fun!
**the crummy picture is due to the fact that it was 4am and I was lucky to even get one...:)
**the crummy picture is due to the fact that it was 4am and I was lucky to even get one...:)
MO 2011
We made a very quick trip to Missouri this past weekend to see my Dad before he leaves to Kuwait again. It was too short so the kids and I are hoping to make another trip before school starts.
One of Joshua's favorite spots in Grandma Martin's flower bed...under the Japanese Oak tree
This was so fun! My dad rented a HUGE van so that we could all fit to ride around Joplin. It was hilarious.
Owen and Braeden
One of Joshua's favorite spots in Grandma Martin's flower bed...under the Japanese Oak tree
Kate and Izzy
Me and Owen
Braeden and Grandma
Sisters
Peyton
Mom, Dad, me, and Becka
This was so fun! My dad rented a HUGE van so that we could all fit to ride around Joplin. It was hilarious.
Hope for Joplin
While in Joplin we were able to see all the devastation that the recent tornado did. It is absolutely unbelievable and hard to put in words what it really looks like. I have never seen anything like it before in my life. The pictures really do not do it justice.
We saw lots of homes with just the center most room left standing and so, so many that were just completely wiped off their foundation.
This is Joplin High School, home of the Eagles. Someone has temporarily renamed it Hope High school and there have been eagles carved out of some of the trees that were ripped up by the tornado.
This is in the parking lot of the church that my family went to. The empty lot is where the church building stood just across from Joplin High school.
As many times as we have been to Joplin it was hard to recognize were we were. There is miles and miles of nothing where there use to be houses and businesses. It is so sad to see, yet Joplin is pulling together and the rebuilding has already begun. After rolling through town on Friday night and just seeing the little that we did, Joshua made this Saturday morning.....
We saw so many trees stripped of their bark and just completely uprooted.
We saw lots of homes with just the center most room left standing and so, so many that were just completely wiped off their foundation.
Tons of cars that were twisted and mangled
This is Joplin High School, home of the Eagles. Someone has temporarily renamed it Hope High school and there have been eagles carved out of some of the trees that were ripped up by the tornado.
This is in the parking lot of the church that my family went to. The empty lot is where the church building stood just across from Joplin High school.
As many times as we have been to Joplin it was hard to recognize were we were. There is miles and miles of nothing where there use to be houses and businesses. It is so sad to see, yet Joplin is pulling together and the rebuilding has already begun. After rolling through town on Friday night and just seeing the little that we did, Joshua made this Saturday morning..... 
I'm his mom
Last week I had to take the van in for an oil change and inspection. For the record, I really dislike doing those things but on this day the compliment I received may have altered my stance on that chore.
So, my van was done being worked on and I was at the register ready to pay when the lady said to me, "Is he (meaning Braeden) your son?" I, of course, told her yes. She then said to me, "I thought he was your brother or boyfriend or something. You look way to young for him to be your son." Thank you lady...but boyfriend is going a little too far. :) Maybe she wanted a tip or something???
So, my van was done being worked on and I was at the register ready to pay when the lady said to me, "Is he (meaning Braeden) your son?" I, of course, told her yes. She then said to me, "I thought he was your brother or boyfriend or something. You look way to young for him to be your son." Thank you lady...but boyfriend is going a little too far. :) Maybe she wanted a tip or something???
Day out with Dad
This is what happens when you spend the day fishing with Dad. These boys were more than tired after a 5am wake up call to go fishing with Cary. They spent the day at Ray Roberts and then came home at about 2pm and slept. I woke them up at 7pm and then they went back to sleep at 9pm and slept all night long. They were exhausted!
Month of May....and some of June
May was extremely busy with the end of school. We had field days, and water days, assemblies of more than one kind, soccer and baseball tournaments, and a piano recital.
Braeden's jr. high soccer team went to the playoffs and then won the championship. The final two games were super intense that went in to over time and then ended in shoot outs. The Lobos came out on top!!
Joshua's baseball team went 16-0 for the regular season and then lost one game in the final tournament for the championship to come in 2nd. They were so disappointed, but still played hard til the very end.
Braeden with his piano teacher, Emily Blair. Braeden played Canon in D and Bella's Lullaby from the Twilight soundtrack.
End of the year awards assemblies......Joshua got A/B honor roll and commended on his Reading and Math TAKS test. Josh with his 4th grade teacher Mrs. Sutphin.
Kate got A honor roll for the whole entire year. We are so proud of her. Kate with her 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Bustos.
Field day
Wacky Water day
Braeden was inducted in to the National Jr. Honor Society
Braeden's jr. high soccer team went to the playoffs and then won the championship. The final two games were super intense that went in to over time and then ended in shoot outs. The Lobos came out on top!!
Joshua's baseball team went 16-0 for the regular season and then lost one game in the final tournament for the championship to come in 2nd. They were so disappointed, but still played hard til the very end.
Braeden with his piano teacher, Emily Blair. Braeden played Canon in D and Bella's Lullaby from the Twilight soundtrack. 
End of the year awards assemblies......Joshua got A/B honor roll and commended on his Reading and Math TAKS test. Josh with his 4th grade teacher Mrs. Sutphin.
Kate got A honor roll for the whole entire year. We are so proud of her. Kate with her 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Bustos.
Sunday, June 05, 2011
Saturday, June 04, 2011
Schools Out
180 days
36 weeks
1,350 hours
81,000 minutes
4,860,000 seconds
30 classes
590 students
6,638 gallons of milk
15,900 pencils
477,900 miles of writing
52,801,736 words read
78 days until we do it all over again!
Happy Summer, Ya'll!!
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