Randomness from my camera...

Christmas Eve 2009

Ty played football, 8-1 for the year
Bunches of cousins at Sea World
Kaylee's best friends, Olivia and Emily (on a synchro retreat)

Eagle Project

Tyler has worked on his Eagle project this month. He did some general landscape clean up and built a planter for an assisted living home for diasbled young women. It is a new residence called Lara's House http://www.larashouse.org/. What a great place for a project. He had all kinds of help.

Pouring the footing for the planter.

Mixing cement, laying block and filling holes.



The finished planter, before the plants went in.

1400+ pounds of brush & branches, cut and cleared of the property.

We are very proud of Ty and all his hard work...now he just needs to write it up, and earn those last 3 merit badges...

Blog?

What's is that? I have a blog? Someday I will have to catch up. Unfortunately it is not today.

'tis the season

I'm grateful for kids who still want mom to make costumes for halloween, but also grateful that this "season" in my life is almost over. Trying to be creative is overtaxing to the few brain cells I have left.

a lucky day

We went to Sea World. Through a series of remarkable events, Kaylee got to paricipate in the Shamu show, Believe. It was a dream come true. She was pretty lucky. You should ask her all about it.

PS...if you want some good Shamu photos for your scrapbooks, we got several from the Sea World photographers. Just let me know.

Yard Boy

Some people have landscapers for their yard. Every week they come and clean up the yard, and you have to pay them...Not me, I'm grateful for my own personal yard boy. All I pay him is a few kisses, and maybe some homemade smores bars. (And I don't have to feel guilty day-dreaming about the help!)

That's my boy!!

So I never dreamed that I would be so proud to be a "football mom". Ty played in his first game tonight. I was coaching synchro, and only got to go to the 2nd half of the game...right when Ty played. Good timing! He was great, and made 2 awesome tackles. Their team won 25 to 6.

If someone had told me 6 months ago that Ty would be playing football, I would never have agreed. He has been completely dedicated, not missing a single practice since April. This included 3 hour practices every day this summer.

Way to go TY!! .....I wanted to yell "that's my boy" during the game, but I am working really hard not to embarrass him now that he is bigger than me!