When Gloria was 3, Jake Ledbetters' mom asked if she wanted to go to a Tae Kwon Do class with him. She went. She's worked really hard since then (with a few breaks) to earn all of her belts. Today she attended the 'Black Belt Extravaganza' and earned her 1st Degree Black Belt. She had to go through a series of events - performing her red belt form, sparring and breaking boards. It was quite a day!!!
The Sheriff's Posse (yes, we live in Texas)...
The Rockwall Yellowjacket band...
The Stingerettes Drill Team...
Congressman Hall - I love this guy! It's so cool to have such a sense of community where we live. EVERYONE and their grandma shows up for this parade. All of the city leaders show up.
We had a few minutes before the parade started, so we decided to run into 7-11 for some 'breakfast'. I think that half of the town of Rockwall had the same brilliant idea. We stood in line for about 15 minutes for hot chocolate, then grabbed a couple of breakfast burritos and a bag of powdered sugar donuts to complete our well-rounded meal. Then, it began!!!
Well, Jazzy doesn't get out much. See, when she does, she runs like the wind. She is tough to catch. Lonnie, being the cautious one that he always is, suggested that we put her normal collar on (in addition to her special Christmas collar), so that her tags would be on her should she get loose. Well, in putting the collar on her, I apparently didn't attach it completely. As we got out of the car, she cut loose and ran toward the parade route. Emily and I chased her for two blocks. I knew I would hear Lonnie say, 'I told you so!' It was not a good start to our morning. Fortunately, this awesome police officer swooped her up as she ran right for him. He literally saved the day! We then got settled to watch the parade.
Well, it's come to my attention that I have not done a very good job keeping my blog up to date. I was actually thrilled to know that someone cared!! I promise to be more diligent in my blogging.
Gone are the days of the cute little princess outfit that I shopped for all month - the girls are now to age where I let them do what they want for Halloween - here's what they came up with:) The interesting part is that they have NEVER gone trick or treating. We have always had our Church Carnival the night of Halloween, but this year we had it a couple of days before. The girls have been talking about going trick or treating for days! When it was all said and done, I don't think they thought it was all it was cracked up to be.
This is what Emily chose as her costume for the Fall Carnival at church tomorrow night. I am feeling really lazy this year, so I told the kids to raid their closets and come up with something. This was actually part of Lonnie's costume for the 50's Valentine dance he attended with Gloria last Winter. Should be interesting to see what she comes up with the complete the ensemble. Stay tuned for pics from the carnival!
We spent Saturday afternoon at Holleman Farms playing soccer, painting pumpkins, roasting hot dogs and marshmallows and having a blast. Kate Holleman is a team mate of Em's. Her family hosted a great party!
Gloria: Mom, can we go to Starbucks?
It was a beautiful day. We played ball outside and went for a walk.
Watching Dora... aren't those the cutest little pink Crocs? Aunt Amy had to take her shopping today. I couldn't resist :)
Gloria is going to participate in a 'Living Museum' at school. The kids received a list of individuals who are historically famous and are supposed to choose who they would like to represent in the Living Museum. In a few weeks the kids will be able to dress up as their chosen historical figure and talk about their life while the parents go around and interview them. Gloria had a list with several women, including Pocahontas, Martha Washington, Sally Ride, Helen Keller and several others. Gloria asked who Helen Keller was - I told her that she was a blind and deaf woman who was able to persevere and overcome many challenges - she circled Helen Keller and said, 'I want to be her - I'm not very good at listening!'
The caterpillars have officially turned into chrysalises - 4 of them attached to the top of the container - the fifth little guy must be a rebel - he stayed in the bottom of the container to begin his metamorphosis. We moved them to the netted container today and should have butterflies by this time next week.
Well, soccer has been cancelled in anticipation of Ike's tropical storm force winds and 2-6 inches of rain, so we're watching caterpillars. It's rare that we find ourselves sitting around on a Saturday with nothing to do. Lonnie is already needing to get out, so he went to stroll the aisles at Home Depot before the storm hits. The kids are still in their pj's and probably will be for most of the day. Gee, I love days like this!
Gloria is a sucker for infomercials. She has begged me several times to order 'Butterfly Bugville' among other things. She has even called the toll free numbers herself, but once they figure out she's not 'over the age of 18', the conversations cease.
This is Teodoro Santana - we were blessed enough to get to know Teo over the last few months. Teo was a professional soccer player in Brazil, then played with the Dallas Tornados in the 80's. He has an infectious smile and has a wonderful gift of relating to kids in a way that effectively teaches them to love the game. Teo was offered a job in Houston with a soccer club and has already moved to fulfill his position. Emily was soooooo excited to run into him this past weekend at the Plano Labor Day Soccer Tournament.
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