Happy Birthday...

My littlest sis is now officially a teenager. Happy Birthday Sis!

Pssst... Cub1 is to follow 3 months from now.

Hubby comes home today after his quick trip!! Yippee!

Play Ball!!!

Ya know, I actually signed Cub1 up for Jr. High on Monday. Yes, Jr. High *faint* She is finally going to be in a school with real after school sports, you know the kind where they compete with other schools and such? She was really excited over the volleyball and not so much over the fastpitch softball and absolutely no mention of girls basketball which surprised me. Anyway, she has been playing baseball with the boys for quite a few years now. She is the only girl in her league this year. We asked when we signed her up whether there was going to be any problem with her continuing for a couple more years with the boys. Honestly we thought this was going to be the last year, but apparently she will be in the same league next year too. The president of the county leaugue said there was no issues with her playing with the boys as long as she wants. Of course they are trying to restart their girls softball league and asked if she was interested, that was the quickest no from all three of us (hubby, cub1 and myself) She has made it crystal clear she was not interested in playing with the girls or that huge ball until absolutely necessary LOL I love that about her.

Anyhow, she was approached by a mother of a boy who was on her team a few years back. She wanted to know if Kayla would try out for the Jr. High Fastpitch team. She said they were accepting 7th graders for tryouts too. So even though she doesn't go to that school yet and she was going to try it out next year, she may be able to try it now!?!? How cool is that? We need to contact her to get more information. That's great they thought of her in any case! She's really making quite an impression on everyone. :o)

Everyone else jumped off the bridge, why not me?

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Welcome Little One!!!

Isn't he sweet? This little man is the newest member to our growing family. My cousin just had her second son, yesterday at 3:40pm, this was taken maybe 2 hours later. You forget how tiny they are.

On a different note. Hubby is on the waiting list for law school. We just put in his application for his second choice today. :( All that waiting and we still have to wait some more.

Here's hoping for good news!

Waiting, waiting, waiting...

It's amazing when you think how fast time goes in the whole scheme of things. Yet when you are waiting for something it seems to take forever. We are awaiting a letter from law school. Hubby received an email last week stating that his app was going before the final admission committee this week. They hoped to have the letters sent out by the 23rd. Yikes. that's today. We are going crazy just waiting, checking the mail, checking his email and let's just hope it's worth the wait! Beautiful things come to those who wait, please grant us patience.

Home safely...

We made it home safely. The girls were ambitious enough to go to school even after getting home at 10pm. Their reward? A half day of school! They forgot it was only a half day due to conferences this week. Good thing though, they are both caught up already. It kind of makes me wonder how they can be gone from school for 4 days and make up all the work in less than a 1/2 day of school. Hmmm... what a strange system.

The pic to the left was taken by Cub2, complete manual mode. Isn't that awesome?!?!?

Once upon a time...

Almost time to go home. It's been quite a trip. I've had loads of fun, so have the girls. We couldn't have asked for a better time. I am so ready to get back to the boys though. We are so bringing them next time. They would absolutely love it here.

Another thing that's different...

I'm not at home looking at the time. I was walking down the street today and was stopped by a man asking if anyone in our group knew the time. Needless to say, I'm walking with four "lil people" who aren't quite so little but still they are 10-14 years old, just because they stand about 5 foot doesn't make them big ;) and my mom. We honestly didn't know.

What a strange feeling. It seems I always know what time it is when I'm home. There is no rush for time here, at least for today and tomorrow. It's been so relaxing.

My feet, ankles and heck my toes are all killing me but I'm having the time of my life. I am so bringing cub3&4 next time.

FYI it was 10 to 8. My mom was quick to grab her cell for the time :o) I was a little less quick to the draw.

Third Place isn't half bad...

Well the girls got third. They had some pretty rockin' competition and they did an awesome job at their routine. What more can you ask for?!?!? Go Cats! ;)

We sure don't have these at home...

These things are so cool looking. Hubby came to CA last year around this time and told me about these cool flowers and showed me pics but in person, wow! I was totally amazed. We are definately not at home right now, these are on the side of the street LOL

Girls are doing great in their competition, we made it through to the semi-finals. YAHOO!!! If all goes well they we be performing 2 more times :) I'd love for them to make it into the finals but there will only be 5 teams who make it to Sunday. Good luck Girlies! I know you can do it!

So this is what happens...

to the other cub's hair after competition. Her hair was in a high pony and curled, this is after her hair is taken down out of the ponytail and brushed. LOL Doesn't she look pleased with her new hairdo?

It's funny because she normally takes it out and washes it quickly, I never get to see this part of the process :)

We just had our second of 3 nationals cheer competitions placing first in both of them and first in State competition too! YAY! Go girls! Our third and final competition is this weekend. Hopefully they can keep up the streak!!!

Okay, so it's worth it...

LOL The girls had cheerleading competition today. 53 minutes. I finally timed how long it takes to do Cub1's hair. I couldn't believe it took 53 minutes and 29 curlers. This pic just cracked me up, this is Cub1 mid cheer. I love how I caught her hair in the air. This is just a crop of a full picture so there is grain galore, but it's too cool not to document :)





Oh here's the before ;)

Make a wish...

After finally uploading the pictures off of my camera, I ran across this picture. It's mid-blow out of the candles. Look at that, there is only 2 candles. 2. They will only multiply in the years to come and he will only get bigger and bigger. It was wonderful to witness the wonder and joy of his day through his eyes. I really need to be better at taking those pics of the camera earlier.