Happy Birthday, Mom!

Wish you coudda been here, Mom! Jon, Valerie, David, & Cindy all came to celebrate your birthday. We went to your favorite place, the Lone Star, and toasted you on your 84th birthday. Love you! Miss you!

Isn't it sad when you can't go home with Uncle Bill & Aunt Nez?

Giving Uncle Bill big loves!

Teenage Beauty.

Beach beauty. (Mom & David)

Happy Mother's Day - 1952

- Look who came to town today! -

Reminiscing this afternoon over fun family pics.

Valerie, Cindy, David, Jon, & B

Troyette Banquet 2010

Tonight was the Troyette Banquet: the final gathering of the 2009-2010 Troyettes. It was held at the nummy Pizza Factory (I could've eaten my weight in bread sticks - they are so delish!). The girls and their families gathered in a celebratory dinner of pizza, salad and breadsticks, and in Troyette style, presents.

The girls have been spoiled all year with presents of all sorts: Congratulations you made drill team presents, Drill camp overnighter presents, Secret Sister presents, Homecoming week presents, Region meet presents, Just because I love you presents. Tonight was no different, each girl got a present from each graduating senior, from their coach Natalie, as well as a DVD of the year.

Now we're holding our breath for Try-outs in April so we can do this all over again! Wish Karlee luck and pray that her hamstrings are healed and strong for this next year!

2009-2010 Troyettes & Natalie

ATV Fun

Today was the first real day we got to play on the ATVs Karlee & Garet got for Christmas.

Happy Spring!

Today was gorgeous outside! Even though the temp was in the 40s, we LOVED it! Yay Spring!

The day started out with Karlee on her 4-wheeler. It is not automatic, so she had to learn to shift gears. She did great and had tons of fun too! We get to take our ATVs camping soon and we're getting excited!

Both of the kids are currently grounded, but because I got some major chores out of them today, they were able to have friends over.

Karlee and Mary are taking advantage of the sunshine by starting their summer tans. (Mind you it is like 45 degress outside - notice the few patches of snow.)

Cole came over to hang out with Garet and the next thing we know there are a bunch of kids out shooting hoops. Jeff even got into the hoop action.

Night Out with the Troyettes 2010

Night Out with the Troyettes was fun last night. Karlee was able to dance a few dances and she did AWESOME! Jeff looked very manly in his bright pink tie escorting Karlee at the conclusion of the night. The stands were full, and the cheers were loud. A good time was had by all!

It is bitter-sweet that the year has come to an end. I have had a great time being a Troyette mom, but so very heartbroken through Karlee's injury and inability to dance. Ever since Karlee has been cleared to dance by her doctor, she has been working hard so she will be ready for try-outs in April. If she (or when she) makes the team next year, she plans on dancing every dance! Should be a great year!

Here are a few pics from Night Out. Much thanks to B for being our photographer so I could video the whole night.

" Rollin' " football routine

" Michael Jackson "

Jeff escorting Karlee

Troyettes & their Daddys

Karlee & Me

Pa, Gway & Karlee

B & Karlee

Karlee & Natalie (her coach)

The 2009-2010 Troyettes

Standing: Rachel, Nicole, Karlee, Mckel, Jayd, Cortney, Morgan, Kayla, Chrissy. Kneeling: Cheridyn, Kiley, Karlie, Megan, Nikki

Solo & Ensemble

This afternoon Karlee and her quartet, made up of Freshmen Millenial Choir girls, competed in Region Solo & Ensemble. It was beautiful! Mind you, she tried out for and made Millenial Choir, but the girl will not sing for me. I only get to hear her sing from down the hall when she thinks no one is listening or that no one can hear her. I will fer sher update you with the results of their performance.

Ayana, Kami, Karlee, & Jessica

Garet's Last Rec B-Ball Game

Here are a few pics of Garet's last rec b-ball game of the season: (Look for marroon #13)

2-pointer unleashed.

Another 2-pointer.

Gettin' the rebound.

The Crue:

Grant, Colton, Travis,

Cooper, Hunter, & Garet.

Life Crisis

K - I finally decided to blog about my Life Crisis. I can't really call it a mid-life crisis, because I have already passed mid-life, so I am terming my latest obsession my "Life Crisis". What am I talking about? Well, for the past 4 weeks I have been training for a 5K. I want to be more healthy and hopefully drop a few pounds (OK, more than a few pounds) along the way. As the years accumulate, I have noticed that not only am I getting older, but I am getting fatter and more out of shape than ever.

I held off blogging about this until now because I really wasn't sure I would be able to accomplish running a 5K. Any of you who know me, know that I do not exercise. Exercise is hard, not fun, and I always had other things to do - never the time to exercise. But, I have been real encouraged because I have found a running plan for us couch potatoes. It's called couch potato to 5K in 9 weeks. It has been a real easy plan to ease into running. I have followed it pretty closely, but run 6 days a week instead of the plan's 3 days.

Why a Life Crisis now? I credit this Life Crisis to 3 different things:

1. I am now officially the fattest in my family. Both my oldest brother and sister (who are a lot older than me) have lost weight and gotten into shape. My other older brother has always been in shape. This leaves me to be the gordita of mi familia.

2. We have a wedding this fall in Hawaii (YAHOO!) in which the above mentioned siblings will be in attendance. (I can't go into public wearing a swimming suit looking like this.)

3. I just had a birthday pushing me a couple of years past the 4th decade of my life...ouch!

So, anyway, wish me luck! I know I can do this. And, maybe you've noticed that there are no pics in this blog post. That is because it is not a pretty sight, and I don't want to discourage anyone from attempting an exercise program! :)

Confetti

We love our silly kitten. Mind you, Confetti is 3 years old, no longer officially a kitten, but we all still consider her our kitten.

These pics are of Confetti sleeping on Jeff. Jeff and Garet just returned from a scout winter over nighter and Jeff was soon crashed in the floor. Jeff musta smelled pretty good, because this is very uncharacteristic for Confetti to snuggle on us like this. But isn't she so dang cute!?!