Male Sportsman of the Month

That's the award Bubba won this morning at his high school. I may just cry. I'm very proud.

Thirteen Years

My Darling Social Butterfly,

Happy Birthday my wonderful girl! It's so hard for me to believe that it's been 13 years since you were born. The years have gone by in a flash, as I'm sure the next 13 will.
Your daddy and I are so very proud of you. Not for the things you do, although we are proud of your accomplishments as well, but just because you are. You have been a blessing to us from the moment of your conception. And being your parents is a great privilege. Watching you grow into the amazing girl you are now has been an extraordinary experience and we're so thankful. You are a treasure, a blessing, a sweetheart, daddy's sweet pea.
I am so excited to see what the future holds for you. I'm certain that God has great things in store and I'm so happy I get to be your mama through it all.

I love you, adore you, and am honored to call you my daughter. Happy Birthday my Blessing.

Love,
Mama

Movie Night and the birthday!

Tonight is SB's birthday party for her friends. We're expecting 7 girls. She invited 3 more, but it's a bad weekend for parties I think.

It's a movie night theme. We're heading to Blockbuster to rent some movies, having pizza, and I'm working on a cake decorated to look like a clapboard. I've got mini bags of popcorn and boxes of movie candy. The girls are spending the night, which always makes for a very late, but fun, night.

Sunday is SB's actual birthday. Her 13th. For Bubba, when he turned 13, we took him out for the entire day, just the three of us, so we're doing the same for SB. She wants a movie and shopping date, so that's what we'll do! 13...where do the years go??

He Makes Me Laugh

Bubba and Sb and I were just hanging out talking last night as the two little ones were in bed and Mark was at a meeting. We were chatting about myriad things from a really hard math test Bubba has today (he loves math, but this calculus class seems to be kicking his butt) to marriage and children.

Me(to SB): Oh, Bubba will get married and have babies. I know it.

Bubba: I'd like to have a kid, but I don't want to get married. Girls are stupid.

Me: Not all girls are stupid. and you can't have a baby without getting married.

Bubba: I know...But if I do get married, I only want a boy baby!

Me: I hope you have 5 girls!

Bubba: No, two girls on a row and I'd be done!

Me: Why? Wouldn't you want to try for a boy?

Bubba: No, because every girl I have increases my chances of going to prison more than they already are for killing boys who hurt the Princess or SB.

__________________________________________________________________

Bubba: I could just live here forever. Forever. Foreeeeevvvvveeeerrrrr.

SB: What about mom and dad?

Bubba: They can stay too...until I kick them out.

Me: Oh, SB, when you come over and can't find us, check for fresh dirt in the backyard.

Bubba: I said I'd kick you out, not kill you! Geesh!

____________________________________________________________________

Bubba: What I'd really like is just to win the lottery and never have to work. And I'd never get married. I'd just hire a maid to clean...but she'd have to cook too because I don't know how, and I don't want to learn...but then I'd have to pay her...maybe I should just get married.

____________________________________________________________________

I won't go on to tell you about his conversations involving how old SB and the Princess will be when he's old enough to purchase a gun. I just hope someday he lets THEM get married!

SO COOL!!!

I just got a phone call from Bubba at school. Apparently, two days before the Super Bowl, which is being played here, of course, the Varsity football team from his school gets to go scrimmage at the stadium so that the film crews can set up camera angles! He is soooo excited! Me too!!

Soon it will be two...

In 10 days I will have two teen aged children. I'm pretty stunned by that realization, but looking forward to it as well. I have enjoyed much of the teenager's teen years. We've had some rocky roads as well, but, for the most part, he's a funny, sweet, good kid. And I've learned a lot with him. There are many things I would and will do differently the second time around, but I think that's a part of learning to be a parent. I don't know anyone who's ever done it all perfectly. But we hope we get better at it as the years go by.

Anyway, the actual point of my post was that since I'll soon have two teenagers, the name for The Teenager doesn't really work anymore. And, since everyone in this house, plus my mom and brother all call him a name that is not his given name, I thought we should jut use that here as well. So, from now on The Teenager will be referred to as Bubba. That's what I always want to write anyway!

Guess Who

Got a super cute haircut today? and looks waaaaaaaayyyyy too old???

Watch My Girl Grow

My creation
Originally uploaded by mlm4.

This was SB's 4th year dancing in The Snow Queen. Here is a group of pictures of her with the director each year. Amazing how she's grown in such a short time...

Extra! Extra! Read All About It...

Today's blurb about the Teenager from the school website!

(The teenager) was unable to wrestle for 5th place due to injury. He has been an awesome addition to the team making us wonder where he had been the past three years. Now nick- named the "pin-ball" for his knack for pinning, could make a lot of noise once he gets really into the grove of wrestling.

So Close...

The teenager rocked it this morning in his matches going 3-0...But, on his last pin he hurt his shoulder pretty badly. He was already done for the morning, but was supposed to wrestle in semi-finals since he went 6-2 in the tournament. His coaches pulled him, so he'll place 4th. They think it's just a bad strain and he should be ready to go again soon. What a great showing in his first tournament, but he's disappointed.

SB's cheer team placed 3rd in their competition. Still a great placement, but they too were disappointed after taking 1st last year. Sb thinks she's done cheering after this year. She wants to move on to volleyball and basketball, which I think is awesome!

Updated to add: Oops, my bad. Wrestling is so bizarre! So, the teenager placed 3rd in his pool of 9, but there were two pools. Since he was unable to continue wrestling, he placed 6th in the entire tournament of 18, but the top 8 medal, so he has a pretty shiny new medal!lol!

Superstar!!!

SB's cheer team took 1st place in their division today at the Fiesta Bowl Cheer Competition! What does that mean??? They'll be marching in the Fiesta Bowl Parade on national television!! Make sure to watch on December 30th! We've got one excited girl on our hands!

Short Week!

Well, SB continued our illustrious family tradition at the Turkey Trot on Friday, coming in 4th! She was happy and had a great time!

We had the best weekend. Friday night fun with my friends and the very loud children, Saturday just hanging out and watching my Wildcats beat a top 25 team for the third week in a row! Mark and I had our date night Saturday night. We went to dinner and a movie and a stop at Bath and Body works for some Wickedly Hot Chocolate products. Oh. my. gosh. I smell like a candy bar! Great stuff! Yesterday we played outside with the kiddos and watched some football and went to church and stuff. Very relaxing, lots of fun. Lovely.

This week is going to be wonderful as well. We have normal Monday and Tuesday stuff, but the kids get out early on Wednesday and then we're going to a huge (80-100 people) party at a friends house. They raise turkeys and have a huge turkey butcher party on the day before Thanksgiving. We're not taking a turkey, but the kids are really excited for the party. This family has 4 kids and lots of land so we have a great time out there.

Hope you all had a lovely weekend and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!!

Good Day!

Yesterday was a great day. After walking with my friend, I ran home to pick up the cameras and headed to The Princess' school for her Thanksgiving program. She sang her little heart out and it was adorable! We didn't stay for lunch, but rushed over to FE's school for the annual Turkey Trot. The kids make banners in their classrooms and then have a banner parade around the big field. After that, they are separated by grade and gender and then they race. FE came in 3rd place out of the 2nd grade boys. He was soooo excited. So was I. 1st-3rd places get a medal and he was so proud of that. When the teenager was in 7th grade he came in 2nd place, but other than that? Every single year, every single one of my kids comes in 4th. It's become a running joke! SB runs today and I told her she better aim for 4th since FE's already ruined our tradition!

After FE was done running we took him out of school and went to lunch with my mom who was also there for the race. It was a great afternoon.

Today did not start out so well as my battery was dead this morning. Mark stayed home and got things taken care of while I took the kiddos to school. Now I'm trying to get the house cleaned so Karin and Rochelle and LG can come over and scrapbook tonight. I only have a couple of hours until SB runs though, so I'm off.

Have a great weekend!!

SB

My daughter? The brainiac? Has decided to read David Copperfield. For leisure. She's 11.