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My little Volleyball Player

Here are pictures of Laurens game on 10-6-08.
It is great, because the game only lasts about 20 minutes.


Getting ready for the serve.


That one went to the back row.


She can be a giggle box too.

Glad school is here?!?!?

Am I glad school is here? I really don't know. I thought that I would be, but now the kids are as busy as ever.

Malee, Robert and Dylan are all in sports. Malee is in Volleyball, Robert is in Football, well kind of, he tore his ACL, and had surgery and so he is on the sideline, but he still has to go to practice. Dylan is in Cross Country. AND Lauren is now in Volleyball. She does so good, she tries really hard. The funniest part is when she stands there with her arms out in front of her waiting for the other team to serve the ball, and if the ball doesn't come to her, she still has her arms out front. I will try and post some pictures when I get them.

Is summer almost over?!?!?

WOW!! I am really looking forward to school starting. I love having the kids at home, but I don't like the "there's nothing to do."

It has been a busy summer. All the kids finally have jobs, that helps a lot, especially in the ole wallet.

The Chisholm Trail Festival went well this year, Malee and Robert both competed in the Newton Idol, Malee placed 2nd, and Robert placed 4th, I am very proud of them both.





Sports camps are starting up, Malee is in volleyball camp for the next 2 weeks, Robert had football camp, and has been in weights and conditioning all summer, Dylan is going to do cross country, but I have only seen him out running twice, hopefully he is ready.

Lauren is ready for school to start too, she really wants to see her classmates. She has started a new tradition, and stays the night at Grma and Grpa Russells every Friday night, Grpa loves it, I think Grma does too, but Grpa eats it up.

Well thats the latest for now.

Peace Out...I learned that from the kids.

Not as easy as I thought

Wow!!! Keeping this blog updated is not as easy as I thought. With only having internet access at work, it makes it really difficult. But Jules tells me that in a couple of months we should have our laptop and internet at home. So hopefully after that I can keep this updated much better and even maybe show Jules how to do it.

But just a quick update. December 20th we received a new foster child, his name is Robert, he is a sophomore in high school. He is a friend of Malee's, she is actually the one that suggested we take him in. It was a great joy to see Malee's soft heart in this situation. Things are going very will and we are all having a good time.

Eden if working on getting everything ready to graduate, she is really looking forward to it. Malee is in club volleyball and she is having a wonderful time. Lauren just celebrated her 8th birthday, we went to see the Hanna Montana 3D movie, she absolutely loved it. I made Dylan and Robert go, Robert was find with it because he was in hopes that these little girls that were there would have brought their big sisters, well that didn't happen. All in all everyone had a good time, it was everyones first 3D movie so that was an experience in itself.

Like I said earlier once we get things up and running at the house I will update this more often. Famous lasts words. right.