Monthly archives for June, 2012
Olympics in London – Girls Socc...
I still can’t get over the fact that the USA Mens Soccer team was not good enough to get into the Olympics. This is heartbreaking. Today, I watched the girls in their warm-up friendly against Canada. It was fun to see the girls back together. I often contribute the success of this blog to Hope Solo and the girls on the US Women̵ [...]
Summer League Champs
Brooke is involved in a ton of sports this summer. Becca is sticking with just soccer. Both girls go to speed camp each morning (Monday-Thursday) ALL summer long. Becca has to go to the high school that consists of 87 students. 8 of them are girls. The rest are large male football players. When Becca went this past Wednesday, she was th [...]
Little Beachy
Summer is here so we decided that a short trip down to Galveston was in order. Blake and his kiddo wanted to ride with us; the more the merrier. Girls love to hit the beach for a few hours, body surf, and grade a good lunch on the seawall. Not a very pretty beach but enough for us for a quick trip.
I honestly like the beach in Galveston [...]
The Warmth of Summer
Warmth of Summer. Every year around the end of school the family gets a little giddy! How can you not get giddy with the pending days of 100 degree heat? No rain for months, bugs flying all around, fire ants crawling up your leg, sweating when you simply walk outside? How about the heat of the car steering wheel after being parked in the [...]
More of a 12 year old birthday
Brooke never really got to have a “birthday party” or so she says. There wasn’t 8 little girls running around the upstairs to all hours of the night type of party but we still had a few get-togethers.
Brooke was sick so it cancelled her scheduled party. But, I feel certain she had a good time.
We took a friend to Ben [...]