Cool Christmas Gift...
12 years ago
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Disney On Ice
Over spring break we had beautiful weather on Friday. The whole Colvin clan and the whole Thompson clan loaded up and drove to Springfield to go to Lamberts and Bass Pro. The weather couldn't have been better! (We're talking sunny and in the 70's.) The next day we were supposed to go to Disney on Ice in Kansas City. I wanted to take Megan so she could have that experience. I went to see the Smurfs on Ice when I was in first grade and still remember how awesome it was! Well, wouldn't you know it it snows! The snow was so bad that my friend that was supposed to go with me called to say she didn't feel comfortable. Well, I knew that I could go slowly up there, and if it got too bad I could always stay with Pam for the night instead of driving home. (I took Tori and Aubrey since Debbie and Anna weren't going to use their tickets.) It was a slow ride up. The snow was blinding at times and we saw numerous cars off of the road. However, we made it on time and had a BLAST! It was so cool and Megan LOVED it. (So did I!) The roads back were treacherous, but we made it. (I think I counted 10 cars off the road on the way home.) It was a great trip and I am so glad we went!!!! Also shows the crazy Kansas weather!
Spring Has Sprung
WOW! I love, love, love spring, but it also seems to be our busiest and most stressful time of year.
Vic is once again coaching the Southeast Lancer High School Baseball Team. His passion has always been baseball. It does take up a lot of his time though (and mine) and can be stressful at times. However, we have had wonderful weather this year and it has made sitting through double headers a little more enjoyable. :-)
Aubrey had junior high cheerleading tryouts last week. She made both the football squad and the 8th grade basketball squad. She is a wonderful cheerleader! All of her dedication to dance over the years is really paying off, because she was fantastic in all of the dances that they performed this year!!! She is running track right now. She is a hurdeler...Yep...That's right, a child of mine jumping over hurdles. Sure doesn't even seem possible to me. Don't quite know how that happened. LOL She had some funky old wooden hurdles at one meet and fell, skinning herself up. I told her I didn't want her doing hurdles anymore because I didn't want her to get hurt. She laughed and said, ya right, I'm doing hurdles. I am proud of her.
Megan is in full mode of softball. She is playing on a traveling team out of Frontenac and her league team here for Southeast. She has decided that she wants to be a pitcher. She does a really good job too. Besides softball she is also taking baton classes and practicing her baton for the dance recital that is coming up!
Brady is playing baseball again. This year Cherokee has mixed it up a lil' bit and they have one 11-12 team. This team is going to play other surrounding towns instead of having three 9-12 yo teams and playing just home games. Last weekend the Mini Lancer Football team hosted a little tournament here in Cherokee. They had three teams. Our team made it to the championship game to face an opponent that had rocked us earlier in the day with a score of like 16-1. They decided to throw Brady out there the championship game. He ROCKED! He pitched all 6 innings, faced 19 batters and struck out 15!!!!! (Walking only one kid.) WOW! We won like 8-1. Vic and I were in the score box that game and it was fun listening to some of the dads from the other team stand under us talking about Brady's good delivery and the fact that he was a good lil' pitcher! Woo Hoo
Tori is going, going, going. Tori made the starting varsity softball team as a freshman. AWESOME! She works hard and LOVES the game. She still keeps up with going to dance classes. She has high school cheer tryouts this week, so yesterday and tomorrow she will be putting in 13 hour days at school. Saturday she has cheer practice from 8-9:30, dance from 10-2, and tryouts at 2:30. On top of all of this we are trying to get everything ready for prom, which is next Saturday.
I'm meeting myself coming and going between everyone's activities. On top of all of this it is the end of the school year. There is still so much that I want to accomplish and now I am trying to cram it in before it is too late.
Friday, January 1, 2010
Update!
Wow! What a bad blogger I have become. I just clicked on my blog thinking I hadn'tchecked up on the blogs I follow in awhile. Apparently I haven't done anything with my own blog either! HELLO MARY! OCT. 3RD? WHERE DID TIME GO?
So much has happened since the beginning of October I don't even know where to begin, but I will try to get a few things in.
October held Tori's first high school homecoming dance. She went with a wonderful young man, Jake Thompson. We scoured the mall trying to find the "right" thing to wear. WOW! That was a long shopping day. However, I think we came out alright. Our favorite part had to be the shoes! Red High Heels!
Halloween was a blast as always!
This year Brady skipped the night with us to go hunting with his father. Seems those two are hunting or fishing together any spare chance they get.
This year my friend Debbie came over with her kids and we did the trick or treat Cherokee thing. I love walking around Cherokee. Megan was Taylor Swift, Aubrey was a 70's girl (thanks to a fun 70's outfit she purchased for spirit week 70's day at school), and Tori was going to go with nothing. However, Debbie's boys pulled up with some "scary" masks on, so she ran inside and grabbed a mask I had purchased after Halloween one year and threw it on. She was a hoot!
One house always rakes up all the leaves in their yard and lets the kids jump to their hearts desire. We were fortunate to be the first ones there, and so the kids had a blast jumping in the leaves. When we finished trick or treating we made a trek to Thayer to visit the Erie high school spook trail. I screamed / laughed soooo hard! Good times! :-)
November brought Thanksgiving. Fun with the family like always. For some reason the pictures never made it to my computer...
December brought a fun trip for Aubrey. She has a great little friend that asked her to go to KC to see KISS with her. We are all big Gene Simmon's Family Jewels fans at our house, so we were excited for her. She had a wonderful time!
December brought another fun high school time. Tori was nominated for basketball homecoming queen. So, we had to purchase a formal dress. What fun that was! But, it worked out, because we found her prom dress the same day, so we killed two birds with one stone. I'm excited because during the rush of prom season I will be doing other things besides fighting the crowds. We purchased both dresses at The Jean Scene in Pittsburg! They were wonderful. We walked in and told the two girls working what we needed and they went above and beyond pulling dresses and working with us! Megan played the part of Stacy London very well telling us what she liked and didn't like. Brady however, wasn't all that impressed and spent most of the time sitting in the van. Jake was her escort for homecoming. While she didn't win, (the senior candidates won) it was a great night. Heather, Alan, Rachel, and Matt all made it up from Oklahoma. Bo and the girls made it over from Parsons, as well as Grandma Walls, Aunt Lou, and Grandad. She was beautiful!
Christmas day was kind of a bummer at our house. Brady woke up in the middle of the night Christmas Eve throwing up. So, while he was feeling better we decided not to spread our Christmas fun and he and I stayed home Christmas day and missed out on getting to see everyone. However, Vic and the girls all had a great time. It snowed and so Uncle Mark brought his four wheeler over to Carol's and pulled them all. They had a blast. Unfortunately Brady decided to share his germs with me. It knocked me down hard. It was the stomach flu and while I was only sick for like a day, I was down and out for like four or five days following. I Think I have stayed almost the whole break in my PJ's.
So much has happened since the beginning of October I don't even know where to begin, but I will try to get a few things in.
October held Tori's first high school homecoming dance. She went with a wonderful young man, Jake Thompson. We scoured the mall trying to find the "right" thing to wear. WOW! That was a long shopping day. However, I think we came out alright. Our favorite part had to be the shoes! Red High Heels!
Halloween was a blast as always!
This year Brady skipped the night with us to go hunting with his father. Seems those two are hunting or fishing together any spare chance they get.
This year my friend Debbie came over with her kids and we did the trick or treat Cherokee thing. I love walking around Cherokee. Megan was Taylor Swift, Aubrey was a 70's girl (thanks to a fun 70's outfit she purchased for spirit week 70's day at school), and Tori was going to go with nothing. However, Debbie's boys pulled up with some "scary" masks on, so she ran inside and grabbed a mask I had purchased after Halloween one year and threw it on. She was a hoot!
One house always rakes up all the leaves in their yard and lets the kids jump to their hearts desire. We were fortunate to be the first ones there, and so the kids had a blast jumping in the leaves. When we finished trick or treating we made a trek to Thayer to visit the Erie high school spook trail. I screamed / laughed soooo hard! Good times! :-)
November brought Thanksgiving. Fun with the family like always. For some reason the pictures never made it to my computer...
December brought a fun trip for Aubrey. She has a great little friend that asked her to go to KC to see KISS with her. We are all big Gene Simmon's Family Jewels fans at our house, so we were excited for her. She had a wonderful time!
December brought another fun high school time. Tori was nominated for basketball homecoming queen. So, we had to purchase a formal dress. What fun that was! But, it worked out, because we found her prom dress the same day, so we killed two birds with one stone. I'm excited because during the rush of prom season I will be doing other things besides fighting the crowds. We purchased both dresses at The Jean Scene in Pittsburg! They were wonderful. We walked in and told the two girls working what we needed and they went above and beyond pulling dresses and working with us! Megan played the part of Stacy London very well telling us what she liked and didn't like. Brady however, wasn't all that impressed and spent most of the time sitting in the van. Jake was her escort for homecoming. While she didn't win, (the senior candidates won) it was a great night. Heather, Alan, Rachel, and Matt all made it up from Oklahoma. Bo and the girls made it over from Parsons, as well as Grandma Walls, Aunt Lou, and Grandad. She was beautiful!
Christmas day was kind of a bummer at our house. Brady woke up in the middle of the night Christmas Eve throwing up. So, while he was feeling better we decided not to spread our Christmas fun and he and I stayed home Christmas day and missed out on getting to see everyone. However, Vic and the girls all had a great time. It snowed and so Uncle Mark brought his four wheeler over to Carol's and pulled them all. They had a blast. Unfortunately Brady decided to share his germs with me. It knocked me down hard. It was the stomach flu and while I was only sick for like a day, I was down and out for like four or five days following. I Think I have stayed almost the whole break in my PJ's.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Tori Starts Junior Varsity Volleyball
Tori played in her first high school volleyball game last night! :-)
Southeast has three teams. They have varsity, junior varsity, and a freshman team. Last night Tori was pulled up to play junior varsity. Not only that, but she played the ENTIRE night! She played three matches without ever coming out. She was the setter. I was so proud of her and her team for a great first showing!
They beat Burlington in two games!
They beat Neodesha in two games!
They lost to Frontenac, beat Frontenac, then lost to Frontenac in a nail biter!
Awesome! Yay Tori!!!
From the Pittsburg Morning Sun:
Southeast JV goes 2-1
NEODESHA — The Southeast junior varsity volleyball team went 2-1 in Neodesha on Tuesday.
The Lancers defeated Burlington 2-0 (25-23, 25-22) and Neodesha 2-0 (25-21, 25- 22), but fell to Frontenac 21 (16-25, 25-19, 11-15).
Tori Colvin had a pair of aces and Kayla Yancy added three kills against Burlington. Colvin came back with five kills and eight aces in Southeast’s win over Neodesha.
Against Frontenac, Colvin led the way with five kills and two aces.
Southeast has three teams. They have varsity, junior varsity, and a freshman team. Last night Tori was pulled up to play junior varsity. Not only that, but she played the ENTIRE night! She played three matches without ever coming out. She was the setter. I was so proud of her and her team for a great first showing!
They beat Burlington in two games!
They beat Neodesha in two games!
They lost to Frontenac, beat Frontenac, then lost to Frontenac in a nail biter!
Awesome! Yay Tori!!!
From the Pittsburg Morning Sun:
Southeast JV goes 2-1
NEODESHA — The Southeast junior varsity volleyball team went 2-1 in Neodesha on Tuesday.
The Lancers defeated Burlington 2-0 (25-23, 25-22) and Neodesha 2-0 (25-21, 25- 22), but fell to Frontenac 21 (16-25, 25-19, 11-15).
Tori Colvin had a pair of aces and Kayla Yancy added three kills against Burlington. Colvin came back with five kills and eight aces in Southeast’s win over Neodesha.
Against Frontenac, Colvin led the way with five kills and two aces.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Lake Weekend
This weekend we went down to Lake Hudson for Heather's birthday party. We had a great time visiting! Vic took me out on Alan's new SeaDoo. Ha! He kept thinking we could jump the waves left by boats...Let's just say we flipped like five times. One time we came up and the SeaDoo was flipped over. I'm sure it was quite a sight seeing the two of us in the middle of the lake rocking it trying to get it flipped back over. NOT! :-)
After we finished up at Heather's we drove up to Grove and spent the night. It was a plain but quaint little hotel. They had an outdoor pool that had lights in it. They showed us how to turn out the lights and lock it up. So, we went swimming!
This morning then Vic and Brady got up and took the truck and boat down below the dam and went fishing. The girls and I slept. We got up and went to eat at one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE PLACES TO EAT!!! CATFISH JOHNS!!! It was delicious as always! :-)
Then, the girls and I drove down to see the boys below the dam. Vic took the girls out on the boat for a little ride. Then, Megan decided to stay with Vic and Brady and fish and Tori, Aubrey and I came home.
It was a WONDERFUL weekend! It was so relaxing having no schedule and everyone just being together!
On the way down the girls and I stopped at what used to be the World's Largest McDonald's! (Also known as the Glasshouse...) We were shocked to find out they didn't have a dollar menu!!! A dollar McChicken cost $2.09 there! What is up with that????
After we finished up at Heather's we drove up to Grove and spent the night. It was a plain but quaint little hotel. They had an outdoor pool that had lights in it. They showed us how to turn out the lights and lock it up. So, we went swimming!
This morning then Vic and Brady got up and took the truck and boat down below the dam and went fishing. The girls and I slept. We got up and went to eat at one of my ALL TIME FAVORITE PLACES TO EAT!!! CATFISH JOHNS!!! It was delicious as always! :-)
Then, the girls and I drove down to see the boys below the dam. Vic took the girls out on the boat for a little ride. Then, Megan decided to stay with Vic and Brady and fish and Tori, Aubrey and I came home.
It was a WONDERFUL weekend! It was so relaxing having no schedule and everyone just being together!
On the way down the girls and I stopped at what used to be the World's Largest McDonald's! (Also known as the Glasshouse...) We were shocked to find out they didn't have a dollar menu!!! A dollar McChicken cost $2.09 there! What is up with that????
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