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More Ice!!

More pics...

Note... if you click on picture you get better view. I just found that out!!! LOL. SO the one of me sliding on ice slide...COOL!!!! really.

More adventure at the Gaylord

This is a wine bottle Christmas Tree. Kind of different --yes? We were thinking about going to dinner here but the Hickory Inn was way out of our pocket range. Maybe next time.........

Happy Anniversay to us---23 years....

What a long day this was........................ The usual chores of Saturday and thensome. No big shopping since that was done friday at 5 am... Yes!!! Mike and I got up and hit Best Buy and Academy Athletics. What did we get??? Goodies for most of us and a new GPS for my car just in case the car and driver decide to get lost. LOL!!!! No seriously, not funny.

Later that Saturday we deicded to hit the ICE show at the Texan Gaylord. What a magnificent ice sculpture event that was and... the lights and scenery at the Gaylord. Amazing!!!! The temperature in the room of the ice sculptures was 9 degrees. So, it ddin't feel too bad to Mike and me since we are NORTHERNERS still. There was polar bears, Santa. a Nativity scene. and angel, a super cool slide which both of us went down---wheeeeeee--- also many other amazing sites. 33 men come in from china and work on these pieces of art from id October to when they open...umm-- ealry November I think. Anyway... it was pricey to see but totally worth it. After that event we toured the gaylord with lights and trains and sleighs and many places to take your picture. Aaahhh. After that we left and went to THE BBQ Feedstore. YUMMMMMOOOO!!! Best buck for our money. Plus, we were starving...well okay really hungry. It is a shack amongst mansions and thensome. Very quaint and homey. We'll be back.

Life

We have finished so many activities and so many more to go!! Since our last blog gretchen has made the 7th grade girls basketball team!!! Did we doubt that she wouldn't ? Noway!!! That girl has awesome Indiana skills!! She fears no one and no height is too grande for her to conquer. First basketball game was last Wednesday...against Coppell North. Ugly it was.... those girls have been playing since school started. Our team just got accomplished and established. Oh well...first loss. gretchen ran hard and figured out no scoring for her but steals and many asissts were her game. She was extremely whooped by the time the game was done. Yeah Gretchen.

On another note , Stephanie and her drumline drew competed in the Lonestar Competitions and varsity came in second of ??? 50 ??/ The JV came in 16 out of 26. Cool!!! All were very pleased ..now onto sectional competition for soloists. That is Dec. 6th!!! ALl is well with that. Now onto college discussions. What!!!!!??? yes. SHe has changed her thoughts of what she was going into for school. Her original idea a vet... but now is changed to an elementary teacher. Here is discussion... Mom...Yes... I have had so many non=teaching teachers...I want to make a difference somewhere in the system that I will be in. I had great 4 and 5th grade teachers that if it wasn't for them who knows what ... Well, you know they don't make as much as vets.... Yes.. But mom...I can do so much with teaching. Okay GO FOR IT. Now we have had counselor talks already...letting us know all the requirements etc.. what college TX has... Oh we won't be going here...Stephanie wants to go to UTAH. Oh...the counselor says. BYU? Yes...says Stephanie. Good for you she says. Now she is going to study for SAT tests for Jan. Yeah!!! Mom is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo excited.

Meanwhile Kayla has been realxing and getting ready for the start of December through the following year Winterguard. She decided that she was going to learn how to "twirl" a saber!!! Yikes!!! She came home with a few cuts and bruises but all is good. cannot wait for that excitement in our lives!!! LOL


Did I mention that life is on energerizer bunny mode????? Ok/thought so.

OUR WARD HAS SPLIT

Sunday was a wonderful 75 degree day with loads of sunshine. AT 2:30 we went to church and eventually found out who our new bishop was and our new ward. Before all of that excitement the rumors has flurished. Since we have moved into the Keller 1st ward we have have to 620 members. Obviously that is a lot to handle. A new ward was made west of the RR tracks of me and that area will grow again and need to be split but for now we all have moved on. The east side of the tracks (me) will stay in Keller 1st with some members of the K2 ward joining us. Apparently these ppl. went to K1 a couple of years ago. As you can see I live in highly growing member area or we have lots of move-ins or both. The girls and I tried to figure out how youth K1lost...we thought about 22 girls. We clearly have that many still in our ward. So there you have it!!! We were excited and din't cry like others did since we have been here for 1 1/2 yrs.. it didn't matter a whole lot! -YET!! Came home and ate spaghetti and meatballs since Stephanie was experiencing brace and teeth pain. AWWWW. The end.

Life Begins part 2......

Here we have Gretchen's last volleyball game against KMS, went into overtime and lost by 1!!! Gretchen was named top server, top vocal voice, and most likely to lose her voice!!! The week of the 10th will be basketball tryouts. Guess who is gonna tryout?? The other band picture is the ending of our theme Magnetism. Band of America was amazing....many interesting bands. In case you hadn't heard, we placed 9th of 53 bands. We participated in state which was for the 5a and 1a (i think) ...31 bands....the top ten played in the evening. We didn't go on to the evening part. There are sooooooooooooo many bands in this state, it is hard to compare to Indiana. That is the end of band competition. Now on to drumline competition and winterguard. Yeah us................

Life Begins....Again.....

The Symphonic and Ensemble band play for ISMS football game...here Gretchen is doing her snare part. This weekend she has percussion sectional competition. Go girl!!