Y'all, bear with me...

Seems like every year about this time, I'm compiling a huge blog entry to memorialize a combined 2-3 weeks of busyness.  This year is no different.

So, y'all, bear with me...  Plus, there will be a lot of "Proud Mama Moments" (or PMM for short)

April, our school had their annual Jog-A-Thon.  Such a fun time for the Elementary and Middle School kids.  Elisan and Kyla were amazing... by running NON-STOP for 30 minutes.  PMM for sure!

Next up, Kyla had her "Heroes of the Faith" presentation at school.  She chose Joni Eareckson Tada as her hero.  Joni was in a diving accident at age 18 and broke her back, rendering her paralyzed from the neck down.  Despite it all, she became a world renown painter (painting with a brush in between her teeth) and has a world-wide Christian ministry called "Joni & Friends".   Kyla has been working on this presentation since January, which included research, illustrations, writing, oral presentation and publishing a book regarding her hero.  PMM! (Here's a picture of Kyla giving her presentation, along with a photo of her with her classmates dressed as their hero.

 

This girls' last regular season soccer game was in San Antonio and my brother and his family joined us for the game.  The girls were happy to see them and they both played well that day.

April 30th was our ACAA District Track Meet for area private Christian schools.  It was fun coaching the team again this year, and although the girls did not bring home the first place trophy this year, they did bring home the third place trophy, which in my opinion is still AWESOME!

Discus Girls

 Elisan throwing the discus. As tiny as she is, she did well

in this event... placing 10th out of 21 girls.

Elisan's throw: 33-04

800M girls

This was not a favorite event (800M) for Elisan, but she did

her best and that was all I ever wanted!

Elisan's time: 3:29.51

Elisan and a teammate from Elisan & Kyla's soccer team!

Summer attends one of the local private schools as well.

400M girls

Elisan's time: 1:30.49 

Lining up for the 1600M

PROUD MAMA MOMENT!

Elisan placed 5th place in the mile

with a time of 8:06.24.

Kyla's class went on a field trip to visit the homestead of early Texans dating back to 1850.  It was a nice fun field trip... not overly exhausting... just right!

 I love this picture, not because of Kyla but because of the two

silly boys sitting next to her!

 Here's Kyla climbing a pole to ring the cattle bell.
She was totally going for it,

until the tour guide made her climb down. 

Here's the whole class in front of the home.  

And finally, the Jog-A-Thon "Hummo" Ride is awarded to the kids who raise over $300 for the school's fund raiser.  PMM!

 Third Grade went to Gattiland for Lunch.

Middle Schoolers went to Starbucks for
an afternoon pick-me-up!
(I chaperoned this group and was able to
go along for the ride!)

Just to give you an idea of who busy this month is for us...  Here's what is coming up for this month:

• Award's Chapel (Elementary)
• 6th Grade Drama Presentation
• Awards Night (Middle School)
• Select Soccer Try-outs for both girls
• 2 Soccer Tournaments
• Finals & End of School Parties
• Randy squeezing in an overseas business trip

And once school is out, we have two weeks to recover from school before we hit the road on our family vacation to Yellowstone!  

Whew... makes me tired just thinking about all of it!

Oh, and check this out....

Traffic to my blog has been going crazy these past few weeks because of a simple Teacher Appreciation freebie download I blogged about a couple of years ago.  It's kinda funny how one simple idea took off like it did.  I suppose that's the beauty of Pinterest for you.