BRIEF VISIT TO DALHART...JUNE 17/18

WE ARE COMING THROUGH DALHART ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17 AND THURSDAY, JUNE 18. NOW, WE DON'T EXPECT A PARADE OR ANYTHING...WELL ACTUALLY WE DO. OK, JUST KIDDING.

WE ARE EXCITED TO SEE EVERYONE. OUR PLAN IS TO GET THERE WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR THE VBS NIGHT AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH WE ARE STAYING W/S&K TURNER AND THE KIDS WILL GO TO VBS ON THURSDAY A.M., I WILL BE HANGING OUT IN THE TEACHER'S LOUNGE TO SEE EVERYONE!

TOMMY IS GOING TO LUNCH AT ROTARY, I THINK. THE KIDS WILL OF COURSE WANT PIZZA HUT, BUT I WAS THINKING MAYBE ANYONE WHO WANTED TO COME COULD SACK LUNCH IT AT 7TH STREET PARK AND LET KIDS PLAY BEFORE WE HAVE TO LEAVE AROUND 1:30.

IT'S A PLAN, NO STREAMERS OR FIREWORKS FOR OUR ARRIVAL PLEASE, JUST HUGS AND KISSES!

TRICK RIDING GETS TRICKY

IT IS A LOVELY DAY IN THE BIG CITY, NO WIND, BEAUTIFUL SUN AND GREAT TEMPS - A REGULAR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TYPE OF DAY. THE KIDS WERE OUT RIDING BIKES WITH DADDY . B AND I CAME HOME EARLY - DADDY AND S HEADED OUT FOR SOME MORE. ABOUT HALF AN HOUR LATER DADDY COMES IN, "MOMMY, WE ARE GOING TO NEED YOU."

I, OF COURSE, WAS ON THE PHONE, WHICH MY CHILDREN SAY I DO TO MUCH OF.

SHERIDAN HAD A CUT IN HER FOREHEAD. IT WAS LENGTHWISE, ABOUT 1/4 INCH LONG ABOVE HER EYEBROW. SHE HAD BEEN ZIG-ZAGGING ON HER BIKE AND FELL. SHE WAS WEARING HER HELMET, HOWEVER, WE THINK IT WAS HER SUNGLASSES THAT CAUSED THE CUT. HER SUNGLASSES WERE SHATTERED AND PRAISE GOD, SHE HAD NO OTHER INJURES TO HER EYES, TEETH OR HEAD.

WE WENT TO THE CHILDREN'S ER AND WERE SEEN QUITE QUICKLY (I TOOK PICS ON MY CAMERA PHONE BUT HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO RETRIEVE THEM). THEY NUMBED HER FOREHEAD AND DID LIQUID STITCHES. SHE DID REALLY WELL, SHE WAS MOST UPSET ON THE WAY THERE THINKING SHE WAS GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE SHOTS OR HAVE SURGERY.

WE ARE BACK HOME NOW, THANKFUL FOR LIQUID STITCHES AND FOR NO FURTHER INJURIES - TRICK RIDING CAN BE PRETTY TRICKY....

WORD OF THE DAY

YOU WILL SEE I'VE ADDED A NEW GADGET ON THE BLOG, IT IS WORD OF THE DAY. WHILE MOMMY AND DADDY WERE ON VACATION, GIGI AND PAPA TOOK CARE OF THE PEEPS AT HOME. WORD OF THE DAY IS NOW A REQUIREMENT DUE TO THEIR VISIT.

ONE DAY ON THE WAY HOME FROM SCHOOL, MISTER B WAS BEING MISTER B, AND KICKING THE BACK OF THE DRIVER'S SEAT. MY DAD SAID, "B, STOP KICKING THE BACK OF MY SEAT, YOU ARE BEING OBTUSE."

B ASKED, "HEY PAPA WHAT IS OBTUSE?"

"IT MEANS DIFFICULT."

B RETORTED, "GREAT! I'M OBTUSE AND LOVING IT!"

OUR SON THEN DECIDED THAT HE WANTED TO LEARN A NEW WORD EVERYDAY AND SO NOT HAVING THE VAST VOCAB/DICTIONARY KNOWLEDGE THAT PAPA HAS (OR UNCLE ASHLEY FOR THAT MATTER, AS WE HAVE ACCUSED HIM OF READING THE SCRABBLE DICTIONARY DURING HIS FREE TIME), I OPTED FOR THE DICTIONARY.COM GADGET!

TODAY'S WORD IS FITTING, TYRO - A BEGINNER IN LEARNING.

AND THEY ARE OFF...

I MENTIONED BRIEFLY BEFORE IN MY BLOG THAT OUR DEAR DADDY IS MARATHON TRAINING. AT CHRISTMAS, MY BROTHER-IN-LAW ANNOUNCED THAT ON JANUARY 5TH, 2009 HE WAS GOING TO START MARATHON TRAINING.

WE ALL LAUGHED, AT THE TIME, HE WAS HOLDING A COOKIE OR SOMETHING. WELL, JANUARY 5TH CAME AND LANCE STARTED HIS TRAINING PROGRAM FOR THE NEW YORK CITY MARATHON WHICH IS IN EARLY NOVEMBER.

SINCE WE ALL THOUGHT HE WAS JOKING, TOMMY WAS VERY INTERESTED WHEN HE BEGAN HIS QUEST. IN TYPICAL LANCE FASHION, HE READ A BOOK, (LANCE ALWAYS READS BOOKS ON HOW TO DO STUFF FROM SKINNING A DEER TO INSTALLING CROWN MOLDING!), THE NON-RUNNERS GUIDE TO MARATHON TRAINING AND TOMMY GOT A COPY OF THE BOOK ALSO AND THEY MADE A PACT TO ENTER THE LOTTERY DRAWING FOR THE MARATHON.

TOMMY STARTED HIS TRAINING ABOUT 1 MONTH BEHIND LANCE, THEY ARE NOW OUTFITTED WITH FANCY GPS WATCHES THAT TRACK THEIR HEART RATE, PACE, TIME, ETC. THEY ENTERED THE LOTTERY DRAWING FOR THE NEW YORK MARATHON.

THE LOTTERY WILL BE DRAWN IN THE SUMMER AND YOU HAVE A ONE IN THREE CHANCE OF MAKING IT BY LOTTERY DRAW. YOU CAN ALSO APPLY TO RUN ON SOMEONE'S TEAM. LANCE RESEARCHED AND HE AND TOMMY ENTERED TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE LANCE ARMSTRONG LIVE STRONG MARATHON TEAM. OUR LANCE'S BEST FRIEND, ROBERT CUDD DIED OF CANCER IN THE LAST YEAR AND LIVESTRONG WAS AN ORGANIZATION THAT OUR LANCE KNEW HELPS WITH CANCER RESEARCH.

SURPRISE OF ALL SURPRISES, TODAY, THE LIVESTRONG MARATHON TEAM EMAILED TOMMY AND LANCE AND THEY BOTH WILL BE RUNNING WITH TEAM LIVESTRONG IN THE NYC MARATHON THIS YEAR! ISN'T THAT INCREDIBLE!!! THE TEAM CONSISTS OF 250 RUNNERS. MORE INFO TO COME - YOU KNOW FUNDRAISING FOR THE ENTRY FEE, ETC.

PLEASE PRAY AGAINST INJURY FOR TOMMY AND LANCE AS THEY CONTINUE TO TRAIN FOR THIS GREAT ADVENTURE!

A GOOD MORNING...

IT IS GOOD FRIDAY TODAY AND THE PEEPS ARE OUT OF SCHOOL. OUR LITTLE GIRL HAS STREPAND THAT SET THE WHEELS IN MOTION FOR A QUIET MORNING. YESTERDAY, I PICKED UP DONUTS KNOWING THE KIDS WOULD BE OUT OF SCHOOL AND WHO WANTS TO COOK BREAKFAST!

AFTER WE HAD OUR DONUTS AND MILK, WE ALL THREE SAT ON THE COUCH AND CUDDLED AND WATCHED A MOVIE. I GOT TO BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THESE TWO DARLINGS AND WE WERE UNDER A BIG BLANKIE AND IT REMINDED ME OF BEFORE THEY WERE IN SCHOOL AND THAT IS SOMETHING WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO A LOT OF.

IT WAS SO NICE TO JUST SIT THERE AND CUDDLE UP WITH THESE BIG KIDS AND IN MY MIND PRETEND THAT THEY WERE 2 AND 4 AGAIN! THEY ARE A BLAST AT THIS AGE AND WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HAVE THE FIERCE UNO MARATHONS BEFORE BED THAT WE ARE HAVING ALMOST NIGHTLY NOW, BUT THOSE DAYS BEFORE SCHOOL, HOMEWORK AND ACTIVITES WERE PRICELESS AND I GOT TO HAVE A GLIMPSE OF ONE TODAY. THANK YOU LORD.

IN OTHER NEWS, BEFORE WE GOT GOING THIS MORNING, (OK AFTER THE SWEET AND SAPPY POST ABOVE, YOU WILL WONDER WHERE IN THE WORLD THIS IS GOING). HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEW SPONGE BOB/BURGER KING AD? IT IS ABSOLUTELY ABHORRENT AND LEWD.

NOW, I'VE SEEN PLENTY OF BAD AND TASTELESS ADVERTISING IN MY DAY, HOWEVER, THIS PARTICULAR CAMPAIGN IS TARGETED AT CHILDREN. BEFORE OUR QUIET AND SERENE MORNING, I DID SOME RESEARCH ON THE BK COMPANY IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THEIR PHONE NUMBER TO COMPLAIN. DID YOU KNOW THE PARENT COMPANY OWNS MG ENTERTAINMENT, BURGER KING AND LITTLE TYKES BRAND?

I CALLED FOR THE CEO AND WAS THWARTED AND SCREENED BY A SAVVY SECRETARY. I THOUGHT FOR HALF A SECOND ABOUT PULLING OUT MY OLD DALHART TEXAN PRESS CREDENTIALS AND THEN DECIDED AGAINST IT.

I WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE CUSTOMER RELATIONS LINE AND I MADE MY STANCE KNOWN, PULL THE AD BEFORE I BUY ANOTHER CHICKEN FRY, WHOPPER, JR. OR ANYTHING PLASTIC WITH THE NAME LITTLE TYKES ON IT!

NOW, I PROBABLY DON'T MATTER TOO MUCH, BUT SHE DID SAY THEY WERE GETTING A LOT OF CALLS ABOUT THE AD. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT, I'M GLAD, IF YOU HAVE - YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. THE WORST PART IS THAT IT IS TIED INTO THE KIDS MEAL AND THAT IS QUITE UNACCEPTABLE IN MY OPINION.

OK, AGAIN, THANK YOU LORD FOR MY OPINION, MY OPINION ALONE AND A FORMAT AND NATION IN WHICH I CAN EXPRESS IT!

MORE NEWS...

DID YOU KNOW TOMMY IS TRAINING FOR A MARATHON WITH HIS BROTHER? YES, OUR SWEET DADDY GETS UP WAY TO EARLY MOST MORNINGS AND IS RUNNING IN HOPES OF HE AND HIS BROTHER GETTING TO RUN IN THE NEW YORK MARATHON IN NOVEMBER. WE ARE ALL VERY PROUD OF THEIR EFFORTS AND SHOULD THEY GET PICKED IN THE LOTTERY AND HAVE A CHANCE TO RUN WILL BE QUITE AN ADVENTURE.

ALL FOR NOW, OUR QUIET AND SWEET MORNING HAS TURNED INTO SOME POINT OF CONTENTION IN THE HALLWAY. APPARANTLY, OUR DAUGHTER HAS SET UP SHOP AS A PET STORE, WHILE OUR SON IS RUNNING PAST HER DOOR ON HIS WAY TO A BATTLE OF SOME SORT.

I THINK I'LL SUGGEST THAT THE REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER BUY A HORSE AT THE PET STORE AND HE CAN RIDE IT OUTSIDE TO THE BATTLE - DOES THAT SOUND FAIR?

WAFFLES FOR DINNER!

UNPACKING TODAY WE FOUND THE MUCH ANTICIPATED TOASTER, THE KIDS COULDN'T WAIT FOR BREAKFAST SO THEY ARE HAVING WAFFLES FOR DINNER. OUR DAUGHTER LIKES THEM CRISPY ALMOST TO BURNED WITH BUTTER. OUR SON LIKES THEM THE SAME WAY BUT CUT UP TO DUNK IN SYRUP - YUM!

UPDATE AND THEN SOME...

JUST FILLING YOU IN ON OUR HAPPENINGS, OR IF YOU ARE A BOX IN THE GARAGE, THE NON HAPPENINGS OF UNPACKING!

SANDY MARIAH NEWS DEBUT
THE KIDS DEBUTED THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSPAPER LAST WEEK, (I'LL POST AFTER I HAVE IT SCANNED). DUE TO EXTREME TEMPS, DOOR TO DOOR SALES WERE NOT AS FLUSH AS THEY HAD HOPED. AS WITH MOST PAPERS ACROSS AMERICA AND TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES, THE SANDY MARIAH NEWS IS BEING CUT FROM A WEEKLY PUB TO A MONTHLY OR BI-MONTHLY PUBLICATION. WE DO HAVE ONE LONE ADVERTISER AND A LOYAL FOLLOWING OF A FEW NEIGHBORS, BUT WE NEED TO BLITZ THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO MAKE IT COST EFFECTIVE. MORE TO COME...

THE FIRST PAPER THAT STARTED IT ALL
AS YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE WAY THE PAPER THING GOT STARTED WAS OUR DAUGHTER'S FAKE PAPER THAT SHE BEGAN OVER SPRING BREAK. UP UNTIL TODAY, I COULD NOT FIND THE FIRST ISSUE (I FOUND IT CLEANING OUT MY PURSE, LD-I SHOULD HAVE BEFORE/AFTER PICS OF THAT MESS!). FOLLOWING IS HER FIRST JOURNALISTIC ENTRIES, PHONETIC SPELLING AND ALL...

LUBBICK NES PAPER

HELO WOODS!
TOMMY WOOD AND ALLISON WOOD MOVED HERE FROM DALHART, WHITH THER 2 CHILDREN, SHERIDAN AND BRENNER. THEY WILL BE GOING TO SOTHCREST. TOMMY WORKS AT EDWARD JONES. SHERIDAN IS 8, AND IS IN 2ND GRADE. BRENNER IS 6 AND IS IN KINDERGARTEN. WE ARE VARY GLAD TO HAVE THE WOODS IN LUBBICK WHITH US.

MORE REPETERS
AT REPETERS MANCHEN WE NEED SOME MORE HED REPORTERS. THES ARE THE HED REPORTERS WE HAVE SO FAR: HOLLY MINT, GRACIE COVER AND KITTY WOOD. SO PLEES JONE US.

LITNING BUG CONTEST
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A LITNING BUG CONTEST. AT LITNING BUG LAKE. 9:30 P.M.HOW YOU PLAY IS YOU GET FREE JARS AND CACH AS MANY AS YOU CAN. HOO EVER GETS THE MOST GETS TO CEEP ALL UV THEM.

LUBBCK BOOK FAR
AT LUBBCK LIBRARY THARS A BOOK FAR. WARE YOU GET FREE BOOKS TO KEEP THERE WILL BE REFRESHMINTS AND ACTIVITYS. ALL ON FRIDAY NIGHTS 8 TO 10.


WASSUP MISTER B!
OK, THIS IS ME AGAIN AND NOT SAID DARLING DAUGHTER. OUR SON GOT TERRIBLY SICK ON MONDAY THIS WEEK WITH A VERY HIGH FEVER. BEING SO ON TOP OF THINGS THAT I'M SO NOT RIGHT NOW, I HAD NOT YET TRANSFERRED TO OUR RECOMMENDED DOCTOR.

SO ON TUESDAY A.M. I WAS SCRAMBLING FOR A NEW DOC AND DID GET HIM SEEN TUESDAY AFTERNOON. WE WALKED IN AND THE DR. ASKED HIM, 'HI, WHAT ARE YOU UP TO?'. THE SULLEN, SERIOUS AND HOT KID SAID, "WALKING WITH MY MOM". ASK A LITERAL QUESTION DOC, GET A LITERAL ANSWER. OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS NOT LIKE OUR BELOVED B AT ALL! HE WAS RUNNING A 103 TEMP AT THE EXAM WITH ODD ACHES AND PAINS. HE TESTED NEGATIVE FOR FLU AND STREP.

WITH A MILD DECONGESTANT WE LEFT AND UPPED HIS MOTRIN/TYLENOL DOSE AS I WAS GIVING HIM NOT ENOUGH FOR HIS WEIGHT. HE WAS BACK AT SCHOOL BY THURSDAY AND IS MUCH BETTER, PRAISE GOD!

DRESS UP DAY AND 1040 WINDOW PRESENTATIONS
MISSIONS WEEK WRAPPED UP WITH DRESSING UP AS A CHILD FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY. THE STUDENTS LEARNED ABOUT FIVE DIFFERENT PEOPLE GROUPS, FIND OUT MORE AT http://www.1040window.org/ . THE MAJORITY OF NON CHRISTIANS FALL BETWEEN THE 10TH AND 40TH PARALLEL OF THE NORTHERN HEMISHPERE STRETCHING FROM AFRICA TO CHINA.

EACH CLASS STUDIED A COUNTRY AND GAVE FACTS AND A PRESENTATION. KINDERGARTEN HAD JAPAN, THEY SANG A SONG AND EACH STUDENT RECITED A FACT ABOUT THE COUNTRY, (OUR SON, BY THE WAY, DRESSED UP AS A SPANISH SOLDIER FROM THE CASTILLO DE SAN MARCOS (ST. AUGUSTINE, FL) - NOT REALLY ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE 1040 WINDOW, BUT HIS OTHER CHOICE WAS A BRITISH BOBBY!).

2ND GRADE LEARNED ABOUT THE COUNTRY OF NORTH KOREA, (OUR DAUGHTER DRESSED UP IN A BORROWED CHINESE TOP AND PANTS SET THAT WAS BABY BLUE!). I LEARNED A LOT AS A PARENT LISTENING TO EACH CLASS AS THEY PRESENTED FACTS ABOUT THE UNCHURCHED OF EACH COUNTRY.

THEY ALSO PARTICIPATED IN UNDERGROUND CHURCH - COMPLETE WITH A POLICE OFFICER COMING TO CHECK ON WHAT THE CELEBRATION WAS ABOUT! THEY ALSO RAISED MONEY TO SPONSOR A WELL IN AFRICA. WHAT A GREAT MISSIONS WEEK!

WHAT IS TOMMY DOING?
HE HAS BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD ON OUR YARD. TODAY, HE TORE DOWN THE DOG RUN, THAT WE DECIDED WOULD NOT HOLD A LARGE DOG AND A SMALL DOG WOULD SLIP THROUGH. THIS IS IN PREPARATION FOR THE PLAYSET TO COME. HE HELD HIS FIRST EJ FUNCTION RECENTLY AND IT WAS GREAT TO MEET SOME FELLOW LUBBOCKIANS!

WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING?
BLOGGING AND NOT UNPACKING.

PRINCESS AND SUPERHERO NIGHT
WE WENT TO CHIC-FIL-A LAST NIGHT FOR PRINCESS/SUPERHERO NIGHT. EACH TIKE WHO WAS DRESSED UP GOT A FREE MEAL! THE COW AND MRS. COW WERE DRESSED UP TOO - THE COW WAS DRESSED UP LIKE BAT MAN, IT WAS SO HILARIOUS! MRS. COW WAS DRESSED UP LIKE CINDERELLA, THEY HAD CRAFTS AND PICTURES WITH THE COWS - A GREAT WAY TO SPEND A FRIDAY NIGHT. WE CAME HOME AND FOLLOWED IT WAS A FEW HANDS OF UNO (TO BE CONTINUED TONIGHT). SCORING: MOMMY 320/ DADDY 265/ PEEPS 264.!!

OK, THAT WRAPS IT UP FOR US, WE ARE CONTINUING TO VISIT CHURCHES, THERE ARE LOTS OF GREAT ONES! WE STARTED BALLET THIS WEEK AND HAVE TO SIGN UP FOR TBALL IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. WE HAD A VISIT FROM MIMI AND POPPY LAST WEEKEND AND AN EASTER COMING UP. BUSY, BUSY, BUSY, BUT ALWAYS MISSING OUR FRIENDS!