My summer through a chain link fence (2nd post)

Tball season is here! We've batted, scored and sweated and the season is yet half over! I love mom's pics through the fence to get a glimpse of their special player. B is playing on the Rockies team in the Christian Athletics league (lcaa), no pics of our sugar plum on this post, she'll get top billing next time around!

Tamaya, Tamaya, I love ya' Tamaya...you're only a state away!

We stayed at the lovely Tamaya resort in Albuquerque last week...and a couple of pictures too!

Cool waterslide!

LOVE IS WHAT MAKES THAT TOWN GO AROUND!

WE HAD A GREAT VISIT TO D THIS PAST WEEK. WE SAW SO MANY FRIENDS, IT WORKED OUT GREAT THAT WE WERE ABLE TO SEE AS MANY PEOPLE AS WE DID. THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR HUGS AND KIND WORDS AND THE MOMS WHO BROUGHT THEIR KIDS AND BRAVED THE PARK ANDLONG LUNCH LINES IN TOWN AFTER VBS ON THURSDAY. WE HAD A SUPER TIME GETTING TO SEE SO MANY PEOPLE, WISHING WE COULD HAVE SEEN JUST A FEW MORE. THAT LITTLE TOWN AND ESPECIALLY OUR CHURCH HAVE SUCH AN AMAZING CAPACITY TO LOVE PEOPLE. THAT IS THE EMOTION THAT I FELT THE MOST WAS LOVE, GENUINE AND GRACIOUS. THANKS DALHART, YOU DEFINITELY HAVE HEART IN THE RIGHT PLACE! THEY SAY LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO AROUND, I DON'T SEE THAT TO MUCH IN TODAY'S ENVIRONMENT BUT I CAN FOR SURE SAY THAT ABOUT OUR LITTLE TOWN!

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!