Dog Shaming

She looks darn happy about it too!  

Glasses Be Gone!

This boy got contacts today and LOVES them!!  I love that his cute face is no longer hidden behind those glasses!

It's Dad's Day!!

For Father's Day I went digging in some old photo albums and found the following gems....

Look!  We all three, Drue, Dad, and I, have the same haircut!  Drue says mom still has that bowl.  She swears she didn't cut our hair...looks suspicious to me.

We stopped in to see P'Pa for Father's Day and bring him some donuts.  We took Opa a pie earlier in the day.

Here we have my other dad teaching me stuff.

Pretty sure that someone was shooting at us with a bb gun in this pic...

One happy family right here.  Look at those smiles!

And I'd also like to wish myself Happy Father's Day since I pull double duty!

Gulf Shores Trip

Oma took Jayke and Zach to Gulf Shores Alabama for a few days.  Here a few pics that they sent home.  They went to the beach, toured a battle ship, went to a movie, and the water park.  Mom said they thoroughly enjoyed hotel living.  

Hangin Tough!

Doc says she is doing really good for 17!!  In for a bladder infection today.  She has a heart murmur but that shouldn't be any big deal.  Especially not at this point.  I shut him down really quickly on anything he wanted to point out to me.  I told him we are not doing anything to prolong her life that would cause her any kind of recovery, or pain.  Treat the bladder infection and we will be on our way!  He agreed and did as he was told.  Laynie was a very cooperative patient, even leaving the sample on the floor for them without being asked!  She got a little nervous when they took her temp, but who wouldn't?  After that she just lay on the floor, as you can see, and waited to go back to the car.

Miss Priss

She always holds that paw up when she sits.  Make sure you check out Nemo chilling in the background.

New Level of Ridiculousness!

The Boy conned my mom into buying him this foot spa today.  He has been thinking about this for a while.  He has pointed them out to me in the store in the past.  I guess today was the day he made his move.  Told Oma he needed it for his sore feet.  I didn't even know you could get sore feet from playing xbox all day!!!

The "B" Team, Huh???

Final tournament of the season this weekend.   This one was going to be a tough one.  The first team that we were scheduled to play was the other U11 team from our own club.  Half of which we were on a team with last season.  All season long the kids on the other team called us the "B" team, even though we had half of the players from the "A" team they put together last season on our team.  From the very beginning on paper I thought that that is what they had done too...set up two teams, trying to make it look like there wasn't an "A" and "B" but really the other team had a slight edge....just from looking at the list before the season started.  After seeing them play though, I felt that our team was actually better. I told Jayke from the first weekend we played that his team was better.  I told him all season long that his team was better.  They pulled players from our team all season to play on the other team but didn't send us any help until the very end once we really couldn't win our division.  One game they allowed us to go play without a full team!

All of this is what made it so sweet this weekend when we not only beat them, but beat them pretty handily AND with their full team there!  

It was a weird thing to sit and watch.  Our kids playing against their friends and teammates.  The parents were all pretty quiet on the sideline, not wanting to cheer against the other kids we normally cheer FOR.  We were up a couple of goals on them when they scored their first and then it started to get a little bit louder but for the most part it was eerily quiet for a tournament game.  We pulled ahead another goal and then another.  I think the score ended up being 5-1 and gave our kids a huge confidence boost going into the rest of the weekend!  There were a lot of silent sighs of relief from our parents on the side line because we REALLY wanted this after being designate the "B" team all season.  

Below is an intense game of Uno in between games.  Trying to kill some time and stay cool and relaxed in the shade.  I think they may have been placing bets!  I heard someone say, "I've got Jayke to win!"

Waiting for the final game to start.

Lunch in between games on day one with a few teammates.

They had these huge gigaballs for the kids to play in.  Jayke had to try it out.  It was too hot in there though and he didn't like it much...which I tried to tell him before he did it.

We went on to play for the championship but came up short after a long weekend in the grueling heat.  Our final game was played in almost 90 degrees.  The kids were exhausted after waiting 5 hours after their previous game finished.  Just not enough in the tanks.  We took home another second place trophy which isn't bad for the team who was expected to have a chance after their first game! Second place is better than nothing! So much for being the B team!  

Goodbye Elementary School!

Today was Jayke's Awards Day at school.  We thought that he would be getting an award for straight As since he got them this quarter but didn't realize that you had to have them for the entire year...he missed that by a B+.  He was looking at me from his seat looking some what bummed when he realized he wouldn't get any awards today...only a certificate for completing fifth grade when his name was called for the Presidential Award, the principal calling it the "top award"!

He told me afterwards he had no idea he would get that!  I was proud of him for working really hard for the straight As.  He isn't always very motivated and just settles for all As and Bs...much like I did in school.  I told him if he got straight As this year he would beat me by two years, as I didn't get them until 7th grade.  That was all the motivation he needed...to beat his mother at something.  This was by far his best school year yet and we are already talking about him working towards honors classes and scholarships.  I just have to figure out how to keep him motivated!  

 

Below is a first day/last day shot...I think it is slightly exaggerated due to the angle but look at the distance between his shoes and shorts for an example of how he has grown this year.  He is to my shoulder now.  He also looks older in the face to me.  He better stop that!

Positive Behavior...Probably Didn't Get it From Me

I was reading through the school newsletter today and came across this picture.  Every month each teacher chooses one child from their class for this award.  Jayke has never gotten it...which surprises me because he is always so good in school.  I just happened to notice that kid in the back who is almost hiding his face with his certificate and realized it's Jayke!  He didn't even bother to tell me he got this.  When I asked him he said he forgot.  Glad I read the newsletter!