Herding cats.....

or teenagers.. you decide! :) Here are all the girls in the hallway of our hotel. After their 5 hour training they were ready to let off steam! They played in the pool, ate dinner and played in the pool some more. While they were in training, Amy and I had fun touring Spokane Valley after the co-pilot in the car made the driver take a left instead of a right LOL :) We missed getting into Costco by 10 minutes darn it! We never found the book that Amy was searching for, but we did have fun!!

On the way home, I got a call from Brett. HIs grandmother isn't doing so well right now. She's in the hospital in Spokane. She is now stable but is still critical, so if you are the praying type, please send up a little prayer for Brett's grandma, Marion. Brett is there with his mom and we're holding down the fort at home.

I'll have to check my calendar....

and see if I'm free. I put in all my "must go to or be at" places in my phone on the calendar. It turns the number green on the calendar when you have an event to do..looking at February... I have only a few none green days :)

Ana started basketball! 3 games down...many more to go! Tonight we drove to the Methow to play. The won! Ana has so much fun playing against her best friend Kendall! They laugh and joke.. and then play some serious ball! Check them out here!




Then I FORCED them to pose for an after game photo.. sweat and all :)


We got my dad moved to his new retirement apt. this last weekend. My nephew and his friends did a lot of the lifting and carrying and Brett and my brother Bryan did some too. I think my dad is going to love it. 3 square meals a day... all of his fun stuff in easy walking distance (bed, computer, new recliner and TV) in his apt. The rest of the "stuff" left at the house will go into an estate sale and then they'll clean it all up. It is the easy way to go.

Medical update on K... Since August we've been to the doctor at least every month...the last couple of months more than that. 2 weeks ago the allergy/ashtma doc who was just as perplexed as we have been with this persistent cough ordered another chest xray and also a sinus xray. They saw a small patch of congestion in K's left sinus and the conclusion was that she has had a sinus infection since August most likely and the infection has caused drainage down the back of her throat causing the irritation/cough. She is now on a mega dose of antibiotics and I happy to say that 2 weeks into the month long prescription..her cough is pretty much gone!! Yippee!!! To think... this whole thing was something as simple as a sinus infection *rolls eyes*

We also his the podiatrist this week as well. Karina rolls her feet in when she walks, but the doc was not concerned too much and had us go buy inserts to put into her shoes to help stabilize the arch. This is something she'll deal with the rest of her life, but at least we know that she's normal (per se) and the inserts should help with her "tired legs/feet" she complains of.

I'm off to bed...I battled a migraine all day (woke up with it this morning) and I've got that after migraine hangover feeling going on. Gotta rest up so I can be in gear when I go with Amy and Laurie with a group of teenage girls for a Girl Scout training in Spokane. Can't wait to go play a bit when the girls are in class. Amy and I plan some shopping during those 5 hours :)

Girl Scout cookie sales (pre sale) start soon! It's a fun, action packed time..but the girls love it!

OK Man is replaced by Hula Man

Each year the Ok Middle/High School does a food drive for the community basket. This year, the students did a change war (money) and in one week, raised $4900. That’s an average of almost $10 per student. Anyway, the last couple years, the students weren’t able to raise the amount of food/money needed make the principals plunge. They did this year though. So to follow up OK man from a couple years ago, we now have Hula Man.


Ok Man from '05


Now meet Hula Man from '08/09 (they were suppose to plunge in December but had to postpone due to frigid weather! :)

A fresh start...

to 2009.

I'm sure that all the usual goals will come up. I know I need to lose some weight and I need to get back to Curves instead of just paying them each month.

One of things I'm working on is communication.... keeping up with talking to and being in contact with family and friends more. My mom was always the one who kept me updated on what everyone else was doing, but she's unable to do much of that right now, so I hang in limbo on what my dear brothers are doing. I got a very nice long letter from a dear friend today that brought me to tears to think that I use to share my life, hopes and joys and general silliness with this dear lady every day when we worked together in Othello. Now it's reduced to just a little note or so at Christmas time. I really need to start to communicate more.. to reach out and just say hi more than once a year!

Though I hate being out of my classroom once a month, the Math Leadership Alliance has allowed me to see some of my dear friends there (all from my teaching days in Othello... we've all moved on to other places in NC WA). It's nice to get a hi, how ya doing.. how are the girls?

So in recap.. my goals are to be more healthy, and to be in better contact with friends and family!

Oh and I've always joined up a 365 day project... the goal is to take a picture once a day...every day. We're in day 2 and I'm doing well! (totally unedited and straight from the camera.) I'm using my new camera so I can get use to it.

Here are the 2 photos:

Santa was so very nice to us....

The kids got fun stuff to play with (3 new wii games- Mario Party 8, Boogie Superstar (sining one) and wii music). K got from Santa a guitar hero game for her DS so she can rock out on her own! Ana got a new to her phone and new ringtones, some cool ugg style boots. Both girls got a ton of new clothes to model at school for at least a week :) LOL





Brett got a cool new turntable that converts vinyl records to digital music! My mil graciously brought a "few" of her collection so we can give it a try this break! Brett hasn't done it yet as his truck is giving him fits. It's been such a good truck..never giving us a problem for the last 10 years. It has to last a few more years, as I got the new car this year because of problems with the Expedition. Come on truck be nice... :) We had to replace a part for the 4wheel drive right before Christmas and now it's the battery causing havoic.

I was due for an upgrade on my phone....so Ana got my old phone (so new to her) and I got this!


Brett also came through... I've been drooling over a digital SLR.. but he kept saying it's way to expensive still. But low and behold.. this was under the tree for me!!


I'm in heaven and a little intimidated by it.

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday so far! One more week of vacation left!! :)

I did do a layout here with a few of the Christmas memories!

Dancing in the dark...

Another production of Lisa's camera. Middle School dance team and high school cheerleaders doing a cool light stick routine. :)

For your viewing pleasure...

I'm pleased to bring a Lisa's camera production of OKMS dance team.. well our girl on the dance team.

Yes, she is the 2nd girl behind the little on in front for the first part! I lost track of her during the pom part but she's there for you to see :)