Shelly's Blog

It seems like we dove right into the start of the school year head-first. We have already had a lot of homework, tests, dance practices, spirit week, football games to dance for at SAS, open house at Jersey Village, Meet the Hornets night, attended Grease-The Musical at JV, and Parent/Teacher Conferences are coming up at both schools - just to name a few of our activities. And, might I add, that Jessica was asked to the Homecoming dance and we were out shopping for a dress this weekend. We found a beautiful one! Homecoming Dress Spirit Week - Crazy Hair Day This might be Dancing??? Getting Ready to Watch Some TEXAN FOOTBALL Meet the Hornets Night Stingeretts Performing at an SAS Football Game Texas has been plagued by one of it's worst droughts in history. We've had many wild fires pop up all around us but I think our wonderful firefighters have contained most of them. I've been trying to do my part to help our little feathered friends by providing water. We've had a

The Lazy days of summer It's over??? Already??? What happened to summer vacation? Alyssa started back to school on Friday and Jessica starts next Monday. I guess that means that Summer is officially over and done.....right? Well, you would think that, but it's been 100+ degrees for the past 15 days. We're cooking.......literally! I don't think there will be a REAL end to summer for quite some time. Furniture surfing??? Let me back up a bit...... This says it all At the start of the girls summer vacation, they both took tennis lessons from Rivera Tennis Academy and the Houston Tennis Association. Jessica wants to play tennis at JVHS and she thought this would be a great opportunity to get in some practice. Both girls came down with Strepp Throat about mid-June. We celebrated Glenn's birthday out at the new improved "Little House". Please do NOT ask me why I only had 2 candles.... You won't like

Well.....uh, I......uh, hmmm.....sorry, but I just can't seem to come up with a really valid reason for not visiting here more often. I guess if you look at the pictures, you can see that I've been really busy, right? I know, I know, lots of busy people blog. Some every day. Some several times a day. I guess I'll just have to pull myself away from Facebook long enough to blog more frequently! We really did have a busy last two months. We celebrated Easter, Donna's 50th birthday, Mother's Day (for multiple mothers!), all of the May birthdays and Jessica's 8th grade graduation. We even had a few other things thrown into the mix, like our spontaneous trip to Surfside, Alyssa's horse riding session, Jessica's 8th grade trip and 8th grade breakfast and Ethan's Kindergarten graduation. Once again......the past two months in pictures. Surfside Beach - Look at all that seaweed! Alyssa - frolicking in the surf Never too old to dye Easter Eggs! Easter Morning

Hmmmm.....Once again. I'm not gonna say it. Do I even remember how? Okay, let's get started. Today is April 20, 2011. The day before my sister's 50th birthday. Happy early birthday, Donna Kay! It's also the Wednesday before Easter. That's a good thing, 'cause I get Friday off. I guess I'll start going backwards from here. This past weekend, we celebrated Jessica's 14th birthday. Let me pause here to take a deep breath and say again, we celebrated Jessica's 14th birthday! I feel old. We had all of the family over and a really great time. Jessica got lots of really nice things for her birthday, too. Before the family arrived, Jessica had a track meet to attend at Barnett Stadium towards south Houston. I had to take her and pick her up as well as get ready for the party all before everyone arrived. I guess that makes me Super Mom......SM. Think about it and it will all make sense. We celebrated Jessica's ACTUAL birthday on Monday April 11th by goin

Valentines Day - February 2011 We had a very nice (pre) Valentines Day dinner on Sunday Steps For Students 5K Fundraiser - February 2011 A sea of runners and walkers Alyssa and her "buds" getting ready to start the 5K walk St. Ambrose won the David Guite award this year! Jessica and Alyssa - Post Race Glenn and I - birthday dinner at Salt Grass Steakhouse I think everybody's ready to "Par-tay!" Happy Birthday, Lauren! Beautiful Cake! Launching the Water Balloons Splatt! Getting ready for another launch Time for a break - Picnic in the backyard