Bye Bye Flute

Kendyl on her way to her final band concert. In middle school it is a hard choice of what electives to participate in and Kendyl had a really tough time as she wants to do all of them. But after many agonizing days of pondering her future she settled on cheerleading & choir. She was sad to say goodbye to her flute but hated the pressures band brought too. They are extremely competitive in the band world here in Texas even in beginning band. And after asking around to the 7th/8th grader kids and parents we were told that it gets even more intense and to run away now if you can. Her flute teacher kept at Kendyl every day to convince her to stay on in band, even having her try out for the honor band and bashing her pursuit of cheerleader. Well Kendyl made the cut for honor band and got totally turned off by her teachers cheer slams. So she is on to do the two things she loves more than anything...dancing and singing. Go Kendyl you are a very talented girl who can do whatever you put your mind to. And I love your final choices as dancing and singing were my two greatest loves too. Can't wait to watch you at the football games this fall!
Kendyl at her first concert back in the fall. She was a natural from the very start.
That is Kendyl's best friend Kyra sitting behind her in the left corner. They both are not returning to play flute next year. Also, hates the band competitive pressures.

Look At The Cute Babies

This is our Sunday morning fun lately...feeding the geese. When we first moved to this house a small group of geese showed up at the neighborhood pond and everyone thought it was so cool. As the years have gone by the group of geese has grown with each years batch of cute babies. But watch out mommy and daddy come at you with wings full span if you approach to close to their little ones. I couldn't quit laughing at Rand and Nic as they would go running when one of the parents would go after another geese who tried to take babies piece of bread. Kendyl always made sure she was behind her dad or brother to block the attack.

A Week House Sitting Across The Street

The kids with Petey the parrot...noisiest bird in town. This little guy kept ringing his little bell all night long to alert the kids he was under the night cover. He is quite the talker too. After a week with him the kids no longer thought he was cute in any way.

Nic was asked to baby sit the kids across the street for one week while the parents were away to California. He even had to sleep over there! There are three kids...Boomer and Sunny are the two most spoiled labs I have ever come across. These two for after dinner snacks eat 'ice cream sandwiches'. How funny is that? Lucky the kids ended up out of school for the swine flu because Nic and Kendyl slept on the couches over there for the week and at the end of that week were SO EXHAUSTED. The night they returned to their own beds was so funny...they both collapsed and burrowed in saying "I love my bed...I love my bed".

Thank goodness they get these moments because it keeps the wishes for a big dog at my house away that much longer. The kids loved on our "little" Emmett when they came home saying how sweet a little dog was. lol