Way to go Jordan!!!!!!!

I am so proud of Jordan!! She went to an academic bowl (tournament of champions) today in Guymon and she won 2nd place!!!! She won a medal and now she gets to move on and compete in the next round. That will be held in El Reno on April 18th! We are so excited and so proud of her!!! She competed in Science and English both. She won 2nd in the English and 6th in the Science. So she moves on with the English!!

Time for volleyball!

Well, with basketball season over, it's time to start volleyball!! Another happy but sad time - I love watching the girls play volleyball and they love to play. They are both really good!! So I'm very happy that volleyball season is here and I can't wait to watch the games. But a little sad, because this will also be the last season for them to play volleyball. They play in Guymon with the Guymon Kid's Inc. But the last year they can play is 6th grade, so this is it! Just way too many last things happening this year! I'm not liking it! lollll I would give anything if Hooker would start up a volleyball team within the school system, but I really don't see that happening. Guymon has one, but we don't want our girls going to school in Guymon! So - here's to hoping that they have a great last season of volleyball!! Sign ups are the 9th, then practices will start and games will be throughout the month of March!!

Tournament of Champions!!

This coming Saturday (7th) Jordan will be going to Guymon to compete in the academic bowl "Tournament of Champions" She is a little nervous, but I'm sure she will do great!!! Wish her luck!!!

A happy, but sad day!!

Well, today the girls had a basketball game - the happy part: WE WON!!!!!!! My girls did awesome!!! Dakota scored 10 points, and Jordan scored 6. Nelle scored the other 4 points for a total of 20 points!! It was one of those games that if coach had left our starters in more, we'd have completely slaughtered them. But he took the starters out and put in the 4th grade girls. We still won 20 to 15 though! It was 20 to 1 when he took our starters out! lol Now for the sad part: It was the girls' VERY LAST basketball game that they will ever play for Straight Grade School!! And for Coach Harris. So, while I'm thrilled we won today, I'm also a little bummed that it's all over. Of course they will play next year in Hooker too, but we are just really gonna miss Straight School and Coach Harris!! Congratulations on a great season girls!!!!!!!

Dakota's Room

We did her room in wolves. Still waiting on her border to get here, it's been on back order. The rest of her room is pretty much done though. I'll take more pics when I get her border up!!

Jordan's new bedroom!!

Finally got her bedroom pretty much done. Still need to get some curtains (hoping we can talk Grandma Margie into that! lol) and we still have a few more pics to hang on the walls. BTW - that is not a spot on her wall - just something on the lens of my camera I guess! lol

The girls had an awesome birthday!!!

Wow - I can't believe my babies are 12 years old! Where does the time go. Seems like just yesterday we were bringing them home from the hospital! They really just grow up way too fast!!

They really had a nice birthday this year. As always their birthday fell on the Straight basketball tournament. So they had to play basketball on their birthday. They ended up getting 2nd place in the tournament, so they were happy about that.

We had a HUGE surprise for them for their birthday - since one of their best friends (Jett) moved to Enid last summer, they have really missed her. They have seen her a couple times, but not the same as getting to see her everyday at school. So - I made arrangements with her mom to meet in Woodward on Friday night and for Jett to come home and spend the entire weekend with us. It was all a total surprise for the girls - they knew nothing about it!! Janelle (their other best friend) rode the bus home with them on Friday and we then all got in the suburban and told them we had to go pick up some parts for Ed's work at Woodward. They moaned and groaned a little because they knew it was gonna be a long trip (2 hours one way). But they all 3 loaded up and we took off. Needless to say, when we got their and Jett jumped out and said "Jordan, Dakota" and I said "Happy Birthday" the squeals and hugs and giggling started!! These four girls have all been best friends since kindergarten, so all four of them were just thrilled to death to see each other!! We got Jett all loaded up and went to eat and then headed home. Ed said he should have brought his ear plugs, listening to four girls all the way home! lol They stayed up late watching movies, playing games and talking Friday night. Then Saturday we all got up and we let the girls open their gifts. They got a lot of nice things, but what excited them the most was the Wii. They were so happy and all four girls spent all morning playing it!! Then we all went to watch the basketball tournament. Since Jett used to go to school at Straight, Mrs. Hill (the superintendent) let her dig out her old cheer uniform and cheer with the girls during the game. So again - all four girls were back together cheering on the sidelines of the game. It was great!!! When the girls' game was over, I had had cookies made in their school colors and each girl on the basketball team had their # on a cookie and one cookie said "coach". So they had cookies with their basketball team for their birthday! Also to add to their excitment - my Dad and step-mom came out to see them and watch them play basketball. And our good friends RJ and Carrie came to watch them play ball. So they were pretty pumped up!! After their game, they all cheered at the boys game. The boys also took home 2nd place!! Then we all loaded up and went to Caktus Jacks and had a nice birthday supper. Came home and had cake and ice cream and then the girls all four stayed up late playing Wii, watching movies and giggling all night! lol Jett's dad came to get her around noon on Sunday to take her back to meet her mom at Woodward and we took Janelle home around 1:00. The girls were tickled to death over their gifts, all the phone calls, and cards and money and esp. their big surprise - Jett! lol It was definitely a birthday they won't forget!!!