Dig Pink

A couple weeks ago, our volleyball team held a breast cancer fundraiser with our rival, Desert Vista. Everyone wore pink (even I wore pink), and there was pink everywhere...pom poms, beads, the uniforms and even the volleyball were pink. Our school won for selling the most raffle tickets, but sadly we did not win the game. The coolest part was that the two teams raised $12,000! There were about 450 similar events done across the country, and we were the national leader for fundraising in Dig Pink events. We heard that the next highest was only $5000.

A Good Monday

I think I mentioned in my last post that I was starting "school" with Kate. Each week we have a theme and we do different activities and workbooks covering language arts, math, science, social studies, cooking and art. We are doing pretty basic things, I'm not too crazy! This week our theme is Apples. Today I put apple cutouts all over the house, and she had to go find them all and put them in a basket. I figured she would like this, but I had no idea how much. I ended up having to do this many, many times. We also made a book about apples, after she listed her favorite things about apples. I was not really sure when I chose what we are doing if she would be able to, but she is always surprising me with how much she understands. It's been really fun so far being her teacher!



Everett is coming more "alive" everyday! He smiles all the time and is such an easy going little guy. I love the little noises he makes, and he is always moving. That's kind of scary actually! He goes for his 2 month check up later this week, and I'm excited to see how much he has grown. I'm pretty sure he'll be in the 90th percentile or higher. Kate always is and he seems bigger to me.



Tonight we had dinner with our volleyball team. It's something the team does every week. Thirteen girls between the ages of 14 and 18...it made me happy that I don't have a teenager. No matter how hard it is to have a toddler, I was thinking tonight how much harder (in a very different way) it will be to have teenagers.



Well, it took me a few days to write something again, but at least I did :)

Crazy VB Week

This week has been one of the busiest weeks that I have had in a long time, maybe ever actually. I don't know if everyone that is going to read this knows, but Brian and I help with the varsity volleyball team at Brian's high school. Well, this week the girls had games on Tues, Wed and Thurs, and then we had a tournament on Friday and Saturday. I was tired just watching all of that volleyball, so I don't know how some of our girls were even walking by Saturday night. We ended up getting 3rd at the tournament, but it was a moral victory...I won't bother with the details on that. It would be boring to anyone not involved!



On Tuesday, Kate and I hosted her play group that we are in. It's just moms from the church we used to go to, so it's not too weird or anything. We have a park next door to our house so the kids played over there. It ended up being quite dramatic, because one little girl fell off of a picnic table right on her head and Kate ended up with a pound of sand in her eyes. There were a few more minor injuries as well. I don't think I'm going to be up to hosting anymore, it was stressful! Being that we have never taken Kate to the beach, I had never had to deal with any sand problems. I had no idea how to get sand out of her eyes...I basically just poured water over her until it seemed like she could see again. All day little bits of sand kept coming out of her eyes. I felt so bad for her, but she didn't seem to really notice. So that was our week!



And today is Janna's birthday, so Happy Birthday again Janna!!!!