National Honor Society invite!

 She was pumped when this came in the mail!

Her National Honor Society invitation! 

My smart cookie!

NOW...............................to kick OFF Spring BREAK!  

Whooo hoooo!!

Wordless Wednesday!

 

Another meet for Lily!

 I mean, I have to say, she is in 7th grade! Lets start there! Now, she knows her max, she knows how to push it, she knows.

But, does she get in her head and have off times?! Yes. And, that is what happened last night even though....in the grand scheme of the running world, her times were still pretty good! She knows what she needs to do, she knows what she needs work on...and that she needs to get out of her head and focus. So, all these things.......will come. 

It depends on her!

So, what got her flustered was her running the 3200 for the first time. Yeah, she could have done better. Alot better. But, she ran it in 14.25! I mean, try running 2 miles in that! Yeah, nope! ha!

Her 800, she did great! Ran it in 3.02!

Then she was flat exhausted for the 1600 so she didnt do good at all, with a 6:58, though it was under 7 minutes! Rachel came in 1st running it...........with the same time Lily ran last week and got 3rd. So, she was bummed (though excited for Rachel). 

So, like I said, she will get there. She has work to do. She knows. So, we can only go by how she wants to push and I think, after last night, she'll get it figured out!

I got a picture of the start of 3200. A lot of guys and girls. Those boys, lapped like crazy, it was impressive! Didnt snag a picture of the 800 start. Boo!

And, the 1600! Yep, it got dark and COLD by this point! Geez, I am ready for warmer weather!

Her Senior schedule!

 WOW!

Today I met with the school about Alexis' Senior schedule!

I just cant say WOW enough!

She will have a good one with a mix of in person and dual enrollment classes! 

Our Senior!

Competition cheer-Senior year!

 This time around, they had a double try-out for the comp team!

And.........LOOK who, of course, made the team!

Excited for her Senior year!

Enjoying the weekend!

 Our weekend was kind of topsy turvey! 

We spent all Saturday wondering if we were going to be hit by a tornado so we hunkered down and enjoyed relaxing at home with laundry and cleaning mixed in. We played Battle Ship...........against Tyler...and lost! We cooked and watched movies to pass the time all to see that we barely got rain and a few claps of lightning/thunder. 

Thankful it wasnt worse!

Sunday was a beautiful day! A little windy and chilly but overall, wonderful! It was filled with Church, the lunch to celebrate Pawpaw, at The Classic, which is always so good, and then Tyler wanted to go out to the land to try out his new gun!

The girls chose not to go so we had a 'day date!' ha! They relaxed and packed for our trip coming up!!

I mean, this view!

We hit some skeet! And....'we' means...yes, I actually hit some! :)

LOVE this picture of him!

3rd place, 1600!

 THIS girl! KILLED it at her last Track meet!

She is starting to understand her pace, and how she needs to 'turn it on' when she needs to!

I mean, 3rd out of 18! 

2nd on the Jacksonville team!

Beat JUNIORS and SENIORS!

Now, dont worry, we have warned her that Bre and Gracie are NOT going to allow her (a 7th grader) to let her beat them again...............

and her words..........

She'll 'turn it on' MORE next time and stay ahead of them.

She's tasted blood and there, hopefully, is no going back!

She was SO proud to get that ribbon and have her name called out!

She was in the first heat. That means, these are the 'best of the best' girls. There were so many that they had a 2nd one. So, that means.....she not only had to beat these girls, she had to have a better time than the others from the 2nd round. (And, spoiler alert, she DID!)

She killed it!

LOOK at that!

SO proud!

Cheer with Jax State!

 Alexis enjoyed the stunt clinic yesterday with the Jax State cheerleaders.

It was a tough one...after Prom, Church and the time change, we were all on the struggle bus, but when I went to watch, I got to see her in action as a base! She has never based before so watching her was impressive! She enjoyed it but said she likes flying the best!

They had a big turnout!

She did a great job!

Way to go!

Lily's last soccer game!

 Lily's JV season was a short one. I wish the other schools had a JV team so they could have more games but, they ended with a tie and a good game!

Loved watching Lily play!

I mean, wasnt this yesterday! And now...here we are, her last high school game!

I mean..the sunset was amazing on this night to watch a good ole soccer game!

There she is! Our number 4 during home games!

Junior Prom!

 Old Hollywood, The Golden Age is historic for a reason so to have it as the Prom theme, is perfection!

I just love Old Hollywood so I know the decor and the atmosphere will be so much fun for them!

We did alllll the pictures....with alllll the friends and then they all headed off to The Rail, in Gadsden, before going to the Botanical Gardens at the Anniston Museum. 

I cant wait to hear all about it!

Her Daddy wanted a picture with his girl!

I wanted one too!

Getting a selfie in before they leave!

Shining!

So sweet him opening the door for her! :)

They clean up cute! :)

Gorgeous!

They may not know if they like each other or not...but they are sweet friends!

Love this one!

One of my favorites!

So good!

We love this girl!

Our Junior!

Love!

Juniors!

The whooolleee gang!

Beautiful girls!

We love WK too!

Just stunning!

I know they will all have the best time!

Loved Syd's color!

Love!

The decor was impressive!

Turned out so nice!

Lily's soccer season-7th grade year!

 Lily has her last soccer game tonight since she is on the JV team!

Here we go Eagles!

Lily-7th grade season!

Wordless Wednesday!

 

Remembering Rosie, our fish

 Well, she lived a good life.

A longer life than I expected her to. We have had her for 2 years so she lived a total of right at 3 since she was with Camille before she gave her to Lily because they were moving to Texas. That is pretty long for Beta fish!

I just loved her personality. She would literally come straight up to the bowl and look at me when I would look in on her! She would move with me to each side of the bowl following me everywhere I would go!

She did NOT like have a friend. Poor Bubbles didnt stand a chance when we put her in with her. The saying is that only male Betas fight and are mean and that females enjoy having more than one in a bowl. Well, when we got Bubbles, Rosie was so mean to her. She would attack her and just be mean. It was crazy and sad to watch. Bubbles ended up not living so the queen had the bowl all to herself. 

And she loved being queen!

Crazy how a 'memory' pooped up to me about our very last Beta, Sweetie that Alexis had TWELVE years ago!

Crazy to imagine it has been that long but both Sweetie and Rosie died the same week but 12 years difference!

So, Im thinking Rosie will be our last fish................

but it wasnt hard taking care of her and she will always be remembered!

I moved her bowl to our room so I could keep a better watch on her since she was looking sick. Poor girl, she was a fighter! She would still try and swim and move even though she looked so sad.

And, to see this post! Sweetie was a beautiful, HUGE, male Beta. We sat him out on the kitchen island because we didnt have cats, then, to worry with them messing with him. I enjoyed seeing him swim around while I would cook and remember Alexis always loving to talk to him too!

DD-Senior year!

 Alexis had her first event to mark her Senior year of DD!

She had the Kawana's pancake breakfast event to kick it off!

This is always a big community event so she was busy!

Love how Mrs. Pam (the main leader over DD) wanted a picture with her!