School Year Part 1

She finally made it to Middle School!  This has been a great year for Berkeley.  She is my building now, which makes it very nice, and convenient.  The bad thing is....I am always there!  HAHAHA!!!!  She is realizing that that is probably not as cool as she thought it would be, since I tend to be able to drop in and take care of business whenever I want, and I have embarrassed her a time or two....I try not to, but...it happens :)  She went to her first dance this fall.  We call it "dances" in Middle School, but all they seem to do is hang out....no one really dances....which is ok, I guess....

With Middle School, also comes boyfriends.  Yes, she has a "boyfriend".  But, when asked what they do together to make them boyfriend/girlfriend...she just giggles.  LOL!  They have homeroom together, and that is about it.  They don't sit together at lunch or in the classroom or anywhere for that matters.  They don't hang out outside of school....I don't get it, but if this is all that it amounts to right now....a title....then I guess I am ok with it.  There are a few "couples" that have been on "dates"....not sure I am ready for that yet....He didi get her a Christmas present....a very cute magnetic picture frame that has her name spelled out in letter magnets.  She got him an airsoft pistol. 

Ahhhhh.....young love.....LOL!!!

I am sure the rest of the year will find much more excitement, so I will try and be a little better at posting and keeping this thing up to date....

Just a few Random Pics I thought I would post....

Naturals Game and Kid's workshop

they just love their big sister.....

Dallas Arboretum Dec'09

Dallas Arboretum Dec'09

New Glasses

Been Awhile......

Gosh, I am slacking big time!  Well.  We are at the end of softball season.....Spring ball, anyway.  Berkeley's team, 2Xtreme, moved up last fall to the 12U division.  They have had a pretty good season, being the young'ins of the league this year, only losing 3 games total.  Tuesday is our last season game, then the following week begins the end of the year league tournament which run through 4th of July weekend (it is spread out over 2 weeks in regular game slots, instead of a full weekend thing).  The girls played in the District 12 tournament over the weekend and swept it by winning all three games.  They even had to play the team that had beaten them twice in regular league play, and then met them again in the championship game.  As always, when these two teams meet, it came down to who got last bat.  These two teams put on a great game...Anyway, we ended up going into overtime, and 2Xtreme (who had last bat, luckily) rallied up and took the win.  I can not describe the tension of that last inning and how awesome it was to see the girls so excited.  As always, I took a bajillion pictures, so I thought I would give y'all a few to peruse.....enjoy....

 

Basketball season has officially begun....

And with this post, I am realizing that I haven't posted pics from Berkeley's slumber party. I will have to get that done, huh? Anyway, we are in full force with basketball. We had a pre-season tournament on Sunday to allow the coaches a chance to see their teams in action before commiting the players to the A and B teams. Berkeley played in both the A and B team games, and did quite well, scoring 10 of the 30 points in the B game. She took 4 layups in a row at one point! With only 2-3 weeks into practice, I think we will have a great team, both A and B. Regular season games begin December 5th and run through February....yep, a veerrryyy long season. As always, though I love to watch her at the things she enjoyed so much, so it makes it all worth it....and hopefully it will fund us some scholarships to college in the near future...:)

Until next time.....

Berkeley's 11th Birthday

We celebrated Miss Thang's 11th Birthday on the 28th. At her request, Bill cooked spaghetti, and we had cake and presents afterward. We will be having her "friends" party this coming weekend at the Country Inn and Suites. Bill won a free night at one of his golf tournaments, so we rented an additional adjoining room, and the girls can swim, eat pizza, watch movies and have a good time, and I don't have to cook, clean or entertain....its all done!! My kind of party!!! So, here are the pictures from our family party. More will come after we get the friends party over with.

Berkeley Wakeboarding!!!

Berkeley has become quite the little wakeboarder this summer. Someone gave us a wakeboard for her last summer, but it was so late in the season when we started, that she didn't really get a chance to really get the hang of the whole thing. This year, she has just done great! She is now getting comfortable with her balance and is trying to move around on the water. She has had her share of faceplants in the water, but she gets right back up and goes again!! At this rate, by next summer she is gonna be doing tricks!! LOL!

One last post for now...

Berkeley finally got the opportunity to pitch for the first time during one of her games this year...she has been practicing a lot, and waiting for the time when given the opportunity to try her hand on the mound. She still has a ways to go before we can say she is a "PITCHER", but she is trying and practicing, and at any opportunity in the game situation, she is ready and waiting!! Here are a few shots I got of her first time on the mound!!

Oh, and I almost forgot the things she is most proud of....She finished the year with 3 homeruns, with one being a GRAND SLAM!! YAY!!! She is soooooo proud of her homeruns....I have said it once and I will say it again...my baby is becoming quite the little softball player, and she truely loves what she does.