Day 2 - Joey MIA

The girls and I are at the end of day 2 since Joey left for his 14 day elk hunting trip to Wyoming. He is a hard working - late worker for the most part, so it's not entirely different than what we are used to - BUT - he's great at playing games with the girls before bedtime and all I want to do by that time of day is put them in bed :) (Wow, that was truly a run-on sentence).

Anywho...today was hard for me, but it had nothing to do with the kids. I have to finish Friday's paper layout and I am just wearing thin. It's getting harder and harder to wear the 500 hats I need to wear to get this paper out every other week.

Oh...parents are here to babysit so I can go to a meeting....write more later!

Kasie & Derek's Wedding

It was a beautiful wedding! Here are a couple of pics - including one of Jimmy giving away Kasie...sniff sniff.

Jolie's Homecoming Game

Today was Jolie's youth cheer/football league's homecoming game against Thrall. We lost, but it was totally cute :)

Pep Rally

Today was the FISD district wide pep rally at the high school. The elementary kids were bused across the street and the middle school kids walked. Jolie cheered with her youth squad in front of the entire district and loved every minute of it. No nerves or shyness at all :)Here are all of the elementary kids after they got off of the bus and waiting to go into the HS gym for the pep rally.This is Jolie and the other FYRA cheerleaders (with middle school cheerleaders behind them) waiting for their turn to cheer.
Jolie exiting the floor as the middle school cheerleaders get ready to cheer.

Ike

We didn't get a lick of rain from Ike....and we really could have used some (although we're not complaining). We haven't heard from Joey's dad, brother or Aunt yet - as to how bad they got hit (they are all in Houston). We suspect they don't have power right now. Here are pics of the sky above our house at sunset yesterday.

Trying Color

The last issue of Main Street News, I upgraded to full color (front/back pages) so the fire pics would turn out. Front page was pretty good, but I didn't realize I needed to lighten all of the pics so they wouldn't print too dark (all pics print 30% darker on newsprint than what I see on screen - so I have to lighten the b/w pics too). Anyway, my amazing guy at UT straightened me out on that. I can't believe he's still putting up with me! Anywho...hopefully I got the images good for this issue. Here's a snapshot of what it will look like - although not quite as bright and cheery on newsprint.