Random Mobile Pictures

My precious daughter made Honor Roll

She is so smart and sweet! I am so very proud of her. She works really hard and is really involved with her school. I can't wait to see how far she goes in life!!

Roxxy Girl watching us eat dinner! Isn't she cute!!
Uncle Mikey got these cool wheels for Tyler. Good job Romance!

Looks like Tyler also liked his other gift from us. Nellie said he played with it for a long time.

He is so cute. Look at him..he is so into it. I love it. It was a lovely birthday party. I need to upload my other pictures from my camera soon. These were just a few shots from my phone.

Happy 2nd Birthday Tyler

Wordless Wednesday: Lauren's Door

(Click on Picture to Enlarge!)

Lauren's New Bedroom!

After the flood. Water Extraction action.

You can see the old bunk bed frame

Empty

Lauren picked out her new plush rug. In her favorite color of course.

All back together!

I think she likes it.

Thank you Mikey for picking it up for me. Thank you to Michael for helping me put it all together and thank you to my kids for helping with everything in between!

The Girl's Bedroom Set (Pick Up Tomorrow)!

She will have better bedding though! I am so excited and I am thankful for my Rent A Hubby Mikey who is going to let me use his truck.

The girls set is like this one, except she will have the FULL SIZE bedframe and no footboard.

SEE MORE WEDDING PICTURES (PROOFS) UNDER THIS POST!

C*STEM Challenge Ambassador

Everyone is an Artist and an Engineer

• Communication
• Science
• Technology
• Engineering
• Mathematics
  
  Lauren was chosen out of a few select students in her school to attend the C*STEM Challenge kickoff at TSU. She is a GT student (Gifted & Talented) and in 5th grade.

This little girl never ceases to amaze me! She is so smart and you can tell she loves learning and school. Okay, well maybe she doesn't LOVE school but she is very accomplished and very focused. I am excited about all the opportunities that have come her way and at the age of 10.

CSTEM Challenge Website-Click Here To Learn More!

The Challenge kicks off the countdown to the National Competition May 8, 2010 at the George R Brown Conventions Center. Lauren sat through an hour presentation and was given several handouts on the competition. She was excited to attend this kickoff in its college setting.

That makes me one happy Mom! I can not wait to see what great achievements Lauren will have in her future.

**********

The 2010 CSTEM Challenge Categories:
CSTEMbreak (social media)
CSTEMgreen
Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
Robotics
Mural
Sculpture
Creative Writing

NYE & NY

~Happy New Year~

Michael & Lalo
Butta & Linder

The Girls (Crew) Carol, Lalo and Sara

The Boys!

The Crew (Most of them) Cheers, its almost 12:00 AM!

First Hug of 2010!

~New Year's Day! ~

Dinner at Michael's Mom's.

Darren carving his 1st turkey!

He did a really good job.

Lauren playing on Katilyn's pimp mobile after dinner!

Darren is man enough to take this ride for a spin.

Darren showing off his skills.

We had a great NYE and NYD and an awesome weekend. I am sad to say that my NEW camera (thanks Myers) did not save my pictures from Christmas. At least I cannot find them. Oh drab. We will have to re-wrap all the gifts and do it again.

I sure hope everyone has a Blessed & Happy 2010!

*MASTERS* of Tae Kwan Do

I am so excited. I have an initial meeting with Masters Tae Kwan Do Academy this coming Thursday. The kids and I are signing up for some classes. I have been bad about going to the gym lately. Thanks to a busy schedule and the fact that when I am at the gym after work or in the evenings I am not home with the kids. I am worried about them being home for a longer period of time without me. Now we can all go and take classes at the same time. A good workout for me and a new interest for the kids, until basketball season for Darren at least. The great thing is that Darren and Lauren will be in the same "age range" class. The 9-13 year old range is at the same time my class is held. I am excited for Thursday to check it all out. If we sign up Thursday we get our uniforms for free. I am pretty sure we will do this as a family.

It is a little on the $$ side, but I am thinking of cancelling my 2 (3) gym memberships. That alone will subsidize for a 1/4 of the cost. I pay for Darren and Lauren and my membership is free. "Dad's" is free too, but we don't have that 4th. Wish they'd give me a SINGLE MOM discount. ha ha. Anyhow, I hope the kids want to do it too. I am sure they will.

5 More Minutes Mom!!

After Hitting "SNOOZE"...............
The question that arose this morning from my 9 year old is..."That was 5 more minutes?". You see, Lauren's alarm goes off every morning at 5:15am. She is so awesome at getting up as soon as that alarm goes off and jumping in the shower. This morning was a different story. The poor girl had SO much homework it was very painful to watch her struggle to stay awake trying to complete it. Being the trooper she is, she got it all done and had enough time to hang out with me for a bit before going to bed at 9:00. I think she wears herself out sometimes. Anyhow, her alarm goes off this morning and for the 1st time EVER she rolled over and looked at me and asked if she can have 5 more minutes. My first thought was, Oh lord I have rubbed off on her {those who know me well, know that I am the Snooze Queen}. I thought to myself, she is always ready and waiting for that bus at least 10 to 15 minutes prior so no problem. When I go to wake the poor child up her words were, "Aww, that was already 5 minutes?". I was like, sweetie that was 10 minutes! She was so disappointed. She then got up and got in the shower. When the bus arrived (5 min. early-go figure) she didn't have her shoes on and couldn't find her trumpet and she was in a panic. Poor little thing. So my point today is: WHY DOES 5 MINUTES IN THE MORNING SEEM TO GO BY SO QUICKLY? When I press my snooze button on my cell phone it goes off every 10 minutes. I hit it at least 2 to 3 times and it seems like I got an extra 5 minutes of sleep. I just felt so bad for her. I can only hope she doesn't have so much homework this evening and she gets a good night's rest.

PS-This is my 200th Post!