Six Flags Cheer Competition!!

                                          
                       Rozalynn and Karie performing!

                                            
                                  Team Photo!!
                                 

                                           
                              Roz hanging on to trophy!!



The girls did awesome!! It was fun to watch all the teams perform. The girls came in 2nd place for there divsion. This was great seeing how it's the first competition, and first year for most of the girls on the team to ever cheer. We have a long season ahead of us. I hope the girls can keep it up. They still have 8 more competitions to go.

                   The Girls also won the Celebrity Swag Award.

What's New!

It seemed as though summer has few by! What a great summer it has been. Rozzy turned 11 years old this summer. We had her birthday in the dells. One of her favorite places in the world. What a great time I had with those girls. If you want entertainment hang out with a group of 11 year old girls!

I throw my niece Kristine's baby shower at the beginning of August. Made my first fortune cookies with fortunes. Yep! I was pretty amazed with myself. She had her beautiful twin boys a week later. My nephew Justin got married at the end of August to a wonderful women Erica. It was an awesome ceremony. I pray for both Kristine and Justin- patience, never ending love, faith, and acknowledgment that you sometime have to give up control, and pick and choose your battle. I find this works with both marriage and with children.

Now that school has started I fill a bit of sadness. Keanul is a senior this year in high school. It's hard to believe. Poof! He has grown. Rozzy is in 6th grade now. She likes to go shopping and putting on makeup, like a young lady. Poof! She is growing up. It seemed like yesterday we were teaching Keanul how to ride his bike in St. Mary's parking lot. And our dog Bootsy was chasing after him. It seems like yesterday that all Rozzy wanted to do was go shoot hoops in the back yard.

Rozzy has joined a cheer leading competition team over the summer. Her first competition is this coming Saturday. She is pretty excited! She will be dancing again this year. That will start next week. She is keeping us very busy.

Well that is all for now. I hope I blog sooner this time around.

Love

Sometimes it hard to find the words to say to comfort the people you love so dearly. Its hard to try to be the rock and be strong for those you love. What to say, what to say? I guess I say how much I love you and how much God loves you. He doesn't want pain to fill us, just love. It's crazy that just 1 month ago today that we were sitting in the hospital. Praying for a very special women to stay with us. How selfish is that. Knowing that when I arrived at the hospital that its not good when they put the family in a private room. But yet you pray for a miracle to happen. Hanging on to any good news. But yet the miracle is that it was her time to go home. But yet the selfishness comes back, and you say," that I didn't have enough time with her!"" I want her back!!" Yet God has other plans. Sometime, like other times, God's plans for life is not the same as ours.

1 John 4:16

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. Love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgement, because in this world we are like him.

This is Mom. She is Love. She lived with God, and God lived through her.

Time Flies When Your Having Fun!!

Boy it has been busy, busy!! I have been putting in alot of hours at work this. We have started a new computer data system. Which instead of creating less work it is creating more. Lets just say its not very user friendly. Football season is upon us. Keanul's first scrimmage game is tonight. He will be playing for the JV team this year. Let hope the team does well this season. This Sunday we will be signing Roz up for basketball. Lets hope that practice and game time are at convenient times for Rick or I to be able to take her. School is just around the corner. Which is hard to believe, and also sad to know that the kids are getting up there in grades. Keanul will be a sophmore in high school. Rozalynn will be attending a new school this year. 4th grade. yikes! With the new school season comes a new dance season. Which I will be working agian this year at the dance studio. Can we say busy!

Clarity!!

There is nothing like waking up in the morning with a clear vision. Today I woke feeling refreshed and happy to be here. I started my morning with my morning cup of coffee, and sat out on our deck listening to the birds chirping away. The morning was beautiful with a small amount of dew on the lawn that shimmered.

We have a small bird feeder in the back yard that I just love. We have different birds that come and visit through out the day. There is a momma and daddy cardinal that visits quit often. As one eats the other watches over. Today the daddy came over to the momma, and gently kiss her on her beak. It was so loving and affectionate. It just goes to show that we are all Gods creatures.

Present Time

It's crazy how the mind wanders from you. To live in the present is very hard to do. I find myself thinking of everything, but also nothing at the same time. I can be thinking of yesterday events, and then come back to today's within seconds.
The mind and the brain is an excellent machine.
God has created us well. Hasn't he.

Party!!!

Ryott and Roz with there BBF shirts


left to right top: Maggy, Ryott, Isis
bottom : Rozalynn, and Anna









Well Rozalynn Birthday was last Friday. Here is a picture of the group of girls that came and helped us celebrate her birthday. We all had lots of fun. We started by eatting than we went to the pool in Ft. Atkinson. Then all the girls came back and had the birthday cookie. Yup! birthday cookie. Roz didn't want cake this year. So I found a big birthday cookie. Yummy!! The sleep over went well and all the girls were good! What fun.