Friday, January 29, 2010

Jerry and Jessica

Every year, the dance team puts on 1 special half-time performance before the end of the basketball season. This year it was the daddy/daughter dance. Jerry and Jessica along with the other dancers and their dads performed on Tuesday night. It was definitely a night I won't forget. I don't think I have laughed that hard in a long time. I am still trying to download the video, but here are a couple pics.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Jessica

Well, in less than 4 months we are going to have another one of the kids graduating from High School..Where has the time gone? Jessica will graduate from Tuscola High School on May 22nd. She has been accepted to SIU in Carbondale, IL and she is going to major in Dentistry.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Dance Team


Congrats to the Warriorette Dance Team. They placed 1st at competition in Villa Grove. Their score was 79.4 they need 80.0 to go to STATE!!! You are so close girls...you can do it. 3 more tries!

Friday, January 22, 2010

Update on Jordan

Well, Jordan has been in Italy for almost 2 months now. He is really enjoying his time over there. He went with a few of the guys from the base and they went sight seeing. He emailed us some pictures and they were awesome. Lots of old statues. Jordan said while he is there his plans are to go deep sea fishing and snow boarding on Mount Etna. Jordan got his first tattoo while over there. Its on his back between his shoulder blades. Jerry said it was just a matter of time. But at least he got it somewhere that he can cover it up. I suggested something along the lines of "I Love Mom" but he just laughed at me and said maybe next time. I will hold him to that! HA HA!!!We asked Jordan what he would like to have shipped to him while he is over there. His one request was his guitar, so I packaged it up really good and mailed it to him. He is in heaven now!!! I also made him some cookies, brownies, banana bread and send some star burst and sour gummy lifesavers to him along with some toiletries. Oh the things we do to make our kids happy:) Jenny is doing a project at school. She read a book called Flat Stanley. To make a long story short, she made a flat Jenny ( she drew her body and put a picture of herself as the head)and mailed it to Jordan. He had to take Flat Jenny with him one day wherever he went (thank goodness it could be folded up and put in his pocket). Jordan took her around Italy and down to the farmers market. So he wrote about their trip and added some pics and he is mailing it back to Jenny. She will have to take it to school for a grade. I think Jenny's definitely traveled the farthest. Thank Goodness Jordan was a good sport about it and helped her out. We didn't know anything about it until one night we were video skyping with Jordan and he asked where Jenny was, when she came into the room, he held up her picture and showed her he got it. She just laughed and told him what he had to do with it. Jordan is going to be back in the stated in June. He will get to come home for 2 weeks and then he will go to his permanent base which will be in Jacksonville, FL. He said he will not be going back out on another tour until Dec 2011. Italy is 7 hours ahead of us so its really hard sometimes to catch him online. But thank goodness for Skype. It's free and a great way to communicate with loved ones and friends far away!

Warriorettes






Jessica is on the Tuscola High School dance team. They are in their competition part of their season. Every Saturday in Jan and Feb, we are traveling all over for their competitions. If they score high enough they will go to State in March. Their first performance was on Saturday in Charleston. Their theme is super hero's. They placed 2nd with a score of 77. The first place team was their rival Unity and their score was 77.4 so it was really close. The girls need to get a score of 80 to make it to state. So they are close and have 4 more competitions to make it.

Jenny playing Biddy Basketball




Jenny is playing basketball right now. She is on the 3rd & 4th grade girls biddy basketball team. She has been doing really well. First game she scored a basket and her 2nd one she was fouled and got to shoot 2 free throws. She made one of them. She is doing awesome. Her favorite part is stealing the ball from the other team, she likes to sneak behind them and smack the ball out of their hands.

Let it snow!

Well, Tuscola finally got some snow. We got about 6 inches of it. Jerry was super excited because he was able to get his snow blower out of the garage! I guess it's a guy thing, because it was not a big deal to me. Girls enjoyed the day in the snow with some friends, and the first thing Jenny did was go out and make a snow angel.