He:s #28 & comes into the picture from the right side of the screen.
The video is long but the tackle is just at the beginning
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Family Newsletter 9/12 - 9/18
JADE has lots of homework in 2nd Grade, but she doesn't like to do it. "cuz there's too much things and it's boring. Mmm One happy thing is ice skating. You get to ice and wear cute outfits." Which means that she's asked us if she could get ice skating lessons. Jade memorized the 1st Article of Faith this week as well. We had her AARD review this week for her where they reviewed her speech progress. They are going to retest her in October some time and we suggested future tests to determine if she's dyslexic. They want to do some initial tests to rule out other things first, then they'll test for dyslexia.
T had two solo tackles in football yesterday. We have a video of one, but it needs to be edited down first. It's AWESOME! They mostly have him focusing on defense at the moment. He's starting to have more fun playing now. After Thursday Night's practice Robert and T played football with each other for an extra 30 - 45 min. We talked with T's Principle to get his class changed because last year he changed teachers about half way through the year due to overcrowding of his class and this year his teacher is pregnant so he'll be having a new teacher about half way through again. We feel he needs a bit more consistency and the Principle complied. T says, "I love learning and wish I could live at school." He also really likes reading.
ALLY is now talking bottles and gets fussy when she gets tired. She's becoming a little bit more difficult to put down at nights, but not nearly as bad as our previous two. She's trying to make the adjustment to Bev working.
That's right, BEV's working now. Although it's not for Lifetime Fitness. The following Monday after she got her final interview we'd been waiting on she got a call from a Ward member asking her to come work for her Perfoming Arts Center as a Director. Bev & I have been concerned about her going back to work because of how it would affect the kids and this seems like it'd be a much more flexible and better situation for the kids and for her. It's not as much money, but we don't need very much more than what Robert's bringing in to meet our bills. The more we thought and prayed on it, the more it seemed like an answer to our concerns. So she accepted it, and when called Lifetime Fitness to withdraw her application, she found out that they decided to not hire her anyways. WOW! We'd been waiting on that job for weeks like it was a sure thing, but someone up in Corporate didn't feel she was qualified because she doesn't have a degree.
There's the degree thing again. She's basically been doing the job for a couple of years, but no degree, no job...who cares if you're most qualified. Anyway, she doesn't start getting paid until Oct. 1, but she's trying to train and learn until then. She's also trying to help the Center become licensed as they're currently an unlicensed after-school program.
ROBERT got to meet two of the Radio City Rockettes this week on his show. He also had Dr. Donna Campbell on his show this week. She's running for U.S. Congress against Lloyd Doggett and must've like Robert because she invited him to speak at her Tea Party Rally on Saturday. It was the first Texas Doctors Tea Party Rally to proclaim Enough is Enough. The focus was Obamacare. So Robert gave his first speech at a Tea Party Rally. He was the 4th Speaker and the first to have "applause breaks" during the speech. He really enjoyed doing it and thinks he'd like to do that more often. He has said that the only other thing he'd like to be doing other than Talk Radio is doing either TV or being a Politician. This coming Saturday he's a judge for a food contest. He's been getting harrassed about it all week because it's a contest for best Calfry. A Calfry is like Rocky Mountain Oysters. Don't know what that is? FINE! A Calfry is calf testicles.
Also, this week, Aunt Kylene and Uncle Jeff came over one night this week and got Beverly all excited about getting a Wii. They just got the Wii Fit and shared all of their exciting new adventures with us! Bev's been wanting that "forever, even before you wanted a XBOX 360." So she's putting the pressure back on again.
T had two solo tackles in football yesterday. We have a video of one, but it needs to be edited down first. It's AWESOME! They mostly have him focusing on defense at the moment. He's starting to have more fun playing now. After Thursday Night's practice Robert and T played football with each other for an extra 30 - 45 min. We talked with T's Principle to get his class changed because last year he changed teachers about half way through the year due to overcrowding of his class and this year his teacher is pregnant so he'll be having a new teacher about half way through again. We feel he needs a bit more consistency and the Principle complied. T says, "I love learning and wish I could live at school." He also really likes reading.
ALLY is now talking bottles and gets fussy when she gets tired. She's becoming a little bit more difficult to put down at nights, but not nearly as bad as our previous two. She's trying to make the adjustment to Bev working.
That's right, BEV's working now. Although it's not for Lifetime Fitness. The following Monday after she got her final interview we'd been waiting on she got a call from a Ward member asking her to come work for her Perfoming Arts Center as a Director. Bev & I have been concerned about her going back to work because of how it would affect the kids and this seems like it'd be a much more flexible and better situation for the kids and for her. It's not as much money, but we don't need very much more than what Robert's bringing in to meet our bills. The more we thought and prayed on it, the more it seemed like an answer to our concerns. So she accepted it, and when called Lifetime Fitness to withdraw her application, she found out that they decided to not hire her anyways. WOW! We'd been waiting on that job for weeks like it was a sure thing, but someone up in Corporate didn't feel she was qualified because she doesn't have a degree.
There's the degree thing again. She's basically been doing the job for a couple of years, but no degree, no job...who cares if you're most qualified. Anyway, she doesn't start getting paid until Oct. 1, but she's trying to train and learn until then. She's also trying to help the Center become licensed as they're currently an unlicensed after-school program.
ROBERT got to meet two of the Radio City Rockettes this week on his show. He also had Dr. Donna Campbell on his show this week. She's running for U.S. Congress against Lloyd Doggett and must've like Robert because she invited him to speak at her Tea Party Rally on Saturday. It was the first Texas Doctors Tea Party Rally to proclaim Enough is Enough. The focus was Obamacare. So Robert gave his first speech at a Tea Party Rally. He was the 4th Speaker and the first to have "applause breaks" during the speech. He really enjoyed doing it and thinks he'd like to do that more often. He has said that the only other thing he'd like to be doing other than Talk Radio is doing either TV or being a Politician. This coming Saturday he's a judge for a food contest. He's been getting harrassed about it all week because it's a contest for best Calfry. A Calfry is like Rocky Mountain Oysters. Don't know what that is? FINE! A Calfry is calf testicles.
Also, this week, Aunt Kylene and Uncle Jeff came over one night this week and got Beverly all excited about getting a Wii. They just got the Wii Fit and shared all of their exciting new adventures with us! Bev's been wanting that "forever, even before you wanted a XBOX 360." So she's putting the pressure back on again.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Family Newsletter 8/29 - 9/4
T has picked up a new phrase that he says a lot that's kinda freakin us out...."That should hurt!"
The problem is that he says it in situations where it's obvious the person got hurt. We fear he heard the phrase somewhere, but misunderstood the word "should" for something else. Say the phrase, "That should hurt" a few times and you'll see what we mean. Oh the world we live in! T also had is first official football game this week. They moved him back to running back because, well...he's fast. But he still has a hard time remembering the plays.
Ally has started to get up on her knees now. The next step from "army crawling" to real crawling. She's also gotten a bit clingy. She always wants to be held. That being said, as long as she gets what she wants, she's an angel baby. She's still quick to laugh and smile. She doesn't really like baby food, but boy does she like people food. If Robert is eating, she drools and licks her lips just looking at his food.
Jade is still doing good in school and she's becoming a protective big sister to Ally. She helps out quite a bit around the house and is a good 2nd mother!
Bev finally got her final interview with Lifetime Fitness on Friday after many many reschedules. She thinks she did fine, but we still have huge reservations about putting Ally in daycare even if it's just for a few hours a day.
As a family, we went to see "The Last Airbender" in the dollar theater and LOVED IT!! The kids are big fans of the animated cartoon on Nickelodeon and have watched all of the episodes. The reviews said that the movie didn't live up to the cartoon and that's a flat lie. The special effects were stunning and the story was EXACTLY like the cartoons just without some of the fluff. We all thoroughly enjoyed it. T told his grandma that he didn't get to see the whole movie. (The movie is supposed to be in 3 parts, he's never experienced a movie that requires a sequel.)
Robert went to the Singles Ward on Sunday with a new member friend of ours to help him integrate into the ward. Beverly and Robert completed their second full week of running in the mornings together. After we drop the kids off to school we jog on a nature trail that's part of our Apartment complex. We jog 1/4 of a mile, walk 1/4 of a mile then do it again for a full mile. We have also found some new recipes to assist in our quest to "eat meat sparingly" our favorite this week was that after we went to Chipotle Mexican Grill and had their Vegetarian Burrito, we came home and tried to copy the recipe with great success!
The problem is that he says it in situations where it's obvious the person got hurt. We fear he heard the phrase somewhere, but misunderstood the word "should" for something else. Say the phrase, "That should hurt" a few times and you'll see what we mean. Oh the world we live in! T also had is first official football game this week. They moved him back to running back because, well...he's fast. But he still has a hard time remembering the plays.
Ally has started to get up on her knees now. The next step from "army crawling" to real crawling. She's also gotten a bit clingy. She always wants to be held. That being said, as long as she gets what she wants, she's an angel baby. She's still quick to laugh and smile. She doesn't really like baby food, but boy does she like people food. If Robert is eating, she drools and licks her lips just looking at his food.
Jade is still doing good in school and she's becoming a protective big sister to Ally. She helps out quite a bit around the house and is a good 2nd mother!
Bev finally got her final interview with Lifetime Fitness on Friday after many many reschedules. She thinks she did fine, but we still have huge reservations about putting Ally in daycare even if it's just for a few hours a day.
As a family, we went to see "The Last Airbender" in the dollar theater and LOVED IT!! The kids are big fans of the animated cartoon on Nickelodeon and have watched all of the episodes. The reviews said that the movie didn't live up to the cartoon and that's a flat lie. The special effects were stunning and the story was EXACTLY like the cartoons just without some of the fluff. We all thoroughly enjoyed it. T told his grandma that he didn't get to see the whole movie. (The movie is supposed to be in 3 parts, he's never experienced a movie that requires a sequel.)
Robert went to the Singles Ward on Sunday with a new member friend of ours to help him integrate into the ward. Beverly and Robert completed their second full week of running in the mornings together. After we drop the kids off to school we jog on a nature trail that's part of our Apartment complex. We jog 1/4 of a mile, walk 1/4 of a mile then do it again for a full mile. We have also found some new recipes to assist in our quest to "eat meat sparingly" our favorite this week was that after we went to Chipotle Mexican Grill and had their Vegetarian Burrito, we came home and tried to copy the recipe with great success!
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