First day of 9th and 3rd Grades

I just thought I'd start the ball rolling with the first day of school pictures and updates. 

Juliana started 9th grade at Clear Lake High School and was a bit nervous this morning.  I'm sure once she walks through her schedule and gets back and forth from the 9th grade building to the main building, she'll feel better about things.  She has 3 classes in the main building; Medical Terminology, band and Spanish.  She's LOVING marching band and the first high school game is this Friday night in Deer Park. 

The complete football schedule is as follows (all games start at 7 PM).  The games at CCISD stadium are home games:
Friday 8/30/13 - at deer park
Thursday 9/5/13 - at Pasadena memorial
Thursday 9/12/13 - at CCISD stadium - Baytown Sterling
Friday 9/20/13 - At Conroe
Friday 9/27/13 - At CCISD stadium - Clear Creek
Friday 10/4/13 - at CCISD stadium - Clear Brook
Friday 10/11/13 - At Brazoswood
Friday 10/18/13 - at CCISD Stadium - Clear Springs (homecoming game)
Friday 10/31/13 - at CCISD stadium - Clear Falls
Thursday 11/7/13 - at CCISD stadium - Dickinson (senior night)


Bella started 3rd grade is was a tad nervous this morning so she asked me to walk her in to her class.  She held my hand the whole way and was a little reluctant for me to leave, but when she walked into the classroom her friend Olivia (who she has known since preschool) greeted her and hugged her.  She will be starting softball soon (next week I think) so as soon as we hear her schedule, I'll pass it on to everyone, the Fall season ends before Thanksgiving, that much we know.

Anyhow that's the update and pictures from our house, I hope kindergarten drop off went well for Wade and Lauren and I hope we get to see some pictures, they are gonna ROCK kindergarten I'm sure!

Life's Rules

Just thought I'd share as a quick reminder for life:

Don’t work so hard that you miss your kids and families life: Simplify your life 

Choose happiness, silliness and laughter 

Stay in touch with friends 

Express feelings so as to not settle for something you don’t want 

Have the courage to live a life true to yourself, not the life others expect of you

Uvalde or Ugalde?

So while on vacation this summer, Walt wanted to take our family picture under the Uvalde sign.  Uvalde was actually named after a man with the last name Ugalde, however, along the way the name was changed to Uvalde due to either a misspelling or a misunderstanding with this Ugalde fellow.  Here is the history of the name and town as written by http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txuvalde/ :

Created from Bexar County in 1850; re-created and reorganized in 1856. Named for the 1778 Governor of Coahuila and noted Indian fighter, Juan de Ugalde, with the name Anglicized. Uvalde County's most famous son was John Nance Garner, Vice-President of the United States under Franklin Roosevelt from 1933 to 1941. His nickname of "Cactus Jack" was earned through forthright comments such as the office of vice-president "isn't worth a bucket of warm spit." Uvalde County is located on the southwest side of the Texas Hill Country between Del Rio and San Antonio and the lands include parts of the Edwards Plateau and the Nueces River. The county seat is Uvalde, a small town at the crossroads of two of our nation's longest highways, US 90 and US 83, both of which extend from border to border. A host of historic, interesting and recreational sites make Uvalde a wonderful place to visit. For a more detailed History of Uvalde County check out The Handbook of Texas Online.

So there you have it, the history of Uvalde County and the town of Uvalde, Texas.  Below is the picture of our family under the Uvalde sign, taken while on vacation at the Frio River July 2013.

13.1 #2 Complete

Well this past weekend, 4/7/13, I completed my second half marathon, Angie's Half Crazy! Half Marathon.  I have to say I am pretty proud of myself and quite frankly surprised I completed it, LOL!  After the LaPorte Half Marathon, I wasn't too sure I would ever do another half marathon again, but I did and I did GREAT!

My time was 3 hours and 16 minutes, which is better than my 3 hours and 36 minutes I finished LaPorte with.  I think these half marathons are addicting.  the mentality is kind of like, well I did one, why stop there, when is the next one?  MORE MORE MORE!

The next couple of runs are some 5k's, one is The Gritty Goddess, a 5k obstacle run, then The Electric Run in June which is just for fun but you wear a bunch of those glow necklaces/bracelets, etc.  The bridge series is coming up in the Fall and I'll sign up for those again and tackle those damn bridges again I'm sure.  Half Marathon #3, here we come, LOL!

Here are some pictures from Angie's Half Crazy! Half Marathon we took:

 

The awesome Bling!

 

Me and my girls!

Me...all finished, now it's nap time!

That's it for now, till next time...Keep Calm and go RUN!