Daddy's Girls

We put some miles on the car last weekend for all sorts of big events. It started Friday when we left early to be in Baton Rouge for 1:00 for the presentation of the Kathy Craig Scholarship. This year’s recipient is going to be a Special Ed teacher (inspired by her brother) and she’s ending high school with 6 classroom hours thanks to a dual enrollment program through the magnet program. My Mom would be honored to help her and so proud of what the magnet program down there has become. She was the first director and it has definitely grown since then On Saturday, me, Matt, Lillian and Lizard drove down to New Orleans to watch Kathleen compete in the Southern Regional Gymnastics Meet.  She did AMAZING and finished her season as Regional All Around Champion, plus gold on bars and beam. She landed wrong during vault and, after a quick trip to medical for an ankle wrap, got those golds with a sprained ankle! We are so proud of her for pushing through and going out and doing what she lov...

Yesterday was Bossier’s last day of school, but we’ve been in summer mode since they got done LEAP testing a couple of weeks ago. It’s honestly so dumb that they had 10 days of school after testing because they did NOTHING. There was a whole lot of movie watching and playing on computers. On top of the fact that grades were due over a week ago, so it’s not like there was much they could have done. We stayed out on school nights, had pool days and skipped half days to hang with Pops, or friends or just to bake.  Katie had her awards and field day last Wednesday. She ended the year with Straight A’s and a member of National Honor Society. It was so fun to watch her compete in field day events and get to meet some more of her school friends too I checked Katie, Madison and Britney out of school when it was over, and they spent the afternoon in the pool and then we all (with Koy and Lil) went to Josie’s Tball game that night. It was the second one we’d been to in a week and I swear it’...

Katie had her birthday a couple of weeks ago, and I finally remembered to send her the birthday questions late last week. 11 year old birthday interview: What is your: 1. Favorite color? green 2. Toy? lego 3. Fruit? watermelon  4. Show/ Movie? gilmore girls  5. Lunch? chicken wrap 6. Outfit? gymnastic shorts, and oversize T-          shirt 7. Game? guess in ten 8. Snack? white cheddar cheetos 9. Song? out of that truck  10. Animal? cat 11. Book? The Birch Bark House 12. Best friend? sadie + britney + maddi 13. Cereal?  fruit loops  14. Drink? dr pepper  15. Game to play outside? soccer/gymnastics  16. Holiday? thanksgiving  17. Breakfast? french toast or grits  18. Dinner? alfredo  19. What do you want to be when you grow up? Teacher