Wow! A lot has happened since my last post! School has started, we have made a couple of deliveries, housebuilding is commencing in Bangs, we got slammed with unit sets orders from San Antonio, and Blu took a ministry position at a local church!! Here's a look at our life lately!
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| The outside walls are up at the house in Bangs! |
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| Blu uses all the help he can get! Cason didn't mind earning some extra money! |
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| Cambree has discovered Starbucks! |
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| We enjoyed a night at "Meet the Dragons" to introduce the high school athletes! |
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| Here comes the JV Football Team! |
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| Then he had to run over the join the Band! (He's at the top playing the trumpet by the "B"!) |
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| He also got to come out of the helmet for Cross Country! |
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| Look how grown up they look!!!! |
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| Paw & Bmaw with Caedmon |
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| This is my heart right here! |
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| Mama Dee & Grandpa with Caedmon |
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| Me and Blu with Caedmon! #somuchgreeninmycloset |
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| The great thing about early morning deliveries! We were on our way to Frisco here! |
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| Here's a look at what Cambree did all summer - she made a quilt with Mama Dee! |
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| She did all of the piecing, the picking of material, and she. made the pillows by herself! |
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| The weekend before school started the kids were busy enjoying their last bit of summer! I took Cason and AJ to the trampoline park! |
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| And then to see the new Dora movie, which was AWESOME! |
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| Meanwhile, our big two that weekend went to their last big youth event with FBC Bangs - Austin Park and Pizza and a Round Rock Express game! |
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| Cambree & Hannon |
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My Blu Tidwell's daughter trying to get on the Jumbotron at the game! |
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| On Sunday, August 18th, Rocky Creek Baptist Church voted on Blu to be their part-time youth and music minister! It is a church about 7 minutes from us, and it's the church my Grandma Winsman attended as a little girl!! So neat! Here is what our kids were doing while we were waiting in the hall as the church counted the votes! |
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| Cross Country pictures are in! Practice started August 1st, so Caedmon is constantly heading to cross country after/before football practice! |
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| First day of school finally arrived!! |
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| Caedmon's first day of high school was insane!! He had football at 7am, then school, then football until 5pm, then drama from 5:30pm - 7:00pm, then band from 7:00pm to 9:30pm! He was exhausted, has had a bad cold, and struggled to survive this first week!! |
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| Cambree has had a great first week of 8th grade! She has 8 full classes including Algebra 1 over at the high school! She was horrified to discover that she has first period (G.T. class) WITH Cason! She did NOT like that!! She had 2 cheer practices, 3 cross country practices, and the cheerleaders ran the middle school dance on Friday night! |
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| Cason loved his first week of 6th grade! Social Studies is his favorite class (as always...) and he also had his first 2 evening football practices this week! He had a blast with Abby at the middle school dance Friday night! (which Blu and I also chaperoned...so I got ZERO pictures! |
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| Yes, I do steal my kids' pictures from Instagram! Emily, Raylee, Cambree, Jordan, and Hannon were so excited to be back at school together! |
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| Cambree & Jordan - she's a sweetie! |
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| Cambree & Hannon at lunch! |
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| Cam & Em :) |
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| Cambree & Hannon again! |
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| Caedmon at 10pm on the first day of school! I was in bed and he came in and said, "I need you to sign all of these papers, we have football at 6:30am tomorrow, and I got my drama script!" |
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| Blu somehow found the time to do this! (with help from Paw!) |
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| Meanwhile, I was in the shop building these... |
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| Malachi, Brayden, and Caedmon after Thursday night's scrimmage! Caedmon is playing wide receiver on offense and some cornerback/safety on defense. He has been practicing kicking like crazy, so we'll see if he gets the nod at their first official game next week! |
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| On Thursday, we drove right after the scrimmage to Terrell to spend the night so that we could get up early on Friday and deliver to ETBU in Marshall! |
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| Then we made a quick stop for lunch in Kilgore to see my sis and her family! |
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| On top of homeschooling her 4, she is also working as the part-time church secretary! |
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| Saturday morning was early rising to drive to Jim Ned for Caedmon's first cross country meet! There were TONS of schools there - about 200 kids in his race! |
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| Poor guy struggled to breathe through the whole thing but ran a 23.52 so he was happy with his time! |
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| I love this pic of tiny Ventura about to pass this huge dude! |
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| One of Caedmon's closest friends, Rylie, can RUN! (If you asked me who Caedmon's "best friend" is, I would tell you Machila. They talk and text ALL the time when she's home from boarding school!) |
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| The high school cross country team - Jay (a senior) with the Freshmen (Dee, Malachi, Ventura, Chris, & Caedmon!) |
We are exhausted after this week, and are relaxing the rest of the weekend! We have a nice family night tonight, church tomorrow with a potluck, no evening service, and a cookout with family, so hopefully we'll get a nap in there and be ready for week 2 of this school year!
