Carly's band hosts the marching festival

The Dutchtown Sound....Dutchtown High School Marching Band - hosts the 2009 Marching festival at their high school field and it's Carly's first experience at festival. She helped all day, picking up trash, taking care of all sorts of things and then performing at the end of the night. They did an amazing job! Here's their performance from Youtube....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04zLa49lZoc

Carly's in there somewhere...she can't even pick herself out, but I'm still proud of her!

CJ's first football game this season!

CJ sports the #20 for the Allstars.....his first game was football from beginning to end! It started out muddy and the kids were playing hard, then shortly after half time, it started to rain....That's when the fun started!

CJ's coach told CJ it was football that he wasn't supposed to smile. CJ replied, "I know, Coach, but I'm having fun!"

Thumbs up for the second half! He loves football!

Samantha gets her license

Today, I took Sam to the Office of Motor Vehicles to get her drivers license. We were both SO nervous. She was nervous that the instructor would be mean and she wouldn't pass the test. I was nervous that she was so nervous she was going to wreck my car! Neither of which happened and we walked, achem...I mean, drove away with an Official Drivers License.

So proud of her!

CJ spent the night with a friend. It rained the whole time, so they decided to bake a cake. His mom helped them bake two layers. CJ got one to decorate and his friend got the other. This was CJ's. It's chocolate cake with chocolate icing, sprinkles, and an umbrella. He calls it "Hawaii's natural disaster". He says the chocolate chunks on top are lava rocks! I'm proud of him, too! Watch out Ace of Cakes!