First Day of School 2008

My babies started school once again. MacKenzie started 7th grade three days before Bailey started 5th. Here are pictures of Mack walking to school. We sure did give her a hard time. And, a picture of Bailey the morning she started school.

They are both off to a great start. MacKenzie made the volleyball team. She had to try out. And, out of 45 girls she was one of 20 girls chosen. Bailey starts soccer practice tonight and is in a new age division. Bigger field, more running, more complaining.

End of summer trip

The summer is coming to a close and, it has been a busy one. I think this summer the girls went to more camps than ever. Not only did they go to Girl Scout camp, but they went to a horse camp for a week and learned how to vault. They also did a couple of parks and rec camps as well as dancing camps.

We just came back from visiting our very close friends Mike and Chris Chavez (no relation) in Winsor Colorado. It is very close to Fort Collins. We were excited to see the house they just built and I must say, it is BEAUTIFUL. We stayed with them for almost a week and had a blast. We went to the county fair and saw the Bobcat rodeo and the all the 4-H kids showing off thier livestock. We were able to see the barrel racers and of course Bailey wants to do it. We went to the river and spent the whole day just chilling. The kids were able to use two rafts and tubes to float and play. They jumped off rocks and splashed and just had fun playing. We did run into an afternoon rain and all nine of us huddled under a make shift tent. Yes, we looked like a bunch of rednecks.

We spent a day at WaterWorld and again... had a blast. One night Mike got a fire going and we did smores. I think I had more mojitos on this trip than I can remember. It is almost 500 miles exactly from our front door to theirs. Only 7.5 hours of driving time. It was worth it. Thanks guys for making us feel at home in your new place. We can't wait to see you again at Thanksgiving. XOXO

Off To Camp

Frank and I are free for one whole week! What are we going to do with ourselves.

We dropped the girls off at Girl Scout camp. They come home next Saturday. While I thought this is going to be great, I was already missing them when we drove off. I hope it doesn't rain too much for them. They are going to try and go canoeing and sleep outside. I hope Frank and I don't kill eachother while they are gone.

MacKenzie, Taylor, Bailey and Dulce.


Dulce and Bailey.



Home away from home for one week.

MacKenzie turns 12

My beautiful baby turned 12 this past week. She has grown to a lovely young lady. Still silly as ever, but a sweetie none the less. This years birthday celebration was low key. We spent her birthday going to lunch at Red Lobster and then the movies. On Friday, we had a small bbq with my sister and grandparents... a couple of friends too.

Swim Team

This is the second year the girls have been on the parks & rec swim team. It is probably the best deal of the summer. The swim meets are not mandatory nor are the practices. If they want, they can swim every weekday night (weather permitting). Swim meets are on Saturdays and they don't have to go if they don't want to. Because we have been so busy this summer, the girls have swam most night but only made it to 2 meets. They can choose the events they want to swim. Bailey chose the 25 butterfly, 25 breast stroke and 25 freestyle. MacKenzie chose the 25 breaststroke, 50 backstroke, and the relay. It does not matter what place you come in, everyone gets a ribbon.
This week they are off to horse camp.



Bailey doing the breaststoke.






Mack doing the freestyle.



The backstroke.

Acting Class and Family Night

As usual the weekends fly by. Below are a couple of pictures of Bailey as she completed her acting class at the Albuquerque Little Theater. While she did not get the leading part of Thumbilina, she did a fabulous job as the mother mouse. The week long class included making a mask and costumes and learning how to really annunciate words with "character". Bailey had no

problem acting out any part..

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The weekend was a little rough. I took a big fall on my training ride on Saturday. Go to my traning blog for more information. http://mypurpledragonfly.blogspot.com/ We needed to finish up the condo since we had people moving in on July 1st. Frank has been working like a mad man and will need to extra thanks and attention from me when everything is done. Sunday we decided to rent movies and stay home. We bought a dough ball from Dion's and made our own pizza and for desert Frank lit our chimnea and we had smores. It was perfect to just sit around

and do nothing.

MacKenzie the gangsta girl.

Mack loves marshmellows.

Silly, silly Boo.

Jazzmine joining the fun.

Osa was also trying to get goodies.