Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Re-boot of the family blog!

Well, Maddie saw this blog the other day and really liked it and wanted me to post here so I thought I would at least try.  Last Thu-Sat was the kid's dance company "Dance Nationals" with Stage One, it is the annual finale to their dance season.  The kid's dance groups did quite well.  Maddie is in the "Juniors" category and her dance did great- they ranked as the champion in their category and Noelle ranked as the champion in her category- called "Petite".  I am going to include a couple of pics of the kids in their groups and also a couple of links to the actual dances on YouTube.  This is the Lifesong Junios dance- you can click this and watch it.


This a link you can click to Noelle's dance, the petite group.










Right now we're on vacation in Spicewood, TX near Austin with the extended family.  Last November was Jerry and Gwenda's 50th wedding anniversary.  The entire family took them out to dinner at Del Frisco's steak house and as part of that we delivered them a letter offering them a vacation with the entire family in the Summer- this is that trip.  We have Jon and Lisa and their kids, Jerry and Gwenda, and then Jamie and myself with the kids.

The trip officially started Tuesday the 15th, we got to watch Jase's golf tournament at Avery Ranch, he placed 9th out of 21.

We rented this great house that backs up to a deep, rocky stream that is full of fish.  We are wearing ourselves out fishing- it is just awesome.  We went shopping earlier at Dick's Sporting Goods and geared-up for fishing.  We cooked steaks tonight with baked potato which turned out well.

We fished up and down the stream and caught a lot of fish: Panfish of various kinds and Bass.  Maddie, Noelle, and Ellis also swam in the stream and rafted on it.

Right now we are watching the first Star Wars movie as I type this and Jamie with a bunch of the kids are playing Uno.

I guess we should capture a piece of major news here just because it is very recent- even though it is bad news.  My business mentor Bill, who has been a great personal inspiration to me and who helped me launch ToHonorThem.com passed away last Thursday suddenly.  It was devastating to his family and friends.  Jamie helped the family for several days up to the point of the funeral which they all appreciated.