today

I am an absolute book nerd :) Our local library has an adult summer reading program. I signed up. I loved the summer reading program when I was a kid. It brought me happiness to sign up as an adult. I only have to read 4 books. ROFL I can read 4 by next week if I wanted. I think I will drag them out a bit. The 1st place prize is 200.00 to a book store. I would be beyond happy to win one of the gift cards :)

Soccer

I love soccer. I have watched almost every World Cup game and have loved every minute. I love the intense 90 mins. that can change in a second. It's a contact sport like no other.

I love that we have our own MLS team the Houston Dynamo and that we have season tickets for it.

Can you tell I love soccer? Truly I want the US to advance, but if not I will cheer on a few other countries :)

June 14

June 14th is such a special day for 2 reasons. Most important to me is that's when Ryleigh came into our lives 11 years ago. The only daughter and the youngest. Very loved and very welcomed, and spoiled :) Of course she only stayed with us for 6 1/2 yrs. so the other June 14th's have been celebrated without the birthday girl.

The other reason its special is because Ryleigh LOVED her birthday. A day for her to celebrate getting bigger. The last year she was alive she counted down that days from June 1 til her day! She's been known to sit at the table and wait to sing happy birthday and eat cake.

So, it makes the day even harder to celebrate because she's not here to do it. June 1 comes around and I start counting down, and I just don't do it justice. She was sorely missed yesterday, on the day she came into this world and God blessed us with her spirit.

In honor of her though we quilted on her quilt. Told Ryleigh stories and ate lots of food. How blessed I am to have friends that will celebrate my daughter with me. It made the day less sad by celebrating out loud :)

We had some friends come to visit for a bit today. Some friends that we've had since our apartment days. It was so nice to see them and catch up. I've been working on the house for Monday. I can't believe Ryleigh would be 11 on Monday and she's not here. It should be so much fun to finish the quilt on Monday. Food has been purchased and I am ready for a party :)

Well, I try to keep up with this blog thing, and I just don't manage.

Let's see:

Thomas passed 7th grade along with passing the math and reading state tests. I knew he could do it, even though half the school doubted him!

I am going to have to be happy with C's because he really is not motivated to make better grades. His philosophy is as long as he's passing the class-who cares. LOL

Gary went to a college dual-credit workshop today. He loved the lecture on sleep psychology. I am not making him go to college until at least the spring of next year.

I am having a quilting bee on the 14th to work on Ry's quilt and celebrate her birthday. This will probably be a bittersweet day.

I have finished another quilt top for a wedding and I am very excited to gift them with it. Debbie is quilting it for me and then I will bind it with some help from Lynn.

Busy days

I can't believe it's May 11 already. Good grief!

I got to meet MercyMe today. Fun! I stood in line for an hour and was thru the autograph line in less than 2 mins. LOL but so worth it.

Thomas turns 13 on Friday. Where did the last 13 years go?

I am about to be 39. I can't believe next year I will be 40. Party in Vegas next year though :) I am going to celebrate that birthday.

I finished my college course last night. I am so glad to be done with that class, as it drove me crazy the entire semester. This summer I am taking Deaf Community and this fall I will hopefully start my Interpreting classes.

I have about a month of not much going on and I am glad to be lazy for a bit. I do have 2 meetings this week though.

Off to read.

Strawberries

Gary and I went and picked strawberries today. The strange thing was that Thomas wasn't there. Really I thought about Ryleigh not being there, but that's normal :) Thomas has spent his whole day taking math TAKS (state test). They give them the entire day to do the test. Total waste of a day if you ask me. Total waste of the last few weeks. They've spent all this time cramming for a test that they now have 7 hrs. to take. Along, with all kinds of rules about what you can and cannot bring to school. Oh, and the cafeteria doesn't provide hot lunch on the days they test. Seriously? you can't feed kids a hot lunch, but you can take away all their electives because their grades are bad and you are worried about them failing your precious test? Can you tell I don't like the TAKS test :)

Anyway, back to the important stuff- strawberries.! We had a fun time picking them and I have now eaten way more than I should've but they are so good. Poor Thomas, stuck inside on this most beautiful day!