Archive for January, 2010

The Class of 2014

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

We don’t know about you, but that title doesn’t sound good.

On Wednesday night this comment was made through out the night.  We didn’t care for it and wondered if the principal would stop saying it.  Last week we had our first experience with High School.  Eldorado HS hosted their “8th grade night” on Wednesday for their incoming freshmen.  Yes, little Josh will be a FRESHMAN.  What a scary thought.  Tim and Nancy are not handling this thought very well. It may come as a shock to you, but it became a real big shock to us. We think a shock to Josh as well. Why?  Well, for the last 6 years, we feel we have been truly blessed to have our kids attend a private school here in Albuquerque, named Albuquerque Christian School.  A school where kids are forced to follow rules, focus a lot of attention on academia and are asked to follow dress codes.  The students also helped in any way shape or form if they struggle with any of these areas.  It has promoted in us all to live in this little “private school” bubble, where the class size is 15 and they have known each other since their start at ACS.   Last night was a true eye opener to what we and our children have been missing out on.  Nancy gets a glimmer of public schools and the type of kids and families that are involved there;  but we all saw what Josh might get to see on a regular basis come next year. When we first started at ACS, we all thought uniforms were dumb and crazy.   The attire [if you can refer to it as such] we saw on some of the new students  made us rethink the uniform thing. …maybe they are NOT so bad.  We were SHOCKED to see what some parents allow or what kids [girls] choose to wear in public ( And to think this was just their clothes we were worried about).  Again, I know this might sound weird, but it made us realize and be some what thankful that we lived in our little bubble.

Josh is very excited about the thought of High School though. [We hope its just for the school and not the girls clothes.]  He said that he looked forward to the change and seeing all the different people. A lot more than the same 15 kids in a class. Nancy and Tim on the other hand are a little bit more hesitant to see this drastic change to their little boy. We know that God definitely has a plan for Josh and that he is a great young man. It’s the other outward influences that scare us the most.  We are trusting in the Lord to lead him in a direction that ends with as little of those influences taking root. He is a wonderful son, brother and friend. We are so blessed to have such a man in our family. WE LOVE YOU BUBBA!

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Thursday, January 28th, 2010

We wanted to thank everyone that visits our site. Thank you to all our family and friends that check back in with us. We are glad to have you come and visit us. Tim has been trying to think of ways to make this easier for you all. Us being new to the “World of Blog”, we didn’t know about this wonderful tool called RSS Feed. This tool actually helps you NOT have to type in our site name or have a need for multiple clicks on your computers. There is a button that is now on our site, just under the search bar [on the right side of our page] and you can “Subscribe” to our Blog.

It doesn’t need to be signed up for or there is no obligation. Subscribing will add a folder to your to your “Favorites” or “Links” Toolbar on your web browser[Internet Explorer or Firefox], and every time that Tim or Nancy add to the site a new entry or blog. Your new folder will have our latest entry in it. It is a great little tool. When you click on this button, follow the instructions and your web browser will do the rest. If you have any questions, leave a comment for Tim and he’ll help you with it. Thanks again for stopping in and keeping up with our family!

WOW! 2010 is Officially here!

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

My goodness! We have hit the ground running in 2010. We don’t know about you, but our January has been super busy with getting back to school and work after the Winter break. We have had trouble getting back to a regular schedule. Obviously, we have, because we haven’t even been on the blog lately. But we will get back to it as quickly as we can. One great thing that we wanted to note for you all, is that Josh finished his Eighth grade year on the “A” Team for Basketball. He had a wonderful time and season with this, with his team finishing 2nd in their division and with him personally scoring the most points of his junior high career with 75 points for the season. We are so proud of him and how disciplined he has been with becoming better in his game. He has his sights on pursuing a high school basketball career. He will attend Eldorado High School right by the house and is looking forward to trying out for a couple of other sports as well. We are very excited at these pursuits, we love watching all of our kids in their sports and school activities.

Ashlea on the other hand has had some troubling games this Winter for her sports. Her Basketball team is playing “up” in their division, so our girls look as though they have entered the land of the giants. They have weathered the losses and probably are looking for a break. She is usually good for 2 or more baskets per game. She is also still playing indoor soccer and loves it. She is really making it her passion and she still is pursuing her dream. Her two biggest fans love that she is so diligent in that pursuit. Now, where to start with Sarah…. She is really excited about playing something and having all her family come “watch” her play whatever it is she wants to play this year. She is presently on a waiting list for soccer and we are going to try out dance and gymnastics as well. Tim has a cousin that runs a dance school so they are going to allow us to try out a couple of classes. Personally we think that she will like this, due to the fact that the fashion-iesta can dress up. We are keeping our fingers crossed for Gymnastics though. We’ll see.

Tim and Nancy are doing great. Nancy recently started a weight loss challenge with  four other girls. [Editor note: as if she needed to lose any more weight.......] She is sore in places that she wasn’t before, and likes it. Those that know Nancy well know that she loves this kind of pain. Weird, but that’s Nance. We are proud of her, Tim is trying to work through all the greens that he is seeing on his plate. The meat and potatoes are there, but they are under or over these strange leaves. He is very confused. Hopefully he can work through this. He seems to think that the meat misses him. As a matter of fact, he is sure that meat misses him……