Emma's first XC Race!

It's Saturday August the 27th and it's time for Emma's first race. We head to Heardmont Park on a sunny day!

Here is Emma with the girls that showed up for the race.

L to R: Bailey, Katie, Elizabeth, Natalie, Jenna Rose, Caroline, and Emma. Now, Emma has only practiced a few times and is usually the girl who doesn't like to sweat, so I'm anxious to see how this turns out.

All the girls are lined up getting ready to start.

And their off....

Here is Emma coming across the finish line. She did great considering she had never run before.

Jenna Rose was the first Briarwood girl to cross the finish line, here she is at the creek.

Ups and Downs - Alert Blood shot

With Diabetes we've had our ups and downs over the years. Very low sugars, once it took us to the hospital via ambulance due to seizures, and some bad highs that also landed us in the ER on iv's. It's been 8 years since Emma was diagnosed and I'll say again, I don't know that you ever truly manage diabetes. She was changing her site one night and came running into the kitchen crying. I turn to see this as she walks through the door.

She had her shirt pressed to her stomach with blood tricking down her leg and onto the floor. I pulled the shirt away to see what was going on and the blood was still pouring out with each heartbeat. Ice wrapped in a wet paper towel pressed to the site seemed to help it stop. She must have hit a blood vessel while pulling out the old site, still not sure how that happened. I walked back through the house cleaning up blood spots that i found while Todd helped her get another site on. Oh well, I think, I hope, I pray, we've covered all things that could happen and now we can just try to "manage" the diabetes.

Return of Cornhole

I'm not sure what the fascination is with the cornhole game. It's a little like gambling, you feel you will do better with the next throw, and it's addicting. However, we aren't betting money so we can still keep our house with this addiction. We had the Atherton's and the White's over for Supper Club this past weekend and out came the boards. We had couples against couples, kids against kids, and then a mix. The sun was going down so all the lights on the outside came on and when those weren't enough, Nolan pulls out his phone and shines it on the board (which actually worked fairly well).

Anyhoo, the pics from that night.

It's Junior High Time!!

We started Friday morning off with a pedicure. NiNi, Emma, and I tried a new place just off of 280. We checked out the art gallery next door and left NiNi talking art and painting classes while Emma and I headed off to Taziki's for lunch with Camille, Caroline, Missie, and Lexie Liddell. We had a great time talking about who got what teacher what period and with which friends. We then headed over to the Jr. High to decorate the lockers and put books away. The lockers are decorated by the 7th grade girls "big sis'". I love this idea. I'm not sure when they started doing it, sometime after my days at Briarwood. The 8th grade girls pick an upcoming 7th grade girl to be a big sis to. They decorate your lockers and are there to answer questions about school, teachers, and whatever. This is what we found when we got to the school.

Emma's Big Sis sure knows her...candy!

We then set about decorating the inside of the locker. This is also a new thing since I was in school. It's cool to adorn your locker with wallpaper, rugs, lights, and such. We bought the leftover off of Caroline when we saw she wasn't going to be using it all. We had thought we would do wrapping paper but this worked out great.

(Not an actual picture of Emma and her locker, she wouldn't pose. This is Camille and Caroline's locker...since we bought her remnants, it looks like hers.)
Emma went about getting all of her things into the locker and then talked and goofed off with friends for a while.

We moms had a good time seeing each other but as time passed close to 3:00 we had to go pick up Nolan from football practice. All in all, a fun day!

Emma had Victoria over this past weekend, a lot of dancing to the new Wii game was going on!

Emma and I getting ready for some back to school shopping.

I had promised Emma at the beginning of the summer that she could do the feather thing in the hair. Well, it's now the end of the summer and I'm finally getting around to fulfilling the said promise (I never said when I would do it, just that I would). We were out shopping with some friends and found a place at the mall. Here are Emma and Caroline sporting the feathers.

She now is reminding me that I also said she could dye a streak in her hair...wonder when I'll get around to that??

I've had many problems with my hair but frizzy due to humidity has not been one of them...until we have hit 95..110 with humidity.

Here is what my hair looks like now.