Callie's Race

Ages 7-10: 100 yard swim, 5K bike, 1K run

Sports-A-Rama

The 5th graders topped off Sports-A-Rama day with a water balloon fight that Madden dubbed, "Epic!"

Take me out to the ballgame....

We spent what was quite possibly the most beautiful day of the year at Disch Faulk field on Saturday. The Longhorns won a double-header against Texas Southern. Great day for a baseball game with longtime wonderful friends, the Pauleys. Happy Birthday, Jared. Hoping one day soon you will be a Longhorn!

Hey Mister - throw me a ball!!

Thanks!!! (Who could resist these three cute girls?)

Across the Miles

The highlight of the Farewell Girl Scout party was the Skype session with troop member, Min Ju, who moved back to Korea this past December. She is dearly missed by the girls, and it was a joy to see them interact over the internet.

Farewell Troop 1820

Our Troop's last blast - swim party at the Wallace casa. Great night, great hostess, great girls. A bit sentimental that the Girl Scout phase of my life is over. But not too much.

3rd Grade Girlies

Spent Monday escorting this precocious group of 3rd grade girls about Austin. We hit the Botanical Gardens, the Capital Area Food Bank, and finished up with a picnic lunch at Little Stacy Park.

A Day at the Capitol

As Callie was telling me about her adventures of the day, she says, "The best part is that we got to see someone famous!!" Wow, I think, who was at the Capitol today? Willie Nelson? Obama? (He was in Austin today.) Sandra Bullock? Lance Armstrong? No. Callie's famous person was the Lt. Governor, pictured above. Sweet. But not nearly the level of famous-ness I had in mind.

Gymnastics Finale

I got to see Callie perform her end-of-year gymnastics routines. Lots of improvement this year! Great job!

UNDEFEATED

The Paper Plates made it through their 4th undefeated soccer season! The undefeated status was preserved by none other than "C-Dog," Macallister Ann Wilson, who scored on a penalty kick from near midfield with about a minute left to play in the last game of the year!! The Plates played from behind the entire game. One of the players on the opposing team is on Callie's gymnastics team, and was talking some smack, informing Callie that they were going to "crush the Plates!" Callie took the penalty kick from the far sideline, down 3-2. Her monster kick flew untouched into the goal to tie the score and preserve the season's undefeated status. VERY proud moment as a parent! I *might* have jumped up and down screaming and making a fool of myself and likewise embarrassing my child. The Plates finish the season 6-2-0.

Favorite Song

Porter and I saw Brett Dennen last week at La Zona Rosa. This is the girls' fave tune off his new album. Fun night! Check out the full version of Sydney here. Shout out to Kendra for turning our family on to his music.