Natalie does well.

Natalie's Volleyball team had a good game today they won 2 matches today. She did a great job hustling and playing. Way to go Nat..

Jays Win,

Benson's team won today, this was the first of the season. (There is one game left then a tournament, so we have at least two games left.)

Benson had a Double with a thrown bat, and a warning. Then a single without a thrown bat, and stole home. He also some how managed to half slide and try and stop on third and ended up doing something that looked like a John Travolta move. The batter had to take time to gain composure before he could hit.

We had a very nice complement about what a good, respectful and teachable player he is. Nice Job B.

Weather...

Gotto love Texas weather, especially in May. This place is crazy this time of year. (I think Brandi can attest to that...) We have had a few inquiries about how we are doing in with all the weather we are having here. Well we are good. We see lots of tornado watches, and warnings and flash flood watches and warnings and all sorts of severe thunderstorm warnings those are really obvious at 4AM when the whole house shakes and the neighbors car alarms go off. There are some quite terrific storms here and I have to say I kind of like them. But so far so good nothing to report.

There are some things about the weather I don't care too much for:

• When it is 12.3 billion degrees Celsius in August. I have to admit, I now have a car with AC so I am kind of looking forward to it.
• When there are two ice days in the winter and no food in the HEB.
• When it cools down to 98 at midnight in August.
• Its September and 12.2598 billion degrees, AHHH so much cooler, makes football watching not so fun, sure I will still go watch...

But remember with the bad comes the good:

• Trick - or - Treating in shorts
• October football games are a very a pleasant 70 degree evening
• No heating bill in the winter
• We can cook out and wear shorts and flip flops at Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.

So all this weather stuff got me thinking about some fun weather facts about where we live so here you go, don't be depressed, and by all means don't move here :-)

Ave high - 79

Ave low - 58

Ave annual rain fall - 32" (BTW Portland and Seattle are 37" and 36" respectively, it could make up the 5 inches if it wanted to in like 3 hours)

Sunny days/year - 300

Days above 80 - 189

Days above 90 - 111

# of days that dip below 45 - 88

# of days that dip below 32 - 19

Record for consecutive days above 100 - 41 (2000, for those of you keeping score that was the year we moved here)

Hottest recorded day - 112 (2000, see above, it was HOT)

Coldest Day - when BYU beat Utah in 2006 wait, when Texas lost to A&M in 2006, oh I mean it was actually -2 in 1949

I found all this stuff on the internet so it must be true!

Anyhoo we are all doing good and haven't seen OZ yet, much to Xander's dismay...

A whirlwind of busy!

Whoa have we been busy this week! Have hardly had a chance to see my husband. He was out of town Thursday and Friday, and made it back just in time to run his head off for the PTA President. He is the best assistant ever! Saturday was our 3rd Annual Carnival at the school. We made a decent amount of money to help provide field trips, special books, supplies for teachers and so forth. This has been such a good experience this year I am doing it for one more. Yes, I am a big SUCKER!! Poor Josh!

Between PTA and planning girls camp I feel like I just run from meeting to meeting, but it is all for a good cause.

We have girls camp June 18-22 this year. My parents will be in town and so have offered to help with my kids. That is a big help to Josh! The kids are almost old enough to look after them selves, but it is better if there is someone else with them. Our theme for camp is "Are you Ready?" We are basing our whole week on the parable of the Ten Virgins. Funny thing is, I am so not ready. This is definitely for me!

Last week or so my sister put on her blog a list of their favorite things. I am going to copy her. I thought it was cool and gave me insight. So here you go:

Xander:

• Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches
• Eating Popsicles with Dad in the living room
• Performing numbers from the musical "Wicked" on the coffee table
• Dressing in character (Cat in the Hat, Willy Wonka, Elphaba)
• Cheetos and chocolate (not together)
• Busy Bee School

Madison:

• Playing with friends
• Corn nuts for snack
• Swinging in the back yard
• Carrots with ranch
• Painting her nails and doing her hair
• Disney tween show (Hannah Montana, Suite Life, High School Musical)

Natalie:

• Her friends
• Checking and forwarding email
• Salad for lunch
• Hugs
• Crafts and scrap booking
• Cooking (especially breakfast)

Benson:

• Baseball, Baseball, Baseball
• Playing Baseball
• Watching Baseball
• Buying Baseball Stuff
• Gatorade
• Guitar Hero I and II

Chrissta:

• JOSH
• Dates with Josh
• Watching the kids play sports
• Girls Camp
• Morning Workouts with Jill
• Hanging out at home with family and friends
• email (it's a weird addiction)

Josh: (as perceived by Chrissta)

• The Office, Heroes, Planet Earth
• Helping people
• Guitar Hero (not that he gets to play very often)
• His wife (he says he really likes me)
• Benson, Natalie, Madison, Xander
• His cute new car

Well, that merely scratches the surface but gives you an idea about us.

Hopefully we will have some time to take more photos and get them up this week.