Little weekend snippet. Maegan had a track meet Friday in Silsbee. She got to run her first run, the 2 mile and got 8th place! The weather got really bad and it started raining so they cancelled the meet. We had severe weather in Texas, blizzard in Amarillo, baseball size hail in Austin and hail in Houston. Maegan made it back to school and I went to pick her up and Paisley and Jansen came and got her from here. I packed up and went to Houston to dinner and met some friends and then to Aunts. Jansen's first day of TBall was Sat. and they went to opening ceremonies and then to his game at 1:30. It was REALLY cold on Sat...the temp was 38 that morning and didn't get over 60 the entire day. Maegan said they were really cold out there. Saturday I went to a Spring Fling/Music Festival sponsored by a law firmed owned by a friend of mine's cousin. It was really fun..live music and catered barbeque, etc. My friend Jamie was in Houston as well so a big group of us met at a karaoke place later that night and watched the crazy fools who were brave enough to get up and sing. The weather was really pretty all weekend, cool and sunny. James and Paisley dropped Maegan off this afternoon and I sat in HORRENDUS traffic (twice) but finally did get home. People were all stopped and out of their car visiting. It was crazy. Anyway it wore me out but I got home and did some laundry and Maegan did her homework and we are getting all ready for bed. And work/school tomorrow. Sure enjoyed getting to see my aunt, even if it were for only the brief periods of me running in and out to change clothes and go again. =) Hope everyone had a great weekend, I know my mom surely did. Love to you all.....

This is Maegan's new watch she got for her PERFECT Semester grades! It's really cute. No real news this week. Maegan has a track meet in Orangefield today where her friend Lexi goes to school. Her first run is at two so I'm goign to catch her second one tonight. She doesn't have a UIL meet tomorrow, can't remember exactly why but we're both glad she doesn't! We are super excited that the Twilight movie is coming out tomorrow! Lisha is having a bunch of girls over for dinner and drinks and a movie viewing so I'm looking forward to that. Maegan is going to the movies and to eat with a group tomorrow night. Today, after two years in our new building, we finally were issued keys to the building! I know it sounds trivial, but for two years we have been locked out of all the outer doors in the front and the back of our school. So that's all I got. Nothing exciting. I'm glad mom made it safely to Israel (finally) and had a better ending to her flight than we started with! Love to you all....hope everyone has a great weekend.

Saturday Part II

Here's Maegan this afternoon after the UIL meet with her medal . She got fifth place in Math. At this meet they competed by grade level so she competed against 9th graders and there were only three other schools there so she got fifth!! She didn't know her score but I was proud she got a medal anyway!

Well today's blog will be short because there's not much to report and Mom will be home in 2 days! I almost missed Maegan's running last night. The track meet was in Vidor and her first run was at four. Our aide was out today so I couldn't leave work early for the first run. She said she bettered her time by over a minute in her 2 mile which was really great. Her 1 mile run is the last thing at the meet and she usually runs around eight so I planned on leaving around seven and running by to pick up some food for us. At 6:10 she texts me and says there's only 2 runs before hers. Now there is several heats of girls and several heats of boys, so 2 events really means like ten runs. Still I got a little panicked and hopped in the car to race out to Vidor. As I was exiting the highway she calls and says they've called for her to warm up. Yikes! I got there a few minutes later and raced to the starting line at the fence. She was still on the field warming up and she didn't end up running for about fifteen more minutes, so I was there in plenty of time. Maegan said so many kids were not there because of Spring Break that there were fewer heats in each race and the last run that was scheduled at 9:45 ended up being run at seven! Anyway, she did a good job and I was there to cheer her on. She was so tired, we came home and she showered and was in bed before ten. Then she had to be up at 6:45 this morning to go to UIL at her school by 7:45!!! Poor baby just can't slow down and get rested. Then she'll have to get up for Sunday School in the morning so I know she's looking forward to NOT hearing that alarm in the morning. The UIL meet is at PNG today but just for Math and Science so she's only doing her Math event today and she thinks it will all be over after lunch. On Tuesday she took the Reading TAKS and when I got home and asked her how it went she said "It was easy". That's all the info I got and exactly what I expected her to say. She also got her report card yesterday, all A's, of course. Anyway, that's all my news for this Saturday morning. I'll see all of you on Monday. Love you....

Here is beautiful Maegan on Friday getting ready to leave to go to her Dad's. She met Steven at the mall for a movie and then came home to a house full of four year old's! She had to be at school Saturday morning at 4:45 to go to Deerpark for her UIL meet. She competed in Editorial Writing, News Writing and Math. Her Journalism sponser didn't go to the meet and I think the other teachers were pretty upset with her because the kids didn't know for sure what events they were competing in and they didn't have dictionaries or supplies. Their team didn't do well at this meet, all the other meets someone from PNG has ranked in the writing events and this time none of them did. Maegan scored a 64 % on her math test however, and this is double what it was the last meet. Her math scores have doubled each meet so she was pleased about that. She babysat Jansen Sat. night and had some funny stories to tell about Jansen and the dog. They had quite an eventful evening, splattered food in the kitchen and dog peeing on the carpet, etc. They just dropped her off after their soccer game, and it's FREEZING here so she and Jansen stayed bundled up under the blanket for the whole game. Maegan is sitting in the recliner now doing her study guide for English on the Elizabethian Age and William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. She just looked up and said "This is easier for me than all the other's because I've listened to Nan talk about it so much and then I learned some on our trip to London". I knew Mom would be pleased to hear that little snippet! She has her lines of Romeo to memorize as well and it's a BUNCH. She'll get it done though, I'm sure it less daunting a task for her than it would be for me at my old age. I've been in and out and had some sweet messages from my Mom and my Aunt. One more week and then Mom will be home! Yay for us all. I hope everyone has stayed warm and had a good weekend. See you all next week. Love you.....