Wow, time can get the best of you....

So I know it has been a bazillion years since I last posted. Stephen LOVES when I exaggerate, so I feel the need to do it incessantly. : ) Things have been good. Stephen is months away from Graduating from Culinary school and we are very happy here in Rockport for the time being. Stephen will more than likely stay with the Country Club here in town working towards building up a resume and learning as much about the biz as he can. I could not love working at RFHS more and really love my kids and the direction our program is headed in. Things are lookin up. : )

I have had a really busy few months with getting started back up with school and then trying to host a regional art competition at our school this last weekend. I was SO proud when out of 300 entries, we had only 25 participate and 17 students advanced to area and 4 students

advanced to state out of an overall total 36 advancing. We were very happy and it sold the competition to our kids, which is what we were all about and why I fought to host it. It is ALL about buy in, and they bought it, hook line and sinker. So I know next year will be a much more successful event.

Anna is doing great and growing up super fast. She hit the 2 and half mark just after the

beginning of January and is fully potty trained and using the most impressive vocabulary. Everyone who meets her complements her on how well she can express herself with

words. : )

She loves to listen to Daddy play the guitar and asks him to get it out regularly so for Christmas this year, we decided to get her one of her own. Instead of the cheap little guitars, we went with a ukulele. She loves it and here is the picture to prove it. She loves to sing, and likes to listen to George Strait in the car with Daddy. Her favorite song is Troubadour....she knows all the words. Like I said, she is good with words.

Enjoy the other pics below, we went and visited the Big Tree a few months ago and here are some pics to show what Anna did while we were there....run, and run, and run some more. : ) Also is a picture of her and Jack Grantham who we went and saw today. She talks about Baby Jack quite often, she likes him very much. Have a great week and now that things have slowed down a bit I will try to be better about posting. Also, enjoy the video of Stephen and Anna singing....she cracks us up.