Looking up

Things are looking much brighter lately. I have had some great time with family and that always seems to help when I'm feeling down. June 25th is Don's birthday and we are trying to plan a trip to Las Vegas with just the two of us that should be fun. I think we are going to stay downtown as we got a free night stay or something like that. I guess because I gamble so much what can I say I love it so much it makes me happy.  With the family he still hasn't decided what he wants to do. Some ideas were the beach, Medieval times, or just going to dinner but he can't make up his mind. 

We leave for Jamaica in 61 days or 9 weeks the whole family is so excited. It is now time to start buying clothes and all the items that we need to take (like my video camera). To say the least we are counting down the days. 

The kids are still involved in all their activities though softball ended and baseball is about to end. Trevor and Don are going white water rafting this weekend with Trevor's wrestling team and Triston, Tatum and I are going June 5,6,7 with Tatum's Girl Scout Troop. Tatum has basketball starting up here pretty soon as well. I love basketball season. 

Well that is our family update for now. 

Thanks for listening

What is wrong with me

Lately I have been feeling very depressed. There are many things that I could attribute this to but I feel like I should have been able to move on but I can't and it is affecting all areas of my life.

 

1) my father in law passed away 3 weeks ago. Don and I have been having a hard time dealing with this loss. We feel the need to get work done as fast as we can so that we can come home and be with our kids. That isn't a bad thing except that we aren't getting the work done and just coming home. I know for me I'm way behind and I have been forgetting lots of things that I was supposed to do and with my job everyone is walking on egg shells just trying not to get fired

2) I'm constantly worrying about Trevor and his grades for school. He is maintaining a 2.0 but is capable of so much more. I want him to want to do well and give a hundred % in his sports but that is not him. He is lazy. I have tried many things to get him motivated but nothing is working. Even driving is not a big enough motivator I have come to terms that I will be lucky if he even decides to attend college but I wanted so much more for him. I wanted more for him then what I did.

3) I can't decide if I want to continue working. I think that this thought is directly related to number 1 but I can't move past it. I work because I need the interaction and recognition and I don't think that I get enough of it at home. The work atmosphere used to to do that but not now. All the kudos and slap on the backs for a great job are to few and in between. I like the extra money so that we can do all the things that we want and I don't want to lose that but I don't know how much longer I can take this. Now is not the time to look for another job but maybe I should.

4) Don and I are going through some personal issues though I'm not sure that he knows about it at least he pretends that he doesn't. To say the least I like to be spontaneous and I liked the love letters and the closeness that we used to have but where has it all one.  I'm trying to work on that but hope that he will get on board 

I believe that all 4 of these items can be taken care of with me and my attitude. My self esteem needs an attitude adjustment but I'm lost on where to start. I have a long road and it isn't going to be easy. I will get there and hope that it doesn't take as long as I think. 

Thanks for listening

Arizona trip

I just got back from Arizona for a weekend get away. I left on Friday at 1:50pm and I made the 7 hour drive all by myself. There were several people supposed to come but they all backed out the week of the trip which totally pissed me off but oh well I did have a friend that drove his own car (he was staying an extra day) and followed me. On Saturday we went sight seeing at the local national park it was wonderful. The weather was around 88 degrees the entire weekend. Saturday night we had a Karaoke night at one of the local bars. We had such a great time. The locals didn't like us very much we were a little crazy for them. They were an older crowd. 

On another note everyone is doing well. Donnie and I celebrated our 16 wedding anniversary on May 2nd and we are looking forward to Mother's Day. We are going to have everyone over for a swim day and a Hot Dog and Burger dinner. 

Texas, Surprise, and life

So last week I had to go to Texas for 5 days for a training. It was great. I learned so much that I  can use right away and make a huge difference. It was still a long week being away from my family. We had 30 people in the class and I think we represented 11 different states. The furthest being Rhode Island and Alaska. My favorite accent was the guy from Alabama. 

When I got home Don and the kids surprised me with a pot rack hanging in my kitchen. I have been wanting one for years and now here it is . It adds so much character to my kitchen that now we really need to paint it. 

The kids are doing great with life right now. I can't believe that it is already time to go to the Jr High and hear the informational meeting for parents next week. I think that the twins are very excited. 

Trevor is still do weightlifting for football in the mornings from 6am-7am and on Monday and Wednesday he has wrestling practice from 6-7:30pm . 

Tatum is doing amazing in Softball. One of the coaches took some time and practiced hitting with her and while I was gone she hit a stand up triple and has had a couple doubles and singles since then. She gets to catch also and I think that she is really having a great time.

Triston is also doing great in baseball. He is consistently hitting the ball and scoring . The coach has him at the bottom of the line up that causes him to miss hitting opportunities as the kids in front of him rarely get on base. All the kids on his team have the potential of hitting which makes for some exciting games. 

Don and I are working hard short days to make sure that we are home in time for games or practices but all in all we wouldn't have it any other way.

rain rain go away

Ok, so today is turning out to be one of those days where you say to yourself why in the world did I ever get up. I had a meeting in HB which is a 30min from my house at 6:30am so I decided to get up and take Trevor to Football at school which starts at 6:00am. No problem right, WRONG we are driving to school and I go to roll down the window and all of a sudden we here "CRACK" and the window falls into the slot. We are like "WTF" looking at each other wondering what happened . Well we couldn't get the window to roll up and my temperature gage says 48 degrees. So with the heater on as high as it would go I drive down to HB. I walk out of my meeting to find that the sidewalk is wet, "GREAT IT'S RAINING"! I go to get into my car to drive back home driverside seat soaked and cold. I get home and wait for the pool guy to come and schedule a glass company to come and fix my window. It is wicked expensive for them to fix a stupid window. I schedule them to come to my work and they say they will be there between 12:00 and 5:00 no problem. I get ready for work and in the meantime it starts to rain harder. I go to get in my car with towels to dry the door and I start to drive away. Now in tears and wet on my left side I call Don expressing how upset I was expecting him to fix my problem and he says to seal it up. CLEVER! Why didn't I think of that so I turn around and go back home grab two trash bags and the tape. I close myself in the truck and start to put the bags up. STUPID BAGS WON'T STAY! I try and tape them but because it's wet the tape won't stick. Then I tried to back out of the driveway but when trying to look to make sure I was clear I COULDN'T SEE OUT OF MY WINDOW. Forget it I will take this as a sign that I need to go back to bed.

GOOD NIGHT!

Bring on Summer

Well it's official we are going to Jamaica for our summer vacation. We booked our hotel, booked our plane reservations and are going to get our passports on Monday. I'm so excited. We are actually going to Boscobel which is on the other side of Negril about 30min away from Montego Bay. We are staying at an all inclusive which means we get to eat and drink as much as we want. The kids are a little worried about the 10 hour flight from Lax to North Carolina (3hour lay over) and the rest to Jamaica but the good news is that we don't leave CA till 10:00pm so we should sleep the majority of the way. 

Work is going better for me these days. I have been successful in my fundraising which is making my bosses happy. There are many things that I don't like about office politics but I have to play the game if I want to survive any layoffs we might do in the future. I love my job don't get me wrong but we have a lot to do. 

Trevor is back in football and is weightlifting like crazy. He is so strong and I think ready to play Varsity this year instead of just suiting up. 

Tatum has already had her first Softball game and is catching (yes Jillian she caught her first game of the season and from what I hear she did a great job). Basketball is coming to an end though she will have some private lessons once a week to help her keep up on the game. 

Triston  hasn't started games yet for baseball but is doing a lot of practice to pitch for the team. Games start the 2nd week of March. He is also playing spring soccer and games start soon for that as well. 

Don is working very hard. He is the one that keeps this family together. He picks the kids up and gets them to practice and fixes dinner. He picks up all the slack that my job makes me miss. He is amazing and I love him

Thats all for now stay tuned for more

It has been so long

It has been a long time since I have had time to type on this blog. It seems that the Havard family is getting busier and busier. The kids are ending their winter sports and practices are starting for the spring sports. So that means an overlap with Tatum's basketball with softball and Triston is doing spring soccer and baseball. Trevor's wrestling season just ended and is now going to continue with freestyle wrestling. The wrestling program has a better weightlifting schedule then football and helps the kids get in better shape and I think that this will help him in football. 

Don is enjoying the rain as it bring more people to the store and we hope that it continues. Me on the other hand am constantly busy and have been working several hours. My favorite boss of all time, Ken, got promoted and is moving his family to Arizona. I will miss them tremendously. We have been having lots of fun giving him and his wife Jodi (my best friend) lots of going away parties. This past Friday night we went to our favorite bar and it was a blast. 

For Valentines day Don surprised Tatum and I with pink and white roses along with chocolate covered strawberries.  The kids and I surprised Don with a candlelight homemade dinner of Lasagna  with Chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting decorated with sprinkle and red hots. I would say that we had a great day.

For now along with the sports and busy work days we are in the process of planning our summer vacation. We know that we are going to Laughlin with Ken and Jodi  in either June or July and we are looking to go to either Florida to Orlando or to Jamaica. We are looking at prices and going to the Travel agent this week hopefully Tuesday.  

More to come...

High School Musical on Ice and Sledding

There are some perks to owning a business. On Friday Don got a call from the company that we advertise with and she had 3 tickets to the High School Music the Ice Tour at the Honda Center that she wasn't going to be able to use. The company was sponsoring that nights show and they had a special pre-show event gathering where we got to meet and take pictures with a couple of the skaters. They also had free programs, pom-poms, megaphones, churros, pretzels, and sodas. Not only did we get all the freebies the seats were awesome we sat 5 rows back from the ice. The show was great Nick sang every song and he has the movies memorized so he did all the dance moves as well. There was a little boy sitting in front of  us that covered his ears and looked back at us like 100 times...Oh Well. To say the least Tatum, Nick and I had a wonderful time.

Today I took the kids sledding . It was a very long day. First we went to my old stomping grounds at Mt. Baldy but we only got 10 minutes up the hill before the Highway Patrol turned us around. They said that there were to many people on the mountain and that no one else could go up. We waited for about 20 minutes then decided to head to Wrightwood near Mountain High. What would normally take us 30 minutes to get there took us nearly 3 hours. To put this all in time prospective we left our house at 12:00pm and didn't get out of our car to sled till 4:00pm. We sled for 2 hours which was plenty of time the kids were cold and it was dark and we were tired from climbing the hills. We got home at 8:45pm even more tired and full of stories about the fun.  First of all Trevor went down his first hill and headed straight toward a tree. He had to abort and went through a bush that tore his jeans. Nick went down his first hill and slid off the tube and kept going and rolled over and over it was great. Triston and Jacob had solid rides the whole night except for one that Triston went on his own. He went over a jump and got impressive air. The only thing about impressive air is that you have to land and it was a hard landing. Tatum had a couple of runs but slipped once and then she was done. She is such a girl. I even went down one hill... well kinda Trevor and Triston were helping me on the saucer and I started going before we were ready and I knocked Trevor over on my lap. It was hilarious. So even with all the traffic and all the " When are we going to get there" and "Are we there yet" we made some memories that will last a lifetime.

Christmas 08

This year the holidays really came quick. I of course waited until the last minute to start shopping and even waited until the last minute to start shopping for the Christmas dinner which I hosted. I had to go to two stores to find a turkey it was almost a very scary situation. 

Christmas Eve is always a lot of fun. We go to my mother in laws and have dinner, talk, open presents and play games. It is great just being around family. It never fails though that we get home around midnight after an hour drive and like last night I haven't even started wrapping presents. So to make a long story short Don and I went to bed around 3am and Triston comes jumping on our bed to wake up around 8am (he let us sleep in for 2 hours). I think we finally made it to out to the living room around around 9. They had so much fun opening up their presents and their stockings. Of course for Don and I we already opened our present (which I'm typing on and love). 

The slow morning changed quickly into a rush to make sure everything was done for dinner and the house was clean enough for our guests. I have to say dinner turned out great. I cooked Turkey with all the fixings (stuffing, mashed potatoes, caesar salad, yams, cranberries, rolls, pumpkin pie, and berry pie. I'm on a rotation so next year it will be Lazana (sp?) which seems so much easier. 

I hope you all had a great  Christmas Eve and Christmas and hope to see many of you at our New Year's Eve Party.

 

Metallica What was I thinking

Trevor, his friend Sergio, and I went to the Metallica concert last night for Trevor's 16th birthday. We had the best time. Our tickets were for the floor so we ended up 2 people back from the railing next to the stage. To start off this is the first concert I have ever been so close (with the exception of Van Halen but we had seats) and I don't think that this was the concert to do this at. At first it was great then it started getting crowded and the boys and I got seperated. As long as they were together it was ok. Then behind me were these French guys who were plotting to make their way to the front as soon as the lights went out. They tried but big mama(thats me) didn't let that happen a little elbow the crotch and an elbow in the side they settled down a little. That didn't last long they pushed and shoved and then after I would say 30min I lost it and started yelling pushing back and cussing like no other. It was great after that I made some friends since I was by myself the entire concert it was nice to talk to somebody.
There was moshing crowd surfing and people fighting and it was great and scary. After the concert was over I found Sergio and Trevor. Trevor was so excited because he also made some friends that pushed him up to crowd surf he had a blast. We have so many stories to share. On the way to the car he hugged me and said thanks mom. What an awesome moment. YOU'RE WELCOME TREVOR AND HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY and NO the next concert is not Slip Knot I'm getting to old for this. How about Elton John or Journey?

Vegas 08

Las Vegas in the Winter time is much different than in the summer. It was wicked cold and very windy. This years group stayed downtown at the Plaza. We all arrived before 10:00pm on Friday so we all ate dinner togethor and then went out site seeing down Fremont street. We gambled at a few different places and got some drinks and had a great time. After walking for a while we found this little bar called Hennessey's it had a live bad playing rock music and they were relly good. On Saturday we were going to head to the strip but why when we were having so much fun downtown. They had $3.00 tables and not many people on them. We did go to dinner on the strip at the Harley Davidson Cafe (my favorite Vegas dinner place) Everyone seemed to enjoy it. We had at least 3-4 shots each and tried several of their specialties that were very tasty. It was to cold to walk around so we went bak to our hotal and to our favorite new hangout at Hennessey's.
Some highlights were:
1) Having a suite and having everyone come up to our room for drinks
2) Having someone buy me a drink and seeing Don get Jealous. He does love me :)
3) Watching Margaret roll the dice on the crap table and instead of the dice landing on the table hitting people on the head.
4) Watching Ken Laugh histerically at the commedian at the Fitzgeralds
5) Having Jodi lend me her sneaker slippers becuse I couldn't walk drunk in my new girlie shoes
6) Hitting a Full house on Let It RIde on the first night and losing all the others
7) Guessing if one of the ladies in the fluffy suits was a lady or a man
8) Laughing at Derrick because of what the comedian said about chinese character tatoos
9) Spending some needed alone time with Don
10) Taking Ken and Jodi to the airport and having a nice dinner before taking off.

Thank you everyone for such a great time. This trip will go down in the history books. I can't wait to plan the next outing maybe the next one needs to be Lake Tahoe (Skiing during the day and gambling at night)
Good luck Ken on Tusan(sp?) We be thinking of you guys as you go through the process.

Getting back to normal

Because of the recent fires in our quite little city things have been different. The air, my car, and house all smell like smoke, the kids got some extra days off and Trevor still hasn't gone back though we got a phone call today saying that the High School is open on Monday. Every where we go the topic is "How close were you to the fire". "Is your family ok?". The good thing is that with the kids going back to school we can all get back to normal. We can now start to move our focus on how to replant our city. I feel sad for the folks that have lost their homes and hope that I can do something to help. I don't know what it will be but I will do what I can.

As for my family we are all doing well and ready to get back to our sports. Triston has Baseball tomorrow and Tatum has a cheer competition on Sunday. For Trevor wrestling get's back on Monday.

Don and I don't have anything going but getting ready for the holidays. For Thanksgiving we are going to Don's moms for dinner and the kids are excited to see their little cousin Jacob. Then of course our Vegas trip that we have been looking forward to (No kids).

It's finally over

Football is finally over. The team had a losing season with only one win. I have to say that our team stuck it out and never gave up. They had to overcome a lot of obstacles but they did it and I hope that they can look at this season as one that showed their perserverence and character. Trevor suited up for every Varsity game but never played a down but he kept his spirits high and definatly enjoyed the pre-game meals. At the JV level we also had a losing season with only 3 wins . Once again perserevence and character shined in these boys. Trevor started every game and had a great year with 3 interceptions and 2 fumble recoverys. He can't wait till next season but first tomorrow we start wrestling and then on to track. No rest for the college bound.
TREVOR WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU. KEEP LIVING LIFE TO THE FULLEST AND NEVER LET ANYTHING GET IN THE WAY OF YOUR DREAMS. WE LOVE YOU.

I finally did it

Yesterday Trevor comes home and says I think I'm going to wrestle. YEAH VICTORY!!!!! I have been on Trevor to at least try wrestling since last year. I think that he would be very good at it. This Saturday is the meet the coach and 1st practice event and he is going to go. It took a lot of asking and talking to friends to talk him into it. The workouts are very difficult I have heard and I think will help him in football. He is already small so he won't have to loose weight to make a weight class. AND I AM JUST SO EXCITED. I'm excited to see him one on one on the mat. I can take video and pictures and it will be all of him. I think their first match is in December I will keep you informed.

Proud mommy

Today was one of those days that you think to yourself "What did I do to deserve this". Today Don and I went to watch Tatum receive Student of the Month at school. She was so surprised and so happy. We are really proud of her. She is such a good girl and good student. Her teacher told me today that when she told Don yesterday the news Don actually welled up with tears she had to hand him a tissue. Not trying to embarrass you honey but I know that you are so proud of her and you should be. So with Tatum we can get a student of the month sticker and right next to it for the boys we can get the sticker that says my son can beat up your student of the month :) I love diversity

Busy and exciting weekend

Today I will start out with the not so fun events that we had. On Thursday Trevor's football team lost again with a 41-12 score. Trevor did get a fumble recovery so that was a highlight. The team is so tired of losing that they are now starting to bicker with one another. Our quarterback got another concussion and will be out for the rest of the season. This time he got taken away on a stretcher and an ambulance I hope that he is ok. Well the good news is that we only have 3 more games and then it is on to preparing for next season. I have been asking Trevor to Wrestle though because I think that he would be good at it. I hope that he does.

Now on to the Varsity game. Trevor is so tired of dressing out and not being able to play. It is so boring to him. He likes the Pre game meals though and he says they are very good. This past Friday was our Homecoming game and we played Villa Park and lost 13-2. As the snack shack coordinator I was very busy. I got to the snack shack to see that we were out of propane for the BBQ's we ran out of Hamburgers by the middle of the first quarter and Don had to go and get more from the store. One parent didn't show up for his shift so I had to work a little bit until I had a young man come in and volunteer. During the set up I spilled boiling hot water on my hand so it was definitely a night to remember.

Saturday was a long day but ended up great. It started with Triston's soccer game in Laguna Niguel. We lost 4-0 and we have one boy on our team that likes to put other players down and yell at them when he doesn't think they are doing their job on the field. Today the parents had enough and told the coach to take care of it. So the coach gave the group a big talking to and gave them a homework assignment to look up the word respect and write the definition and then write 2 paragraphs about how to be respectful. Not bad, I think that it is important for the coach to take care of these issues and I think that he did a great job. After the game it was off to Irvine to see a Kyle participate in a Ju Jitzu Tournament. It was great to see him as it has been months and he did a great job. Here are some pictures:

Kyle ended up losing the match but really impressed us. After the match we were off to Tatum's football game. It was the Playoffs semi final and the boys were really excited and the girls wanted to do their best. The team ended up losing but the girls did great they had an announcer and when timeouts were called or end of quarters they would play music and the girls would go crazy. It was fun.

From there we went to my friend Jodi and Ken's house for dinner and game night. We had some Tri-tip and some awesome twice baked potatoes. We played two games that I have never played before and they were fun. The first game was Encore which is about music. We would have to come up with songs that had a certain words in it or songs with peoples names and then sing it. We played boys verses girls and of course the girls won but the boys didn't do so bad. I was hoping to get Don to sing at least once but he didn't. Maybe it was better that way for all of us :) After Encore we shooed the kids away and played a game called Spades. Boy that was fun and I totally thought I was getting it when I found out that I was playing my cards wrong and frustrating the hell out of Jodi. Sorry Jodi. We totally saw Jodi and Ken's competitive spirit and we had a huge laugh when they showed me what I was doing wrong. While we were there we had some of the best daiquiris ever they were strawberry with banana rum. I hope that we get together and do that again soon.

On Sunday Tatum had a cheer competition down in Long Beach. The team won second place. It was awesome. The girls now move on and they have another competition in Long Beach again in 4 weeks. Of course we are all waiting for our favorite competition which is in Vegas in February. It so much fun with that many people in one place with their families haveing a great time. We over run the tables and get really obnoxious its great. Here are some pictures from the event:

So to say the least it was a busy weekend and we can't wait for the next one. Great Job Tatum on winning second we are very proud of you.

Kids test our patients but it makes us stronger

Today was the twins conferences. First we saw Tatum's teacher. Wow is all I have to say. She is doing so good. You know it is going to go well when the teacher starts off saying I love your daughter. I guess she is really helpful and really helps other kids that may need it. She is performing well in all classees but Social Studies. The good news is that the teacher is willing have her come in at lunch to work on getting caught up. I know Tatum will take that help and do what she can to do better.
Triston on the other hand we have some issues that need to be dealt with. He is hanging in there on grades and I know that he will have A's and B's but behaviorly he is struggling. He just can't keep his hands to himself. I don't think that he is intentionally hurting anyone rather just being rougher than most kids. He gets along great with his friends so I just don't understand where the roughness is coming from. I was really upset at his conference though when the only thing that the teacher was talking about was his behavior. I had to bring up his grades and how his work performance in class was. It was like she didn't even want to talk about that. What frustrated me was that Don and I know that Triston has something going on we are doing positive reinforcements with him and punishing him if he has had a bad day. I get daily updates by his teacher regarding his day and Don and I still don't know how to fix the issue but we are working on it, we know about it, we are doing all that we can. STOP BEATING US UP ALREADY. We already feel bad enough first that he might hurt somebody and secondly that we don't know how to help him. We didn't expect to sit there for 30min and be lectured about counseling and medication and why haven't we found out what was wrong. I for one don't believe in medication unless absolutley nessesary. My sister had ADD/ ADHD and was on medication all of her life. It never helped her and now she is in jail and addicted to drugs. The doctors could never get the dosage right so she was either a zombie or she felt that she couldn't control herself. So now you know why it would scare me.
This morning before the conferences I was looking back at some old pictures of when the twins were little. They were so cute and we did some awesome things when they were little. We had big birthdays every year, we went camping a lot and it just seems that now we have to many things going on. I told Don tonight that I want to go back to taking those little weekend trips and just get a chance to reconnect. I wonder where I should start first. I think I will plan a trip to Joshua Tree because Tatum and I had such a great time and we know that the boys would have a blast. Maybe we shoud plan another cruise. Jodi you in?

Over all not so bad

Today Don, Trevor, and I went to talk to his teachers and school counselor. It was a great meeting. I found out that he is at least trying since we started talking to him about his grades. He has risen his World History grade a significant amount and his teacher thinks that if he keeps it up he may have an A by the time Semester grades come out.

His spanish teacher told us that he needs to focus and not talk to the girl behind him though she thinks that she is helping him stay on task (I wonder if that is the girl he asked to Homecoming). He was missing a workbook for her class so we bought another one and hopefully he can now get caught up.

He is getting an A+ in Lit I hope that he can keep that going since he went to summer school this past summer becuase of this class but once again it was because of the homework.

His math teacher didn't show but we knew that she wouldn't. Trevor told us that it is not to hard of a class but that he is just not doing the work and that he would do better.

The hardest class of all Honors Bio. Not sure what I should do. Do I take him out of the class or do I leave him in it and make him try harder. I feel like I should keep him in it and let him try harder but then I take the risk of him failing the class. As of right now I told his teacher that I would like daily reports from her and I hope that I we can get him to succed.

Tomorrow is the twins conferences so I will let you know how it goes.

Camping Weekend

This weekend I had to work though it didn't feel like work except that I wasn't at home. The district that I run had a Webelos Camporall, in laymens terms a campout and skills competition for 4th and 5th graders, it was a lot of fun. The chairmen in charge did a gret job. We had 166 people out there and the weather was beautiful. We did have a couple of challenges. First, we were at the reserve base and the guys who delivered our water buffalos ran over some sewage pipe so it smelled really bad. We tried to shovel sand on it to cover the smell and to soak up the water but it didn't work to well. We closed it off with Caution tape and worked with the smell. Second, the area was covered with gopher holes. They weren't in just one area but all over the place. I was being so carefull and the kids were running every where. I knew that if anyone was going to fall it was going to be me but I did good and to my knowledge no one got hurt. I would call this event 100% a success. For our next district event it is snow camping at the end of January. I can't wait...NOT.

The kids had games again this past week Trevor lost both football games actually I should say slatered. I feel bad for these guys our team has so many kids out because of injury there is nothing that we can do. Tatum cheer squad is amping up for a competion this upcoming Sunday at the Long Beach convention center and the team that she cheers for won again so they are in playoffs maybe going to the best game in pop warner football the "Orange Bowl". The girls are doing a really good job and I think that the players actually appreciate that they are there. Triston won his soccer game on Saturday 5-0 he got to play the whole second half which doen't happen very much anymore as is the subber for now. In his Baseball game he got to pitch the first two innings. He did ok the first inning but allowed 2 runs in the second he did much better. He didn't hit any good balls in the game but in practice he was bombing them to the outfield. I mean line drives. He hasn't practiced all year either so I told him not to be upset that once he gets a couple practices in him all the fundamentals will come back. His team went on to win 10-4. Don had a busy weekend with lots of parties for the stores and with me gone he did a lot of juggling. Trevor worked for him on Sunday and hosted a party and did a great job as Party Host and he got a $20 tip. I'm really proud of him he really know how do his job at the store and do it well. I know I complain a lot about his behavior but he is really a good kid that tries to be good. I love you Trevor.
This week is conference week for the twins and I have set a meeting with Trevor's teachers to see how he is doing so I will have many posts this week.

What a weekend

Well the Havard family has done it again. Another great weekend under their belt. Where do I begin?

Trevor - Our varsity team on Friday night had a horrible night we lost 41-0. Trev didn't play but no problem because this week the JV game was on Saturday morning. Trevor played the entire game and the defense dominated. We won 3-0 Trevor got his second interception of his Sophmore year. The game was a nail bitter Valencia had a chance to tie it up with 12 seconds left on the clock with a field goal but the kicker kicked the ball and it hit the goal posts. Next week we head into league games with the first one being against Tustin. I love high school sports they are so much fun to watch.

Tatum -Triston and Tatum had their first 6th grade dance on Friday night. She had such a great time hanging out with her friends. I guess she even danced with a boy (good thing older bro by 45min was there). After the dance her friend Alyssa spent the night and that kept her busy. On Saturday she had her game to cheer for. It was freezing cold. It dipped down to 60 and it was windy(don't judge me Jodie and Ken). After the game she went to watch Alyssa cheer and spent the night at her house. So to say the least she didn't get much sleep and it was really busy.

Triston - He started off the weekend with a Soccer game Saturday morning and they lost 1-2. The other team was really rough and I think played a little dirty but I guess every now and then we will run into teams like that. They boys played great and hard. Triston also went to the dance on Friday night but he said that it was boring. There is definatley a difference between boys and girls and it is somewhat hilarious to watch it happen at the same time in the same house. After the dance Don saw one of Triston's old basketball coaches who is currently coaching a winter baseball team who told Don that they had lost some players and would Triston like to play. So because we can't say no we are now playing winter baseball on Sunday afternoons. I guess as long as the kids are having fun and staying out of trouble it's ok to run my husband and I ragged. It will make it that much easier when they leave for college because Don and I will actually be able to spend some time together on our own.

As for Don and I we enjoyed going to all the above sporting activities. The kids did wonderful and we can't wait for next weekend. After Tatum's game on Saturday night we went out with some friends to a place in Costa Mesa. I had such a great time. We got there expecting to be able to eat dinner and we ordered a hamburger that we had to cook on our own on a BBQ that they had on the patio. We had several drinks and danced the night away. Well the girls danced and the guys watched sports on the TV. I had this drink that was 40oz and came in a keep sake glass it was very yummy it was called a Blue Hawaii. I think that I will have to have another one of those when I go to Las Vegas. After dancing a couple of us went to Denny's to have a 1:00am snack we had a great time talking and just hanging out without kids. It was real adult time that was very much needed. I would like to go back there sometime though I really like my Country western bar better. Dancing is really great exercise and I should do it more often. I wish that the kids could go with me though I think that would be a great place a club that only serves soda and water and is a family atmospere for family dancing fun even if it is only that way on sunday nights and the rest of the week a regular club. I think that I have another business to start writing a proposal for.
I want to thank Jodi, Ken, Amber, Justin, Kaylee, Kaylee's huband, Janet, Mark, Tatum, Triston, Trevor and Don for making it a weekend to remember. Next time I will have to bring the camera.