School is over...summer has begun!!!

Goodbye Fourth Grade!

Last night was awards night for CHS. The teachers award each student with a godly character quality that they see exemplified throughout the year. This year Christopher received "Determination"-Purposing to accomplish God's goals in God's time regardless of the opposition.

He and Mrs. Terry

The last day of school consists of donuts for class breakfast followed by field day. The PE teacher did a great job setting up fun games and friendly competitions-like flinging a rubber chicken with a giant sling-shot, kicking your shoes off the furthest (or is it farthest?) and carrying a marble with your toes...just to mention a few. The kids had a great time! At the end the teachers came out and squirted the unsuspecting students with water guns!

Anxiously waiting in line with classmates

Grabbing the marble with his toes before running or hopping back to the line. The little boy got quite upset with Christopher b/c he splashed him...but, he shouldn't have been playing in the pool anyway, silly boy.

I had hoped to get more pictures but, I spent time inside getting paperwork filled out for next year and talking about where my classroom will be, when I can get it set up and stuff like that.

Finally...pictures from Christopher's recent competitions. On Friday morning Christopher was quiet in his room...I thought he was wasting time instead of getting ready for school...so I (in a not so kind voice) called him and asked what he was doing...he quietly replied that he was praying! ok, I felt bad! He told me in the car that Daddy told him to pray when he felt nervous or anxious about anything...so he was praying about the math olympics! God, quieted his nerves and helped him to do his best!

Here is his trophy and t-shirt from the tournament this weekend. The last 2 games came down to overtime and then penalty kicks!!! Oh, my goodness...my nerves just could not take it!! When a game ends in tie score (in tournament play) the teams then play two 10 minute halves...if that ends in tie score...they choose 5 players to kick...alternating the teams. let me tell you that is some pressure for the goalie. The goalie can not move from the line until after the ball is kicked. Both times the other team beat us by one goal...it was disappointing. But, they did get a trophy for finishing in 4th place. The 2nd and 3rd place teams are both Longview teams but they had guest players...we had our regular team. The 1st place team was from Tyler-as I mentioned earlier they play dirty and even cussed at the opposing team as they shook hands...as they were picking up their trophies the officials asked them to leave the park b/c they were being rude and arrogant that they won...it's a shame that teams have to be that way.

The weekend was very sunny but extremely windy! B/c of the wind we didn't really feel the intensity of the sun! At the end of the day we were pretty red. It was chilly so we didn't have too much skin exposed but, our faces got nice and red! So, now Christopher and I have fever blisters on our sun-burned lips! Ugh!!! When I got home on Sat night I smeared my medicine all over my lips...but-I got some blisters anyway! You'd think I'd know to put sun-block on by now!! This coming Saturday Cat has 2 games and Christopher has 1 so it'll be just like having another tournament...I'm getting my sunblock out right now!

Go Tigers!!!!

I am exhausted! We've been on the soccer fields since 8:30 this morning! (until 5:30)
The Tigers won all 3 of their games 6-0, 2-0 and 2-1
Now they advance to play tomorrow...they'll play a Longview team, if they win that- they'll play a Tyler team. The Tyler team is an incredible team (we lost to them last year) but, they play dirty and rough. Their goalie is bigger than Calixto!!
It is nice to advance to the next round!

Math Olympics

Christopher won 1st place in the "Math Olympics" for computation!!!!! We were so excited yesterday when he won...he is so very proud of himself!!! Yay!!!!