Some Dumb Tradition

This is the garter Alyssa made for her Homecoming date. With the amount of bells on it, he should be heard all over campus. Texas has a tradition where the girl makes a garter for the guy and the guy makes a mum for the girl. (a mum looks just like the garter, but much, much longer. It hooks around the neck and on the shoulders. They're suppose to be full of ribbon down to the girls feet that represent them and their date.) And they cost and arm and a leg (they start at the store for $70 and go up into the hundreds.) We made our own and saved lots of money. Ha Ha Ha...

Ask anyone in Texas and they have no idea what the tradition is about, but nobody is about to break this wonderful tradition.

Watch for Homecoming pictures after October 18

Dress for Homecoming!

Okay, we've got the dress, jewelry, shoes and purse. Now the hairstyle ideas. Yes Kenna and Deonne, I have someone arranged to do the hair so Alyssa doesn't have to put up with me and only me (do you feel sorry for me yet?)!

Please send us a message with any ideas for the hair.

Here are some pictures of some Alyssa's Homecoming dress. We'll post the pictures of homecoming as soon as she and her date, Kyle get them.

Frogs

We've finally taken pictures of Alyssa's frogs. She started out with 21, then we only found 17 in the tank. We then took them all out to change the tank and found 20. We don't know what happened...

Recycle, Recycle, Recycle!!!

Just thought you'd like a great laugh - was looking at the camera and found these pictures. Let's see how long until Alyssa figures out they're up!!!

Walking

We have all started walking each night to help Alyssa get her mile time faster for basketball tryouts. She has to have her mile time down to 7:25 by next Friday. So far she says her fastest mile time was 8:30 and that was two years ago when she was freezing her butt off in athletics. So we all are tired and Alyssa is sore, and just in case you were wondering, it's about 100 degrees when we go walking! Well, hopefully she makes the team for all this hard work WE have to do.

Ice Exhibit 2007