GRAND OL' FLAG

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Maddie Pitchin'

Yesterday evening, I had the pleasure of helping Mad practice her pitching. I was honored to be her "pitching dummy"! You just can't believe how fast those pitches are until you're in the hind catchers' position. The ball starts out really small when it leaves her hand and then before you know it, WHAM!!! You either catch it, or you eat it!! She is very good and has an awesome work ethic. Stand by, this girl is going places!! She has a game tonight and should be the starting pitcher. Get ready to see that on the blog. I've already put new batteries in the vid cam...that means VIDEO CAMERA

Love and Happiness,
Mark

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This morning's sunrise...

I woke up with this text picture on my phone, with a message: This sunrise is just for you... guess who it was from?

ALL-STAR GIRLS

Howdy, blog friends/family/cohorts and accomplices! This is Mark. Just thought I'd preview a movie/video I've been workin'. These were just a FEW of the video clips Amy has been taking at the games. The still photos are from last year but were just too dang cute not to include. I put them together into one video and added a song. Lemme know whatcha think, 'k? Until we meet again, I bid you adeu(that's french for farewell, I think!).
p.s. I don't have Maddie on here because I can't find any pics or vids on the computer right now. This was just an experiment anyway...I LOVE YOU, MAD. Don't get MAD! I'm going to compile one of her later in each of her activities...Gonna be at a theater near you 'cause it'll be so long!!!!! Luv ya blog fam!

Love and Happiness,
Mark

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HELLO AND HOWDY-By Victoria

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I sucked the heads!!!!

We had Kolby & Laura over to our house a couple weeks ago for steak dinner...so last night, they had us over for Cajun Night. Kolby cooked 16 pounds of craw fish!!! I've had craw fish tails at restaurants, already peeled with rice and etouffe, but I have never peeled them myself. I wasn't too sure about sucking the heads, but I'll try anything once... it just tasted like the spicy juice their cooked in... I liked eating them, but it's alot of work, and you don't ever get full!!! But it was alot of fun... Mark made a cd of cajun music (zydeco?) , and Bullet (Mark's Marine buddy) from Corpus, stopped by as well. And then the whole neighborhood showed up when they smelled the food! We got to play with their two English bulldogs, Moe and IDK. Our little Daphne didn't like them much, I'm sure they look like monsters to her! As you can see, I took all the pictures, I didn't get my picture taken until this morning at breakfast. Laura cooked us a wonderful breakfast, and then we came on home, and Laura e-mailed me the pictures from breakfast this morning... Thank YOU Laura & Kolby!!! Thanks for having us over, and feeding us, we had a BLAST!!! We love you guys!

Maddie just sent me this video...

Economy woes... need prayers for a friend...

I hate to whine, but I need to vent... Mark has been working less and less hours... his employer hasn't laid anyone off, but all the guys are only working about a quarter-half what they were used to ... so for the last 6-9 months, Mark's checks have been horrible... he loves his job, and doesn't want to quit- we keep hoping it will pick back up...but DAAANNG- we are pinching pennies, it's so frustrating- plus he is having to go to bed SO EARLY- he's getting up at 2am now- and I miss my husband!!! Just wanting to ask for prayers... that God shows him an opportunity for another job, or his present job picks up...

I also need to ask for prayers for a friend of mine that works here at the hospital with me... she is 5 months pregnant, and just found out that her baby has some congenital defects- they have diagnosed the fetus with arthrogyprosis... prognosis is 50% of the babies die within the first year.. she is just completely devastated... an emotional wreck...please pray for her heart ... thank you blog family...

XOXOXO
~A~

Got a haircut!!!

My Mommy cut my hair, and I LOVE it!!! Thank you Mother, I love you!!!
(side-note) LOOK at my skin! OBAGI skin care line is AMAZING!!!!

Softball Fun!!!

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My Dreamy Weekend...

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This past weekend was just filled with so much fun, love, happiness, happy babies, happy husband, happy Mommy... I am overflowing... Victoria & Sofie came running up to the house Friday with their presents in hand... Sofie gave the a beautiful card she made and cut out... and her present was a sun-catcher, a glass one with beads "that one of the kids Mom's took home and melted in her oven" , it is GORGEOUS... and V made a card that had a pocket inside, and in the pocket was a packet of Zinnia seeds, and the other side said "My love for you grows & grows"... they were beaming with pride... I hung the sun-catcher in the kitchen window, and then we went out and planted our seeds along the front of the house, and V watered them... she said, "we have to get up early in the morning and watch them come up"!
Saturday, Mark and I got up early and worked in the flower beds, raking, pulling weeds, bagging sticks and leaves; the weather was perfect, and I love working in the yard... then that afternoon, we all went to Grandma Brenda's for dinner and music... there were some other kids there for mine to play with, and we all had a really great time...
Sunday morning, I woke to coffee, and Mark told me to just relax, and that he and V were going to do breakfast... so I sat on the computer for awhile, then started to get everyone ready for church. We had french toast, and bacon... powdered sugar- YUMMY- REALLY YUMMY!!!! Then we headed to Cowboy Church... there was a family group that sang for the whole service, except for when all the kids were called up front to get their lesson about helping one another, and surrounding yourself with other Godly people; they brought in a calf, and asked for a volunteer; Victoria stood right up, went right up to that calf, and the pastor asked her to make it lie on the floor; she tried and tried, smiling the whole time- she said "I need help", and then other kids were invited to come and help- Sofie ran right up there, and they all started pushing that baby down on the floor!!! Everyone was laughing and clapping- AND they didn't even get POOP on them!! This church is too cool!!! No where else can you wear boots & jeans to church and feel welcome- you can even bring your DOG!!!!
When we got home, Mad helped me clean up, and gave the sweetest card that played music; Mamu came over, and my friend Misty from 11 yrs ago that just moved back to Bowie, brought her two kids, and Mark and Sofie picked up lunch for everyone, and brought me a beautiful pot of pink flowers. Misty brought her 12 yr old girl, and 14 yr old boy and they got along with Maddie, they jumped on the trampoline and threw the football. I am just so happy and excited to have my friend back!!! And then my friend Dana surprised us with a visit later in the afternoon, and I just couldn't have had a better weekend!!!

PLAYA MIA PART II

This vid is just of us havin' fun on the big kid playground...the jumpoline(as V calls it) and the "Iceberg". The trampoline was about a 150-200 yrd swim. The Iceberg was about another 100-150 yrd swim from there. It was a blast! Two yrs ago on our honeymoon cruise, we stopped in Cozumel for the day and Bug bought me a nice silver ring that had an inner band that spun. Ironically, it ended up BACK in Cozumel. I lost it one of the times I went off of the Iceberg. We were going to get our masks and snorkels and go find it but...well, you'll have to ask her about the rest of the story! Hilarious!!!!!!! Enjoy and get ready to see what kind of party we had on the ship as well as the room and the layout of the boat. Leave comments if you like, we'd love to know what you think!

LaH,
Mark

OMG!!! This is Amy, and I just saw the video my sweet husband just posted, and feel I must apologize for the part where the camera is right UP MY BUTT!!!! GAAAWWWWW!!! How embarrassing... and I also wanted to point out at the very end of the video, listen carefully, you can hear the whales talking!!!!! SO COOL!!!!

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CHEERLEADER AMY

She's gonna kill me for this, but I thought it was worth posting. Stand by for the storm!!!!

CRUISE VIDEO PART I

Here's part one of our cruise vid. Playa Mia Part I. Enjoy and stay tuned for more cruise videos. Let us know what you think...only if it's nice!

Love and Happiness,
Mark

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Snorkeling fun...

Mamu cannot swim!!!!

Dana just e-mailed these pictures to me!!! The one of her & my Mom snorkeling kills me- it is SO CUTE!!!! Mamu was totally against going snorkeling, but Dana talked her into it- so the fact that she is actually under water is so amazing to me- the boat took them to three different reefs to explore, but Mamu only saw the first one, and she had enough!!!