The beginning...

The beginning of the school year has to be the best time to start blogging. Mostly because this is when I am starting. We just moved to Cedar Park, TX, which is near Austin, and now Casey's family is a little bit closer, but mine unfortunately are further away! You can keep up with me now guys when I drop off the planet for a few days!

I also have friends with Blogs, and I think if Reed and Mary Hamm can blog about me, I should be able to blog about them! Ha! Done.

Well, it is a lazy sunday afternoon, and last week was my survival test of "Can I hack it in 8th grade?" I survived! And actually the kids were WAY better behaved then at my last school. Also, I am not coaching this year, so "Hello, a little more free time."

Kyle and Jennifer Barron came to visit us last week... Oh I have missed them so. It is nice being a little bit closer so a weekend visit can be just that and not a trek across the world. It's a weird kawinkydink for those of you that do not know, Jen was my college roommate, and Kyle was Casey's. We were their only single friends, that's how we met. So, we knock out visits with both of our roommates with one stone. :) Reed and Mary hosted our weekend get together... so much fun! Reed is such a sorry loser at games though... Girls DOMINATED!

In other news, Bugsy is living with us in Austin currently, but Bowser is home with PeePaw and Granny. I miss him very much, but we were going for a divide and conquer. You see we got Bugsy in Late January/ Februaryish... and Casey then moved to Austin. So, with coaching late and being at school early the whole potty training thing had not been accomplished. Bugsy is on his way to being "a big kid now." Yay! Oh, now I dream of a yard for Bowser!

Casey is busy as ever. I like to call him Mr. Cedar Park, because he is becoming quite involved in local community activities and maybe even politics soon. He is an Ambassador for the Chamber of Commerce, he was selected for a city goverment group called "Leadership Cedar Park," he's involved in an org called Leadership LISD( he's met my school superintendent- not me), and he has a city councilman and friends in the community encouraging him to apply for a position on the Parks and Tourism board. I wonder if that would score us free tickets to Schlitterbahn in a couple of years when they are finished building. I'm really proud of him if you can't tell.

OK- That should catch us up for now... keep reading!