Here are some of Tivi's first year picture... my mom and I were sitting there one day and just decided to do then when she was in a good mood. They turned out so good!!!! have fun looking!!
Monday, October 5, 2009
Here are some pictures of Iron wood!!! sorry there's not alot of people... :) we didn't take pictures during practices and lectures so yeah have fun looking!!!
this statue is right next to the discus field, I had to take a pic!
this boys dorm is on my way to role call too I love it!!!
this is one of the many walk ways I would take in the morning to get to role call, its so pretty! :)
This is the discus that mu dad bought for me, he sanded the finnish off one side and then Stephanie Tafton Brown and Mac Wilkins signed it!! he then took it back to Uncle Andy's and covered the signatures with new finnish! they are there forever!!! thank you Dad! I love you! its one of my most prized possessions.
this was my favorite building on campus! it was observatory, and the green house building. you could see some of the coolest plants and flowers thru the windows, but I couldn't get to close cause they were doing some construction around the edges. darn-narn it!
this is the knarly looking hammer cage, its right beside the discus field, thats where I spent most of half of my day practicing. it was awesome!!
this is the place where m room was, it was pretty sweet, my room was towards the back which was really nice actually.
this is my room at Iron Wood camp, my room mates bed is right behind me, she was awesome! her name was Haley, she was from southern california.Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Howdy Ya'll!!!! its me!! your one and only Tessica!!! my mother hasn't said anything so I have decided to tell you how my year has been.... it was fabulous!!! I have so many things to tell ya'll!!I'll tell Ya'll list style... :)
- first off - I placed for the veterans of America writing contest, I meet some amazing veterans thru the whole experience, it was awesome!!
- I got a part in the school play, Soda shop angel. I was a 50's bad girl named Star, I was kinda mean at first, but I turned out good in the end and I got the guy :) it was fun and I meet some amazing people that I wouldn't have if I hadn't have come out of my comfort zone, and because of it, I got to know the play director better and I am now one of the drama department apprentices. I love it! also, since then I have been in two other school productions.
- this year I took choir as one of my elective classes. The only kind of singing I had ever done before this was when I was in the shower or driving the car...by myself! so when I had the opportunity to take the class I said sure why not. well, soon after the first semester, my director decided that we were ready to start competing, I was all like wait! I thought this was just a class! well my group put together an amazing fundraiser, singing valentines! and we raised almost $500 when we only needed $100 to enter in to the festival! when festival finally came it was crazy!! there were some groups the that had almost 50 people and we had only 9!! and I'm not going to lie, we looked kinda silly up on those huge risers. but when we started singing man no one was laughing anymore!! out of 2 days and 44 choir only 3 superiors were handed out and we received one of them!! I was kinda proud of us after that :).... well we were soon asked if we would sing at school events, sport events and even local nursing homes. and for the last concert of the year I got to sing a solo, which was the coolest way to end the year in choir.... I cant wait for next year!
-At my school we have what are called May Awards, which are a BIG DEAL. no joke. May Awards are in May (kinda obvious) and the whole freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes have a night were every student gets up and speaks about what was the most educational experience they had that year, every year about 350 - 400 people show up and you get graded by the principle :) and at the end the teachers give awards to students who have excelled in their class studies, and there is an award for every class, Math, English, and so on and so forth... yeah its a big deal. well I gave my speech on my experience in choir. It was the best speech I have ever given! I got an A+ on my speech and to my surprise I got awarded in my Career Studies class! I was shocked! it was pretty cool!
- I have been in track since I was a freshman as a shotputer and discus thrower and my school started its track program my freshman so I was learning as I went because I didn't have a coach. but this year has been amazing! I qualified for the state track meet in shot put. And my team won the district meet! boys and girls! when i got to state I didn't place, but i have made it a goal to place next year no matter what :).But the our boys won state for 1A schools i was so proud of them!! anyway at the qualifying meet for state I meet a coach from a northern Idaho school that told me about a camp called Ironwood Throwers development Camp, located in Spokane Washington at Witworth university. It is the nations largest and best throwing camp with the some of the the best high school, college and professional coaches in the U.S. and if you wanted to get better at any throwing event that that's the place to go. the only problem was it was almost $600 not including transportation fees. but this coach had watched me throw and told me that he thought that I had good potential and that I should apply for one of the 12 scholarships offered for the camp. after that state track meet, I decided to apply, why not right? about a week later after sending in my application papers I call a call from my mom when I was at a play practice, I got a scholarship!! I ran around waving my arms on stage telling the whole world!! I was so excited!! soon after school was out I was on my way to Washington, with my Dad who got to come with me so he could train to be my coach. I was one of the coolest things that I had ever done! there were kids and coaches from all over the country even Canada! I got to meet 2 Olympic gold medalist - Stephanie Tafton Brown, Beijing 2008 and Mac Wilkins Montreal 1976 - and the U.S. woman's shotput record holder Ramona Pegal. and I got to work with both Stephanie and Mac when I was at Discus Practice! they had us going from 7:30 in the morning to 10:30 at night! I had two 3 hour practice sessions during the day and then another three hours of lectures in the evenings and it was from Sunday to Friday...it was so intense but I loved it! so did my dad, he loves sports ad this was perfect for him! the coaches were amazing and I made some great friends, it was so hard saying goodbye to my coaches. but I hope I get to see them next year and I hope I get to tell them how I placed at state! :) that is my ultimate goal! I have improved so much, and now Tru is saving his money so he can go with me next year.
Well my Friends, I'm sure you have concluded that is has been a great year for me and I'm hoping to keep it going! :) I am unable post any pictures now, but I wont let you down! it will happen soon! I love you all and I will talk to you soon!!
love,
Tessica
- first off - I placed for the veterans of America writing contest, I meet some amazing veterans thru the whole experience, it was awesome!!
- I got a part in the school play, Soda shop angel. I was a 50's bad girl named Star, I was kinda mean at first, but I turned out good in the end and I got the guy :) it was fun and I meet some amazing people that I wouldn't have if I hadn't have come out of my comfort zone, and because of it, I got to know the play director better and I am now one of the drama department apprentices. I love it! also, since then I have been in two other school productions.
- this year I took choir as one of my elective classes. The only kind of singing I had ever done before this was when I was in the shower or driving the car...by myself! so when I had the opportunity to take the class I said sure why not. well, soon after the first semester, my director decided that we were ready to start competing, I was all like wait! I thought this was just a class! well my group put together an amazing fundraiser, singing valentines! and we raised almost $500 when we only needed $100 to enter in to the festival! when festival finally came it was crazy!! there were some groups the that had almost 50 people and we had only 9!! and I'm not going to lie, we looked kinda silly up on those huge risers. but when we started singing man no one was laughing anymore!! out of 2 days and 44 choir only 3 superiors were handed out and we received one of them!! I was kinda proud of us after that :).... well we were soon asked if we would sing at school events, sport events and even local nursing homes. and for the last concert of the year I got to sing a solo, which was the coolest way to end the year in choir.... I cant wait for next year!
-At my school we have what are called May Awards, which are a BIG DEAL. no joke. May Awards are in May (kinda obvious) and the whole freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes have a night were every student gets up and speaks about what was the most educational experience they had that year, every year about 350 - 400 people show up and you get graded by the principle :) and at the end the teachers give awards to students who have excelled in their class studies, and there is an award for every class, Math, English, and so on and so forth... yeah its a big deal. well I gave my speech on my experience in choir. It was the best speech I have ever given! I got an A+ on my speech and to my surprise I got awarded in my Career Studies class! I was shocked! it was pretty cool!
- I have been in track since I was a freshman as a shotputer and discus thrower and my school started its track program my freshman so I was learning as I went because I didn't have a coach. but this year has been amazing! I qualified for the state track meet in shot put. And my team won the district meet! boys and girls! when i got to state I didn't place, but i have made it a goal to place next year no matter what :).But the our boys won state for 1A schools i was so proud of them!! anyway at the qualifying meet for state I meet a coach from a northern Idaho school that told me about a camp called Ironwood Throwers development Camp, located in Spokane Washington at Witworth university. It is the nations largest and best throwing camp with the some of the the best high school, college and professional coaches in the U.S. and if you wanted to get better at any throwing event that that's the place to go. the only problem was it was almost $600 not including transportation fees. but this coach had watched me throw and told me that he thought that I had good potential and that I should apply for one of the 12 scholarships offered for the camp. after that state track meet, I decided to apply, why not right? about a week later after sending in my application papers I call a call from my mom when I was at a play practice, I got a scholarship!! I ran around waving my arms on stage telling the whole world!! I was so excited!! soon after school was out I was on my way to Washington, with my Dad who got to come with me so he could train to be my coach. I was one of the coolest things that I had ever done! there were kids and coaches from all over the country even Canada! I got to meet 2 Olympic gold medalist - Stephanie Tafton Brown, Beijing 2008 and Mac Wilkins Montreal 1976 - and the U.S. woman's shotput record holder Ramona Pegal. and I got to work with both Stephanie and Mac when I was at Discus Practice! they had us going from 7:30 in the morning to 10:30 at night! I had two 3 hour practice sessions during the day and then another three hours of lectures in the evenings and it was from Sunday to Friday...it was so intense but I loved it! so did my dad, he loves sports ad this was perfect for him! the coaches were amazing and I made some great friends, it was so hard saying goodbye to my coaches. but I hope I get to see them next year and I hope I get to tell them how I placed at state! :) that is my ultimate goal! I have improved so much, and now Tru is saving his money so he can go with me next year.
Well my Friends, I'm sure you have concluded that is has been a great year for me and I'm hoping to keep it going! :) I am unable post any pictures now, but I wont let you down! it will happen soon! I love you all and I will talk to you soon!!
love,
Tessica
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Caught...not in the cookie jar but on the computer.....
Oh hiiii Mom!.....What ? Guitar practice?.....Ummmm Yeah!.......Homework?.....Ummm sure!........ the animals fed? Right! It's all done I promise!!!!!!! (Yeah right! )
How many of you have heard this from your kids? Wish they thought their chores were as fun and interesting as playing games!
How many of you have heard this from your kids? Wish they thought their chores were as fun and interesting as playing games!
FREINDS!!!
Oh how they like each other.......Bella has been great with her....she is really careful with Tivi and only does a driveby lick once in a while! The feelings are mutual-- Tivi loves to laugh at Bella and tries to give her "Loves"...... Bella is enjoying Tivi's food donations...She has quickly learned to be under the high chair at meal time.......
Having fun with the camera....
Here are some pictures that we took to send down to our kids in Haiti...... another trip has come and gone with us only be able to send down a package. We feel like we are gettting closer (recognize "closer" is used loosely) to the time they will get to come home. We still could be a year out-- but because we don't know for sure when they will get to come home, and money is so tight-- we are saving so we can bring the home when the time comes........ So I send down packages for them with Corrie and Lindsay who do the updates. Trying to put all your love into a gallon sized zip lock bag can be a huge challenge! I felt like my mom probably did everytime she had to pack it all into the White trailer and the brown horse trailer! I use every square inch of that one gallon bag!!!! I try to make it exciting for them- something for them to look forward to...but I always send two things....pictures of us and a lotion that has a special essential oil in it that I would rub the kids down with every night when I was down there.... I hope the scent will remind them of sweet memeories of when we were together. I will post new pictures when I get my update from Corrie...
Any ways here are some pictures we took for them! The kids were really having a fun time of it!
and really!!!! could the bug be any cuter?
I think not!!!!
I think not!!!!
Did you look outside?
Golly have you looked outside lately? Everything is white! I think they call it snow....It looks really fun I am going to ask mommy if I can go play in it.......
Tru's Birthday- the big 14...
Tru had his birthday last week, we celebrated it on his birthday (12th) as a family but then he took a bunch of his friends paint ballin' on the weekend (thanks to Uncle Ty for coming along and helping Travis with it!)
Life can get messy!!!!!
Life gets messy! I have been learning about this food thing lately......it can kinda get everywhere and then mom comes after me with a washcloth (waaaa)! I try to put stuff in my mouth but not all of it makes it in, worse yet some comes back out! This is alot of work... but I am sure liking the practice!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
So I came up for air and discovered it was January!
So it has been a while since I have written something- I have been glued to Andy's Post since the beginning of December praying for little Conner. I have been spending time with Travis while he was home for Christmas and pretty much that is about it! I decided to really take a laid back approach this season and I have to say that it is highly recommended! My kids had about three weeks off a Christmas- (they go to a charter school with a modified year round schedule) and we had grand plans of accomplishing many a things on mommas to do list- and each respective child had their own ideas of how they would like to spend their free time--- not much of those lists were completed but I think that we were very successful at enjoying the holidays and rested up to tackle school once again! So to catch you up to speed I am just posting a smattering of pictures so you can see what we have been up to....enjoy!
Airica
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Oh the hair!
this is our dear tivi.....look at the fro!!! the hair is a favorite :)
