New Beginnings

Orientation Night at the Junior High for Cameron. He picked up his schedule, located all of his classes, and learned how to use his locker. This year brings big changes for the Youngblood Family. Cameron enters Junior High, Caroline starts Kinder, and that means NO KIDS at home for Dusty on his off days. I sure miss being home during the week, but I wouldn't give up my weekends with the family.  

 

Caroline taking a quick picture with the Junior High Mascot, the Jaguar.

 

Cameron and his friend, Dylan

11 years

Cameron turned 11 back in June.
We celebrated with a few of his friends from the neighborhood and his nieces.
He only had a few small request for his birthday---a whipped icing cake from Kroger's, to have friends over, and LACROSSE gear.
He has been requesting to play lacrosse for over a year now...so, LACROSSE here we come!

 He nieces, Emlyn & Sydney made him a 9 foot Big Foot drawing and a Big Foot journal--it rocked--those girls are so clever!

Happy 11th Birthday Cameron!



Halloween 2012

Just a few clips from our Halloween night.  We had the other Youngblood's over for dinner and some trick or treating. It was a fun night and I'm so excited that we moved closer to the other Youngblood family.  My nieces look so stickin cute, as a pretzel M & M and a box of popcorn.  I love it! Of course, my kiddos wanted to be scary zombies. So, we went for the zombie cheerleader and football players. 
Here is the 1st scary zombie....a cheerleader...with a little sass....

 

And zombie #2

 

Zombie #3:

 

And all 3 scary zombies together:

 

And attacking their cousin before she changed into her costume...

 

Almost the entire gang. Just needed Abbi.

 



And Cameron and Jake with their school friends.

 

 

 

A.J. Foyt

Last week, we attended the Big 6 Parade and Wax Museum. All the 4th graders, had to do research about a famous person from Texas, write a paper, prepare a timeline, make up character cards to pass out (like, business cards), and prepare a costume about their famous person. Cameron, picked A.J. Foyt to document. We looked everywhere for a race car costume, but couldn't find one. So, we ended up buying one on Amazon for him. Good thing this costume can be passed down to Jake and used for a future Halloween costume. The wax museum was pretty cool. Each student had an orange sticker on their hand and when someone pressed the orange sticker the student would tell about their character and then hand out a character information card. 

Wacky Friday

It was Wacky Hair Day at the boys school today.
They paid $1 to have crazy wacky hair to help the 5th grade class raise money for their class party.
I hope everyone has a Crazy WaCkY wEEkEnd!

(Dylan, Cameron, & Jake)

seeing things a little clearer

Well, it looks like Cameron has inherited my terrible eyesight. I knew it was only a matter of time before one of the kids would need glasses.  My eye sight is awful and Dusty jokingly tells me I should go ahead and invest in a seeing eye dog. Actually, Cameron's eyes are not that bad. He recently had a physical and failed the vision test.  After an appointment at the eye doctor, we learned that he has trouble seeing out of his left eye and that his right eye has been working extra hard to make up for the blurred vision in the left eye. Cameron was happy to learn that he doesn't have to wear them all the time. He can take them off when playing sports, riding his bike, and outside playing.      

I thought it was sweet that Cameron's best friend, Dylan, showed up the next morning at our house in his glasses.  Apparently, Dylan has the same eye issue as Cameron. Cameron wasn't thrilled with wearing them to school, so Dylan came over with his glasses on to show him that being able to actually "see" things isn't so bad! 

I got my first pair of glasses in 4th grade too.  I wish I could locate a 4th grade picture of me. Now that would be site. I think I was rocking some big round old school glasses, permed hair, and big puffy bangs. I wonder if Cameron will look back 20 years from now and think his cool TMX glasses are big round and goofy?