August 28th, 2009

Wanted to share a few pictures from tonight's demo team practice. This is his second practice and he did the back to back demos last week so it's still very new to him. Tonight they did things alot differently than last week and it was so fun to watch. Maria wanted them to work on their splits and I am sure that before tonight, Chance didn't even know he could do a split, but he surprised us all and owned it! I'm so proud of him.

So here are the pictures and a video I took with my phone (which explains the poor quality, next week I will take the video camera or something else)

This is one of his first attempts at doing it.


Then later on after about the 20th time or so lol.


And here's the video. Chance is in the front and in the middle. It takes him a little bit to get in position but he finally gets it down once he realizes what's about to happen haha.

Quick post

Posting this here for my parents to be able to see the video since my mom is dragging her behind at making a Facebook page. (HINT MOM)

August 9th, 2009

I've been kind of bad about updating this but there hasn't been a whole lot going on really. Things are finally going to start getting busy though. Chance starts school in a couple of weeks. Registration is this week, so hopefully everything goes well with that. Some days he is really looking forward to school and other days he says he doesn't want to go back. But usually those are the days when I am trying to get him to write his letters, or something like that. He's excited about making new friends though. I think we're about all set in the clothes and school supplies department. He might need a couple more pairs of shorts, and some thermal shirts to wear under his short sleeves when it gets colder, but there's no need for those now. Well, except the shorts. We're probably missing some stuff off of the supply list as well, but we bought a bunch of stuff and just hope he can use it since his school is in no hurry to put out a list it would seem.
I am also going back to school. The culinary thing wasn't working out with my schedule and Chance's schedule. So I had to opt for a different major that had more flexible classes. But it's finally all worked out. My financial aid is all taken care of, my schedule is good to go, I've gotten my supplies that I think I will need and I've started brushing up on my pre algebra some lol. I bombed the math part of the placement test, so I have to start with math 0301. Wasn't as bad as it could have been, since I don't have to take math 0300. I'm excited about going back I think. Jobs are limited in the area, especially if you don't speak Spanish, and with Chance being in school, it's hard to just stay home. I like being able to volunteer in his class, and go to all of his school things, so hopefully I can still do that. I was hoping to do school 3x a week, but they cancelled one of the classes I orignally signed up for which messed up everything. So I had to redo my entire schedule. So now i'm going five days a week, but only have one fifty minute class on mondays, wednesdays and fridays. That kind of sucks, but everything I was signing up for was already full. So now I know to do it earlier.

Tomorrow I need to go to the school to officially change my major, and get into the bookstore so I can get the isbn's from the books I need. No way am I buying them from the school. Way overpriced even for the used.

So that's pretty much it for now. John starts his combative class this week which he is excited about. Will be weird having him gone every day this week. But it only lasts a week so he'll be here for Chance's first day of school I think.