I am a lame blogger lately, but even so I figure I need to get some of these pictures posted on the family blog because we have had some interesting happenings around here.
Baylie was nominated by Coach Stan to be the Awesome Athlete of the Month for the Harbison Tennis Club through the USTA. She was mentioned in a newsletter, received a certificate and best of all - got a $10 gift certificate to Chick-fil-a. It burned a hole in her pocket until we finally used it to take the family to dinner earlier this week.
The school had a Read-a-Thon fund raiser, which is actually a fund raiser I was happy to support. Any child that raised over $100 got entered into a drawing for a mini iPad. I mentioned it on facebook and the kids both raised way more than I had imagined. They prayed that they would win the iPad and I tried to prepare them for the fact that they probably wouldn't. But then, Jalen won! I couldn't believe it. It was presented to him by my friend Esther - the PTA president.
He was really great about sharing it with Baylie. Plus she made sure he realized that he only read a lot of minutes because she read to him.
Jalen's luck kept on going as he was selected as the kindergarten goal setter for the week. Basically that meant he was selected as the special student. We made a little poster to tell some things about him and David went to the school and read to his class. He loved being the center of attention and tried to use it as an excuse to order the rest of us around.
We decided to take Elder Durrant's advice and start "ponderizing" a scripture each week. We are focusing on scriptures about Christ in an effort to help the kids feel closer to Him as we approach Christmas.
Last night David and I chaperoned a youth dance. We went as Bellatrix Lestrange and Voldemort.
Jalen has started t-ball. It is such a riot. There is no rhyme or reason to it, but it is so much fun. He looks adorable in his uniform.
Life is pretty good at the Batchelor Pad.
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