On Display

Justin's Northern Traditional Native American dance regalia and Jesse's ribbon shirt are on display 

at the Falls on the Colorado Museum during their Quanah Parker exhibit.  

All laid out in a museum case! 

Falls on the Colorado Museum at night
(The old "Granite Building")

He's in the Army Now

Justin received the Generals Leadership Award during his graduation at Fort Leonard Wood.

He's In the Army Now

Justin left for Army boot camp this afternoon.  He had some great going-away gifts and celebrations before he left, though. 

Picture someone drew on the whiteboard at his work.

The card the folks at work signed for him.

Going-away party decorations.

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"Its not fruit punch its freedom punch. You don't deserve any of my delicious freedom punch."  (That was one of Justin's co-workers imitation of Justin!)

Crocheted armadillo from a friend's mom

Going away dinner: Chicken fried steak with gravy,
mashed potatoes, beans, and iced tea in a mason jar

His recruiter put in his notes that he was highly motivated and had excellent leadership skills. 

 We tested the urban legend of painting a car with less than $50 of equipment using Rustoleum paint and foam rollers on a fender of Justin's old 1950 Dodge Cornet.

The original idea for this came from a message board post here: moparts: paint job on a budget!? 

We also found some good information at the Instructables website

and an entire forum dedicated to this method - Rolled On.

We mixed Sail Blue and White to get a light blue shade.       

 Next, we sanded the bondo and rusty parts of the fender.

Then, we rolled on the first two coats of paint thinned with mineral spirits.

Here is the final coat before we did the last wetsanding and waxing.  It looks pretty good!

Justin Saves!

Justin had a couple of good saves Thursday night during his rec-league soccer game.

1000 Points of Light

Jesse and the boys hung our Christmas lights today. Randy was the brave one who got on the roof. Justin and Landon took the dizzying task of wrapping the big tree in the front yard.

Justin on Jim Zumbo

Justin makes a desperate plea for more YouTube viewers

Justin's first video blog on YouTube

6th Street

Jesse, Shelli, Justin, and his girlfriend went out on 6th Street in Austin for a while -- Justin found this sign and felt that he needed to pose for some pictures.

Jrs vs Srs

I've been catching up on housework and emails today. Things at school seem to be easing up. Powder Puff football game tonight -- helped Jesse set up the tunnel for the sr. girls to run through. Corky ran the chains on the jr's side, and Justin was the coach for the sr. girls. Also worked in the concession stand for all 4 qtrs of a playoff game for a 1A team at our stadium last night -- I was totally exhausted last night!!!!!

7-on-7 Football

The boys played 7-on-7 football in Lampasas.
Here are a couple of links to the Highlander News Stories that were done for the season:

Gridiron Relief for MF Hopeful
Mustangs Storm the Field in 7-on-7 Games

Manual Labor

Waiting on 7on7 guy to call us back. In the meantime, I returned from our 4th of July break from visiting family with some new energy. This morning (at least) I have so much I want to accomplish. AND I have the energy to do it!
Fought with Justin much of the weekend. He is getting Senioritis - and too big for his britches. Going to make a list of stuff I want to get done around the house - including the little nitpicky jobs needed to accomplish it all. My kids are fixing to do some stuff for ME for a change. I lost my entire month of June to track, GT camp, football workouts, and meetings. Time to get my house in order. I want my pool back up, and I want the yard cleaned. Yep! Gonna be some manual labor happenin'!

Rebuilding Plan

After the meeting deal last night we all got to talking and decided that my dad would be the best person for the position of head coach at our HS. The program has to be rebuilt after 4-5 years of destruction by the former admin/super that we had. I called him last night and told him that his grandsons NEEDED him. This TOWN needs him. (It needs an enema!) He and one other person that I can think of would be ideal - they both would have to come out of retirement and prove that they are teaching in a teaching field where there is a shortage. I may go to central office today and snoop out some more info and drop it in his lap this weekend. I told him last night to bring interview clothes and a tie and at least come over here and see what was up. I know he misses coaching-- he said my alma mater had called him and asked him to come coach for them --- so the idea of coming out of retirement isn't a complete shock. I spent the rest of the day sewing. Still have a couple of things left to sew and I have to clean house before we leave AND make a grocery list, buy groceries, pick up Justin's TIHA trophy and clean/pack the trailer. BEFORE 4pm!!!!!!!!!!Ok--I'm off.

I might have some energy if there weren't so many people in this house! I spent last week getting the website stuff done for Jesse's college class. I have been driving him to work and driving the kids to track every morning. Picking up the kids at 10 then taking lunch to Jesse at 12. Then I pick up Jesse at 4:30 and take the boys to weight workout at 6pm on MWF - I take the boys to 7on7 football on TTh at 4pm, pick them up at 6pm and drop Jesse off at 6pm for class.
On top of this - this week I am sewing for TIHA....God bless Justin, I love him, but every time we have a powwow he wants a complete total new outfit. I STILL don't have a jingle dress, and I still don't have a set done forJesse . Today I am sewing a vest for his traditional set. Tomorrow I will be making cuffs for his grass dance (and I assume I will be finding a way to decorate his new sneakers that he bought to turn into grass dance moccasins.
On the up side - The house isn't too dirty because I made Corky clean it since he refuses to do any TIHA regalia! BUT I have Randy and Landon coming to me every hour or so trying to get rid of popups on their computers (DUH quit downloading CRAP and you won't have this problem!!!!)
OK, rant over.
Going to get started on that vest! I guess if I get the chance to do any workout at all I can come back and edit later. I am eating better...we'll see what that does for me!

Update: 5pm and still don't have all the TIHA stuff loaded and packed.

update

Justin and Corky both went to a friend's house for a birthday party tonight (even though Corky is technically grounded and I'm frustrated that Justin's room is not clean). But I will enjoy the house having some peace & quiet - Jesse has class tonight - Randy and Landon have pretty much been just playing video games so far this summer.
Saturday the boys' had a track meet...busy busy still!