Sugar Crash

Easter Egg Hunt K-Family Style.

Sprinkler time.....

It's Good Friday, everyone knows it is Good Friday, I am not going to post anything, many of the blogs on my sidebar have some excellent Holy Week/Good Friday prayers and articles. Pretty much anything anyone else writes is head and shoulders over anything I could come up with or copy and paste.

Instead I am posting a cute video sent to Chris by a co-worker. Not very Good Fridayesque, I know, I know.

This takes the cake......

our political representatives say ignorant things *all* the time, the vast majority suffer from 'foot in mouth disease'. This really takes the cake. Kudos to the Admiral (and everyone else in the gallery) for not bursting out laughing although the Amd. did smile. Listen carefully around 1:20.
Edited to add: It is being reported that Rep. Johnson suffers from Hepatitis C. That is a shame, it can be a devastating illness. If his cognitive abilities are being affected to the point that he is unable to grasp any longer basic concepts and principles such as 'islands don't tip over from overpopulation' I think it would be in the best interest of Rep. Johnson's health, the people he represents and the committees he serves on and votes on, if he were to resign.

Wildflowers.

Texas is hot. Texas is often very dry. We have lots of poisonous critters and plants that sting but...... if we have a wet winter and somewhat moderate early spring, we are blessed with this for a few weeks:





It's like living in a Monet painting.....but with men in cowboy hats instead of top hats :D

P.S. Yes, Carol a couple of those are of your front field.

Elem OM Long Term Solution

Our little elem OM team won the Long Term portion of the Regional Tournament but will not be advancing to State. :-( Here is their Regionals performance. They did a GREAT job and we are all very proud of them.

Watch.This.Movie.

"Taking Chance" is a film of overwhelming emotional power, and consider: we weep for a man we never meet, whose face we never see, whose actions and attitudes are only learned secondhand through the memories of those that knew him well. PFC Chance Phelps remains distant to us, unknowable; he could be any of the thousands of names on the casualty rosters, who overwhelm us with their numbers but deserve to be honored one by one.

The film's power is even more impressive in that it earns such a deep reaction yet tells such a simple story. There is no melodrama, no action, no surprises, no conflict at all, except for the personal doubts of its main character. It is an unadulterated account of a quiet journey. Straightforward, unembellished.

I can't tell you how or if this movie will move you or what you will take away from it. All I can say, it is probably the best movie about the military I have ever seen. It is not pro or anti anything, military, the Iraq war, conservative or liberal etc....it is not about politics. It is about the men and women who serve, be it in combat, behind a desk or in a mortuary and about the citizens of this country.