Mirror Images

I have a twin brother. We look exactly alike and always have. We were dressed alike until we were in the 6th grade (i think). We both wear glasses, we both are athletic and competitive, we are both 6'2" and weigh around 210. Up until our second year in college we did everything together for the most part. We went to the same church, the same college, we were in a spirit club together, but we never roomed together in college (we were sweetmates one year). Before each of us were married we were best friends, now our wives are our best friends, but we are our second best friends. We aren't to different except he likes the LA Lakers and I like the Boston Celtics, he likes the Washington Redskins (or any other team besides Dallas) and I love the Dallas Cowboys, what is wrong with that boy. Not only do we look alike we talk alike, we even laugh the same, sometimes we even think alike, you know what they say, "Great Minds Think Alike". It has always been fun being a twin because you know there is someone in the world just like you. You are bonded together since conception. We do have a lot of differences too but the most important difference is, I AM BETTER LOOKING!!!

Brain's vs. Brawn

I sit here trying to think about what I want to blog about and nothing comes to mind. That is not unusual for me. I am not a deep thinker. I am pretty laid back and take things as they come most of the time. In my family Kim is the brain's and I am the good looking one. She is so smart I am blessed. And guess what, my kids are all smart as well, thank you Kim. Don't get me wrong, I am not stupid, (I heard that), but I was not an over achiever in school either, (let's just say I went to college for the FUN part? Kim went to school for the education, which see is still going to school for the education (she will graduate in Dec. 2010 with her Doctorate) and she got me in the process. Now Wil he went to HSU his first year to play football, which he did really well, but transferred back to Wayland to be closer to home. He is very social but he is very smart as well. He really doesn't have to study but he gets the job done. If he would apply himself he would really get the job done. Daniel is my thinker. He is very smart, I think he has a genius IQ, but Daniel is not as sociable but wants to be, he has all the skills but needs to practice them more and we are working on that. Steffanee is well let's just say she is a girl and everything that comes with that. She is pretty and smart, (like her daddy, I heard that), no. 4 in her class, national honors society, Ms. social butterfly, athletic, you get the picture. Jeffrey is our male social butterfly, he has more friends I think than I do (and I have a ton of friends), but he is friends with anyone that he comes in contact with from age 4 to 90. He is very smart as well and athletic. He doesn't have to push himself to study like I did. He finally got his driver's license in January and has been driving the 57 chevy to school, he is Mr. Popular. So you see all my kids are individuals, thank goodness. It makes for an adventure of a lifetime and I am enjoying the ride. I just finished filling out steffanee's college application to WTA&M in Canyon and one of the questions was how many household members will be in college in 2010, I will have 4 students in college until Dec., Kim, Wil Daniel and Steffanee; all I have got to say about that is SEND MONEY!!!!! Have a great day.

Hair, It just doesn't matter!!!

Hair, have you ever had that battle at home with your kids. "You will not wear your hair long as long as you live in my house". Kim and I decided a long time ago that hair would not be a battle we would fight in our house. All of our kids are very independent and very different from one another. Wil has had long hair, no hair, a mohawk (orange), a full beard, a gotee, no beard and now he has four tatoos and two lip piercings and ear rings, Daniel grew his hair down to the middle of his back in high school and then cut it off and donated it to "Locks of Love", no tatoos yet but he does have ear rings. Steffanee has always had long hair (no big battle there) and Jeffrey has also had no hair, short hair, long hair and now he stands his straight up on top. Then there are Kim and I. Kim has had long hair, short hair, shorter hair and now she wears it spicky, and me, I used to have long hair and now some will say I have no hair but I actually do, unless you are 8' tall and can see the top of my head, as my children and Kim will tell me, "you have a bald spot", whatever!!! So in raising your kids I say pick your battles otherwise you will be fighting all the time.

My First Posting on My Blog

Since my life tends to evolve around my children I will srite about Jeffrey and Steffanee's b-ball games tonight. We went to Floydada, Whirlwind country, (A whirlwind is a small tornado). The girls played didn't play as well as they could have and ended up losing 43-51, just couldn't getit back past the 6 to 7 point edge. Steffanee played a good game shooting 5-11 but 2-5 free throws. Even though the stats do not indicate it she did play hard as did all the girls. Jeffrey played well also. The boys team has been struggling lately with not playing hard during games or even practice. So the coach called them out publicly calling them lazy. It made a lot of paernts mad. He invited paernts to come to practice to see how lazy they were. I have gone to practice every day this week. It helped because the kids practiced harder this week and the coach coached better this week (accoding to the kids). Everyone in practice stepped up their game and it showed tonight on the basketball court. Even tough we lost 38-54 the game was a lot closer that the score. The boys picked up their game and the coach picked up his game as well. Jeffrey went 4-8 shooting and 0-1 free throws, 9 rebounds. It was a good night even though we lost both games. Keep the faith, sometimes it is all we have.