Track and Volleyball!

 Track has started.  Calissa is running the 1600 and the 800 meter races.  

 She's doing great and we're proud of her! 

 Volleyball has started as well.  Conner has a pretty good team this year!

 Setting the ball like a pro!

A new pet?

 I got home from work yesterday and was looking at my email on the computer when I noticed something moving in the backyard.  I didn't think much of it, because we have cats wander through our yard all of the time! However, when I got a closer look, I realized it was a chicken (it ended up being a rooster)! 

 I went out to get a picture of it to send to Trav and it followed me back towards the house.

It paced back and forth in front of the sliding glass door and pecked at it.  A few minutes there was a knock at the door and the neighbor was there asking me if I knew I had a chicken in my backyard.  I told her I had just realized it was there and that it had been crowing all day.  It had come into their yard under their broken fence and when her husband had chased it, it flew over the fence into our yard.  I went outside and tried to chase it out the back gate, back into the canal space where she thought it came from.  That was comical and embarrassing, but I quickly realized that it was unlikely that I would be successful until my kids came home. In the meantime, part of the Oleole family came to my rescue.  However, they cornered the rooster in a corner, but it flew over the fence into the front yard.  Now, six of us were chasing the rooster all over our yard and the neighbor's yard.  I had my laundry basket and was trying to trap it under that.  Needless to say, we were not successful and after about 45 minutes, we gave up.  I had to take Calissa to a pasta feed for track and when we got back, the rooster was nowhere to be found.  The next morning, however, it was crowing away as soon as the sun started to come up.  After a few days it made its way down the street and is now not living in my front yard!

Dance Festival

The kids had Dance Festival last weekend.  They had been practicing for about 2 months to learn all the songs for the performance.  Both Conner and Calissa participated in the "Specialty Dances" as well as the regular group numbers.  They went to practice on Saturday nights to learn the extra dances.  They learned swing, latin, waltz, disco, country, hip hop, and contemporary.  They had a great time.

 The swing number.  Calissa is in the pink skirt on the far left with her dance partner Levi.  Conner is in the front, middle. They did such a wonderful job!

Conner and his dance partner, Lillle.