Fun in the snow

Sara had a Winterguard Competition in Church Hill, Tennessee this weekend. (Spin Club took 3rd place in their division.) It was about a 3 hour drive so we decided to spend the night after the competition was over. We awoke Sunday morning to a Winter wonderland.

Before and After

Sara is getting braces this week. Her orthodontist says she'll probably have them for about 2 years and that it shouldn't be too difficult or too painful (except for our checkbook) to align her teeth. So here's the before picture. I'll add the after picture on Thursday (if she feels up to it). She has been good about it so far - no complaining or anything. She knows it's the right thing to do and she's ready to do it. She's a beautiful girl with or without braces.

I see it as one more sign that I'm about to be the mother of a teenager!

Bad Blogger

Okay, it's now February and I haven't written a thing since Christmas. Bad Blogger, I know. So let me catch you up on what went on with the Camps during January.

• We rang in the new year at home.
• I had a stomach bug, but thankfully no one else got it.
• We finished up the first semester at school.
• We had a snow day with a microscopic amount of snow, but we got to watch the inauguration so it wasn't all bad.
• I got a student teacher. Sara started taking French and Family Consumer Science (Home Ec). Nothing changed for Owen at school.
• Sara's Upward basketball games started. She still loves the competition, but sometimes has to miss when she has a Winterguard show.
• Sara had a Winterguard Preview show at Byrnes. ALL the grandparents came out to see her. She felt so special.
• Sara had her first CIPA Winterguard show. All three Byrnes units did excellently. They looked pretty and did a fabulous job!
• Owen signed up for CFC spring soccer. Practices begin this week. Games begin soon.
• Daniel is playing basketball on Monday nights with HopePoint.

Basically we are booked Monday-Thursday with some sort of practice or game and Saturdays with games and shows. That's why I've not been blogging like I should. Well, that and the addictive thing that is facebook which seems to draw me in whenever I have a moment on the computer. Hopefully, I'll do better in February and even post some pictures of all this chaos.