What a week!!! We started off with a bang and ended with a bang. Alex is in full swing with Drivers-ed. She is right in the middle of state cup soccer and she is defiantly a full-fledged teenager ☺ Three days a week she leaves the house at 7:20 am and get home at 9:30 pm. (very long days) Kiara received another award this week from school. She was chosen to attend a special breakfast on Friday 10.31.08 for being an outstanding student. She was pretty excited. As you all know I am in love with the “Twighlight series”. I have read them all twice and now listened to them twice as well. Alex…well we can’t even count how many times she has read them. ☺ However, Rhett and Kiara started a few weeks back and it kind of took over all our free time. Sunday night at 8:30 they finally finished listening to the series on CD ☺ Oh yea…baby! They were both so into it! Kiara wanted to listen to while she got ready she ran up the hill after school to push play and we could not go anywhere in the car without turning it on. She enjoyed it so much she is already to chapter 7 in Twighlight for the second time. ☺ She is just as addicted as Alex and I. Rhett drives thirty minutes to and from work and because cell phones don’t work out here very well and the selection on the radio is horrible he managed to keep up with Kiara’s rigorous pace pretty well. (yes we did “get” to listen during dinner a few times as well)! NOW HE CAN FINALLY TALK TO ME ABOUT THEM AND HE REALLY ENJOYED THEM AS WELL…I DON’T THINK HE HAS READ A BOOK THAT WAS NOT ORTHOPEDICS RELEATED IN…I DON’T KNOW 10 YEARS! ☺ This past week we traveled to Statesville, North Carolina. Alex stated State cup and her team is doing really well so far. The first game they tied 0 to 0. She played very good and had three shoots on goal. The second game we left early to make it to Kiara’s game and they won 6 to 1 and she said she had several shoots on goal in that game as well. She is playing fantastic soccer and gaining a lot of confidence in herself. Kiara had a game in Apex and before the game I had to get after her to be more aggressive…she had been being very timid. So she came out with a bang. ☺ Within the first minute of the game she had already scored. However, in the third minute she was in the box and about to score again when she was fowled and received her first concussion ☹ Her team won 5 to 3 and she still has a headache and her neck hurts. I am sure she will milk this one for several days…she is Kiara after all! So…all in all a very crazy week! The VERY POSSITIVE NOTE IS THAT NOW MY WHOLE FAMILY LOVES TWIGHT ☺

Toys for Tots

Our neighbor bought the house next to him and has turned it into a woodshop. Every year he does a "Toys for Tots" project and the girls were very excited to participate this year. He made these darling wood horses and invited the neighborhood over to help paint/design them. It was a lot of fun and they were able to use their creativity to design some awesome toys for kids on Christmas. Kiara designed everything from a fun heart design horse to a very interesting Picasso looking horse. Alex was a little more meticulous and designs some very traditional fun stick ponies any girl would love to have ☺. It was a fun morning and they were very excited to help out some less fortunate kids.

The Hodricks came in town for a conference and Duke sporting weekend ☺ Rhett and Kiara went to the blue and white scrimmage for the Duke basketball team and then we all meet up for the Duke vs Miami football game. It was a fun “Duke” day and now we can say we are true supporters of the Tar Heels and the Blue Devils ☺

Tar-Utes

We have been to a few UNC football games and they have been so much fun. The group we tailgate with are amazing the Bolo’s, Bagley’s, & Mehawks. They welcome you in like you are family. They are so cute with the girls and we have really had an amazing time. Scott gave us a new name…we are the official “Tar-Utes” ☺

Plus you should see my girls throw a football ☺ They are so dang cute and good!

Alex and Kiara

Kiara, Shauna & Alex (we had a 2o min delay...the lights went out)

tailgate group

Alex & Shauna

Work life

I must say that things have been very crazy for us. I thought moving across the country I would not be as busy. We didn’t know as many people, I wasn’t coaching two teams, I was going to be working at home, and the list goes on! However, I have learned that I was so very wrong to assume such an idea. Anyone who thinks working at home would be a good thing, I am here to tell you that you are wrong. I have never had to work so hard! I don't know if it is because I only have one phone line, or that everything is done via applications portal, but I truly work 10 to12 hours a day. Now I do have to run kids to soccer and school during that, but I pretty much have my phone glued to my ear with "spine" patients. Oh my I hope I never have any back problems because these people as not very nice and.........they are crybabies and all want drugs!!!!! :) Plus being out here I have to miss lunch with the girls and that in its self is a bad thing ☺ However, I love my job and I happy to still be working with awesome co-workers and Doctors. They have been so amazing. One co-worker named Heather sends us care packages and I can't even tell you how happy the girls get. Kiara has to wait for 30 min until Alex gets home to open it and you would think I am torturing her with this act. I have been blessed with amazing people in my life :) (thanks guys I love you all) My doctors included, they call me almost everyday to make sure everything is ok and we are all on the same page......they are extremely amazing!!!!





Kiara & Alex-care package...thanks Heather :)

Bunko...only in a Small town can you have this much fun!

I have been laughing all day :) My old Bunko club sent me a CD (thanks Heidi) of last club. It was a Bunko to remember, one for the books. As I looked at the pictures I was laughing right out loud. They were having so much fun and they took several pictures to document and send to me. Heather T. even dedicated her favorite song to me....thanks Heather. You guys are AWESOME! I wish I could have been there with you!