Marketing ideas for Steve Jobs

   Damn Apple their products are just so useful!

Fireman!

This week the Lake Travis firefighters and firetruck visited the school. It was very exciting for the toddlers to see them up-close. We always see them go by, but seeing the firefighters put their uniform on, get in the firetruck, and touch the firetruck was a great experience for our Raccoons. I wish we could have taken more pictures, but it was difficult to do when you have 15 toddlers exploring a firetruck :)  If you want to see some  images of this visit click here. 
password "raccoons"
 

Good Habits

We try to meet at least every other week for a lunch date with "Pika" grandpa. Miss C loves her Pika. This was a picture of Miss C feeding Pika cookies at maggianos.

Campbell's First Hair Cut

Last week Campbell had her first haircut! It had grown a little wild and unruly.

Before: wild hair

(thats our at home quickie pedicure)

 She made a friend & they played Wii

And no trip to the salon is complete with out a new bow! Campbell picked this new purple one! I was so proud!

It's Fall and I'm Falling behind!

Where oh where does the time go this time of year? When it's 105 outside I can't pass the time fast enough now it feels wonderful out and I have a new pep in my step and there I go falling behind!
Fall family pictures need to be planned and taken, decorations put up, Raccoons class basket planned, fall festival at SITH staffed, trip to the pumpkin farm, football season and of course I'm so behind on blogging! I promised myself I would write one post a week (on average) this first year. I am heading to Chicago on Wednesday morning for a little work project. I got to thinking and this will be the first time I have travled with out Trey in 3 1/2 years and then it hit me... Trey will be alone with Campbell for 3 days! he has done an overnight alone before but never 3 days!!!! Panic is setting in!  I better get caught up!

Amber

Why I can't Make mom friends

http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7148143/

If your a mom or plan to be you have to watch this! The sad part is it's totally realistic! 

and then watch when you try to hide from the "Perfect moms"

Texas v Texas and the history of Hook'em Horns

Since last week was a HUGE game for the horns I SUCK for not blogging the recap till now! 

Last Saturday the horns took on our rival Texas Tech. The is also a little friendly neighborly rivalry. Our neighbors papered our house the last time Tech one so I am happy to report we returned the favor this year by hanging Bevo flags in our dining room windows which forces them to see them overtime they look out their kitchen windows! I love our neighbors! 

Texas 24 Tech 14

So I'll  say it now...
HOOK'EM HORNS




The History of Hook'em Horns

University of Texas at Austin cheerleader Harley Clark knew what he was going to teach football fans at a 1955 pep rally was going to catch on faster than poodle skirts and leather jackets. It had to. After all, the Texas A&M Aggies' "Gig 'em" gesture had been around for years.
Clark sold the student body on the symbolic approximation of the horns of Longhorn mascot Bevo and, thus, began the "Hook 'em Horns" hand signal.
The salute quickly took its place beside the university traditions of singing The Eyes of Texas and lighting the Tower orange.
Fellow student Henry Pitts, who had come up with the Longhorn sign during an inspired game of shadow casting, had shown Clark the sign three days before the Texas Christian University game.
At the Gregory Gym pep rally for that game, Clark showed everyone how to make the Horns hand sign and then proclaimed it to be used from that time forward. By the thousands, the university faithful extended their pinkies and index fingers toward heaven.
"A lot of my friends thought it would be too corny, but I thought it was perfect," said Clark in a recent interview. "Everyone walked out of Gregory Gym that night crazy with it."
The next day at the game, Clark watched the "Hook 'em Horns" gesture surge around the stadium from one side to the other. "TCU had a fine team," he said. "We had to make up in spirit what we lacked on the football field."
In the mid-1950s, Clark was head cheerleader at the university, a position that was elected by the student body.
"It was second only in importance to the Texas governor," he laughed. "I loved the university so much I stayed for nine years (earning undergraduate and master's degrees in government and a law degree)."
A major influence on his life was the late historian and university Professor Walter Prescott Webb.
A retired state district judge, Clark now lives in Dripping Springs, where he grows flowers and vegetables.
He was the judge who ruled in 1987 the state's system of public school finance was unconstitutional because it discriminated against students in property-poor districts. When he hung up his robes in 1989, Clark joined the Austin office of the Houston-based law firm of Vinson &Elkins for 10 years.
He remains connected to the university through the Friar Society, Tejas Club, the Ex-Students' Association and the Cowboys Alumni group.
Clark still is introduced at university events as the person who introduced the "Hook 'em" sign. At the recent 2001 Gone to Texas event for new students, Clark recalled the birth of the gesture to the crowd:
"Our team, the band and the cheerleaders were on the stage at Gregory Gym. After conducting the regular pep rally, I got the crowd quiet and began explaining to them: 'You know how the Aggies have the "Gig 'Em" thumbs-up hand sign (doing it as I spoke). I do not know of any other college with a hand signal. But it is time we had one, too.'"
And, as they had done 46 years before, a roar went up from the crowd and everyone happily and friskily waved "Hook 'em Horns."