And the winner is....

Lauren!
She breaks the two year streak of Derek winning!


Thank you, Louisville, for winning it all and helping me to beat Dan. Because really all that matters is that I beat Dan. :)

District track meet

Last track meet of the season.

Derek and the shot.

Lauren running 100M hurdles.
She worked hard all season and qualified to run at this last meet.
Super proud of her.

Derek and the discus.

You can see the discus up to the right.

Lauren running 300M hurdles.
She learned she was running around 2 this afternoon.
She had never run it before but stepped up to help the team.

Our Willow Wood athletes.

A trip to Space Center/NASA

Arriving at the Space Center. We came by car, not space shuttle.

Waiting in line for the red tour. This is a great picture of Grandma!

This is a great picture of Derek.

On the tram.

Great picture of Dan!

Touring the astronaut training facility.

SOYUZ is currently how astronauts go to and from the International Space Station. Russian owned, the US rents seats for $65 million. I want to say per trip, but don't quote me.

Orion

Good looking family.

Black curtained area is where things are worked on/presented that are not public knowledge.

Iron Man's cousin.

Dan at Rocket Park

Lauren. The kid on the right is in about 10 of our pictures. He really liked getting his picture taken.

Grandpa.

Grandma, Grandpa, and Lauren.

Lauren looks tiny compared to this!

We found Dan and Derek.

The boy and me.

Back inside at the Space Center. A blurry Derek tries on a helmet.

Lauren really does look good in everything.

Hello, Spock.

Posing at the podium that JFK stood at while giving his famous speech on the race to space. Cool!
 

First woman president?

Moon rocks.

Moon pooper scooper.
Just kidding. It's just a large scoop.

The guy floating in the left hand corner caught me by surprise.

And of course, no day spent learning about space would be complete without some reference to Angry Birds.

Houston rodeo!

If I don't take my big girl camera places, we only have iPhone pics to use in the blog. Enjoy. :)

Red Velvet funnel cake with strawberries and whip cream.

We tried fried Snickers, fried Twinkies, and chocolate covered bacon.

Derek got his first cowboy hat!

We saw steer roping, bull riding, bronc riding, mutton bustin', barrell racing, chuck wagon racing and a bunch of other rodeo stuff. No pictures.

Pitbull concert is starting!

Pitbull

Grandma is not sleeping. She is closing her eyes and contemplating the words or why she is at the concert. Or both.