Last year, Kaiden came home from school with a flyer for a school-wide competition to create an Anti-Bullying Poster emphasizing the role of the Bystander.  The posters would be hung near the guidance office and all students would vote on a winner.  The winner's poster would be hung in every classroom in the school for the next two years.  She said she wanted to enter the contest.  She came up wth a slogan and an idea of what she wanted the poster to say, she and I sat down and came up with ideas for the poster to go with her slogan, then we got on the computer and designed it.  She actually came up with two separate poster ideas and she submitted both.  We never heard back from the school on who had won the competition last year.  Well I was in the school for the 7th Grade Open House and as I was sitting in her homeroom teacher's classroom... guess whose poster I happened to see sitting on the wall.  Apparently Kaiden won the Bully Poster contest and her poster is now hanging in every classroom for hte next two years at PAMS.  Pretty damn awesome!!!

Gilly - September 2013

Cleatus - September 2013

Kaiden and Ashton on the First Day of School for the 2013/2014 school year.  Ashton is 9 years old and is going into 4th Grade. Kaiden is 11 years old and is going into 7th Grade. Man I cannot believe how old they are getting!

Kaiden spent A LOT of time with the VA Wesleyn's Women's Soccer Team this past summer.  She went to two week long soccer camps with them.  She went multiple times a week with my sister to their conditioning training sessions to get in shape for the season... working out with them every single time.  She was on the bench with them for many games and in the locker room with them before and after the games.  She really felt like a part of their team.  When she broke her arm at her tryouts for the PAMS soccer team, she was so surprised and touched when she received a hand-made Get Well card from the VA Wesleyan girls.  They spelled her name wrong... but MAN, who cares... what an amazing thoughtful thing to receive.

TWO DAYS... TWO DAYS before the school year begins, my father... the amazing POP POP, decides to take the kids to Busch Gardens for a day of fun and brings my son home with a Mike Tyson face tattoo.  REALLY?  "Dad, why would you let him get that on his face?" "Because he wanted it Mist!"  AWESOME!!!  THIS is why my kids LOVE their POP POP more than anything... because he NEVER says no.