June 24, 2010

Let's Play Catch Up!

I know this sounds redundant, but we have been very busy. If your reading this, it's because I finally found my laptop in all our moving boxes.

In the last few weeks, the big happenings of the Malousek household are the end of School, celebrate Summer parties with friends, Kelsey's recital in which she performed very well and is very excited about continuing next year and adding Jazz.

She got picked by her Croc buddy, Shannon, to be taken under her wing at the swim meets. It is kinda of morale booster for the younger swimmer to have an older one cheer fro them. Lots of fun! Kelsey did beautiful this year on her freestyle and backstroke and finished the season progressing to breast and butterfly. Her favorite part was always finishing with a shorter time for each heat and being rewarded with speeding tickets to turn in for treats. Being born in February, she is true to her horoscope, an Aquarius, in the water.

I spent several days hiking with Carter, as he loves to lead and go the "back trails". He really likes to explore and look closely at the bugs and creatures.

During all of these happenings, we put our house on the market, sold it and moved into a larger house on a much quieter street that offers a culdesac across from us, trails at the end of the street and waterfall park across the street. Plus, it's so close to the school, Kelsey gets to finally ride her bike this Fall to school. Which means Carter and I get to ride too! we are looking forward to it!

This week, we are off to San Antonio for July 4th fireworks hill country style. We plan to visit Sea World and hike Natural Bridge Caverns, in between hanging out at on a lazy river at the Hyatt. Hopefully we can fit in some Margaritas and fajitas along the San Antonio riverwalk.









June 02, 2010

For the Love of a child....and a Turtle

It wasn't enough that I had more things on my list to complete than I had time for in the day before I had to pick Kelsey up from her last day of school and get both kiddos to their 6mos. dentist appointment. It wasn't enough that I was sweating my *** off in 90 degree heat with stifling humidity. And it wasn't enough that I had had people waiting on me back at my house - alone.

On my speedy way back from taking Kelsey to school, Carter yelled at me "STOP!!! Someone might kill it!!" After the startling warning, I screeched to a halt to see what he was frantic about. A turtle. Yes, I said a turtle. I parked out of the traffic and put my hazards on so I could retrieve a turtle that wondered out of it's pond and into a busy four lane road. I mean seriously, how could any mom leave it there and risk being called a heartless person? So, right as I was about to step out of the car, traffic came whizzing by only to hit the poor defenseless creature. Carter yells, "Oh no!!! He went fling way over to the other side!! Is he alright?" No kidding if it was not for it's hard shell this turtle that just finished flying through the air like a football would have been road kill - I would not have stopped my car.

After seeing he was all tucked up inside, we drove the stinky little creature to a pond in the hood where Carter was so proud to set him free - ALIVE!