For Miss Amber

Before I begin a very light-hearted blog, we did want to share that we are so grateful that Dave's parents' home in Hackberry, Louisiana is still standing and in pretty good shape (Go, John, for building to hurricane code!). Their area was hit very hard by Ike and a lot of their good friends and neighbors have been affected. We are so thankful that their first trip back to the house on Tuesday was not as bad as it could have been!

Onto much, much lighter things.... Miss Amber has been trying to get Sam into cheering since she came to visit her in the hospital! I think Sam must have heard her encouragement, as she has shown some interest in cheerleading (as much as she can possibly know about it at this point!). Also, her cousins, Ashleigh and Brooke, are competitive cheerleaders, and Sam really looks up to them! I think all this encouragement is starting to wear off! This is a little hard for mommy since I was the one who made fun of cheerleaders!

Soooo, Sam did a little cheer camp this weekend. She was sick, but she "Ra, ra'd it out!" Here are a few pics of her from camp with her Mustangs shirt!

Reluctant to pose or smile until....

Daddy made funny faces behind highly-respected mommy!

Cheerleaders from McKinney Christian Academy who led the camp

Awesome pose, Sam!