Our "Rising Star"... LOL

As most of you have probably seen on FB, Brianna got her "15 seconds of fame" tonight!! Sioux City is building a new children's museum downtown, and several of the museum's "creators" wanted to get input from the children that would actually be visiting and making use of this type of museum! What better way to do that, than to meet with a group of kids and have a "talk session" about what kids what like to see in the museum.

Several local news stations were on hand today at Brianna's school, and Brianna happened to be one of the few chosen for the meeting and interview by the news team!! She came home from school, so excited to tell us all about her "meeting" and all the questions she got to answer!! She was such a natural in front of the camera!! (Not sure where she gets that from!!)

To see the video from the news segment, click on this link:

http://www.ktiv.com/Global/category.asp?C=132524

Go to the Search box located at the bottom right of the video box and type in "children's museum". This will bring up the video, just click on it and watch!!

Royalty In The Family

Congratulations to my cousin, Jessica!! She was voted in as Homecoming Queen for her high school!! Great job, Jess! It is well deserved!! You have a winning personality (like your mom!) and we are very proud of you! Hope your senior year continues to be full of many more accomplishments!! Love you! (Sorry for the slightly blurry pic -- it's from a cell phone!)

Would Have Been 40 Years...

I wanted to post this yesterday, on the day of what would have been my parent's 40th wedding anniversary if my dad was still living. Happy "would have been" 40th anniversary, Mom!! Love you...

More Football...

Zach finally got to actually go on the football field during a varsity game last Friday night... in Urbandale! We were sad that we couldn't go to see it, but excited for Zach that he actually got to participate this time!! CJ had to work Saturday morning and we wouldn't have gotten back from the game til about 2:00 am, so we decided not to go. Zach was on special teams -- he went on the field for the kick-off return -- but he never got to actually touch the ball! Hang in there, Zach!! East did end up losing the game to Urbandale 57-37.

In Junior Varsity news... the East High JV football team beat Sergeant Bluff-Luton this past Monday night! The final score was 25-12. The East JV team is now 4-0!!! Zach did play some during this game, but no touchdowns for him!! LOL! They played a lot of kids that don't always get "field time" during this game!! Way to go, Black Raiders!!! WOO-HOO!!

Talk About A Baby Boom!

Just this month alone, the Brown family has added three new members!!! We just want to say "Congrats!" to the new parents and "Welcome!" to the new precious little bundles of joy!

September 4, 2009:
Madison Grace Brown
6 lbs. 6 ozs.
September 5, 2009:
Ja'Kylon Lashar Ray
4lbs. 2 ozs.
6 weeks early, but doing well and is now home from the hospital!
September 14, 2009:
Drayden Steele Brown
7 lbs. 1 oz.

There was one more baby born back in July... just don't have any pics of her! Welcome to the world, Chelsi Lashae Pace!!

Happy Birthday Marla!

Happy Birthday, Marla!!! Hope you are having a WONDERFUL birthday!!! I am looking forward to our annual tradition of going out this together to celebrate our birthdays!!

Boys Volleyball Team

During our Homecoming week, the high school boys and girls "traded" sports for an evening! The girls had a PowderPuff football game and the boys played a volleyball tournament! I am posting pics from the volleyball, but I think both the guys and girls had a lot of fun playing the "other sport" that night!

Zach waiting to see if Austin needs "help" with the ball:

The Sophomore Volleyball team picture: