Oscar winner!

Emma's teacher this year does an Oscar award every two weeks that the students vote on. They pick someone and vote for them if they are nice or smart or friendly and so forth. Emma won the first award last week. She was so proud!  And so were we. 

Katie and Jacket Jazz!

Our new adventure this year has been Katie's participation in Jacket Jazz - the dance team at Denham Springs Junior High.  It has been very fun for all of us, and the best part about it, is that she gets to share this fun with 2 of her best friends - who also happen to be the daughters of  2 of my co-workers.  This past week, the actual festivities began with their first home game.  I managed to get to her school to see the pep rally and watch them perform.  I only took one picture, but I have a few video clips that I will try and put in a separate post.  

Her team is made up of 7th and 8th graders.

Her Bestie - Jessie

Waiting on the field before they begin - Katie is front and center!

Action shot of the kick line.

Preparing for the kick line - oops!

Marching off the field afterwards.

The proud sister and Dad

The proud mom, obviously worried about the paparazzi!

Katie and her other good friend, Annie.

Katie, Annie and Jessie afterwards

Say Cheese!

I will try and post the videos next.  Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't!  Next time I will try and get some pics of them doing the stand routines with the band too!

Football pictures.

Every year the family takes pictures at our football picture day. These are a few I snapped on my phone:

The coaches:

Senior players:

Senior players, trainers and such:

Here's to a good year!  Geaux Jackets!

First day of school

So all good things must come to an end, and summer is definitely the best of things. The entire Carroll family headed back to school this week. And things went smoothly; the girls love their teachers and classes and Mark and I... Well, we survived!

Trying another video clip

Katie and I rode a 2 person slide at Blizzard Beach (after much coaxing by me), and this is our video clip.  Watch at the end I get a blip of Emma and Mark right after us.

For some reason, I can't get the video of the family raft ride to upload, so that may be it.  It was amazing trip, probably one of our best!

Disney trip video clips

Before we went on the Disney cruise a few years ago, I purchased a hand held water proof video camera that I have been very pleased with.  It takes very clear video and you can video under water.  Even though, I still have to apologize for my shaky hand.  I really didn't video that much on the trip because, once again, I am also the picture taker of the family, but I wanted to put a few up here.  Here is a sample from the trip.  Enjoy!

Emma in the magical mirror at Bippity Boppity Boutique

Disney Photopass pics

So if you have been to Disney lately, you know they offer a Photopass option, which is basically a card that they scan every time their photographers take a picture of you.  If you individually buy these pictures they are very pricey (like 14 bucks a 5x7), but you can order a CD of all of them (and its cheaper if you pre-order it - which of course I do).  It's still not cheap, but when you are the major photographer of every trip, its the only way I get to be in family pics.  I got the CD from Disney in the mail the other day, so here are some of our favorite family pics.

That's Emma and I in the middle row to the far left: