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I look forward to writing my year end music review in a few short days but there are some family updates to post before that happens.

December 12th and 13th was the Bob Robertson Memoral Disc Golf tournament in Crowley. Since Crowley is one town over from Pete and Sara’s house, we asked if we could crash there for the weekend.

I convinced Pete to play the doubles portion with me on Friday night. We played well but not great. Unfortunately, when one of us was off, so was the other one. We did not complement each other much.

We did finish in the money and took home $20 worth of merchandise.

The next day was windy and cold. The tournament field had to play two rounds in 55 degree weather with a 30 mile per hour wind…NOT disc golf weather. It was a battle of man vs. nature.

In all, I played solid the first half of Round 1 but blew up in the second half. Still, after the first round, I made it to the top card in my division.

Round two, I played well despite the conditions and did not have many high score holes at all.

I felt good as I waited at the RV where the scores were being tallied.

As soon as the scores were posted, I was pleased to find out that I did, in fact, win FIRST PLACE in my division. I was able to choose $115 worth of merchandise from the table. I got several discs, a hooded sweatshirt, a long sleeve dri-fit shirt, and a new hat. It was a jackpot!

I did not get to have all the fun, though. The kids had their good times, too.

Thank you to Pete and Sara for the wonderful hospitality.

The district UIL competition for The Colony schools was held last weekend. This year, as he did last year, Wyatt competed in the Story Telling portion of the contest.

The way the competition works is that third graders from each school in The Colony who have chosen Story Telling go back into a room where three judges tell them all a story. All the contestants then go out of the room and reenter one at a time. Their retelling of the story is judged on expressiveness, amount of detail, clarity, completeness, etc.

In this case the group was narrowed down from about thirty students in round one to about fifteen in round two. Then the process is repeated with the second-rounders and with a different story.

As I sat there, I knew that Wyatt had made it to the second round because of the length of time (story telling takes the longest of the events anyway.) When he finally came out from the back, he had a big smile and was congratulated by his teachers, school mates and me. He felt as if he had done well.

On Wednesday of this week we found out just how well he had done. Wyatt had gotten

FIRST PLACE

out of all the story tellers in The Colony. We are so proud of our yarn weaver and know that these types of accomplishments are results of hard work, dedication and talent.

We believe that great things are in store for our oldest son and are excited for this great achievement.

Congratulations Wyatt!