Anna Scores Again!

Anna scored another goal tonight! She also had two assists. Missed it, no pictures, but I am so proud of my girl!

Black Friday

Going to the stores at 4:00 am on Black Friday has become a tradition for Anna and myself. It works for us on so many levels:

1. We are both night owls.
2. Since we are not frantically running for one of the 20 flat screen tv's in Target, there is no stress. We really aren't looking for anything.
3. There are, believe it or not, A LOT less people out there than on a regular Christmas shopping day, and that fits into my comfort zone.

We get some good deals, share breakfast and laughs, avoid the crowds, then we come home and go back to sleep, a perfect day with my sweet girl.

All Photos by Anna and Jia Parnham

Beautiful shot of Anna by Jia

A Chinese-American dinner. Yes, she is eating stir-fry and pancakes at the same time.

These two should be "the evil twins"

Jia loves to dance up a storm

Jia is so thrilled that her hair is finally long enough to have piggy tales like her sisters.

Such sweet sisters

Aggggghhhhhhhh The Jonas Brothers are coming!

For all of you that do not have a young teenager living in your home there are 2 things going on right now. The Beatle-like phenomenon of The Jonas Brothers (the paint on my wall will never be the same from the sticky-tac used for all the posters.) If you are not a Jonas Brothers fan, the other big thing is the Twilight book series.

Well lucky us, we have one of each. Katie goes to Barnes & Noble at midnight for each new release of the Twilight books (and this week the DVD came out, so I wonder how many times we'll be seeing that)

This post however is about Drew, Lesa, the Broward County School System, 4 or 5 of our closest adult friends, AT&T and a HUGE panic. Here is the story:

Anna is beyond crazy over the Jonas Brothers. They are coming to town. She made arrangements to go and told 4 of her friends not to worry she would order the tickets and they could pay her later (at $100 a ticket...did I mention to you that Anna's last name is Trump?). Now here is where the story gets interesting. Tickets went on sale yesterday (Monday) at 10:00 a.m. 2 days before midterms at Flanagan High School. So Anna decides to rely on Drew to buy the tickets.

At 9:45 a.m. I get a frantic call from Drew, not only is the server down at his school, but he has called a bunch of our friends at other schools and the entire Broward School Board is "down". So I run into Anna's room (a place I usually try to stay far, far away from) log on to the computer and guess what----AT &T is down!!!!!!!

Now we have visions of 5 girls with their hopes and dreams totally crushed as all of their other friends go to the concert and leave them at home to listen to the CD-and of course it would be all Drew's fault. Sooooo, Drew goes "old school" picks up the phone and starts dialing, over and over. FINALLY at 10:40 Drew gets a real live person on the phone and the tickets are purchased! Whew!!!!!!!! A quick text message to Anna and 5 girls are very happy, Now we just have to get our money back.....

A Little More Soccer...

Many of you are probably tired of our endless soccer pictures, but this is what we do. I have such admiration for Anna's dedication to seemingly endless practices and games with the full schedule she has at school. I also admire Drew for tirelessly coaching big girls, little girls, year after year. (The soccer bug has also bit our little Jia). Katie is a trooper, because we all know she would rather be home reading a book, but she always comes too. This tight family bond is something I always dreamed I would have. So please....check out more soccer pictures, for me.

Our Author Anna

Anna-ready to conquer the world!

Our Irish Rose

The Parnham Girls plot world domination!

Anna came home from school yesterday very excited. Anna is the only 9th grader in her Yearbook class. They don't usually let 9th graders participate, but with a glowing recommendation (not to mention an award winning 8th grade yearbook) from her middle school Journalism teacher, they took Anna.
Yearbook quickly became Anna's favorite class and she has been very dedicated to the huge undertaking of creating a yearbook for a school that has 3000+ students. Yesterday Anna's yearbook advisor announced that they were going to choose a new company to produce next year's book. She chose 3 students to go to the presentations and interview the companies that are trying to get the contract. One of those 3 people is our amazing Anna!!!!!!!!!! (The other 2 girls are next year's Editors.) What an honor (well deserved in my opinion) for our hard working girl!

It's Not All About Jia!

Our beautiful Anna Banana

Anna was team captain for this week's game

Anna in Action

More game shots

An intense shot!

The above pictures are of our amazing daughter Anna. Soccer is a huge part of Anna's life. She plays for school, she helps to coach Jia's team, and then she plays rec league. All of this while maintaining a 4.3 grade average in Honors Classes and working very hard on her school yearbook. Anna is my Mama's girl, she will shop till she drops, loves to stay up very late and even though she is getting older will hang out with me all the time.

I am going to try to do a post about my beautiful first daughter, Katie, however when it comes to photos she is very elusive. Wish me luck!