Uncle Bobby

Tausha loves Uncle Bobby.

We all do.  

Tausha Senior Pictures

Just a quick update: Tausha's senior pictures are on StewartsFunnyFarm Picasa Web Album

Here's a little sneak peak:

Thank you soooooooo much to the AMAZING photographer/photoshopper, aka Melissa!!!!!!!!

hair dye, ACT testing and a Ray of Sunshine!

Last night Tausha and I "henna"ed her hair, and yep....it's Orange...

Today, I dyed mine....and it's almost black....it was supposed to be dark mahogany brown...I guess that's the same thing as almost black.

Tausha took the ACT today and she got to test in her very own room because she had an accommodation for Diabetes (being able to eat/drink during testing). After picking up Tausha, I asked her how it all went. She said that Math and English was a breeze, but she's pretty sure she completely failed the Science portion (she said she guessed on every Science question).

While Tausha was taking the ACT, Ron and I took a 3 mile walk, Ron with his Ipod, me with my G1. I have Imeem (like Pandora) on my phone and so, I put in Michael Buble and listened to some Jazz for a while. It turned out all the Jazz was a bit too slow for a fast paced 3 mile walk. So I switched to Bananarama. Yeah, that's what I needed. Soon thereafter came a song I officially haven't heard since the 80's. I think I may even have the cassette tape that this song is from. It's "Ray of Sunshine" by Wham

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5w0Oh33rD0

Move it move it, baby
Can't you see I'm ready to dance?
And I can't stop this rhythm in my heart.
Move it move it baby,
Can't you see I'm ready to dance?
Without this beat my life would fall apart.

Shuffle on your feet till the floor is hot,
Gonna make a lot of money,
Gonna break your heart.
Watch out boy, (watch out boy)
Shuffle on your feet till the floor is hot,
Gonna make a lot of money,
Gonna break your heart.

But I'm the only one with a key.
And that's me.

Sometimes,
You wake up in the morning with the bass line,
A Ray of Sunshine,
Sometimes,
You know today you're gonna have a good time,
And you're ready to go.

What a way to end an nice walk. I was ready to dance! I know, I know....I'm cheesy, but I am an 80's girl, you know. :-)

Taush's Final Choir Performance of the Year

Grandpa Bob, Grandma Katherine, Lynda and Ranee went to see Tausha's final choir performance of the year. Of course, Famine Song was great, Taush sang with four other girls during one song. Taush's friend Conda had an amazing solo in Can't Buy Me Love and Grandpa Bob said that Taush and one other girl were the only one's showing any sort of emotion and feeling while singing the songs.

 Way to sell it Taushina! American Idol here she comes!

Sing, Sing, Sing. I Like To Sing. I Like To Sing A Song. Sing, Sing, Sing.

On Wednesday, April 15th, Tausha left Meridian, Idaho and headed to Seattle, Washington on a bus with her school choirs. It turned out to be a lengthy trip due to one of the three busses breaking down. I'm told the kids were in good spirits and didn't complain about the extra time on the road. Lynda flew into Seattle where she met up with Ranee.
While in Seattle Tausha sang with her school choir groups at an exchange concert with a local high school. Ranee was able to attend and was brought to tears when she heard "Famine Song".

After the "Seattle fun" the choir students traveled to Pasco to be a part of the Columbia Basin Jazz Festival. As quoted from a news article about the Jazz Festival, "The annual Jazz Unlimited Festival has become a popular venue for high school music departments throughout the Northwest to strut their stuff every spring. About 5,200 music students from around the Northwest converge on CBC for the competition."

This was the first time Mountain View High School participated in the event. On Friday and Saturday night, two choirs from Mountain View were invited to sing as the last school performance of the evening, quite an honor I'm told. So, congrats to them and Mr. VP, their choir teacher.

Needless to say, it was loads and loads of fun to be with Tausha and the choir kids. Go to my Youtube page to view "Famine Song" and other songs sung by the Mountain View High School Choirs. Enjoy!!!

http://www.youtube.com/user/snowflakethedog

Happy 17th Birthday Tausha!

On January 21, 2009 Tausha May Huston turned 17 years old. She wanted to hear the story of when she was born, so here goes:

Sometime before you were born, we acquired a little gray kitten. This kitten had a wild-like behavior. It was so wild that when we put the kitten out in the back yard, it would instead start climbing on the screen door. It would get about halfway up and meow and meow until we brought it back inside. (The importance of the kitten will work in the rest of the story in a bit.)

When Mommy was pregnant with you, before you grew too big, the doctors had known that you were in a breech position. So Mommy made an appointment to have the doctors turn you around. One doctor stood on one side of Mommy's belly, another doctor stood on the other side of Mommy's belly. They began to push on you in opposite directions. There was plenty of fluid for you to spin around in, but because you were soooo stubborn (even before you were born!) you would not budge!! (Whenever Tausha hears this part of the story, she beams a happy smile and has a look of victory on her face!) Since you were breech, we scheduled a planned C-section.

Mommy had to stay the night in the hospital the night before the surgery. On the morning of January 21, 1992, in the town of Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in an Army Medical Center on the Army military post, Daddy was to meet Mommy at the hospital bright and early so that Daddy could be in the surgery with Mommy. As the morning came and the minutes passed, Daddy was not showing up. Mommy was so worried. Mommy tried to call the house to try to see if Daddy was still there and the phone was busy. Mommy kept trying to call Daddy and the phone kept being busy. Mommy began to wonder if maybe the wild kitten had knocked the phone off the hook and that Daddy was still sleeping. So Mommy called someone that worked with Daddy to see if he could go by the house and knock on the door and/or windows to try to wake Daddy up.

Daddy ended up coming to the hospital right when Mommy was being wheeled to the operating room. Daddy got to sit by Mommy's head while the doctors cut Mommy open to get you out. When you were born, the nurses wrapped you tight in a blanket and gave you to Daddy. Daddy then brought you up by Mommy's head and showed you to Mommy. When Mommy saw you, Mommy said, "Oh!! My litte baby!!!" Mommy then gave you kisses.

After you came home with Mommy and Daddy we loved you so much. Your sister, Tara, loved you so much too! You often would have a hard time getting calm, so Mommy would put you in a baby swing, give you your binky (which was so big it almost covered your mouth and nose!) and then turn on the vacuum and put the vacuum in the corner of the room. You would then fall fast asleep!

Your skin was red when you were born, but eventually your skin turned normal.

(Picture to be inserted here of Tausha when she was a baby!)

(We ended up not keeping the kitten because it peed on your Daddy's big green bean bag, which he was not very happy about.)

Tausha, you are a beautiful daughter of Heavenly Father and we are glad you are in our lives.

We love you!! Love, Mom

P.S. Tausha requested shish kabobs and artichoke (her favorite food) for her birthday. Here are pictures of her birthday dinner (a few days past her birthday) on Sunday, January 25, 2009.