Day #6
I am thankful for technology. I am so happy that I have the ability to chat/skype/facetime with my husband when he is halfway around the world. It’s amazing that during his last deployment we relied solely on email and now we have all of these other options. I am so spoiled, I can’t imagine only having letters to communicate.
Mckenna: I am thankful that we have money to fly places.
Omar: I’m thankful that I have a soccer pizza party tomorrow!
So one great thing about living in Hawaii is that we don’t have to stay up all night for election coverage, it’s late afternoon here and half the country’s numbers are in.
I am stressed and can’t take my eyes off the tv!
We did manage to get out of the house this morning and spend a few hours at the beach which was a welcome distraction!
As of right now Florida and Virginia are giving me heart palpitations so I need to go watch more news coverage!
Update: Congratulations President Obama!
Day #5
I am thankful for democracy. While I may not agree with what you believe, we are so incredibly lucky that we have the freedom to say what we want and vote for who we want to lead our country. It really is amazing. {fingers crossed for tomorrow!}
Mckenna: I am thankful that we won our robotics tournament!
Omar: I’m thankful that we don’t have school tomorrow!
On Saturday Mckenna had her regional competition for her robotics team. She has been working after school for two months with a team of students to program a lego robot. Finally it was time to see if all that work would pay off…
I had to take her to the local high school where the competition was taking place at 7:45am (love waking up early on Saturdays!) dropped her off with her team and then Omar and I had some time to go eat breakfast and he had a soccer game (to WIN, ’cause he’s awesome!). We ended up coming back to her competition around noon, just when the actual competing was going to start.
The competition, it was pretty cool!
It was pretty exciting. The teams went head to head with a two and a half minute time limit to have their robots perform as many programmed tasks as possible. There were three rounds and the highest score was the only one that counted. Mckenna had two different teams from her school enter, and only the top 5 teams get to continue on to state so there was a lot of pressure.
In the first round their robot didn’t do too well, they had a couple of mistakes and weren’t able to get too many tasks completed. Mckenna was pretty bummed at this point because their score put them in 14th place out of 19 teams. Thankfully there were two more rounds and her team did much better, getting up to 5th place. We then had to wait for the judges to tally the rest of the scores, there was a skit, a teamwork score, and robot design.
Well, Mckenna’s school did AWESOME! Both teams made it into the top five which means that both teams go onto state next month.
Terrible cell pic, sorry, if you look close you can see Shafterbots came in first and fifth!
Mckenna’s team also won a best design! This was a huge accomplishment and I am SO proud of her awesome team!
Go Shafterbots Silver!
So onto State! The teams are excited and determined to do just as well!
Oh and here is a bonus, during some downtime the (incredible!) A/V students at Moanaloa h.s. had the teams come down and dance. It was hilarious!
Day #4
I am thankful for our health. We are blessed to have an incredibly healthy family with no major issues. My grandmother recently had to have surgery and she is already back up and driving around. Your health is something you take for granted, and I am very grateful for it! (except for my jammed ring finger that I have a sinking suspicion may be broken…)
Mckenna: I am thankful that we are going to California.
Omar: I’m thankful that we got to go trick or treating.
Day #3
I am thankful for the Navy. Now, I don’t always love the Navy (especially right now) I am thankful that my husband has a pretty stable job and that we can live comfortably on what he makes. I am also thankful that the Navy sends us on 3-4 year vacations at some of the nicest spots in the world!
Mckenna: I am thankful that we live in Hawaii.
Omar: I’m thankful that we both won our things. (A reference to him winning his soccer game and Mckenna placing in her Robotics competition!)
Sink Or Swim 