The
Maloney's are now in TEXAS!!!
14210
Marin Drive, Cypress, TX 77429
Tami's
cell: 832-691-2684 Tami's email: tmj997@gmail.com
Kid's
phones: Boys 832-691-2746 Girls 832-691-2788
Ken absolutely loves his job. He is a the Director of Didactic Education of the Anesthetists Master's program with Case Western University at the University of Texas at Houston. He spends two days a week in labs and lecturing students here in Houston as well as teleconferencing students in Cleveland, OH and Washington, DC. The other days he is in the operating room and currently works with Memorial Hermann which was recently rated the top hospital in the country. He has some flexibility in his schedule can be at home with us about two days a month which makes for great family fun days.
The church here has been fabulous. We learned that there are 428 members in the church and 198 of them are under the age of 18! Nearly half the congregation are kids! It's great!! We've enjoyed several get together for games nights, dinner and dessert. We are excited to return the favor especially since Santa (my parents) gave us a wonderful housewarming gift – new furniture in the den!
Nathan is one of 17 boys in his church group. He's worked with several of them on their Eagle Scout projects and has enjoy several amazing scout activities so far - trebuchet launch, rock climbing merit badge, overnight camps and biking. The trebuchet launch occurred the weekend we moved here. The Varsity Scouts spent about 6 months constructing a 20' tall trebuchet to compete against other scout groups in a launch the weekend after Halloween. They launched pumpkins 75-150 yards! It was awesome and is now an annual event! Nathan is currently a legally licensed driver and is only beginning to understand the role of chauffeur! We also learned in Texas, high school students can dual-enroll at Lonestar College for FREE and receive high school and college credit. We just pay for books and a small registration fee. We're waiting to hear back from the counselor and hopefully will have him enrolled over the summer.
McKenna's class at church has 18 girls! Seriously, eighteen! They are all really sweet and not cliquish at all! She is paying for horseback riding lessons and, since she's homeschooled, can spend an additional four hours at the stables learning horsemanship. Her training is thrilled to work McKenna “like a dog” throwing hay, waking up the horses each morning (removing blankets, feed, water, take to pastures, bring back from pastures). We hope she'll return to figure skating soon, but until our home in AL sells, we cannot commit to lessons. She spoke with the organist at church, and the lady agreed to teach McKenna to play the organ. McKenna has two good friends that live across the street - Reagan and Lily. She typically goes out to walk them to the bus stop each morning at 7am and then play after school (as long as all homework is done :o).
Logan found a friend from church who lives four houses from us, and he also has several other friends nearby so he's always planning activities with them! It's so fun to see the things they come up with. Logan is now an 11-year old scouts preparing to enter Boy Scouts. He's done well in the program and we're blessed with good leaders in this troop. Logan's excited to join a basketball camp in January. He's missing our b'ball hoop we had in AL, but hopefully he'll do ok here.
Sariah has several girls her age in the church and two live right in our neighborhood. I think she's been invited to their house each week we've lived here. Her Wednesday activity group meets two blocks away, so she enjoys a quick bike ride or walk there and back. It's so nice everyone lives near each other; we didn't have that in Alabama. Sariah is having a hard time deciding what to choose for her sport. We've gone to two fabulous ballet schools to try the classes, and also to a great gymnastics place - the same place that trained 2012 Olympians Chris Brooks and Jon Horton – but I think she's leaning towards gymnastics again!
Ken is serving as the Executive Secretary in the church, and I'm the Relief Society Meeting Coordinator (aka party planner for the women!)
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