WFMW - The First Tee of Fort Worth, Texas

Thank you Shannon for hosting the Works for me Wednesday, it is always a pleasure to read and participate with all the bloggers!


The First Tee golf instruction program of Fort Worth has been a wonderful thing in my family. It truly works for us!! Not only has it improved the golf in my children but it has also forged family time, friendships, and fun into our lives.



My daughter participated in her first golf tournament for school and she made a 5th place showing after a tie for 4th was lost by score card play off. (performance for the last few holes).



This was fabulous and even her school coach credited the First Tee and told the other golfing gals that he wished they would all join! This program originally started in order to give inner-city kids with less opportunity a costly sport with little to no cost to them.

The First Tee is more than golf it is life skills and these kids have class with class!!! You see all kinds of people on the golf course old and young, male and female and you can find the 9 core values missing in their games.



My kids know the 9 Core Values and have benefited greatly from each one ~ after all who wouldn't benefit from these:

Honesty

Integrity

Responsibility

Courtesy

Confidence

Perseverance

Judgement

Sportsmanship

Respect

My precious princess shaved 33 strokes off her game from the last (& first) time she played 18 holes. She learned perseverance right off the first tee (pun intended). Her first tournaments were in the pouring rain and she finished it all the way to the end. Her confidence was shining yesterday as she finished with a score of 100 for her 2nd time out there. She used great sportsmanship, judgement, and courtesy in approaching a girl who did not appear to know how to count all her strokes. I could list each exhibited value but you see where I am headed, the First Tee and especially the The First Tee of Fort Worth has truly grown my daughter and given her goals to reach for.



My son has been in program for 2 1/2 to 3 years and beats most men that my husband brings to play. In one week he shot 2 and 3 over par more than once in North Texas Junior PGA tournaments and won the Fort Worth City Championship for his age group. For his age the only play 9 holes but that is a lot for 7-12 year olds to walk and carry their bags.



My husband has been helping as a volunteer coach and has made some new good friends and I don't have to tell you how tough that is for men. He has exercised the 9 core values with other people's children and learned a lot about golf himself by watching instructions.





I am working on a way to use this logo I have created. I can see it on shirts, totes, fanny packs, and water bottles. I just need to get to it. I am going to pull some resources together and bring Christ into the picture if only by putting this on our clothes.



See hole 19 is often referred to the club house which may have inference to drinking alcohol, so since this is mostly children, I thought I would take it a step further and offer the Living Water instead!


After all, our lives are All Fore Him anyway!
Chel

Fall Into Flavor - Pumpkin Dump Cake

Linda at 2nd-cup-of-coffee has this wonderful Fall Festival on her site. Not only will you rejoice but your taste buds will delight. We have removed all the fat and the calories too, so jump over there and submit a recipe or two!!

Pumpkin Dump Cake

3 eggs
1 large can evaporated milk
1 16oz can pumpkin
1 ½ cups sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla

1 box yellow cake mix
Pecans
2 sticks of margarine

Mix the above (except the cake mix, pecans, margarine) and pour into an ungreased 9x13 inch pan. Sprinkle 1 box yellow cake mix over the top. Melt 2 sticks of margarine and pour over top. Sprinkle with pecans. Bake one hour at 350 degrees. Serve warm with cool whip or ice cream.

I don't know who made this up but it is one of my new favorites. I have a lot of Fall favorites in the way of food. It is my favorite season for everything that is involving my 6 six senses (yes I know I said 6, lol)

I received this from my church bunco group. This was so wonderful I have to share it and I share it often. Thank you FBC Saginaw Ladies!!! Your friendship and fellowship in Christ and Bunco means more to me than you could possibly know.

We have such wonderful sweet ladies at our church. These ladies in this group are fun, exciting, infectious with laughter, organizers, hostesses with more mostessess than I have ever seen, great cooks, great prize buyers, generous, approachable, and most of all the Love of Christ is seen in each of them!!! Awww, I love you gals!!! :-)

This is fabulous!!! I am NOT kidding. You will love it, everyone will devour it. You will crave it. It is a must for this Fall and I'm not kidding ya'll!!!

Chel

Blog Hop and Name Drop

Come on! Don't be afraid, just click here on this button, read a little, relish a little, then think of a Name of God that means so much to you and leave a comment with a link to your post....let's go Name Droppin' In the Name of the Lord, It is the Sweetest Name of All! My post will be there at 12:01....then you take it from there!

Very Sad Today

A very dear lady has gone to be with Lord. Her name is Martha Evans Valancius and I wrote this poem for her: http://racheleposey.blogspot.com/2008/08/time-well-spent.html

My son's middle name is Evan, in honor of her.

She was very dear to me and a living example of the Proverbs 31 Woman. She inspired me beyond belief and she and her husband Stan who arrived Home before her, were truly a Godsend to my life. She was a mentor among mentors and I wish I had been able to spend more than 4 years with her, but it was truly Time Well Spent.

She was taken by lung cancer and never smoked a day in her life. You just had to know what a true lady she was. She often laughed at herself because if she would stumble from an uneven floor she would say that she was a ballerina and they don't look down when they walk.

She was a woman of virture in every sense of the word. She served with a smile and provided for me and my soon to arrive son, a wonderful babyshower in her home. My favorite drip-beef roast and my daughter's favorite sweet and sour sausage were her recipes!! And I added them to a recipe book I created in 2005 called From the Manger to a Masion: Recipes of a Lifetime.

Never having worked outside the home, she could give most CEO's and CFO's a run for their money with her ecomoic skills (there was nothing "girly" about 'em). She was amazing and the loss on earth is great today but I know that Heaven rejoices and she heard on Monday, "Well done good and faithful servant!" Then I know He opened His arms wide because even Jesus was eager to spend time with this woman.

Please pray today for the void this matriarch has left in her families lives but rejoice because she is with her LORD today!

VIDEO Spog

Well I wanted to post my video. It was loading for 2 hours and still going last night when I had to go to bed. So, this morning I looked at it and it was 225 MB large! So, I will re-do if it isn't too late and get back with you all later today!! I will let the SPOG roll. (speaking my blog)
Sorry Linda! I tried.

UPDATE: I finally got it to work! The only bad thing is that now I am 10 pounds lighter!!!! (sigh)

( I did it!!!!) woo hoo!!


Linda @ 2nd Cup of Coffee was so creative to challenge us all to do this video blog and I failed but I will try again. Come back by later....



See ya on the e-side,
Chel