Julia the All-Star

Julia (our oldest daughter) made her first basket tonight at her FIRST ever basketball game. Actually, she made two!

She truly embodies Wayne Gretzky's famous quote, "You miss 100% of the shots you never take". Well, in this case the ones she didn't take weren't the only ones she missed. ;) She shot a blistering 7% (no, not a typo) she really only shot about 7% from the field, ;) but she was the team leader on the floor and I'm very proud of her.

She was incredible, she is the defination of a true leader. On several occasions she shoved...and I mean "shoved" her teammates into position (not meanly), but hard enough to let them know they were not in the right spot defensively.

Julia is an 18 year old stuffed into a 7 year old body. She's always been mature for her age, and she excels at just about everything she does. She's a dancer, a reader, tennis player (or was until I pushed her a little to hard), a Spanish speaker - she's in the dual language program at school, a great speller, fashion expert (Lisa now asks Julia if things go together) ;) and now a basketball player.

She's a real life "King Midas" - every thing she does turns to gold. She meshes well with both younger and older people. Fits in everywhere and is generally the center of attention.

Most recently, she' learned to drag every state into it's proper place on a map of the United States (and I'm not talking about a jigsaw puzzle) - she can actually drag the name of each state into the correct place without an outline and she completed it in 320 seconds. Give it a try yourself, it's much harder than it sounds - Geography Games Pick Level 6 under the States column to see for yourself how challenging it really is. We've got even more fun and challenging games that you can play at www.BryanCollegeStationInfo.com in the Entertainment Forum.

Now she's even got her own blog - Julia Smith Check it out and be sure to leave a comment!

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