About to Be a Senior.

(Brett and I in our room on the cruise)

In 8 days I start back school as a Senior. crazy. 2 weeks from now I start filling out college applications as they open September 1st. Life has been pretty crazy.





The family got back last Thursday from a five day cruise that left out of Galveston and stopped in cozumel, Mexico and Progreso, Mexico. Unfortunatly I was sick with Strep or something very much like it for half the vacation and had to get shots and antibiotics but we did have fun. The food was very good and we had Three Course dinners every evening and the buffet was open almost all day for lunch and breakfast. In Cozumel we went snorkling on the reefs and it was so beautiful. The fish came right up to us. In Progreso we went Kayaking which wasnt too much fun. We did it in a very remote location and Mom and I had a lot of trouble getting our kayak to go in the direction we wanted it to. The entertainment back on board was fun. the ship had a large theater that filled to capacity for the shows. It also had three pools and a mini golf course. The last day it started raining and we went to the library and rented some games and a puzzle and stayed in the room but it was a lot of fun.

Cruise Highlights!

Formal Night Onboard

Look at that pretty girl :)

Cozumel Mexico

Towel Animals were Brett's favorite part of the Cruise I think



Other things that happened in July

• Brett's 15th Birthday


• Erin got her wisdom teeth out


• Erin and Brett got a car (2003 Hyundai Elantra)


• Erin started working (Hobby Lobby 15 -25 hours a week)


• Brett is finishing her driving class

Coming Up:

• School starts (Erin is a Senior, Brett is a sophmore, Mom is an assistant librarian)


• Papa is going to New Orleans for work


• Football Season starts!!


• College Applications... exciting...

Hello All.

This is my first posting in the The Decker Family Blog. My cousin Jenny has one for her family and I thought it was a cool idea to keep track of what your family does on a semi-weekly basis. That way I can look back in 20 years and see exactly what I was doing in highschool

A little bit about the family...

• That is me. Erin Decker. I am 17 and I will be a senior in highschool this year. I work at Hobby Lobby and am on the Youth Council at St. Mark's. I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life but I will probably be going to Texas A&M in fall of 2009.

• That would be Brett. Happy Birthday Little Sister! She is 15 today and going to be a sophmore in High School. She plays soccer a lot and has been playing in the summer Catholic softball league for St. Marks. Its a lot of fun, after mass on Sundays we get together and play softball against another church and then have icecream.

• Then there is Mom. She works at Brett's highschool (we are divided into Sr High and High school so Brett goes to Williams which is 9th and 10th and I go to Plano East which is 11th and 12th). She is the assistant librarian and she loves it. She has been busy this summer sewing and taxiing Brett and I around but that will change soon seeing as I am getting a car this week :)

• Papa now works for Research in Motion, the company that makes Blackberrys among other things. He works from home most of the time but he is in Canada a lot. Brett didn't know that he switched companies four months ago till today. :p haha He says I should put on here that he is smart, sophisticated, and suave. I told him he shouldn't lie.