Activities Of Our Girls
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When our girls, Kristi and Tamara, were growing up in style,
They tried a lot of different things doing well with their smiles.
I can’t cover everything they participated in with this poem,
So I’ll just hit the highlights of the things they had going.
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Activities Of Our Girls
Kristi was in Little Miss Cinderella Pageant when she was three,
For West Texas Area held at Frank Phillips College for all to see.
She was the very youngest entry, but she looked like pure heaven.
She got a trophy, but she didn’t win that pageant there in 1977.
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When she was four, she took twirling lessons with other cuties,
With their blue frilly outfits on, they were all real little beauties.
Their troop marched in parades at Shamrock and Pampa Texas.
With Kristi in front leading the girls twirling with little girl reflexes.
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In Oklahoma City, Kristi joined the Brownies to have some fun,
She took quite a few day trips to areas not far away in the sun.
Tamara was too young, but she fancied herself a Brownie too.
Kristi loved the trips with the other girls as a Brownie so true.
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Kristi was cheerleader for the Hancock Rattlers in Houston.
Their football team was good that year and found the solution,
They won the elementary schools Super Bowl there that year,
As we sat in the bleachers and watched our little Kristi cheer.
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Kristi was on a softball team in Houston at the age of eight.
Their team was good and won a lot of their games at the plate.
I think we enjoyed the games as much or more than the players.
I loved Kristi to hit the ball and run beating those ball relayers.
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In Bartlesville, our girls were on Phillips Gymnastics team.
We loved the meets they had with other groups looking so keen,
They were also both on the Phillips Swim Team for a year or so,
They both loved to swim like a fish, and could both really go.
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Tamara became a cheerleader for the Ranch Heights school.
They did formations cheering the teams using Pom Pom tools.
Tamara’s girl friend Erin was one of the cheerleaders with her.
They did activities together most of their way through school here.
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Tamara and Erin were also on the baseball team here together.
We loved to see their games and they won a lot with each other.
They were now at Madison School playing ball in the summers.
When I was in town, I loved to see those balls hit by their lumber.
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Tamara was on a jump rope team at Madison that was fantastic.
Their little arms and legs flew all around like they were elastic.
I was truly amazed that Tamara had so much talent with her rope,
And the perfect unison of the team jumping just feeling their oats.
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Along about 1986, our family started clog dancing in Tulsa town,
Both our girls were naturals dancing so good as they got on down.
They joined several T Town Country Clogger competition teams,
And danced in competition there for several years, it seems.
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In 1990, we started our own Trailblazers clog team with others.
Breaking away to make things a little better for one another.
Kristi and Tamara were both on Trailblazer competition team,
Until,Kristi went to OSU to get her college degree at eighteen.
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In 1992, we started our own clog group in Bartlesville, our home.
Tamara had Rhythm Masters competition clog that was her own.
She wrote the clog dances and taught them to her team members.
They did well competing against larger teams in their splendor.
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During the clogging years, Kristi and Tamara did many duos,
Together in clogging competition at Silver Dollar City, you know.
They functioned well as a sister team that danced good together,
We were proud of them looking so fine dancing with one another.
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Along the way, they both did tap and ballet as most girls do.
And Tamara was in the Miss Bartlesville contest a time or too.
Overall, they were very busy young ladies as they grew to women.
It was a pleasure to raise these talented daughters back then.
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By Bill
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Thanks for reading Activities Of Our Girls,
Bill