Slippery Sunday Afternoon

What do three grown adults do on a sunny Sunday afternoon?

I was just the picture taker since I have not been feeling well!!

Need Your Prayers Again!

My Dad called me yesterday morning and told me that my Grandmother had to be taken to the hospital because she was having difficulty breathing Friday afternoon. My Grandma had breast cancer some odd years ago and because of the chemo, has never quite been the same Grandma, as far as physical ability. I talked to her yesterday and she sounded good and was hoping to hear something from the doctors that evening. I was planning on going to the hospital today, but I woke up with a head cold/sinus junk and don't want to risk sharing with her or Grandaddy. Please remember my Grandma and Grandaddy in your prayers.

Baseball and Parties

Yesterday was Zach's last baseball game in the Single A League. He moves up next year to machine pitch, and he is really excited about it. Despite the fact that there were a few bumps in the road, I think that overall we had a good season. Today's game was the closest game that we have had. The boys really rallied together and almost won the game. It sure made for one exciting game. All of the boys got a game ball for all the improvements that they have made throughout the year and for their hard work.

Here is a picture of the score board when we were

actually winning. 16-15.....We ended up losing by a few points.

It was a great game.

After, the game, Morgan and Savannah went home with my Mom and we headed to the YMCA for Zach's baseball party. The boys had a great time eating pizza and cake and getting their trophies. Coach David also had other awards for the boys to get. The parents voted on MVP and it was a tie, so the coaches also voted and it was a tie again, so Zach and Jaden both got the MVP award. Zach also got two ribbons for each of his TRIPLE plays! He was very excited. He had a great season and seemed to really have fun. Todd and I are really proud of him.

Holding his regular trophy and his MVP award.

Todd also got a coach's gift. A picture of the team

and all the boys signed their names on the photo mat.

He said it was one of his favorite coaches gifts.

Zach sliding down the red slide.

After the baseball party, we stayed at the Y for Seth's party, which was right after the baseball party. Zach had a great time at Seth's party and enjoyed playing with him in the pool. After the party Todd and I met my Mom and the girls in Verbena and Zach headed off to Clanton to swim some more, I am sure. I know that the kids will have a great time, swimming, doing art projects and exploring the woods.

On our way back to Prattville, we stopped in Marbury, Alicia and Ben invited us to a School's Out Party that their church was having, so we stopped by and hung out with them for a while. We also played a fun game of non regulation, get it over the net however you can volleyball!

Wow what a day!!!

Summer 2009 Day 5/Luau

There is not much to talk about today. The kids and I cleaned up while Todd was at work. Tomorrow after Zach's game the kids are going to stay with my parents until Monday, so I had them go ahead and do most of there Saturday morning chores. When Todd got off we ran errands like we usually do.

Tonight, the kids stayed with Ben and Alicia while we went to the AUM School of Education Annual Luau. We had a good time. It was really funny to see many of our Professors cutting loose. Here are some pics from the evening.

THE HIGHLIGHT..............

I got a kiss from AUBIE!!!! For those of you that don't know, I LOVE AUBIE!!! We had fun, it was something different to do for a date night.

This is Nova.



An Owl

Me and Todd with Nova

Aubie playing the drums


ME and AUBIE

Todd and I down by Lake Martin

Us again!

this is some art that

Todd's class helped to paint

Summer 2009 Day 4

OK, first of all, I am not counting the weekend as "summer days." I am just counting the days that it is just the kids and I, because those to me are truly summer days.

Today Todd and I had to work for the School of Education Annual Luau. If you work 8 hours, helping to set up, you were given a "free" ticket to the Luau. We thought that would be a fun free date. All of the volunteers got so much done today that we did not even have to work our 8 hours. We were able to leave early! I am looking forward to tomorrow night, I think that we will really have a great time.

My friend, Christy kept the kids today. She took them to the park and to the YMCA to swim. They had a great time. Today is also her son's birthday, Happy 7th Birthday Seth!!

Tonight, Zach had a baseball game and he played great, even though he was not feeling well! He struck out once, but had great hits the rest of the game. Believe it or not, he also made another TRIPLE PLAY!! Can you believe it? No one out on the field could believe it. He caught the ball and the player that was on third took off for home, he tagged the runner from second and then tagged the plate to get all three runners out!! He got another game ball. He was a real trooper, he was really tired and not feeling well!! Our last game is Saturday, with the party Saturday afternoon. The boys played a GREAT game. We did lose, but we actually led them game for a little while.

Summer 2009 Day 3

Well, yesterday I was offered free admission to Wonder World Family Fun Center here in Prattville, and the best thing was that they were actually closed, but they were going to let us come in. Boy, did we feel special having the place to ourselves. We had a wonderful time. We played kick ball and the kids skated and played on the big inflatable slide, and I read some of my F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Stories. It was so much fun!!

Afterwards, we went to the park in Millbrook, and the kids found this little creek that went right through the park. We really had a good day and I enjoyed playing with the kids. They can't wait to go back to the park and play in the creek.

Day #3 was a success!!

Memorial Day Weekend and Summer Day 2!

Todd and I bought tickets to go to Jubilee Cityfest back in February and we had been looking forward to seeing Montgomery Gentry and 3 Doors Down! The kids spent the weekend with Todd's parents in a cabin at Fort Rucker. They came home Monday so excited to tell us about all the things that they had done.

Todd and I braved the rain and went and enjoyed our nights out! Montgomery Gentry put on a GREAT show! I really enjoyed it! 3 Doors was OK. I think that anything following Montgomery Gentry would be a hard act to follow. It was two nights out that we really enjoyed.

Memorial Day was another rainy day. We had thought about going to the river with Ben and Alicia, but because of the rain, no one wanted to get caught out on the water. Instead, we had a low boil over at their house and Christy and Brad and their kids came. The kids had a great time playing outside. We had a nice afternoon and enjoyed the company, as we always do.

Day 2 of summer vacation, was OK, but did not go as planned.


After, our morning routine of flash cards, each child reading out loud, laundry and cleaning, we had planned to go to the library kick off party for the summer reading program, but because of the rain we decided not to go. Instead, I took the kids to Ria's Pizzeria, we had coupons!! (Yeah, for honor roll coupons) and then we walked around Pet's Mart and then we went to Target (needed dog food!!) While we were there we decided to get a 300 piece jigsaw puzzle to do for the afternoon during the rain. We had an OK day. I really need to figure out a way to get the kids to stop fussing. It drives me crazy.

Well, tomorrow we are planning to go to the splash pad in Montgomery and ride the trolleys downtown. Here's hoping for no rain!!

The First Day and the Last Day

Here are some pics that I wanted to share of Zach and Savannah (I don't have any of Morgan because we home schooled at the beginning of year!) Both of the kids had WONDERFUL teachers and they had a great year!
I can't believe how much they have changed!

Summer 2009 Day 1

Today was basically the first day of summer vacation. Savannah is going to go to school tomorrow for half a day, so that she truly has perfect attendance, but all things considered I count today as the first day!

I had already decided that our summer days would start off by cleaning up. Whatever needed to be done....rooms straightened, laundry started, all chores need to be complete or close to complete. Then the kids will take turns doing flash cards, Zach and Savannah will do addition and subtraction and Morgan and Savannah will do multiplication. Then the kids will read to me one-two chapters of the book that they have chosen (maybe I can keep up with three different stories!) This is how we started off our day.

Since today was such a nice windy day, I decided to take the kids to Cooter's Pond and fly the kites that we bought last summer. We called some friends of our to see if they wanted to meet us and I called Ben to see if Landon wanted to go. We packed a lunch and headed out, hoping the rain would hold off!

OOPS, I got Savannah's kite stuck in a tree!!

Savannah flying her butterfly kite (see below)

I wonder what they are discussing!

I think that overall, we had a pretty good time. The kids were able to play in the open fields, fly or attempt to fly the kites,and play on the playground. Of course, according to my kids eating outside was one of the highlights of the day.

After we finished up at the park, we headed home and the kids went over and played at Landon's house. They even talked Ben into riding them on the four wheeler!

Zach went to Landon's ballgame with him and after dinner, Todd and I went outside and played baseball with the girls and Todd jumped on the trampoline with them. I am not sure what tomorrow holds for us. I am going to be keeping Andrew and getting the kids packed to go to spend the weekend with the Thayers.