School Trips

Now that Tyler is in Middle School he is staying very busy!! Earlier this month he made the EAST Team. This is Environmental and Spacial Technology. You can check out the web site for more info http://www.eastproject.org/ This is a very big deal. Only 8 kids are picked to go as the Team to Hot Springs for the East conference. Way to go Tyler!!!! I am so proud of you!!!

Also Tyler is a Student Council Representative. There are only two kids per class. The SC did a toy drive and went to the mall to donate the toys. They had their pictures made with Santa and read to some elementary kids. This was a great way for them to give back!

The next day the GT at CHMS went to Little Rock for some skating. Not all of the kids got to go. Only the ones who sold two items from the fundraiser. This was a great group of kids. We had a few injuries and Tyler was no exception. He fell 3 times on his face and by the end of the day he had a huge pop knot on his chin and a busted blood vessel in his ear and chipped a tooth. However he didn't care he was just having a great time. Taylor also got to tag along with them and I was so proud of him. He skated so well!!! Way to go Taylor!!!
Below is a picture of Tyler and Haley and Taylor..... Cute kids.

new post coming soon!!!

I am so sorry that I have not been able to post lately. But just wait...I am working on a few so hopefully you'll see all the good stuff that happened this last week... Stay tuned!!

Lots of Fun here!!!!

Just call our house the fun house!! We are having so much fun with the boys... Tyler is starting to show his independence. Most of the time it comes out just fine, but other...OMG!!! That's all I can say.... however this weekend was our first weekend home in a while and the kids begged for a sleepover. Of course I gave in, I just couldn't say no when they've been soooo good!! So after school Tyler and Taylor's friends came over. They were brothers too. And we ate pizza and popcorn and stayed up really late watching movies, and playing on the computer. (I wouldn't let them on the computer without me watching....) They had the music going and found the video button and made a video!! It was too funny watching Tyler and his friend Tristen make this video. They were so excited about it and wanted me to upload it to facebook.... I would never have done that when I was there age... Taylor and his friend Hayden (Tristen's brother) stayed up and played video games all night. I finally put them all to bed at 2:30 am!! I am way TOO OLD to stay up that late!! And Furthermore, get up at 8 am... can you say still recouping? Anyway enjoy the video, I sure did!!

(NOTE: You may need to pause it and let it buffer so it will play without skipping)

First Deer!!

OH My I now have a killer on my hands!!! LOL!! Tyler has been hunting the last few years and was not able to get a shot at anything, but that all changed this year....He was invited to hunt with my Great Uncle, his Great Great Uncle at the deer camp that I grew up in. This place is a very special place to me and I loved going back and getting share such a beautiful place with my kids and husband. Uncle Gary took Tyler out Saturday morning (opening day) and they saw 8 deer. Tyler shot twice and missed... At first we thought it was him not putting the target on the deer, but after missing three Saturday night and two more on Sunday we knew the scope was off. Tyler never gave up, he never got down on himself. So Blake met a friend of ours that went to our house and got Blake's guns and Tyler and him went back on the stand Sunday night... they were there only an hour and I got the picture text.... FIRST DEER!! Wow what a smile, what excitement. Taylor and I were waiting on them at the camp when they pulled up with her. Tyler's hands were covered in blood and his adrenaline was working overtime. After the rest of the camp got back we cleaned her and cut her up. Tyler was right there watching and helping as Kelly and Blake cleaned her. We are so proud of Tyler and thankful for such a great family that allowed us to come be apart of opening weekend. This has truly been a great weekend!!!

Pro Golf here we come!!!

So Taylor has been taking golf lessons with the First Tee. Things are going great!!! He loves golf and he is pretty good!! ( Can someone say Scholarship!!!) But the First Tee of Texarkana brought PGA Pro Golfer David Toms to New Haven for a golf Clinic. Taylor was so excited to meet a real golfer. He was a little disappointed that it was Tiger Woods, but when he found out that David played with Tiger, then all was good. David showed the kids how to drive the ball and talked to them about tournaments and stuff. I am so glad to be apart of such a great organization. Thanks Texarkana First Tee!!!

Here are a few pictures that we took.... the first one is a sunset picture that Taylor took. I thought it was pretty....

House Remodel

So for the last few weeks I have been posting to my Facebook about the house remodel. This is for my Grandmother. (My dad's mother). She is 82 years old and lives in Kingsland, AR. The house she is living in is not fit for anyone. She has leaks in the ceilings and mold growing in all three bedrooms. The floor is also falling in. So when her brother, Bill Miller, passed away, her niece allowed her to move in the house he was living in located in Fordyce if she fixed it up. So that is what we are doing...fixing it up. You can tell from the pictures that it was in bad shape before we got to it. And when we thought the end was near, we found out the the house needed to be re-wired. It is a wonder that the house has already burned down. The wires in the attic were already showing some sings of fire. But thanks to some great help we were able to get that hazard taken care of. We still have to lay the carpet and touch up some of the paint, but I hope to get her moved in the house this coming weekend. So stay tuned to see the finished product.

Also sorry the pictures are not all the right size.....

Labor Day / Birthday Weekend

Well over the Labor Day Weekend we went camping. My parents had just bought a camper and were dying to use it. It was Tyler's birthday weekend and mine too... I can't believe he is Ten!! It seems just like yesterday that he was born. Anyway....

So we allowed Tyler to take one friend, which was hard because we have so many friends that we wanted to take. This was our first time ever taking someone with us for the weekend. We were a little scared because we didn't know how well they would get along, but they were fine and they even played with Taylor. We had an eventful time at the lake....This is a recap....

Left for the lake on Friday the 4th of Sept. and didn't get there until 8:30 that night. We ate dinner and went to bed. Then on Sat. we were going to go out in the boat but it was broke.... So we went to the playground instead. There the boys found a couple of kids to play with, but it turned ugly quick. The other boys were pushing and hitting our boys so guess what our kids did... that's right they started fighting. But the other boys were scared because Blake and I were watching them to make sure no one got hurt. (They only pushed each other and talked smack to each other) Then on Sunday my mom's neighbor came up and brought his boat and by the time he motored from the landing to our campsite his boat was running hot and so we had to load it up right there at the camp. And that's when the ranger came around and caught us... we were very lucky that we didn't get a ticket. So I loaded the kids up and took them to Albert Pike so they could swim and play. They had so much fun until a cloud cam up and we had to return to camp. So after dinner we came home!!!! I'd had enough camping and was ready to be at home. But here are a few pictures of the boys and yes the boys are in the dog cage and no I did not put them in there. However someone drove by and saw them and told some friends of ours on the other side of the campground that there were some kids being punished by being put in a cage... how funny!!!!