FEB 6

SUPERBOWL SUNDAY

Took the kids to Harvest Moon for brunch this am with Arnold and Sharon. This is a fun little restaurant downtown Rome Georgia that has a great brunch on Sunday. My favorite part is the desserts. Luckily since I'm trying to diet, this week the desserts were gross...I still overate, but not as much as I would have :)

After brunch Greg took the kids home to spend some time with their grandparents, and I drove to Atlanta airport to pick up Mimi and Papa. On the way I got another speeding ticket...this is my 2nd one in two months...I hate when the speed limit drops to 55...Oh well, guess I need to slow down. Mimi and Papa just got back from yet another cruise with Ty and Alice. They said they had a great time.

Today the weather was so nice that in the afternoon Jordan and I went outside to play basketball and Greg and Brandon threw the football. Peyton wanted to stay in her room.

At night the kids all got Pillows and blankets and made themselves little nests to get ready to watch the SUPERBOWL. This year was awesome...The GREENBAY PACKERS vs the steelers. Jordan was for the PACKERS and Brandon was for the steelers. So they had fun watching the game teasing each other. Peyton even watched the game. We made a huge tray of nachos and greg made cookies. I was soooo excited the the PACKERS Won....whooo hooo...GO PACK GO!!!!

October 30, 2010

Today Jordan and Peyton had to be at the calhoun church to sing for Bel Canto. They sang 3 songs...Go Down Moses...Once Again...and When he cometh. Mimi and Papa came to church to hear them sing. They did really good...except no one smiles up front and they all look like they are in pain...After church Bel Canto and Pathfinders had a pot luck...the kids were suppose to go can collecting after the potluck ... but we snuck out and got our stuff ready to head to Mimi and Papas house for trick or treating...Uncle Jamie and Aunt Stassey came over too and we all went together. Peyton has decided that she is too grown up to trick or treat...so she stayed at Mimis and helped pass out the candy. Once we finished one neighborhood the kids were ready to quit..but I think that they needed more candy...so Jordan, Greg, and I ran around Mimis neighborhood and got another basketful of goodies.

October 31st...I got up early and headed back to the calhoun church for the Bel Canto yard sale. I got there early so I could help price things and get first pick at all the goodies. Jordan got a bunk bed for her room. Luckily someone was there to deliver it...the hard part was getting it in her room. That afternoon Jordan had her very first piano recital at Shorter College...she did really well...so proud of her!!

POOL Aug8

We had such a busy summer. Started off with camp, then Myrtle Beach, Asheville, Mission Trips, the kids going to their other parents house, etc...but when everything started to slow down...Greg and I realized that it is sooooo hot in Georgia...and we need a pool!!! So we called in the pool guys...weighed how much it would cost vs how much fun we would get out of it and decided to go for it.

Once we agreed on location and started getting permits, we realized our septic system took up most of the back yard...NOT GOOD...luckily...we can still get a pool..it just needs to be perpendicular to the house rather then parrallel...which when it is all said and done...looks just as nice.

So Thursday a guy comes and clears the land and puts up a temporary fence.
Friday he comes back and digs a hole and now we have 2 huge dirt piles in our back yard killing our grass. Monday they put up the walls. Tuesday the cement the bottom of the pool and set up the filter. Wednesday they put in the liner and we start filling it with water...that night Brandon is already swimming. We left the hose running for 2 days to fill the pool...wondering what our water is going to be next month :)

Jordan came home from her dads on Saturday...she was excited to see the pool. We all got in and swam and mimi and papa brought Jackson to swim also. That night 2 of the neighbor girls came over and they all went swimming. All and all I think the pool will be a great invesment!!

Myrtle Beach June 28 thru July 4

VACATION....wooo hoooo!!! Time to head for the beach, but first stop...General Conference in Atlanta...kids didn't think this would be all that fun...till they got lots of free stuff at all the booths...so many pens :) The kids also got a little passport to take to different regions and got a special item at each place...when they finished they each got a book and a weird sailor hat....

Once we got to Myrtle beach we stayed the first 3 nights at the La Quinta...not a bad hotel...except it was 2 blocks from the beach...that kinda sucked....but we still had lots of fun swimming at the beach and at the pool...The last 2 nights we stayed at Palmeto Shores...we had an oceanfront room so that was really cool...Greg and Brandon had a blowup mattress and they slept one night on the balcony. The hotel next door had a lazy river so we floated in that alot..


Went to broadway at the beach and the kids played Magiquest...I took the girls to see Eclipse and the boys went to see prince of persia...Our movie was...AWESOME!! Greg beat the kids in putt putt golf one day.


For the 4th of July we went to MIMI and Papas house and watched fireworks up at the church.

june 13-16

Kids are so lucky these days. When I was a kid for summer vacation we stayed home, went swimming in the lake and played with our friends. I don't remember traveling anywhere...except maybe to Green Bay to visit my grandparents and to camp for a week. My kids summer is so busy that they will hardly get to stay home and play. After they spent a week at camp we went straight to Knoxville so they could spend 3 days with Greg's dad and stepmom. During those 3 days they went to Dollywood twice and splash country once. They had so much fun. Jordan and Peyton each got a necklace with their name written on a grain of rice, and Jordan got a hand painted shirt with a horse on it and her name. On Thursday Jordan went to Ohio to her dads house and Peyton and Brandon went to their moms...which they are leaving to go to Arkansas for a family vacation with their mom and Jordan to Indiana, Michigan, and Canada for vacations with her dad. When they all return home to us in 1 week it will be our turn to take them to Myrtle Beach. Looking forward to that!!

June 6-13

Cohutta Springs Youth Camp

This week Greg is the camp pastor at Cohutta Springs. Jordan is doing gymnastics camp and is in cabin 9a with Hannah Zachrison as her counselor. Brandon is doing wakeboarding and is in cabin 3b with Castwell ? and his counselor. Peyton was too cool to go to camp this year so on Thursday she came down and is staying in our chalet. Each morning after breakfast Greg and I went on a jog then he had worship for the kids. His talks were very interesting and kept the kids attention. After he did his 15 minutes of work we had the rest of the day free....so we rode our bikes...our longest ride was 12 miles..in the heat...one day it started pouring down rain on us and we had to take shelter in someones shed. Greg and I got to do the zipline, blob, slide, went skiing...and I actually got up for about 2 seconds on a wake board. Jordan had so much fun her first year here at camp that she asked to stay another week..but she has to go to her dads so she can't...maybe next year.

May 17th...Monday

Wow...it's the last week of school. Today is field day and the kids didn't have to wear their uniforms and could wear silly hats. Greg had the day off so we both helped. Greg did the water balloon toss and I walked around and took pictures. After school we took the kids to pick strawberries. We got about 3 buckets worth, the strawberries are really big, but not very sweet. The kids each got soft serve strawberry ice cream before we left and after dinner we had strawberry shortcake. We will be eating strawberries with everything the next week or so.