Versatile

It pays in life to be able to be versatile....at least I think so. Exposure will help you be yourself in a tux at a prom fashion show and in an indoor soccer game. Stephen and 4 of his soccer buds went from an indoor soccer victory to a prom fashion show within 24 hours. Hopefully they were themselves both places. It is hard as a mom to know how much to push and how much to let go. But there are a few things that a 10 year old does not know....a tux in not a curse..................
but there was a time they thought a tux would turn them into who knows......

Yes, we have snow in Tennessee.....

Flurries of snow use to send my Kids into utter excitement. As they got older, it was not the snow itself but "will we out of school?" David even took off when it snowed. As of recently, if David took off, he would have to take most of his vacation days! ha.....But this winter we have had enough snow to have 6 snow days from school...........................A nice snowman......... enough to travel to "school" for sledding (KA school is in the backgound)

Even enough to get out the ruler................

View from Front door on one the snow days...........

And when they are tired of snow...........Ice Skating.....................KA is third from the front....

Here we go again........

Wow. Countdown of Graduation #2 is on it's way. Here is Stephen and his classmates in 4th grade. And then at a Pep Ralley when he was a junior...

Where were you?????

I know football is something that some people take way to seriously and in the thought of eternity, it is not the in the top 10. But........I love Auburn football and I will always remember where I was when they won the football game that allowed them to be the national champions. It really is best to watch Auburn football with real Auburn fans. Those fans who went to Auburn. You can pace the floors, not change positions because Auburn was playing well while you were sitting in that chair and moan and groan about how they are playing. We went to watch Auburn with some old and new Auburn friends. They understood the tension and were very gracious. They understood we were not strange people because we jumped and high fived when Auburn scored or when someone paced a path through the living room. Thanks David and Jill for letting us watch our alma mater win. Even though we were not in Arizonia, we were there........

We did not have the confetti in our background but we have a true Auburn picture on the night Auburn beat the Organ Ducks. Jason was in Auburn helping roll Toomer's Corner, and Stephen was watching at friends.

2011....and what makes you smile.....

18 and almost done with high school.......... halfway done with the hardest school year of my life..............

Going back to the town where the Football National Champions are.........

One more child off to college this year.....................

A Few Christmas Moments.......

Traditionally we give each kids 3 gifts. Sometimes there is more than one thing in a box. Each child has a different wrapping paper. The three gifts use to be a toy box, a book box and a clothes box. That has gotten a little harder as they get older. Sometimes the book box will have a movie in it! This is not tradition........but we had snow on Christmas morning. Not as much as some of our friends in Alabama, but it was a White Christmas.

Christmas Eve one present is opened for everyone. It is a new game. This year was Five Crowns which is like Gin Rummy with a twist.

Christ Eve dinner consisted of anything I could find to dip in chocolate. I had strawberries but there was a lot of chocolate left over. So we had Ritz crackers, pound cake etc. Jason and Caroline got out some CheX Mix. They didn't realize it was Bold and Spicy chex mix. I don't think we will try that again.

The Tree speaks

The Christmas tree sits in the corner.....The lights turned on in morning......and not really looked at as a "wow" tree, but our tree speaks....it speaks of our lives and our memories. And even though the tornado took several ornaments with it, some of the memories were found, wiped off and are on the tree.......
A memory of the past......... This year memories.............

Caroline tried a new sport..........

Katie Ann turned sixteen.......

Stephen was on Homecoming Court...........

Jason went to Auburn and Auburn is #1 (notice the one finger Aubie is holding up)