The Spelling Bee

Before the big event. Can't you tell he was nervous.


Him hiding in his seat :)


Him spelling the word, look at the already emptied seats.


Him leaving the stage :(


The group with there certificate

Today was the big day for Peyton. He was one of 36 kiddos that made it to the spelling bee in his school. YEA! He drew number 33 so he was happy to be in the back row. He was pretty nervous to go up in front of the whole school and parents and do this. I tried to calm him down, but this was a big thing for him. He was up against 4th and 5th graders. One by one the kids was failing to spell the words right so I knew this event was going to go fast. Ok it was Peyton's turn and the word is PRAGMATIC. He asks for the definition and they gave it to him. He then asks for the word again, and he says PRADMATIC. The next thing he here's is, this is incorrect so he is out, just like that it was over. Six kids made it to round 2 and then was left with 2. It took 22 minutes for the whole thing. He was pretty moody the rest of the day. I was so proud of him, one he made it and two he was a young chicken. He will have next year and the year after that.

The NEW YEAR

The new year has began. Nothing new for our family, we tend not to make resolutions because let's face it, who can keep them. My husband and I did make a few, be a more patient with the boys and make more time for us. I want a new hair do and that is one of my resolutions. When I reflect on the past year (2008). It has been good to us in the long hall. We had some ups and some downs, but all and all we are blessed. Our family is healthy. Something great that made the end of the year special was that Malynda found me and we are going to start meeting every month or at least every other month and keep in touch. Our first outing will happen on Jan. 10th. My boys are so excited for this. The two youngest have never met her or Nick. I can't believe how much Nick has grown up. He is such a handsome young man. He is happy! I get to also meet his future wife. This year I do want to keep in touch with family better that is further away and we can't see often. I am going to make a point to go to Mt. Home when my cousin from Iowa comes down. (Give me as much notice as possible please). This summer is also when a good friend is coming for a visit from Germany. I can't wait for that either. Her boys are getting so big and my boys (especially Kyle) can't wait to see them. So I am hoping that 2009 will be a great year for our family.

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I have been kinda down with my step dad and his surgery. We are waiting to see if he has to undergo radiation on top of the the surgery. They did have to take a hand full of nerves. Though he did get his catheter out yesterday. I know he was relieved of that. We are going up to see the family tomorrow. This is a quit trip for us. I do have to work Monday and Tuesday. The kids have been out of school due to icy weather so they have a short week this week, only 3 days. Today is the Christmas parties at school and I am headed up there to help. I will get some pics of that.

Kyle and his new glasses

Well we have had a lot go on in the past month, my sister got in an auto wreck, my dad was diagnosed with cancer, my brother's house flooded, my aunt was in an auto wreck 2 days ago, my other aunt had some cancer removed from her face, and my sister's boyfriend was arrested again for driving without a license. You would think they would learn there lesson after the 10th time. I wish they would just live by the rules given to them and one day after the time is up things would be good. Her poor kiddos need to see them do this. They are so sweet and innocent. I just want the best for my niece and nephew and sister.

Well Kyle has had to get some glasses, we got them today and he is already not wanting to wear them. He will have to get used to them. He is supposes to wear them all the time.

My heating unit is working great. We have had some cold weather.

My AC/HEAT UNIT is in

Well, not completely yet. They are here and working on it as we speak. I cannot wait to have an efficient unit with less electric and gas bills.

Thank you so much Jolee for your comments. I miss talking to you. I hate that it is rainy season for you. Do you flood? Or is it just always a drizzle or mist? It is a great day today and we won't even need to turn or new unit on. Our football season has been great, just one HOT game. The rest have been perfect. We have three more games to go. Oh I take that back. Last game was cold and rained the whole game, and I don't mean drizzle, I mean rain. We were like wet puppies.

Busy and more...

I have not been myself lately. I think everyone goes through this once in a while. We have just had alot go on in our family. Nothing major, well for my brother and his family, yes it is major. They are doing ok. Still have no home. It might be 6 months or more before they can get back to home.

Well when my brother left my house a week later our heating and air unit went out. So we have been trying to get quotes and taking the boys to practice, going to games. I have been working a lot. We are gearing up for basketball season, by the way. Peyton does not get to play this year. He is having a bad attitude with everything so we are going to have to take a break. Kyle does not want to play, which is ashamed. I am not going to force anything on my kiddos.

Here is a slide show of some of the pics I took while my brother was here.

Update on puppies and more

The puppies are doing good. We servived one week, boy was it a long week. The are suprising me by going in there kenenal without being put in there for naps. They have not peaed in the kenenal for 4 days now. They are sleeping all night. They do love to play with each other. Domiono is the friendlist. Pumpkin is more playful. We fixed the backyard and are letting them go out back for a period of time (15 mins.) They are so little we had to fix all the holes in the pickets and the ground around the pickets. They just slide under them. They seem to love it back there. So things are ok right now with them.

I am going to move on to Galvestion. My brother lives there, they have a business. Well they were going to right the hurricane out and stay. Well on the day the storm was moving in and the only was off the island was becoming flooded. They decided to leave, but the in-laws stayed. Not good, my brother and wife and son are at a friends house in Dallas and was told there drug store was flooded with about 3 ft of water. In the mean while his wife got a call for help from her parents. So the rescue team went and got them and as of right now they do not know where they are at, but did recieve a call that they we ok (I would guess by the rescue team). She should be hearing from them soon to see which shelter they are at. They haven't decided what they are going to do, but it could be up to a month before they can get on the island, so they might be coming here. I would love to see my brother and his family, I just hate that it is on this note. But he does have a bunch of friends here and he might just make the best of it. He is needs to be strong for his family and make good choices right know.

Am I CRAZY??

Well, we did not get to play any football games this week or weekend due to the heavy rain we had from Gustav. I am so glad that it has moved on and things can start drying out. But in the meanwhile our friends had some puppies about 6 or so weeks ago. I told them I would take one of them. It is a mutt. They had 5 girls and one boy. Well they called and was taking them to the vet for there first round of shots. When they arrived, it was funny, there were 3 of Davids buddies here and a friend of Peyton's here. So needless to say there was a crowd. Well everyone had there favorites. Jason and I picked the same one. That was good, we usually cannot decide well. But the boys of course had another one picked. They were begging to keep them both, so Jason said ok, we will take 2. WHAT!!! I was like NO WAY, but he said they aren't going to be that big. About 15 or so pounds a piece. I asked her if I cannot handle them both for a week would she take one back. She said yes. But the boys are so good with them right now, we all know that will soon fade. Long story short, we got to females. Fun Fun for me!!
The pictures are at the end of the slide.

And he gets

to play. The Dr. said that this is going to have to heal over time and if he can tolerate the pain or discomfort he can play. So he is going to try to practice today. We will see when Jason picks him up how he feels.

He called it A fusion (i think), basically if he was an adult and we did what he did it would have just pulled a muscle or a tendon, but since his is beginning his puberty the muscle pulled a piece of bone off the hip bone. He said if could of happened anywhere it just so happen to get him there.