WE have been Busy.

Brooklyn has started a new school - Heritage Academy and she is playing fast pitch softball on the varsity team. She loves it. SCHOOL and PLAYING SOFTBALL. She plays s 2nd base. She is doing so good. We are so proud of her. She is only in the 6th grade and 11 years old - playing on the High School team. All of the girls have been so nice - parents too. Coach Ginny Lowery and Coach Bruce Branch are both from New Hope and two great coaches. We love Heritage - wish we would have done this a long time ago. These girls work hard and it has been a big adjustment coming from playing slow pitch all summer and to switch back to fast pitch. But, Brooklyn is hitting the ball - base hits and RBI's - and moving the runner is what I keep telling her and she is doing a great job at 2nd. That was an adjustment too. WE are having fun. She also has 2 great teachers this year. Mrs. DeGrange is Brooklyn's teacher and Mrs. Baird is her Science teacher. She only has 14 students in her class so it is a lot of one on one - which I like. Switching gears - please say a prayer for me. I have had severe nausea for the last 3 weeks. I passed a big kidney stone last Tuesday morning about 2:00 am. After going to Greenville Mississippi for a softball game. And I am still nauseaed. They think maybe now it is my gallbladder. I had a sonogram today to look at my gallbladder and stomach. I have a upper GI tomorrow. I hope to get this taken care of before we go to DISNEY in 88 days. 2 days after Thanksgiving. So, I have to have something done SOON. Well, I have got to go - game this afternoon. GO LADY PATRIOTS..........

It's been A LONG TIME.............

I did not realize that it has been so long since I have been on here. I have to admitted (facebook) will do it to you. SORRY.......... Anyway. We have been busy with softball. Brooklyn really enjoys softball this year. I was scared after all the DRAMA we had last summer with the fastpitch traveling team we played on from New Hope. But..... She has LOVED playing this summer. We had 3 Awesome Coaches and 10 Awesome friends that she made while playing the park ball. We tied for the park league. 14 - 2 for the season. I will post some pictures later. She was PICKED for ALLSTARS. So we are practicing everyday for that. We have practice today at 2. She is still playing shortstop and loves it. I have to brag she is an AWESOME athlete. It is so fun to watch her play any sport. I have a lot of parents come up to me and say (whoevers name - their daughter) always hated it when we played Brooklyn because they knew Brooklyn was going to throw them out from shortstop to 1st base or Brooklyn was going to hit the ball hard and it was going to be a homerun. Even the coaches from the other teams said the same thing. That Brooklyn had a good arm and was so smooth throwing the ball to 1st and it usually got that person out. It is so nice to hear. It makes me so PROUD. Well I have got to get going - CHURCH - to eat at Moms - go to softball practice and then to the river with my best friend - Steph and her family. Busy day - it will not be so long next time.

THANKS MRS. SMITH

I just want to Thank Brooklyn's 5th grade teacher (Mrs. Candace Smith). She nominated Brooklyn for the Junior National Young Leaders Conference held this summer in Washington, DC. Based on Brooklyn's academic achievements and leadership potential. We are so proud of Brooklyn. She is such a BLESSING to us and I don't know what we would do with out her. Anyway, Thank you Mrs. Smith. We will miss you next year. If you are looking for a great teacher for 5th grade at New Hope - I would advise you to pick Mrs. Candace Smith. The Best of the Best!!!! Thank you again - Mrs. Smith

OPENING Day for SOFTBALL Season

Today was the opening day for softball in Caledonia. Brooklyn had her game at 9:00 this morning and Maggie (playing Wee-Ball) had her game at 10:00. They both did a great job. Brooklyn is playing short-stop and has been doing a great job at that position. She came ready to play ball this morning because she hit the ball good and got on bases every time. Even..... HIT A HOMERUN!!!!!!!!!!!!! That ended the game because we were tied and when she hit that it was all over.

Maggie made her MiMi proud. She got up there and hit the ball off of the tee every time and ran her bases. I am so proud of her - I did not know how she was going to like it since she is such a girly girl. She even went for the ball when the other team was hitting. I am proud of you two.

Here are a few pictures. I got more of Maggie than Brooklyn (because I had to keep the book - in Brooklyn's game).

Hope you all have a Happy Easter.

KREATIV BLOGGER AWARD

My friend Tracy gave me this award. The rules are easy. I tell you seven things I like and then pass it to seven other bloggers for them to do the same.

Okay Tracy....... Here we go.

1. I love getting up on Sunday morning to go to church. It just makes me feel better and makes me feel like I can handle each day better being able to spend it with God and my Church family.

2. I love being a wife, mother, daughter, sister, aunt, granddaughter, niece and best friend to all of my family that I care about the most.

3. I love warm, sunny days and enjoy the daylight savings time. I love it getting darker later now. The only down side is that we go to bed between 8:00 - 8:30 pm each night which is kind of hard to do right now.

4. I love being able to get outside and watch my husband and daughter play golf, basketball, softball and soccer. I had back surgery 4 years ago and I still have not gotten over the surgery so it is hard for me not to get out and play with them. I played sports all of my life and that is something that is hard for me to handle (not being able to play with them).

5. I am thankful for a wonderful and awesome God, a wonderful family, church family and all of my friends that make me smile each and every day.

6. I love spending time with my family and watching my daughter, nieces, and nephews grow in Christ each and every day. I love it when my niece and nephew SCREAM my name MiMi out so I can pay attention to what they are doing.

7. I am thankful that we have a VERY smart daughter that tries her best in everything she does and suceeds in everything she does. She loves GOD and loves going to church to be the best she can be. She has always made us proud in everything she does - church, school, sports and friends. That is what makes me Happy about Life. LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE. I LOVE MY LORD JESUS CHRIST WHO DIED TO SAVE ME FROM MY SINS. I LOVE MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND(my best friend), Daughter, Mom, Dad, Sister and Brother and my BFF Steph.



Okay, so I pass this along to seven of my blog friends. They are: Samantha, Candace - (Brooklyn's Best 5th grade teacher in the world), Eva, Pam, Shannon Brister, Ashley Wyers, and Lea Ann Oglesby

More Snow

We even got to go 4 wheeler riding in the snow. The kids loved it. We went back into the woods behind the house even over to Keith and Alisons and Mrs. Mary Vaughn and Mrs. Kays.

Snow!!!!!!!!!

Here are a few pictures of the snow. Sorry, taking so long to post. Here it goes.

We had LaLa, Uncle Ashley, Maggie and Hays come down to play awhile. You could see the snow start melting.