Aleigh Band 2010

End of the year activities fill our calendar. Here is Aleigh's band concert. They played three songs, /Athens fight song, La Cucaracha and Born to be Wild. Aleigh played the flute this year and plans to next year. The 6th grade and won a first place trophy this year at UIL, this is a first at Athens Middle School. Way to Go!

Mom Day

Well no pics for this but I had a great mother's day on sunday, so great I did not even live the house. The girls made me breakfast in bed. They made a menu and I got to pick what I wanted. I picked waffles, I think that was a good idea because eggs and bacon was a choice and I know they dont know how to cook bacon. Then I laid in bed all morning watching Superman (the original) with the girls trying to explain why it was so slow and the things people were wearing in the movie. It was made the year I was born 1978, I did not realize it was so old. Then Alex made me a grill cheese sandwich with chips for lunch. After that I laid in bed watching Julie and Juliet, it was cute but long. Kinda makes me want to learn to cook french food but I have enough irons in the fire right now. My kids tried to convince me that we all needed to go out for supper so that someone else could cook for me on mothers day.......oddly I (mother) would have had to pay so I cooked supper and invited my mother over. Madalyn was in town so she came also. We had a good ole discussion about being mothers and how since Madalyn is going to school she is no longer a fan of spanking kids. Curious to know why .......I love to hear people with no kids tell me how to raise kids or how people should raise their children.......She would make her points which I have heard before and I made mine from experience. My mother even stated she tried the no spanking with me at first. So after about one hour of this we started to fight...........we got mad.......we gripped to others..........we made up. We agree to disagree about spanking I just hope Madalyn lives fairly close to me when she does have children, Haha. Gotta love family.

Alex baseball

This is Alex's last year to play for this baseball league. Team name is the Tigers, colors purple and yellow. There are several kids still on the team from last year but most kids were to old to play again this year. This is the first game and we won. The top picture is Alex batting first. The first ball came his way and he hit it almost out of the field and the other team caught it making out 1. The rest of the game the other team would not even allow Alex to bat they just sent him to first base. I am sure there is a name for that but I dont know it. Anyhow he was mad cause he really wanted to bat more but the other team was scared.....Go Tigers!

Alex basketball

Crazy me thinking that all I would have to do right now is watch baseball. Alex has signed up for a short term basketball team. They have no practices and only games. The games are tues and thurs for three weeks. A little weird if you ask me but I am just a mom what do I know?

Well as you can tell I do not know a thing about gardening. I planted entirely too much in my little raised garden. The tomato plants are on the left and growing like crazy. I have 4 tomato plants and little yellow flowers are starting to bloom (I am told that a tomato will grow there). The cucumbers on the right growing up the white latus are growing like crazy (this pic does not show that growth as good as it is. We will have cucumbers out the wazoo. The lettuce and pepper plants are slowly growing. Pole beans are growing behind the tomato plants. The two blue buckets: one is strawberries, Aleigh counted 7 strawberries growing, the other bucket is squash. This is fun and I check the garden daily. Cant wait til something grows. It will be great this summer to walk out cut lettuce, get cucumber, squash, peppers and tomatoes right out of the garden, Yum!!

Casey

This is Casey he is one of three dogs we have. Dont let that sad look fool you he is spoiled rotten. Casey loves it inside the house. He loves the kids too. Casey will follow the kids around and go wherever they go. He is loyal, smart and a big teddy bear.

Money Pit

This is David my boyfriend working on his project the boat "Money Pit" as we named it last year. He has lots of projects that I give him but this is his own project. He is redoing all the interior and flooring. He has been changing out the gauges and other boat stuff that I do not know about already. He is replacing the seat also. We had a blast with the boat last year, I even went tubing. The kids are already ready to go out on the boat now. Having a boat is fun but a lot of money as we have found out. BOAT bust out another thousand.