Wii

Well the boys got a Wii game system for christmas. They couldn't help but invite my moma over to play. For years upon years she has played various video games, such as the Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Xbox, etc while all the time moving the controller in the way she was going. EX- If her car was driving to the left, her whole body and controller moved to the left. So this new Wii System was PERFECT for her!! Although she didn't have any idea that I was recording, she had a good time playing Adam in boxing! Here is the video! Hope you enjoy and have a great laugh!

Laughter

I am sitting here in the living room writing this. In the background I hear laughter. I was just about to get onto Adam and William , because it sounds like my house is being torn down, and I hear the most sweetest sound ever, LAUGHING They are in their bedroom playing and LAUGHING! I know this sounds crazy, but here at our house, their seems to be more fighting, etc, than laughing. Shawn has taken Andrew to the hunting camp and adam and william are here with me, (I am studying for the all dreaded Anatomy and Phisiology test tommorow). I LOVE to hear LAUGHTER! I had to document this, because with such busy schedules, I tend to forget the little things!

William is 5

These 5 years have FLOWN by!!! A former church member told me when Andrew was born, to cherish every minute because time flys! Well she was right!! I cannot believe that my baby will be 5 on Nov 4! It only seemed like yesterday he was born!!! I guess Katrina had a helping hand in erasing most of 2 years! I hope the next 5 years are as easy as these past 5 have been. William is by far been the easiest to raise. I think that is due to patience and getting OLDER!!
Here are Williams top 5

1-He absolutely loves sucking his thumb! (We are going to the orthodontist to take care of this). In his ultrasound he was sucking away, and he hasn't stopped since. Even hot sauce doesn't bother him!

2-He would much rather go to the hunting camp (or anywhere his daddy is) than go to school (even if that means missing a party or something)

3-VERY PICKY EATER!!!! Give him cereal for breakfast, sandwich for lunch and whatever we aren't having for dinner!!!!

4-Loves going to Samuels house (i think because he likes freaking his mimi out when he jumps from the top of the play house that is 12ft in the air!!)

5-Loves to learn! Give that boy a dry erase board and marker and he goes to town!!!

HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY WILLIAM!!!!!!

Andrew Turns 10!!!

I cannot believe that Andrew is 10 years old!! I am feeling OLD now!! It seems like only yesterday I was pregnant with him!!
Here are Andrews 10:
1-He has a heart of gold
2-Keeps a very MESSY room
3-Likes school a lot
4-Likes to go hunting, but doesn't want to shoot a gun yet!!
5-Plays guitar really well!
6-A great football player
7-Accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior this year!!!
8-Very competive
9-Loves broccoli
10-Wants to be JUST like his daddy!

Old friends

This week has been amazing! Shawn and I have caught up with 2 old friends! One was our best man in our wedding , we haven't seen him since 1999!!! He was Shawns' best friend in college. The other is the one responsible for getting shawn into church! Thanks GATOR! It is always nice to talk with them and catch up! DON'T LET 10 YEARS GO BY AGAIN!!!!

A not so friendly friend in my laundry room!

Imagine this.... your laundry room is detached from your house.... the door somehow stays open most all the time... You go to the laundry room to switch the load of clothes and you hear something.... you know that that means there is a RAT in there. It is overhead..... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH So you scream and run inside....... your lovely husband says "huh???" you say, there is a rat in the laundry room.... ok, he says... what are you kidding me??? get out there. o, you will be alright , he states. Um,,,, I see IT!!!!!!!!!!!! So your husband gets up, ever so slowly, goes and gets your older sons BB gun and proceeds outside. He aims @ what you guess is air, because you cannot see it, and the BB pings and hits him in the head!!!! Then you see the rat! Down the wall it went! So your smart husband puts a sticky trap (made for mice) in the line of where the friend has been seen running in hopes of it sticking to it so he may shoot it! The friend is smarter than that and leaves (we never saw it again last night!). Meanwhile your clothes never make it out of the wash. As I type this my laundry has yet to be switch and probably smell really good by now!

Adam- 9 years old

Adam is turning 9 on Wednesday. So for 2 days he and Andrew will be 9!! Crazy huh! Anyway I would like to post 9 things about Adam.

1-He is VERY compassionate! He is the first one to notice when someone is upset and needs a hug.

2- He make friends easily.

3-Adam has and always had very good grades.

4- Likes to hide drink bottles and candy wrappers under his bed!

5- Is a GREAT brother

6- He is a softy and often gets his feelings hurt easily

7- Great with little kids

8- Likes to snuggle on Saturday and Sunday mornings

9- Very polite!

Happy Birthday Adam!! I love you!

Birthdays

This week starts what seems like a month of birthdays!! Adam is first with his on the 15th, he will be 9! Andrew will be 10 on the 17th. My dad will still be old on his birthday, which is the 21st, my niece Breanna has a birthday on the 24 (I think). William will be 5 on ?Nov 4th... wheew. That is a lot of partying!!!! Happy Birthday Everyone!!

PeeWee Football

Andrew is #24 on the purple team

Adam is #58 on the blue team

Andrew and Adam have been playing peewee football these past couple of weeks. Here are some pictures of them.

Blessings

I have been convicted lately of taking things for granted. My prayers are that the Lord will open my eyes to all that I do have and not what I don't have. Life can get pretty hectic and with being in school and all, I have become overwhelmed in all that is going on and have become complacent in my walk with the Lord. I am going to make that my focus this week!

FOOTBALL IS HERE!!

So here we are again!! Football season and I LOVE IT. I especially love my AUBU
RN TIGERS!!!!! whoop whoop!! CHECK THEM OUT HERE http://auburntigers.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/aub-m-footbl-body.html

IKEY!!

In the famous (well almost) words of the late Crocodile Hunter, IKEY!!!! Can you believe that one hurricane could stretch its damage from the southern part of the U.S. to the northern part? My dad received an email from the group in Michigan, who did work on their house, he said that a 30 block radius had flood because of the Kalamazoo River overflowing, because of ole ike. Also, our church is collecting items (non-perishables) that NOAA will be picking up. These need to be to the church,no later than noon MONDAY! Come on people, The NATION helped us when Katrina hit, Can we GIVE BACK!!! Also pray for Kalamazoo, MI, the area that was flooded was the low income part, we need to pray about getting them help too. Tootles!

Prayer

Keep Texas in your prayers this week. They have alot of cleaning up to do.

Update on Meghan

I recieved an email tonight saying that Meghan had moved all of her toes. She should start PT in the morning. God is SO GOOD! They don't know what caused her stroke yet. There were no blood clots, or anyerisms (or however you spell it!). Just thankful she is getting better,

Meghan Aycock

Please pray for my 2nd cousin, Meghan. She just turned 21 a few days ago, and she has had a stroke. All i know is that her left side is numb. Please be in prayer that God heals her body and brings her through this. Also pray for her parents, Steve and Charlene and her older brother Michael.

Also needing your prayers is Shawns twin sister, Shannon. She has to have an operation somewhere in her neck area. I am not sure what for or when. I will keep updates posted

Gustav Pictures

THIS WAS ABOUT 15 MINUTES AGO.

Hurricane Pictures

I am working on taking some pictures to post. I will have them up in an hour or so. Shawn is going to adventure out (like an idiot) and take some. Last night he was nervous, looks like a kid wanting to ride his bike in the rain.

Hurricane Parties

Here is what we do when we are BORED!

This is Adams yearbook picture.

Other things we have been doing include: sleeping, taking the dogs out in this weather!, and eating junk food. Watching the hot weatherman named Jim Cantore, and sitting on our behinds.

gustav update

Seems to us that Gustav was a dud. Not a whole lot of action here.

All is still well. The wind is starting to pick up. More later......

GUSTAV:((

It is Sunday, around 9pm. Gustav should be here by morning. Things right now are OK. It is raining and a little wind. Things are supposed to deteriorate quickly. We will keep posting every hour or so until we lose power and Internet.

Our chicken

Due to the phone calls from my neighbor to the police, our dear rooster has been captured and release elsewhere!. What a weirdo! Who calls the police on a CHICKEN???

GUSTAV:(

Our family will probably be staying put for this storm. I will update every now and then and try to post pictures also. keep us in your prayers. Shawn has driven me nuts today. I think the only channel we watched was the Weather Channel. Now you have to know that growing up we woke up and went to be to the weather channel. So this was a very familar thing. However, he really lost it when he stepped outside to "check the wind". I just cracked up! Understand that this is Saturday and the storm doesn't make landfall until WEDNESDAY! Like i said , please keep us in your prayers!

Prayer

Please be in prayer for my older sisters family. They found out yesterday that her husband, scott, will be deployed before christmas. he is set to retire next year. pray that he stays safe.

And there off!

My older sister left to back home to Germany yesterday and this is a picture of all of her luggage tags and her luggage! All 10 bags!

Our Rooster!

Last week as I was leaving our house, which is in the city, I walked out the front door and saw this Rooster! Suprisingly, it is showing up! William named him chicken oatmeal!

38 Years

I have been meaning to do this for a week or so now. So here it goes. 38 things about Shawn for his 38th birthday.

1-He is absolutely the best thing that has ever happened to me.

2-He is very smart

3- Hates to open "pop" biscuits from the can

4- Snores like there is no tommorow!

5-Has a very good sense of direction!

6- Admits when he is wrong, even it is days later!

7- Is better with our boys than I am

8- The biggest redneck I know!

9- Can fix anything without reading directions

10- Very thoughtful

11- Picks out the best presents. He really does put alot of time into it

12-Hates a messy house

13- Has to have the thermostat on 72 or lower

14- A very good deer and turkey hunter

15- Is like a little kid when it comes to his birthday and Christmas! He always tries to figure out what his presents are. Even quizzes the kids!

16-Loves the Lord with his whole heart

17- Plays some guitar

18- Very patient with me and the boys

19-Misses his old college friends badly

20- Would love to go on a guided elk hunt or something like that

21- Misses living in the country

22- The best husband and daddy EVER!

23- Wakes up at the butt crack of dawn everyday, even on his off days!

24- Put his mind to something and gets after it!

25- Can make friends with a fence post!

26- Used to repo cars

27- Loves his new truck

28- Wants his boys to grow up with the daddy he never had

29- Knows that he has the best wife ever!( Had to add that one!)

30- Gets frustrated with his coworkers when they act stupid

31- Has a heart made of GOLD

32- Lets the kids and myself know that we can do anything we put our mind to and encourages us every step of the way

33- Hates leftovers

34- Wants to retire whenever I get done with school! (Ha Ha to that one!!!)

35- Has a twin sister who he loves very much

36- Cares very much for his family

37- Very good listener

38- Is one more year older!! HE hates that!!!

Up the river

Daddy took everyone on his boat earlier this summer and tried us ALL on the float thing. Here are a couple of the pictures!

First Day of School & Birthday

Today was the first day of school and also my 28th birthday. Everything went really well. We got up this morning, Andrew and Adam were excited! Andrew is in the 4th grade and Adam is in the 3rd grade. William started preschool this year because I have some day classes at the college. I start my fall classes on Aug 21. My grades came in on Monday, and I received all A's!! I never thought that I could make A's!! Hopefully this semester will be as good as the last! Pray for me!

Finals

Say some prayers for me this week. Finals are here and there is alot of studying that has to be done! Summer break is coming to a close and the kids are getting restless also. Hopefully we will get in some playtime when finals are over!

William learns to ride a BIKE!!!!!

William told Shawn today that he wanted to take his training wheels off!! He learned in about 30 minutes!!! GO WILLIAM!! Sorry for the shaky camera , Andrew was our videographer!!

Andrew thought he was safe!!
Yea Right!!

Adam trying to hide his face!!!

AHHH look who has the hose

Samuel

My older sister and her oldest came over today with my nephew, Samuel. They went swimming and as you can tell, Samuel didn't take to the swimming pool! He was terrrifed!

Matthews Birthday

ISLANDS!!!

Ok, you cannot see it in any of these pictures,but there were dolphins jumping infront of the ship!!

Let me explain. Andrew was stung by a jellyfish. Shawn told them to go and let Adam pee on it! So they went behind us and DID IT!!!

Little cute Nathan!! He loved the water! (this is allison's little one)

William is busy building a sand castle.

David, fresh from Germany with his white skin!

What is wrong with Nathans nose???? TaDA, the lifejacket rubbed it raw! And suntan lotion gave him a rash:(

GOSSELINS

I contacted Jon and Kate Gosselin last year about coming to our church, they came! Here are two pictures of them. The upper is of The Gosselins and Red Roots, the lower is of Kate and myself.

Here is a picture of the boys during our vacation to Gatlinburg, TN

A wonderful husband

I just want to brag on my WONDERFUL husband a little. There are some things that you learn about a person over 10 years of marriage.
1-He REALLY does have our best interest at heart (even though in the beginning i didn't think so)
2- He will work really hard on something if I ask him to.
3- He is like a 12 year old on birthdays, christmas and just about any holiday!
4- He isn't content with the job he has, he would like to move up the ladder (and is working everday to do so)
5- Our boys ADORE him!
6- Little things make him glow.

10 years

Has it really been 10 years since I graduated high school??? Saturday night was my reunion and I have to say... so many people have changed. I thought surely that things were probably still the same, but I was quite surprised!

Diabetes

Please keep Shawn in your prayers. He went to the doctor last week and they told him that his sugar was elevated. He went again today and got the diagnosis. He has type 2. Shawn is very upset about this. I hope that we will be able to control it with diet and exercise. Please keep him in your prayers.

Shawns truck

yep, we are now proud owners of a ford 150, shawns old truck was on its way out, so we decided it was time to replace it! He looks like a kid at a candy store in it! Fits like a glove--

Prayers Answered

Scott and Ashley bought a house!! Their offer was accepted on the house they chose!! They will be here for good next summer! The couple that sold them the home will be renting it until they find one!! God is good!

A Quiet Day

Today this kids went with my parents to the islands. Shawn and I enjoyed a much needed day of QUIET!! We went grocery shopping and enjoyed lunch alone! What a first! This evening the girls (my mom, my sisters and I) went to Olive Garden for Ashleys birthday, which was in May, but since she was in Germany we held off. We had a very good time, but I promise you the staff probably thought we'd had 1 too many! Although when we all get together we act like that anyway! I promise you none of had anything to drink!!

Our Family

Please keep our family in your prayers this summer. So much is going on and I want to enjoy the kids! Andrew has started guitar lessons, along with Andrew and Adam attending our church events on Tuesdays. I have started college, finally. I chose the summer (what was I thinking!) to start, so that I may take a few required courses back to back in the fall and spring. I am what you would say "Digging for those A's"! My older sister, Ashley, is in the states for the summer, and we are enjoying her company. Keep her in your prayers as she looks for a house to purchase. Her family will be back home permantley next summer!!!