Ouch!

And this is the face you make when the ball hits your hand instead of the bat. I felt to so bad for her. That had to hurt. Well, it is softball season. I really did not want her to play softball this season, but really it has been a life saver. She loves it. Plain and simple, she loves it. She loves her team and she enjoys playing with them. Oh, and I am not a mean mommy. She shook her hand a few times and continued on with batting practice. I will post some fun photos from this weekend when my computer decides to obey me. Lots of outfielders running to get balls hit by my daughter. Fun times!

Insanity

We have had a truely insane weekend. Grace had 7 games yesterday. Seven. We started at 7:45 at the soccer fields and we left the softball field at 11:24pm with first place trophies for both tournaments! You would think she would be falling over tired (I was). NOPE. I am very proud of her. We were running from one field to another. She didn't miss any games and she played her heart out. We got to one softball game right as she was up to bat, her coach was calling us and pretty nervous, she is third batter. She ran to the field and batted and when she made it around the bases she ran to the dugout and asked if she had time to go to the bathroom! Even through the last softball game she was yelling cheers and having a blast. I think she thrives in this enviroment. Free time drives her crazy. I have tried to get her to rest and watch movies and read books today and she wants to run around and play outside. Sean came to some of the games, we didn't think Garrett should have to spend his day running around and going from field to field, so he had a dad and Garrett day, until the last couple of games, he fell alseep in my lap at the ballfield. I have a feeling this is just the beginning of insane busy weekends.

Julie wants seven random facts about me.
1. 4th grade science is kicking my butt. Seriously, do you remember the 5 layers of the atmosphere or all of Newtons laws?
2. I am becoming a scrap product collecter instead of a scrapper. I need to make time to scrap.
3. Sunday after church I will google the words to songs the band sings so I can find the songs on itunes. Then when I mow the lawn or I am folding clothes I can listen to worship songs. They usually sound better coming from the band at church, but I have found some great artists and songs this way.
4. I am a Big Brother junkie. I read the spoiler threads at a couple of sites. This seasons people are skanks. Seriously and you don't know that unless you read the spoilers.
5. I love the movie Enchanted, but I cannot look at McDreamy and not be mad at him because he is not with Merideth.
6. I volunteer in the office at my children's school once a week and I love it. I miss having other adults to talk to.
7. I have been wearing flip flops and my toenails are not even painted yet. Really, I have no business wearing any kind of shoe that shows my toenails or cracked heals, I need to take care of that!

Random

Miss http://julieamberjones.typepad.com/ tagged me to post 7 random things about myself. I really can't think of 7 radom things so I decided to post 7 random photos I have taken.

Soccer Season!

Basketball was over on Tuesday and Saturday we will be in Russellville playing soccer. She is going to be on a basketball team that plays some tournament in the Spring and Summer so hopefully I will get the lens I need for bball pictures, but until then here is a soccer picture from the Fall. I love her serious expression. She didn't care that the girl was a head taller than her. She stood her ground! I hope for her that is a life lesson!

Daddy and Daughter Dance

They clean up pretty well don't they! It was amazing to go from her basketball jersey and ponytail to curly hair and a dress! She is so beautiful and grown up! (I may be a little bias!) Sean got her a Webkinz for her little present and then they get to dance! Gracie loves going to Minnesota for weddings because she knows she will get to dance, she loves it! Garrett and I are just going to hang out and eat McDonalds (only because that is the "special" thing he wants to do with mommy! YEA!)

SNOW!!!

Our lovely snowman is now face down on the ground, but it was fun while it lasted!

Toothless Wonder

I know it is not the best picture, but he is so cute with his toothless smile!
This is not the first tooth he has lost, but it has been over a year since he lost his other two. He was so excited that the toothfairy was coming and he woke up the whole house yelling about the two dollars the tooth fairy left him! It has been a while since I wrote about him. He is reading little words and adding numbers! He would play video games 24/7 if we let him. He is so excited about teeball. We signed him up last Sunday and he is ready to play! He is growing up too quickly, the other day Sean asked him if he would stop growing and he told daddy that he had to grow up! But he is not getting married when he grows up because he is going to be Darth Vader and Darth Vader is not married.

I Scrapped!

My house is a total mess and I have a mountain of laundry to do, but I scrapped! My BIL and his wife had a baby on Dec 27th so I bought several outfits and I made an album to send. We didn't know she was a girl until she was born so I have had fun finding cute girly stuff to send. I really struggled witht he album though. I am a simple scrapper and felt like it was a little to simple so I kept adding things so it may have too many ribbons. Anyway, it is done.

Save!

I know this picture is so blurry it is not even funny, but I love it. She dove on that ball (the black and white blur)! It was an awesome save. She has not touched a soccer ball since the KC tourney, but she did pretty well for being rusty. Right now it is basketball, basketball, and more basketball. She is having a really good season so there will be basketball pictures soon, I was just really proud of the picture (not the photography ability but the save)!

A Wii Christmas

We had a nice quiet Christmas at home. The kids (and by kids I mean G&G and Sean) played Wii most of the day. I have really never played video games, but this is addicting!

Oh The Christmas Solo Drama

There are like people here.

Um, seriously, a lot of people

Maybe if I look this way they will go away

Deep breaths

I am saying a prayer.


maybe if I look at the ceiling

Or just look at my brother on the front row dancing to Silent Night





That wasn't so bad.

Seriously, I don't have pictures of her coming off the stage and I had to go talk her into going back up there. She stood doubled over for the three songs before her solo. Sean had to go on the stage to tell her she was ok. A teacher also went onstage to pray with her hoping it would calm her. The turtle neck was not a good choice. She about tore the thing off. (I guess the whole sweater dress, cami, tights and sherpa(?) lined boots while cute were very hot). I was very proud of her though. She sang the last verse of Silent Night and hit every high note. She really does have a beautiful voice. She received lots of encouragement from her friends on stage with her. Sereval people told me at school the next day that they had been praying for her. She needed it. I think the choir teacher needed those prayers also, she was very nervous when her soloist almost passed out onstage!

The Christmas Parade

Some families in our neighborhood got together and made a float for the parade and invited Grace and Garrett to be on it. Grace had a blast. Garrett wasn't all that impressed, until he saw some people he knew. It was a lot of fun and I got to meet some more of our neighbors with children the same age as mine! I love our neighborhood!

Just take the picture

and cut down the tree so we can go, it's cold out here!!

We actually got the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. Do you think it is decorated? Uh, no. It has lights and ornaments, but it is so tall that I can not reach the top(even with the ladder, I almost killed myself yesterday trying) to put the ribbons on. Sean will have to do that. I don't have the other tree that I can reach done either. I do have the trees in the kids rooms decorated. Gracie picked a red and silver theme this year and Garrett picked blue and silver. I have the weaths on the door and light fixtures and the mailbox. I made a button tree (it took forever!) and a paper tree, and I have some of my cards done. I love Christmas, but I love it a lot more when all the decorating and projects are done. I will post pictures soon (I hope it is done soon!)

Christmas Photo Shoot

This was so much fun!