Where have I been?

I looked at the last time I posted. Where does the time go? I'll blame it on baseball and ballet. We have been on the go since baseball season started in early Feb. Recital time is fast approaching and as if we didn't have enough games at the high school, we have the younger leagues starting - girls t-ball and softball, Mandy' s "friend-boys" playing coach pitch. It was fun going to opening day last Saturday, brought back a lot of memories when we were there with Jake.

Well as I finish this post (a few weeks later) the team is in the first round of playoffs for South State. Mandy and I stayed behind to "spring clean" the girl scout hut and other social obigations - "Friend-boy #1 and #2" were playing each other in a rematch. Dad and Papa went to see the games today - possibility our freshmen pitchers (including my baby) might get to see some action today. We have to win two to make it to the next round.

I am going to commit to being a better blogger - keeping things up-to-date for my sake as well as anyone who wants to keep up with us. I'm still learning the ropes here and hope to improve on posting some pictures. I still have some work to do in setting up my page, I tried to change a few things and lost alot of my links. But today is going to be a beautiful spring day in my corner of the world so I'm going out to enjoy the beautiful world God's has provided for us and I'll let you know how the playoffs went.

My little cowboy's 15!

Happy Birthday Jake!

Love, Mom, Dad and Mandy and Trigger

See pictures below

Ok, I'm still new at the posting thing. The pictures below are from the Nutcracker Ballet. Mandy was one of the mice. They were adorable. Some of the pictures are from backstage. The girls were wonderful, they adapted well to the "backstage life" - just listening to some music, eating, play video games, eating, taking pictures, eating....

RATS spelled backwards is STAR!!

Pictures from the Nutcracker

Here are some of the pictures from the Nutcracker Ballet.

Trying to get that perfect shot

Well we never quite got to get our pictures to the print shop for Christmas. We had so much going on.... the Nutcracker Ballet; Mike's parents began having some health problems and Mr. C had bypass (5 bypasses) surgery the Friday before Christmas, just to name a few. And as you see, the longer it took for me to get that "perfect" shot the less patient the kids were with the photographer. But I will admit, they are great subjects to photograph, even if I am a harsh critic of my abilities to take a "good" picture.

We made it through the 1st Christmas with my family and plan to celebrate Christmas again with Mike's family sometime in late January or early February depending on Mr. C's recovery from surgery.

We celebrated my baby girl's 7th birthday on the 28th.

We hope that all of you had a very Merry Christmas. Thanks to everyone who sent us cards, we loved hearing from you and enjoyed all of the pictures.

May God bless you in the New Year!




(I can't take this anymore!!!)