Homecoming 2008

Courtney & Ronnie - Oh soo cute!

On there way to Dovers Homecoming- "A Night To Remember"


This picture was taken after Homecoming, but before a night of crazy movies. I just want to say..I have never screamed so much in my whole life. I don't watch scary movies and I remember why now! We watched the old 80's Prom Night and well. Ronnie made the comment, next time we watch movies he wants it to be a movie he has seen just so he can watch my face...yeah...comical! They stayed up untill after 6AM watching movies! I went to bed after 5AM. Another funny, they came in my bedroom which is right by the livingroom where I had my door open watching the last movie when I fell asleep, and went to tell me that Courtney was leaving to take Ronnie home and they siad I umped off the bed about four feet. Yeah, It was great! I think the kids had a great time too. : )

My Son - "THE ARTIST"

LUKE SKYWALKER

EMPEROR PALPATINE

PRINCESS LEIA

MASTER YODA

These are a few drawings of my son's. He is quite the little artist.

As you can tell he loves to draw Star Wars. I have encouraged him to draw since he was just a small child as I to have a love for drawing. He draws all kinds of cartoon characters, some made up, some others made. It is so neat to see his creations. One of the greatest things about it is I decided instead of his current medium-crayon's, colored pencils and the such to buy him a set of real drawing pencils. When he got these shading pencils it all came to a new level. He creates such great dimension and life likness with his shading. Now I am his Mom, so I am prejedice. And then we went to disney and while we were there went into the artist studio and were taught the proper way to design and draw. Of course we did this several times being that it was our forte. Later we spotted a drawing book for Star Wars characters. It teaches you how to sketch these characters. Well the combo of a book and the right tools and wa-law. These are what you get. At first when we saw them we thought he was tracing. But that is totally not the case. He does so well and I am so proud of him I just want to share it with the world! Great Job Brock. Oh yeah, BTW- I showed two of his drawings (Emperor Palpatine & Luke Skywalker) to a friend that is an art teacher and he thought he did a great job with the shading on Luke. Sorry, can you tell I am proud of him : )

Change is comming, I never new it would be so hard...

It is 2:20am...as I sit here writing this tonight. It is a very sad and wonderful night all in one. My husband and I had a heart to heart tonight as we lay in bed. (*Tip-If you have a tv in your bedroom, get rid of it. Since we have, we have some of our deepest, most heartfelt conversations laying in bed at night) Our oldest child is just that...not a child anymore. I have tried so hard over the years to guide and protect her to the best of my abilities, but my time is soon to be over. To this day I have pretty good control over her despite the fact she is 18 years old & a Senior in High School. She is trying so desperately to find out who she is and instead of letting her go to spread her wings, I am holding her back, even tighter than ever before. I can see things ahead that she can't and I can't bear to let her put herself through those bad situations and get hurt. Yet through my efforts to save her, I am losing her... She is still my baby and I want to protect her from this world that can be so cruel, yet I am pushing her away... I want her to have a perfect life, without the common misgivings of relationships & bad choices, yet I am running her right into the arms of those very things I am afraid of... I am loosing her, by trying to save her... I guess I am writing tonight to help myself, in letting go and giving her life over to God completely. I always knew it would be hard and yet I never anticipated how hard, nor how much it would hurt. I love her sooo much words cannot say. So for you, as you read this-Hold your little ones close and enjoy the time you have, every moment. For it was just a short time ago she was entrusted to me from the Lord to raise and now my time is nearly done. It will be a new season in our relationship...One of many sorrows and many joys, for I am sure. So I will treasure these last few months of her childhood and look forward to her upcoming time of young adulthood.
I love you baby girl...always and forever...

First Day of School Scrapbook Pages!

August 22nd, 2008-Brock started his first day of his Fourth Grade year! Here are Two scrapbook pages I made of his first day of school. WoW! How time flies by. So far he is enjoying school very much and he loves his teacher mabie even more than his Kindergarten Teacher! Now that is hard to top!

Science was his favorite subject when he started school. However, he has now added History to the list. He is so smart, he amazes me with the things he is learning. He is learning about our State and is having a blast. His class is taking a trip to the State House this year. Were looking forward to a great new year!