Christopher is 5!!!!

Well Christopher's 5th birthday was this past Friday. I took cookies to his k4 class and of course took pictures. After school we went to walmart and he picked out his gift from Aunt Nelie, it was a little car crusher set with 5 cars. He loves it. We had pizza for his birthday dinner and he opened our presents. He got a spiderman computer, an. Auburn outfit, walkie talkies, spiderman plate cup and bowl set, and some other small things. He had a ball.

Saturday we had his party. He got several things from his other friends and family. Thank you everyone for coming and for his gifts. I made the cake and it was an ordeal. I started it Friday night. When I made the icing, it tasted really bad so I threw it away and sent Barry to walmart at 9 PM to get me more crisco and powdered sugar. We had a little miss communication and he brought back one pound of powdered sugar and I needed 2 pounds so I had to wait til Saturday morning to get the other sugar. So he went back to walmart early Saturday morning to get the powdered sugar. Then I made and decorated the cake. It was spiderman. So I drew a spiderweb and put spiderman on the web. Well the web was blue with red lines throught, but at first the red looked hot pink. On a boys cake. Not good. But by the time of the party the hot pink turned red and was fine. Everyone liked the cake. It was strawberry with the iciing homemade. Alot of work but well worth it.

At the party, while opening gifts, Christopher and Peyton were sitting together. The last gift he opened was a card from Pop. Pop put 2 $20 bills in it. Christopher has one in each hand and is talking to Peyton. He hands Peyton one and tells her "now you can go shopping". SHe takes the $20 and runs through the house. This was the cutest, funniest kid thing I have seen in awhile. Yes, she gave it back, eventhought he gave it to her, with her moms encouragement. Then they all went outside and played. They had a great time.

I hope all has a great week.

WOW what a week!!

I have an eventful week. It started out Sunday afternoon as being a hostess for a friends Baby Shower at church. Belinda really deserved the wonderful shower she received for Baby Caylee Grace Elise Chappell. She had a great turnout and some many gifts that we told her she may have to rent a storage building for all the nice things. As I said I was one of the hostesses and we gave her a pack and play and I also gave her a handmade blue camoflauge baby blanket that says "Future Hunter Caylee Grace" on it with a bib to match. She seemed to really love it. I hope she uses it when the weather changes after Caylee Grace gets here. I am so excited for her.

Then on Wednesday, I subed for the first time. I subed at Corner for Ms. Dement, the speech and language therapist. I enjoyed it when I had some children to work with. There was a couple of times that I had an hour or more to kill between children, but overall I enjoyed it and hope that I can do it for her again sometime. I also hope that I can sub for other teachers as well, soon I hope.

Today, Kim and I went for a wonderful walk after we dropped the children, except for Blake, off at school. We went across the street and they were getting ready to repave the track, so we had to go down the hill and walk on the flat, straight track. We walked for an hour and 20 minutes or so. I had a good time walking and talking with her. Thanks Kim for coming. I like to have someone to talk to while I am walking.

I also cannot beleive my baby boy will be 5 years old as of 10:11 AM tomorrow, September 12, 2008. I cannot beleive he is growing up so fast. I am taking some cookies to his school for their snack tomorrow to celebrate his birthday. Then I plan on getting Hailey and Kim and maybe Peyton to meet us at the park after school for a little birthday picnic and play time. I am going to get them a pizza and let them pig out and play. Then tomorrow night we will give him our gifts and take him out to eat, wherever he chooses, probably Chicken Donald's as my children call it. Mary has called it that since she could talk, because she only gets chicken there, so the name Chicken Donalds, sometimes she will now get a cheeseburger but mostly chicken. I don't know why the chicken nuggets are gross to me. Then on Saturday we will be having his party.

I guess I will update after the party.

A little about lately.

We have been really busy with school back in and me having to take one to Corner and the other all the way to Dora everyday. I have a few hours to myself before I have to pick Christopher up at 12 PM. I drop him off and go for my 3 or 4 or 5 mile walk sometimes with Leigh Ann buit mostl by myself since she works late at night and doesn't get home til early morning. Then I go run errands or home to clean or scrapbook. I have gotten a full year of Mary Elizabeth's book caught up, now I am only 1 year behind and then I will both of their scrapbooks caught up to present. Mary now has 5 or 6 books and Christopher has 4 or 5 books. Yes I take alot of pictures of the kids and they have alot of albums. If anyone is interested in coming to scrapbook with me sometime let me know.

Also I have taken on a new job as of last Friday. I am now a substitute teacher. Wish me luck. I am not sure when I will actually work for the first time. I guess whenever a teacher or the system calls me. I like the idea of the same hours as Mary and only having to work when I want to. I can actually tell them no I don't want to work today. Never been able to do that before.

I have also taken on the task of working with our Lads to Leaders Leaderettes program at church, teaching the k-5th graders a new program called "Junior Leaders". I am still trying to figure out when and how I am going to set a schedule for the children that are interested in doing this. I guess I will have a meeting soon with the parents and children who are interested and see what works for them as well as myself.

Hope all are well and have a wonderful week. Happy Labor Day!!!

First Day of K4 for Christopher

Christopher's first day of school was yesturday. He was so excited that he woke up at 3:30, yes AM. I made him go back to bed, but he flipped and flopped until time to get up. I was the proud mommy, I had to walk him in and take a bunch of pictures. He was so ready that he didn't neven care if I was there or not. He didn't even say bye or give me my kiss. I picked him up and took more pictures. He had a great day and even came out telling what letter he learned that day, which he already new. He already knows all his letters, by site, mixed up and in order and their sounds. He also colored a picture of his first day at school. He was excited this morning as well, but waited a few more hours before getting up this time. He didn't even want to leave when I picked him up, so I guess that says alot about his teacher.

Sunshine Girls

We recently took a group of our girls from church up to Childhaven, a place were children live who are orphans and unwed moms, to deliver them some school supplies. Our girls collected a lot of supplies for these children and they loved going to deliver them to them. I know they will come in handy. And our girls get a great feeling of helping others when they do things for others.

We also had our Sunshine Girls back to school party this past Saturday. It was at Christy Knights new home. She was so wonderful to open her home to all of these girls. We had a lot of girls and mothers show up for this. We had plenty of food and fun. Christy, with the help of the older Sunshine Girls like Anna, Lydia, Amber and Meagan, set up a scavenger hunt for the girls. They had to find I think 5 different school supply items and the first one to get all of the items won the prize. The winner was Taylor. The girls got to keep the items they found. The girls also had fun playing with bubbles, jump ropes, and other toys.

Thank you Christy. Your are a wonderful person. We love you very much.

First Day of 3rd Grade for Mary E (and myself again)

Hey guys. Sorry it took me so long to post her first day of 3rd grade. She was so excited. She was ready way before time to leave and wanting to leave early, I mean really early. She had a great day and she likes her teacher. She has had homework every night and she is getting redy for her first test tomorrow. It is in "Where I live...". This is Social Studies and she had to tell what planet, hemisphere, continent, country, regions, state, county, city, school, and room she lives in. She knows all of them, but she gets a few of them mixed up sometimes. I hope she doesn't get any mixed up on the test. She is excited everyday to go to school, I hope this keeps up and she loves school the whole way through. It sure will make it easier for me. She also has a Spelling test on Friday and a few of the words are long and confusing to spell for a 3rd grader, but I think she will do well on it.

Creation Museum

We had a great time. This was a great weekend to spend with fellow christians and family. We chartered 2 buses for about 90 of our church members to go to Florence, Kentucky last weekend to see the Creation Museum. We all had a great time. We had great fellowship with others from our church. The museum was fun and very interesting. They had lots of information and things to see. The kids loved it and never once asked when we wee leaving. They looked at everyhing and watched a few movies. They also did the treasure hunt. They each received a collectable trading card from the museum for completeing the hunt. The loved the petting zoo and the swinging bridges. For those who did not get to go, you missed alot of fun.