Crazy Hair! 

This post is for the family. We lost again 31-21. ughhhh. Don't want to talk about it. And with the house, the people can't get finacing from anybody. So, no sold house. Double ughhhh. Really don't want to talk about it.

On a happy note. I am taking Bradley and Jake to the FC Dallas soccer game tonight in Frisco at Pizza Hut park. Now that I will talk about later with pictures :)

Before I explain the pictures below I want to ask that you all remeber my friend Julie Beth and her family in your prayers. Her mom passed away unexpectedly Monday morning. Kathy had nine Grandkids and that just makes me sad because you know she was a good grandmother and she won't even get to meet JB's newest baby that is due in March. At least she won't meet her here on earth. It just seems like a long time to wait to see the ones we love again in Heaven even though we know they are so much happier and in a much better place. My heart is soo sad for my friend. She was such a support for me when I had a difficult time in college. I was not able to go to the funeral this morning, but I did get to go to the visitation last night. I'm not sure exactly what to say or how to encourage them, but just take a moment to ask God to be with them and comfort them.

Bradley really wanted me to post his pumpkin. He painted Sponge Bob on one side and Patrick on the other. On the two other adjacent sides he painted their houses. He won first place in the second grade. He worked really hard on his pumpkin and I'm glad the judges were able to judge on this ability and not the ones that were really awesome but looked like a little too much parent involvement :)

Jake painted a "scawey" (scarey) ghost on his pumpkin. He also got a new gel ant farm from Target and the ants arrived in the mail the other day. This toy looked really cool in the store but I am not impressed with this ant farm. Do not buy this toy. The ants are not tunneling like the product said they would. I may have to empty it in two days and put dirt in it.

Winner 

pumpkin 

Ant Farm 

Attempt 3!
Okay, first let's get the yucky part of the evening out of the way. We lost 20-3. Now on to the fun part.

Before the game we went to Ennis and met up with some of our best friends in the whole world Jennifer and Jeff and Grant, Brody, Nash, and Barrett. Jennifer is one of my friends I met when we moved to Ferris. We always have so much fun together and I never leave after visiting with Jennifer without a smile on my face and some good laughs. Her husband was kind enough to drop her off at Don Jose's with three of her boys so we could have some yummy mexican food. (Please excuse the chocolate ice cream all over our kids faces!) Then we all headed over to an awesome park to play for about 20 minutes. This was our final attempt to get a picture of all six boys together. We finally decided the botttom of the slide would be easier than the top.

We had so much fun tonight even though our time was short together. We will have to make a trip out to Waxahachie soon so we can have more time together. The last picture is one I found in a old folder. This was when I lived in Atlanta and we met up with Jennifer at her mom's. We went to a carnival and strongly urged Grant to ride this spinning ride with Bradley. We felt really bad after we saw how pale he turned and how sick he got :) We love our friends! We are so glad we moved closer to them! Thanks for a fun time and laughs, we needed it!

Attempt 2 

Attempt 1 

"When is this thing gonna stop?" 

Weekend Update... with Laura Scott.

Okay, I'm having way too much fun with Picasa tonight. Well, it was a busy, but fun weekend. Jamil, you may need to plan another trip to see you nephews, because Uncle Gary may have won the boys over this weekend. :)

Maddie and Nate and Gary and Coby came to our house Saturday and then again on Sunday. The kids played and played as you can see from pictures. They even made it in time to catch Bradley's soccer game. They were able to find his team easily due to the flourecent uniforms that only Bradley's team has. Everyone else gets normal colors except for us. Go figure. Doesn't matter though, we are the only team that has Pizza Hut for our sponsor. So take that when we have an awesome end of the season party!

Update on the house.................................................................Nothing! Supposedly the people are getting their financing through Red River Federal Credit Union which is slow according to the realtor. Randy and I are doubtful as to celebrating a sold house any time soon.

Bradley went roller skating for the first time Sunday! His friend had a Birthday party. Bradley never gave up and was very cautious, but after an hour and a half he made it out to the middle of the rink to skate with everyone. I think he only fell five times. He'd rather take his time and do something right, than to just jump right in and go for it. I must say he was quite impressed with my skating skills. And just so you know, they still play all the same music from our day! "Hey Mickey your so fine, your so fine you blow my mind hey Mickey!" I couldn't believe it! Of course instead of the hokey pokey, they do the Cha Cha Cha. Yea, I never caught on to that one. Just because I can sing and skate doesn't mean I have any rythm.

Sunday after church we ate lunch with the preacher and his wife and their freshman son (they also have 2 girls in college). I was a little nervous about this, but it went really well. We actually talked for an hour and a half and they said they wanted to have us over some time. He is new to town and church like we are. We loved this time with them Sunday. They are a very neat couple.

Tomorrow my friend from down the street is coming over with her ten month old. And she is my kind of friend. I asked her what time she thought she might come and she said 1:00! Yes, I don't fully wake up until about 10:00. Finally, a friend who enjoys playing in the afternoon!

Don't know why I decided to share so much stuff tonight. I guess I've just had a really nice weekend and don't know which part was my favorite, so I'll share it all!

Fun times with Maddie and Nate! 

I couldn't resist saturating the picture with Picasa just to impress how flourecent their uniforms are! 

Another District Win!

Well we won again. 27-10 Too tired to post anything about it. We've been out celebrating at the head coaches house. Time for bed since we have a 10:30 soccer game in the morning. Maybe I can remember to bring the camera to this one! :) Go LIONS!!! 2-1 for district!

Pray! Cross your fingers! Do whatever it takes! We are so close to selling! We are waiting for the phone call. The realtor called at 2:40 with our first offer on the house. We counter offered and we are just waiting on the call to see what they say. I hope this is it! We have had it on the market for five months and we are almost desperate!

UPDATE 10/12/06
Well the people are at the bank today seeing what kind of financing they can get. That's just poor realtor skills. Any good realtor would have had them pre-approved before ever showing them houses! :) How frusterating. They are also asking us to pay their closing cost (which we agreed) so I'm sure they are trying to find out exactly what that will be. At least the process is still going and they didn't just flat out reject our counter offer and say it's over. Even though it is small (After unloading everything into our new house here, we are amazed at how we ever fit all of our stuff into 1200 sq ft.) , it really is a nice house. Everything is pretty new inside and well taken care of. The market in Atlanta right now is just really bad and slow! I'll update more when we hear more.

How long is an hour to a 7 year old? Yesterday after church Bradley was dying to go play with his friends down the street. We told Bradley after lunch he would have to wait about an hour and then he could go to their house. That way they would have time to get home and eat lunch and change clothes. Well, I left to go to Wal-mart with Jake and Randy laid down to take a nap. So I guess Jake and I played a little too long at Wal-mart and when I came home I found this note on the table. So cute to see how Bradley judged an hour since he hasn't learned how to tell time yet. He can read the time on the clock, but he doesn't fully understand how the hours and minutes work all together. :)

I'm gone and I know it was long enough because I watched Madagascar. 

We won! We Won! WE WON!!!!

V-I-C-T-O-R-Y!

Go LIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We won our first game tonight Finally! For those of you familiar with coaching, this is what we call a building year. All new staff with kids that haven't received propper coaching for the last however many years. The head coach Jeff Cordell came with an impressive record. Something like 37 wins and only 6 losses (don't quote me exact numbers, but I'm close.) He's never lost more than two games in a row until this year in Greenville. So, although this may be a small win for us against Terrell, it's still a VICTORY!!! It's also a morale booster for the kids. We are in a very difficult district though so who knows for the rest of the season. Richardson Pearce, Mesquite Poteet, Forney, Rockwall Heath, HIGHLAND PARK (very good team). Anyway, we are at least celebrating tonight!!!!

We have had such a special treat this weekend getting to spend time with Randy's family at his mom's house. His brother Gary and his wife Coby and their kids Maddie and Nate are in the country for a couple of months. Without revealing to much detail, I will try to explain their situation. They are working for the Big Guy. Their title of work is in the diabetes field. They were recently asked, or forced to leave the country they were in because the government there decided to kick out all Non government organizations. Thank God for their safety and His hand being over them.

They will be in the states for a couple of months as they regroup and prepare to head back out into the field. They are doing a great work at spreading a great message to many. Anyway, we are sad they had to leave their home in the other country, but we are very thankful for this unplanned visit we have been given. It felt like Christmas this weekend having the family all together. Randy's sister and her husband and two boys also came down from Greenville Illinois. (I know we try to make it easy for my mother in law to remember where her kids live, same city just different states.) I hope this situation I've tried to explain does not confuse too many people. Just know that they are here from far away and we are thankful to have the next couple of weeks with them!

By the way, all the cousins had a great time wrestling with Uncle Gary. This is were they all decided to dog pile him!

Headlock!! Dad taught you well Bradley!  

We dug in Nana's giant sand box and found burried treasure! Uncle Alan got quite the suprise when he came over later that night and ate one of our gritty treasures!  

Playing star wars with the cousins. We gave Nate a softer sword, so he could hit all he wanted. 

So here is our typical day lately. We load up Jake's four wheeler with plenty of toys and head down to the park that is a block away! We love it. Of course, Jake has to race me there every day (everything is a race to Jake and somehow he always wins :) ! We usually stay about 45 minutes and play and enjoy the nice weather we have had lately. Friday, we may attempt to take a picnic lunch! 

Jake always stops at the four way stop. He gets so mad when he sees cars roll through the stop sign. He says "that's a bad car momma." 

Of course, we have to dig for burried treasure every day! Too bad we haven't found any yet. 

Plenty of room for soccer. 

Slides are for trucks! 

Do you ever wonder what goes through our children's minds? I just walked into Bradley's bathroom and found his soccer clothes laid out just so from last night. We came home from practice and I told him to go hop in the shower. Usually after a shower we put our dirty clothes in the laundry. Not last night for some reason. Maybe he was proud of his practice. Maybe he was bored waiting for the water to warm up. Maybe he's OCD :). Nothing too important about this post. I just laughed when I saw this and wondered what my sweet boy was thinking. 

Here is our 2006 football program picture. They are not very good because the guy who took the pictures put all the families facing the sun and the wind was blowing like crazy. Yes, I do have bangs. Oh well, you can't complain too much about a free picture. Too bad I didn't have my new Lion shirt for this picture. The coaches wives all went shopping together Saturday and we ordered some shirts with some bling for the games. You will definitley know where the coaches wives are on Friday night. We are the crazy ones who make a bunch of noise and all have our husbands names on the back of our shirts and bring fifty little kids with us to the games! Yep, aren't you all so jealous of our Friday night life style? :)

Aside from football, things have been rolling. Bradley had his first soccer game Saturday. The score was 1 to 12. Bradley's team played their hearts out and they were so proud of themselves when they scored their one goal. Now that's some good parenting when your kids walk away proud of themselves when they've lost they're first game by 11 points! I'll be sure to take pictures at the next game. These 9:00 am games are just too much for a Saturday. It's hard enough to get out of bed at 8 on a Saturday morning much less remember to grab the camera on the way out the door.

Today I enjoyed a good time with my mom at Grapefest in Grapevine. We had to go price our competition. My mom and I are starting a jewelry business. Mom makes these beautifull lampwork beads. She uses a torch and blows colored glass somehow into the shape of a bead. Then I get to do the fun part of stringing the jewelry. I love this part and my mom hates it, so we work well together. We have our first selling gig on Thanksgiving weekend here in town. There is a boutique called Calico Cat that will host ten unique vendors for free, and the owner said we could be one of them. We are excited. Even if it doesn't take off, we are having fun. And we will have some awesome jewelry to wear if no one buys it.

Julie Beth, I am soooo glad to hear from you!!! I wrote you a letter probably 2 years ago and it got returned to sender. So I guess you have moved. I actually drove through Kaufman a few weekends ago when we went to Sams 30th Birthday at the lake (which by the way was a blast. Thanks Sam). I tried to remember where K and B live but had no clue! Anyway, here is my email. I swore I would never post it on blogger for all those weirdos out there but I would love to get in touch with you! LauraB54@aol.com. I hope you and everyone else I haven't talked to in years is doing well!!! Talk to you soon!