All Cheer, No Soccer

Here are a few pics from the cheer competition.....

Thursday 13: Thirteen Things I've Been Doing Instead of thinking of a GOOD "13"

This week has been crazy! Tuesday night I was "sent to my room" at 7:30pm and I know I was asleep by 8:15. So to follow are 13 of the things that have kept me on my toes this week.

1. tumbling
2. homework
3. church
4. volunteering at school all day Wednesday
5. went to the Dr. (currently looking for a new one if you guys have any suggestions!)
6. cotillion
7. Junie B. Jones play in Winston Salem (FYI it is apparently monsoon season in WS!)
8. L&F order of $9,000+
9. cleaning up the mess of the L&F order
10. 1/2 day of school tomorrow
11. toured Hickory Cove Bible Camp -which by the way ROCKS! check it out at http://www.hickorycove.org/
12. preparing for first cheer competition Saturday- practice, practice, practice!
13. the rain these past two days makes me sleepy!

I will try to do better next week. Watch for post this weekend, as I update on the busy weekend of cheer competitions and soccer tournaments!

Christmas WISH List

Last night the kids were making their Christmas list. The arrival of the new American Girl catalog brought out early thoughts of Christmas. Their list are always so funny to me, of course they aren't getting most of it, JB kept getting mad at me because I would say "you might as well not even put that on your list because you're not getting it!"

The Big one wants:

1. Tipman 98 Custom - paintball gun
2. cell phone- which he will get when hell freezes over!
3. new scooter-which he doesn't need
4. hunting game
5. Wii
6. Mario Soccer
7. patriot hat- I have no idea what this is

The little one wants:

1. American Girl doll- wants all of them but mostly Julie Albright
2. Julie Albrights bed, PJ's and book- the bed is $106 so of course she is not getting it!
3. bike
4. Ipod
5. webkinz-4 is enough!
6. "prettiest dress"
7. calendar
8. curtains-for where and why I have no idea

So we'll see want Santa brings, but is always fun to see what they want. Now it is time to start manipulating them into wanting what I am going to get them!

What is this?

There is clear liquid falling from the sky. If you know what this is please let me know. Larry is totally confused and I had to figure out how to turn on the windshield wipers in my new car. What is going the on?

Broken Hearts

My friend had her heart broken today. I wish I could fix it, but I can't. What do you do when your completely helpless and can do nothing? Well, first of all I will pray. Then I think I will cry with her, but the fixer in me wants to set the world right for her. The friend in me wants to hold her hand and bring her through it, unfortunately her hand is too far from mine. I just wish a broken heart was easy to fix, I wish her heart never had to be broken.
My commitment to you my friend is to cry when you cry, laugh when you laugh, and "pray without ceasing!" I pray that you will soon have peace.

No Thursday 13, Super Cute Shoes Instead!

There was no time to do a Thursday 13, today I was way to busy buying these SUPER cute ballet flats! I saw these and could not get them off my mind! I had to have them! By the way, being 5'9" I am glad to see flats in the shoe stores again!

Hi Ho Hi Ho it's off to Cotillion We Go.......

Well, Cotillion started tonight. His attitude was basically good and he looked MARVELOUS! Learning a few manners won't kill him, even though he thinks it might!

Thursday 13: Thirteen Reasons Why I Love Fall!

I stole the very cute logo above from Meredith (Sandy's very clever sister-in-law.) So thank you Meredith for your contribution to today's post. Today I present 13 reasons I love fall. There are more than 13 reasons, but it's not called "Thursday 47."

1. It makes me feel young. I just told JB last weekend that every fall I have this overwhelming urge to pack all my stuff up and go to college. Those of you from WCU can relate, there is no better place to be in the fall. I love the feeling, even if it ends as soon as I hear the words "MOM" bringing me back to 2007.
2. I love candy corn, scarecrows, mums, pumpkins, etc. I love breaking out the fall decorations.
3. Coffee taste better on those cool fall mornings.
4. My power bills are lower. We have already changed out the storm doors for screen doors and thrown open the windows. The cooler air makes the air conditioner run much less!
5. Homecoming at school. This years event is Friday night and we can't wait.
6. Wearing different clothes. By now all those shorts and carpi's are getting old. I will be thankful to wear jeans and sweatshirts again (if I can find some jeans.)
7. Topical depressions, hurricanes, storms etc. We have had the driest year ever here, and we are finally starting to get a little rain (or the hope of rain) from the storms coming from the south. I hate to wish them on others, but my brand new grass is DEAD!
8. Football. Although the Panthers are off the a shaky start, I love Sunday afternoon football with my husband. We cheer, scream, and cry all in the name of Panther football!
9. New TV shows. There are now new seasons of all my favorite shows plus some new ones. The big one and I have been watching Kid Nation together on Wednesdays, I am not crazy about the show as much as enjoying the one on one time with him.
10. Adding extra covers to the bed. Again, the nights have been a lot cooler, therefore I have needed that extra blanket on a few occasions already.
11. Thoughts of Christmas begin dancing in my head. I have already started my Christmas shopping, because the early bird gets the worm, and all that other stuff!
12. Fall Festival at WABC. We love this annual tradition at church. The kids enjoy the games, rides, and blow-up stuff.
13. Death of the Mosquitoes! They are getting better already. May they die and slow and painful death SOON!