Well, the kids just finished up day 8 of the new school year and are loving it so far!

(We'll see how much they love it on day 48!)

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Last weekend Peyton had a softball tournament in Dobson, NC. On the way back to Greensboro, we stopped at Mt. Pilot with Mimi and Granddaddy to have a picnic and look around. (This is the Mt. Pilot from the Andy Griffith show!)

Very beautiful!

Peyton always rolls her eyes when she sees me pull out my camera, but it's funny how she always busts a sassy pose every time I point the camera in her direction!!

1st Day of School

I'm sitting here in my sewing room~my QUIET sewing room~ thinking about the kids and wondering how their first day of 1st and 4th grade is going. They were both very excited this morning and that makes a mommy's heart happy! :)

Peyton was so happy and couldn't wait to drop off Cade so she could get to her school to socialize with friends for a few minutes before the school day started.

Cade was happy, too, but after seeing this picture, I think he was feeling a little nervous also. I'm sure he will love it! Thankfully, again this year, both kids have been blessed with fabulous teachers!

As soon as I got back from dropping off the kids, I went straight to Peyton's room and pulled EVERYTHING out of her closet and cleaned it out! That's the kind of thing I like to do when the kids aren't here and it felt good to get it done. That's one big thing I can cross off of my to do list. Only 247 more to go!

My Baby Boy is 7!!!

Today is Cade's 7th birthday. I don't know where the time has gone!

What a sweet, wonderful blessing he is in our lives!

Last week, after my awful week long illness, we took the kids to the beach for part of Boy Boy's month long birthday celebration and rented a golf cart for him. That was definitely the highlight of his week. We took it to the beach every morning and went cruising in it every evening. It was so relaxing and the kids just loved it.

The second favorite thing was, of course, the beach. Actually, they didn't play in the sand hardly at all- they spent almost every second in the water.

On the 4th, Peyton put on her dangly earrings to go riding around through the campground down the road. That is some good entertainment! The campground was packed and everybody was out and around. They had all kinds of activities going on and Dave's favorite was the band Shamalama and the old people who were "dancing".

As always, we had to hit the rides and Cade couldn't miss a ride on the pirate ship.

On the 4th we went to see the Pelican's (Braves single A ball club) play and were planning on staying for the fireworks, but Boy pooped out on us and was ready to go home early. Last year we went to Broadway at the Beach for the fireworks and they stunk!

Peyton was a little embarrassed when I made her stand with Uncle Sam so I could get her picture, but he was giving out the mini flags that she wanted so I told her she couldn't have one unless I got her picture with him. I know, I'm mean, but it's funny.

One of our new favorite things to do is go to a new place called Ultimate California Pizza Game Zone. We eat dinner and then the kids play a bunch of games for tickets for goofy little prizes. The best game there is the Deal or No Deal video game. We won the 400 tickets which is the equivalent to the one million dollar prize! (I wish!) The kids ended up with 817 tickets and it took a really long time for them to pick out all of their prizes- silly bands, whoopie cushions, a mini basketball and a bunch of other junk that made their night!

Cade mini bowling

Now we're back to the old routine and Peyton has softball all this week in the nasty heat. I'm going to spend this week cleaning up b/c Jody, Kathy and the boys are coming for a visit next week and we're all very excited about that!!

CONGRATULATIONS, BULLDOGS!!!

For the past couple of months Dave has been coaching this team of 11 girls ages 7-9 and yesterday they won their season ending tournament going undefeated! (in the tourney)

Our season record was 6-5-1, but everything started to "click" with the girls half way through the season and they just kept getting better and better!

In the tournament we were seeded #5. We won our first game and then went on to beat the #1, #2 and #4 seeds before beating the #1 team again in the Championship game yesterday.

Way to go girls!!!

Here are the girls as they were heading to to dugout to start the game in about 95 degree heat!

The heat was awful. I was drenched- that is no exaggeration! But, another big shout out to myself- the most awesome scorekeeper ever- I only shorted us one run this game! :) (I caught it the following inning- no harm done!)

This season was so much fun and Dave had THE BEST people to help him with the coaching. All of the parents in the stands with me were awesome and I was just thankful that they were not embarrassed by my enthusiasm! Actually, there were 4 other moms who were equally as "enthusiastic" as I was! :)

~Note to SRA: You may not want to put Julie Day and Carol Boone together again next season!

The girls were super excited to get trophies.

~Here's the proud Daddy with his favorite player~

The girls dumped two little coolers of ice cold water on Dave- it was so cute!

Then, on to a celebration at the ice cream shop!

GREAT SEASON, GIRLS!!!

What A Girl Wants

What this girl wanted was braces and yesterday her dream came true!

The Lazy Blogger

I just have not felt like posting anything lately. I've been feeling lazy when it comes to blogging. We've had a lot going on, but I've just been doing other things and haven't felt like getting on the computer late at night to post. Maybe it's all of the TV I've been watching... The Amazing Race on Sunday, Dancing with the "Stars" (the term is used lightly on that show!) on Monday, Idol on Tuesday and Wednesday, Survivor and The Office on Thursday, Justified and The First 48 DVR'd in there and YAY! baseball season in under way! But, I was going through my pictures and realized that I did have some things that I could've/should've been posting for our family & friends.

I LOVE SPRING!

I am not a good photographer, but I love taking pictures of trees in my yard with bees buzzing around them! The sky was so blue and the flowers were in bloom, and the bee was there- magic for the camera!

We went to Myrtle Beach for a few days over Spring Break. Here is Cade and his new pose. We call it "The Pencil". He does it EVERY time I put a camera in front of him! What is that about??

Last year, the only ride that Cade wanted to ride was the huge pirate ship that swings back and forth. It's fun and all, but how many times can a little boy ride it before he gets tired of it?! (Last year the number was 6! And I don't think he was tired of it, but we were tired of paying $2 per ride, per person!) Anyway, this year, out of the complete blue, Cade decided that he wanted to ride the swings. Pate didn't want to try them, so I was the sucker who had to do it. It started off okay, but once we got up into the air, spinning around in circles... Oh, I was sick feeling. Gross. I hate spinning. I can do any roller coaster all day long, but just not the swings! So, when I got off of the ride I told Peyton how much fun they were!!

It worked! And there they go!

She actually did enjoy them and they rode them another 3 or 4 times.

At least I didn't have to do it again!

We played some miniature golf, Putt-Putt, whatever. Dave is a very competitive player.

We can't bowl or play tennis or mini golf together- it gets ugly. Peyton is JUST like her Dad.

It's pretty funny.

Last weekend we (including Pudgie) went to Hanging Rock to explore around the waterfalls.

The weather was absolutely beautiful!

It's softball season!

Peyton and her sweet friend Abbie are playing together this year under

the incredible coaching skills of Coach Dave Day! They lost their first game, but

this picture came after a big 11-4 win! (And I have to give a big shout out to the awesome new score keeper- JDay! :) It makes socializing with the other moms a little harder, but I'm learning to multi-task!!) Pate loved playing last year, but it's

amazing how much more she loves it this year because she's playing with her friend.

So, I thought that I'd post a couple pictures of Pudgie to show what a poser she is.

Every time I point the camera at that dog, she stops and looks like she's posing for me.

I guess she gets it from Peyton!

NOTE TO SELF: DO NOT let the dog out while Dave is mowing!

Check out the paws!

Monday was Peyton's mile run. (Yes, again!) I offered to run with her, but

she passed on me and asked Dave to run with her. Ouch!

Peyton and Abbie were encouraging each other before the start.

The taller girl (3rd from right) is Peyton's teacher, Mrs. Reeder!

She is the best! She ran with the kids and helped the kids who weren't as motivated.

I don't know how many of the other teachers ran with their class, but not many do that.

Here are Dave and Peyton on the last stretch of the mile. Dave told her to give it all she had and to run hard. She told me that she thought of Cade at the finish line in a cage with bears and that she had to get to him to save him. That's what gave her the energy to finish strong. How sweet is that??! When she ran this in the fall her time was 9:27. This time she did it in 8:49!

~The happy siblings ~

Okay, that's it for now!

I LOVE SURVIVOR!!!

Oh...my...goodness- my heart was pounding during tribal council...

I was so nervous and scared for Tom and Colby and then BAM! Cirie was

voted out and Tom and Colby have survived for another day!! YAY!!