Look Out High School!

Colt, who is my oldest son, graduated from 8th grade last night. While I don't completely agree with the HUGE deal that the school makes out of it (why graduation? why not promotion?) I am proud of my boy and just a little freaked out that he is old enough to begin his high school experience. Colt is an amazing athlete and for that reason alone I am sure he will completely LOVE high school. I'm sure all the cute girls that this town seems to grow will be an added bonus for him!

Can you believe how tall he is getting?

When your mother-in-law gives you lemons . . .

Jim's parents have a lemon tree and every year they share! I think that I am the only one who actually asks for any lemons and by so doing, end up with about 100. I use about six over a weeks time to squeeze in my diet coke and then about another 6 to make lemon bars and unfortunately the rest go to waste. Oh waite, my boys have lemon wars so it's not a total waste. Well this year I was determined not to waste one lemon so JJ and I spent one whole Saturday juicing lots and lots of lemons. We got enough juice to make about 10 pitchers of fresh lemonade. But during the spring ice/wind/snow storms we didn't seem to have much use for fresh lemonade. So we froze the juice. I can't wait for summer when I can sit on my front porch and sip the fruits of our labor!

These are the conditions that Savannah played her softball game in yesterday. As you can see, I am safe inside my car. (see my hood in the picture?) Savannah claims the wind was the reason they lost to RV. She claims it was the wind that carried RV's hits up and over the fence for out-of-the-park homeruns (twice) and caused one of their hits to bounce over the fence for a ground rule double. Funny, the wind didn't help St. Johns at all. :) This morning Savannah was still trying to unpack the dirt from her eyes.

I bought these shoes for Savannah because they were so amazingly cute! She wore them to school today so I asked her to take a picture of them and send it to me. It looks like she just held the phone under her desk and snapped the photo, but I don't care. They are super cute even from this angle! Don't you think?

Welcome Spring!

This is what it looked like dropping JJ off at school this morning. . . . I wanna go back to bed.

JJ"s Birthday Party

And the winner is . . . . . KJ! JJ had decided to have a "family only" birthday party this year. For an activity we made little heart-shaped cakes and let everyone decorate them. Though it didn't start out as a contest, it soon turned into one (you know those Mineer's). We had some interesting cakes when we were done, but in the end, it was decided that "simple" was best and KJ took home the prize. (Even though there was no prize because it wasn't supposed to be a competition)!

R - E - S - P - E - C - T

The final score of the superbowl yesterday was such a disappointment! Several people at the party we attended kept saying, "It's ok. It was a good game." My response to that was "IT IS NOT OKAY! WE DIDN'T WIN! (People tell me I'm competitive). When we got home last night I couldn't watch the news or any post game coverage because I was so upset for the team. It wasn't like it was a blow-out game. I mean they played their hearts out and ALMOST HAD IT! Even this morning I got sick to my stomach when my MSN homepage popped up on my computer screen with the big, fat, ugly Steelers holding their stupid trophy! (People tell me I'm competitive). Well, I've decided that it probably isn't healthy for me to have such strong feelings over a game that I had NO control over and NO part of. I don't personally know any of the players, coaching staff, trainers, etc. or even their families. So why let it bother me? After sending that thought through my brain a few times I finally felt a little better. Then I decided that the Cardinals may not have won the super bowl, but they DANG sure have better won the respect of this country's football fans. They are a great team and I know we haven't seen the last of them in playoff situations!