Football Fever!

In order to make this move a little better of a transition for the kids we put Tristen in football and Lauren in cheerleading. She cheers for his team!
Tristen is an offensive lineman (and sometimes he plays defensive line) for the Steelers. He has kids crying from his tackles and runnin' for the sidelines so he won't tackle them again- he is doin' great! He told me a couple of weeks ago that "football has changed his life!"
Lauren's cheer coach, who was a cheerleader herself for high school and college, says that Lauren is a natural born cheer leader, she missed one game and coach said the squad was not the same without her- she loves it!
I am beginning to think that it does not matter where you live- people take football really seriously at whatever age! I thought Jenks was bad but Owensboro is just the same. They have a very nice football park with 4 fields, that they built 5 years ago just for the youth football league ages 5-12. It is amazing!

GO STEELERS!

The Steelers cheerleaders



TT suiting up!

First days of school

First bus ride!

daddy daughter dance

Easter

Lauren's 6th Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Party

Wow- Has it really been that long.......

Eliza and Ethan- they are always so cute together!!
he was always trying to kiss her !

Maddie with the boys at play group

so sweet!!!!!!!!!

precious! he fell asleep on his wagon ride

Ok seriously, Taryn has been very politely pushing me to update my blog, and well I guess I'd better do it before a year goes by!! I can not believe how long it has been. So much has happened it would take to long to talk about so I will highlight the biggest changes .

The biggest news which most of you know, is that we have moved to Kentucky. It was a very stressful hard move but we are all trying to make the best of it. James is the Dean of Education at Daymar College and he absolutely loves it, and he is still teaching courses on line. I will actually begin teaching online course for Daymar at the end of the month.

The kids are loving their school, it is a very small neighborhood school, which is rated better than Jenks (which was a big surprise). They have only 16-18 kids per class and only 3 teachers per grade. Quite a difference from Jenks college style campus but they love their teachers and have made some friends.

Madison also started her pre-school and she loves it. They actually come and pick her up and bring her home in a special bus with seatbelts- this is very exciting for her because she feels like her 'girl-girl' and 'dub a dub'.

And Ethan is as sweet and cute as ever but will not stop nursing, and Mommy was done like 6 months ago so I am very anxious to convince him he is to. Well the kids are home and I am getting pulled in like 10 directions- I am going to post some pics from last spring and will post more later....

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Well 2008 is finally over. It was a good year, because of the birth of my sweet love bug Ethan, but it really has been a tough year other than that. But I see brighter days on the horizon for 2009, hopefully I am right. I want to wish everyone a happy new year and hope 2009 is your best yet!

adventure's in picture taking....

My little brother bears!

my sweet Lauren!

My boys!

Oh Maddie- are you done taking pictures or what?!

you gotta love how Tristen buttoned his jacket- he said "I don't care if it is wrong", well ok then.