Eli is 8

The pics are Eli being...well Eli, his cake, and he and Savannah in Virginia. I think he was 3 here. I can't believe the baby of the family is 8. It makes me feel so old to have an 8 yr old now. Eli is great. He is busy playing video games and reading. He wants to play baseball this year he said. We shall see about that. He is so tall and does not resemble the little tiny 3 lb baby he was. :) He is 4'9" now and well.....not a little guy. Here are just a few pictures. Oh...and yeah...I am such a good mom I forgot to get candles.....which explains the "candles" on his cake this year. Try buying candles at 8:00pm New Years Eve. :)

Christmas 2008

I know we are crazy....but we get so excited about Christmas we usually open presents early. This year was no different...we gave in and opened them Sunday night. The kids loved all their presents and in fact Eli and Savannah have rarely been seen. I posted a video of the goodies they got. Sterling got all of his gifts except his new soccer cleats.....they should have been in last week. Little upset about that...but what do you do? He knows about them and he for a couple hundred dollars in cash as usual for Christmas to keep him busy. I hope you enjoy our little movie, and we hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.

Snow Day....woohoo!!!!

So in talking to my neighbors, as we were all outside with our kids playing in the snow I learned that this is the first snow day where the kids got out of school since 1993. It was so much fun. The kids loved it and although I have pictures of Eli and Sterling....Savannah was no where to be found. She was busy running around with her friends drinking hot cocoa and watching movies to get warm. She was outside most of the day just "walking in the snow, Mom." I am so glad they all had a good day. We did not build a snowman, but I did take a few pictures of ones in the neighborhood. And near the middle of the slide show I have a picture of my neighbor walking up her drive, she is hidden behind trees and the heavy falling snow....see if you can find her. Poor Gabby (our dog) has no idea what that white stuff is and decided she was too good for it and took care of business on the back porch...silly dog. Sterling just stood there on the phone and looking at it fall. We have had the fire going all day which up to this point in 3 years of living here has been turned on all of 4 times I think...and 2 of those was with the air blasting just because I wanted to look at the fire. :) Eli loved it and has been begging to be outside all day....but with his asthma and the way he gets colds so quick we have made him enjoy it from inside. Poor baby....so deprived...he had to play the X-box 360 and the PS2 most of the day. :) We hope y'all are all doing good.

Savannah's Cello Concert

Savannah had her first cello concert this past week. She did great....well the group did great. It is kind of heard to single her out. But in listening to her practice....she did great. Here are a few pictures and a video of the last song they preformed. We are so proud of her.

Wilson Look-alike Meter

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Family history - Family reunion

Not sure if I like this....everyone always says he looks like me more...what do ya'll think?

Avery Island

We spent a great day at Avery Island on Sunday and tool lots of pictures. I will go back and tag them all...I just wanted to get them posted on here quick. Hope everyone is doing well.

Heather

Voting

I just wanted to remind folks to get out there and vote. It is so important to have a voice of your own. It doesn't really matter for who....but at least you get a voice in this crazy election. 3 weeks from today. And I know here in Louisiana you can vote as of next Tuesday!!! Thanks for letting me remind you to vote.

Savannah Softball

So about 2 weeks ago Savannah called me one afternoon about oh....noon as says "Hey, mom can I play softball at school?" I said I don't care sure. So she says...."Cool, we have practice today, and I need a softball glove at 3, and I need an outfit to practice in." WHAT?????? So off I went to get her a glove and an outfit and I ran it up to the school. Her first game was that Wednesday and she had her 3rd game today. The first game 6 of the girls had not even come to a practice yet and the others had only had one practice together. So we didn't count score for that one. On the second game Runnels won 16-2. woohoo!!!! Today was another game we did not count score on. :) But, Savannah did catch the first out which was a pop-up fly ball. She was on 3rd...then she was moved to 1st and got another out for us and about a dozen runs later we got the last out. We walked......well....a lot. No biggie though the girls are doing a great job learning and working together. She made it to 2nd base on her one at bat. WOOHOO!!! So anyway we have a new sport at our house. It is fun and Savannah seems to like it. Its something I can understand unlike Soccer, so I am really excited to watch her play.

Scattergories

Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following. They have to be real places, names, things.. nothing made up! Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. You CAN'T use your name for the boy/girl name question.


WHAT IS YOUR NAME: Heather
BOYS NAME: Hector
4 LETTER WORD: Help
GIRL NAME: Hannah
OCCUPATION: Horticulturist
A COLOR: Heather Gray
SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Hose
BEVERAGE: Hot Chocolate
FOOD: Hot Sauce
SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: Hand Towels
A PLACE : Hernando
REASON FOR BEING LATE: Hungry
SOMETHING YOU SHOUT OUT: Hello!!!

I am tagging everyone who reads this, leave me a comment telling me you've done it!

First of October

We r doing really good right now. Savannah is playing Softball at school and is loving it. She is playing Cello and is sort of liking that. LOL....Sterling is playing soccer, playing the field, and getting ready to take drivers ed. It starts in 11 days,.....not sure I am ready for that. Eli is making straight A's.....oh Nana is too!!! But he is reading so much better and its a good thing we held him back a year. I was worried...but am so glad. George has been busy with school...his students have a project due today and a test on Tuesday. I am good. Trying to finish the last book in the twillight series. We just got new furniture and I am trying to get that all set up. I will take a picture in a day or so. Marcell the bird is getting more talktive and loud. He loves to talk to me all morning. He is such a cute boy....he just does silly little kid things to get attention. Oh well...just wanted to say we were all good. Talk to you all soon.

H