Daffodil Festival 2012

 Today was the daffodil festival. Meghan and Seth took the money they had saved and bought themselves each a marshmallow shooter. They have shot miniature marshmallows all over my house this afternoon.
    They weren't sure if they wanted to go to the festival, so I went to you tube and found a video of last years festival. At the 3:39 point, Abby appears.
So, if you want to see Abby in the video go to youtube, look for daffodil Festival, and sit back and enjoy!

Good Morning Soccer Kids

Here are the recent pictures of our soccer players Cameron and Olivia.
Thanks for sending them Wendy.

Time to paint!

Sherrill is home today, so he is painting his room. Not by choice however.
The floor man comes April 9th to put down hardwood floors in the living room, dining room, hall, and Sherrill's room. If there is enough flooring they will do the kitchen. He wasn't too happy when I told him his carpet had to come out. I was going to put down vinyl in his room so I could scrub it. He didn't like that idea, and decided to go with the hardwood. Little did he know that new flooring also means new paint job, and new as he calls it "bed clothes". Leave it to Sherrill to go to the barn and pull out cans of paint left over from other jobs. The first can he brought in was was like a fudge brown. It was yucky. Then he brought in a dark beige, almost like a mocha. It looks pretty good. I can't complain. It will look a lot better than that beige that was all over the house. All the other rooms have been repainted now except my room. It remains that same beige. That's a project for another day!
And Cindy, I am even cleaning out his closet! I do believe you are the child that use to clean closets every time she cleans up. I believe in cleaning out closets when I can't cram anything else into them! So, back I go working on cleaning out his file cabinet, yes, we hide it in the closet (or use to).
And James, I hope I find the combination to the safe!

The Hampton's

I deleted Kat's Hampton photos. The file was so large, and was taking too long to load. If you want to see the pictures, email Kat.

Isaac's B'day picture

Just wanted to post it here in case you didn't see it on facebook!

Happy BIrthday Isaac!

You've come a long way Baby!

Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday Gabba Gabba Isaac
Happy Birthday to YOU!


Go Isaac........Go Isaac.....

ALL JOKING ASIDE!!

http://www.vrbo.com/316230

*I think this would be perfect!

Owner owns another one just like it in Sevierville. Same price.

Happy Birthday to Wendy!

Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday dear Wendy
Happy Birthday to YOU!

Watch out girl..... it's THE BIG one PLUS one!

We Need To Decide!

Let's Vote:

1. Where?

2. Who?

3. When?

This one is very economical! We can travel to more than one place, and add rooms as needed....

Summer school

Yay .... I just found out that my financial aid was approved for summer school.  :)   That means more school all summer.   Yay for me.  lol

okay .... back to the beach houses ...

Rollers

Eli and his friend playing with fake buggers.

Isaac's home made swing.

Nags Head House

I contacted the owner, and got the website to see this.
She said someone just reserved all 4 homes yesterday, but haven't paid their deposit.

Maybe the Beach is Better

OK...so maybe it will be in the middle of hurricane season (everyone just buy trip insurance)....

Look at some of these houses:

http://www.vrbo.com/356146

(this one is in Hatteras Village) I LOVE the theatre room!

http://www.vrbo.com/107933

(this one is BEAUTIFUL and great price...but, no theatre)

http://www.vrbo.com/390474

This house is SUPER cheap 8beds/5 baths in ORLANDO!

http://www.vrbo.com/115877

8 beds/5 baths in Orlando (SUPER cute kid rooms)

not the best price...but, cute.

http://www.vrbo.com/162493

This one is PERFECT....a LOT pricier...but, awesome! 7 beds/7 baths in Orlando

http://www.vrbo.com/402110

This house is in Va Beach. 9 beds/9.5 baths. Actually affordable!

http://www.vrbo.com/187592

This is a 7bed/5 bath in Washington DC. Didn't know if you guys considered that location.

http://www.skybluevacation.com/paradise_point.htm

This is actually an 8 bed/5.5bath house in Lake Norman

http://www.vrbo.com/177621

Nags Head 8 beds/7.5 baths. SUPER great price. One of my favs (just no theatre room)

http://www.vrbo.com/400316

OK...this just may be THE ONE! Nags Head, 7 beds/8 baths...AND a theatre room! Only $2250

Looking at the houses....many of the beach houses seem to be priced at LOW rates (half are still priced at prime rates during this holiday week). Mountain houses are priced at Prime rates.

I will keep looking.

I FOUND IT!!!

I am sure that this will fit into everyone's budget!!!
ps click photo to see sleeping arrangements :)

I Found One

I LOVE this one http://www.vrbo.com/190808.

I found one!

http://www.vrbo.com/294520

San Antonio, TX  Six Flags, Sea World, the Alamo, and Christy's Air Force training Center

It's 22 hours from here though. I'm still curious what New Orleans looks like now, but I can stop there, it's on the way!

Thanksgiving 2012

Well....there's ONLY 8 months until Thanksgiving...and it's time to discuss our plans.
(and I think we need another family picture...we're missing kids in this one)


I don't really have any yet....so, we thought (the party planning committee of Wendy and Kathy) we should discuss it.

DO YOU GUYS WANT TO GET TOGETHER FOR THANKSGIVING 2012?

huh?

chime in....

Can you save money in time?

Where would you like to go?

Would you be willing to chip in for the house?

NOW.....where should we go??


I just put that map up JUST in case you didn't know where everyone lived. As you can see...we're equally divided..that's why Branson worked out so well. No one REALLY had to fly...it was all possible to get there by car.

Let's use our imagination and find a SUPER fun, unique place to go. Beach, lake, mountains...it's all up in the air.

As you find places, houses....whatever, just put it in the comment section. OR....if you really want to sell us all on it....make a post and sell it. We're not getting any younger...let's all decide to do it or not.

Hunger games!

Well I went to the Hunger games with some friends. Its the best movie ever made. No arguments. I love it. But there is a lot of sad parts when some of the people die its sad. -Tristen

Lauren's Masterpiece

This morning I went to clean up Sherrill's bathroom and found this on the mirror. Lauren is always coloring pictures and taping them up for us. I was quite surprised to see this one. She must have made it this past weekend when she was here. A birthday message for Jack......how cute!

Another day with Olivia!

Here's Olivia

                       
                                                            Here's Cameron smiling at Olivia!
                                                                Look Sis, I have MY teeth!
Thanks Wendy for the pictures.