Saturday, August 30, 2008
Typical Friday Night !
So our Friday night started out like most normal Friday nights, we went to eat with Amy and Heath. Allen and Heath went to the Greer/Woodruff game while Amy, PD and I went to Target and Dunkin Doughnuts That is the norm for us on Friday but then we did something not so typical. We then drove to meet Allen and Heath after the Greer game at my dad's store to watch Byrnes on TV. None of us have cable and we don't know of anyone who does but my dad has it on the TV in his showroom. So we took off at 9:30 Friday night to watch the Byrnes game in my dad's show room. We came prepared with a blankets, doughnuts and chocolate milk! As you can see from the pictures it was fun for all. Of course, Amy and PD fell asleep before it was over. I guess it will just be counted as another adventure with Amy and Heath. This one might rank up there with playing dodge ball in our empty living room the night before we had hardwood floors put in!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Fashions of A Fifth Grade Boy!
PD had baseball practice tonight. In our hectic time of trying to get dinner, homework complete and to the ball field I told PD to run get himself ready and pick out what he wanted to wear. Well ... big mistake this is how we looked going to ball tonight. These pictures really don't do it justice so let me give you a visual, he has on a navy hat, red and black shirt, gray pants and orange socks!! Lovely! 
Below are some random pictures of tonight. I am amazed to watch my baby get on the mound and pitch! He was really good at practice and it just reminds me have how fast he is growing up!
You can also see him showing off one of the slide techniques he learned at SMC baseball camp this summer! I guess he learned something! I am excited to be back at the field. I always enjoy watching him play and he loves it! I know our family and friends enjoy it too! PD always has more crowd support than anyone there. At one game we were the entire bleachers! He says he can't wait to buy a pink bat and glove for his sister to teach her how to play! Hopefully he will still be living at home when that happens (haha)!
Well I better sign off. Carolina is starting off the season tonight and from the yelling and fussing I here in the other room it is not going well so far. I believe what I just heard was, "Stupid,stupid! Play ball!" Oh boy another fun season begins!
Below are some random pictures of tonight. I am amazed to watch my baby get on the mound and pitch! He was really good at practice and it just reminds me have how fast he is growing up!
You can also see him showing off one of the slide techniques he learned at SMC baseball camp this summer! I guess he learned something! I am excited to be back at the field. I always enjoy watching him play and he loves it! I know our family and friends enjoy it too! PD always has more crowd support than anyone there. At one game we were the entire bleachers! He says he can't wait to buy a pink bat and glove for his sister to teach her how to play! Hopefully he will still be living at home when that happens (haha)!Well I better sign off. Carolina is starting off the season tonight and from the yelling and fussing I here in the other room it is not going well so far. I believe what I just heard was, "Stupid,stupid! Play ball!" Oh boy another fun season begins!
Friday, August 22, 2008
One Week Down
So we survived the first week! I have to say (knock on wood) my kids are really sweet! I had a blast with them this week and it really made me remember why I started teaching. They are just the sweetest little group. I know that it all has to do with the prayers I have been saying and getting! I have made it a point every morning to pray for my students and myself on the way to school. I am excited about this year and feel really lucky to be at my school. I also am so blessed with an awesome assistant who is unbelievable! She does things before I even have to ask! It is great to have someone to work with who is so positive and fun to be around.
Well, PD's first week was great too! The first day home I asked so what did you learn today? He said I didn't learn nothing! :) Great! I am really excited though because he has the same teacher he had last year for homeroom and she is awesome! I was also worried because most of his friends are taking either band or orchestra and he is taking MAD (music,art drama). But he came home very excited about his art class and doesn't seem to be disappointed about not being in band!
By the way if you want to know how to get help for the drought just schedule baseball practice! That's right we had our first fall ball practice tonight and it poured! But it all worked out the kids enjoyed playing in the rain and the parents hung out in the dugout! Well that is all we have this week. I guess now that ball has started back we might have some interesting story to share!Yeah for the weekend! I can't wait to sleep in tomorrow!
Well, PD's first week was great too! The first day home I asked so what did you learn today? He said I didn't learn nothing! :) Great! I am really excited though because he has the same teacher he had last year for homeroom and she is awesome! I was also worried because most of his friends are taking either band or orchestra and he is taking MAD (music,art drama). But he came home very excited about his art class and doesn't seem to be disappointed about not being in band!
By the way if you want to know how to get help for the drought just schedule baseball practice! That's right we had our first fall ball practice tonight and it poured! But it all worked out the kids enjoyed playing in the rain and the parents hung out in the dugout! Well that is all we have this week. I guess now that ball has started back we might have some interesting story to share!Yeah for the weekend! I can't wait to sleep in tomorrow!
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Summer Recap
Since I was late in the game with this blog I wanted to recap our summer. I know most of you are aware of what we did but since I have no time to scrapbook and this is so much easier I want post pictures on here for future reference. So if you are one of those people who know all my business then just look away!
PD went to two baseball camps in June. One at Spartanburg Methodist College and the other at Byrnes High School. Since he is so cool I did not get any pictures at either camp. You know boys just don't appreciate their mom following them around the baseball field with a camera! We also enjoyed going to weekly outings with our church this summer. We had a blast going to Pump It Up, gymnastics, lunch out and Hatcher's Garden. In July we celebrated PD 's 10th birthday with a blow out party! He had not had a b-day party since he was five so we decided to go all out this year. Thanks to PopPop and Anne Mommy we had a water slide, bounce house, horseback riding and fishing for PD's party! Everyone had a great time. Here are some pictures of all the fun.
We also enjoyed getting together with some of my prayer group for play dates this summer. Even though PD is the big guy in the crowd he usually has a great time! We went swimming at Stephanie's mom's pool one day and had a great time!
The night before we left for the beach our church had a lock-in at Fun Bees! We met at the church at 10 for board games. At midnight we went to Fun Bees for unlimited putt-putt, go carts and games. Since Allen was going to drive the next day, I got to enjoy staying up all night with kids 1st through 6th grade! We had a blast! I was playing Putt-Putt at 4 am!
Our sweet neighbor Kady offered to drive PD around the track. He was not interested in driving but had a blast riding around with Kady!
The boys played basketball the next morning when we got back! They just kept going and going and going....
The Saturday after the lock-in we left for Harbor Island with my parents, brother, grandma and my brother's friend and his son. We used to vacation there with our friends the Oates every summer but had not been there in I am afraid to say it but 20 years! So we decided to visit and see if it has changed much. It is totally different from Myrtle Beach! There are only a few restaurants and not much commercial stuff to do. We had a blast! We saw lots of ocean life that normally you don't see. We even found one end of the island where we could hang out and not see anyone on the whole beach! PD enjoyed seeing dolphins, a shark (yikes! too close for my liking), an alligator, jelly fish, crabs, horseshoe crabs and turtles. He was into walking the beach and discovering new stuff. I think it was one of the most relaxing vacations we have had in a long time!
This is on the boardwalk in Beaufort. It was about a 20 minute drive there and it had lots of neat shops and cool playground.
This is PD and my mom on part of the island that was just us.When the tide came in that grass would be covered with water. 
This is my mom, dad and Grammie. My Grammie enjoyed getting out and walking on the beach and watching Allen fish. She sat on the porch at our house and read books and talked to Allen as he fished most of the week.
Here is PD on one of the neat things at the playground in Beaufort. I think he could have stayed there all day!
We visited Hunting Island one day and walked out on the pier. It was a really neat view and you could see Fripp Island from the end.
PD enjoyed playing Volleyball with my brother, Zachary and Randall! My mom and I even played him and my brother one day but sadly there are no pictures to document it! Let's just say PD said "Oh mom come on!" about 100 times during our game.
This is one of my favorite pictures from our trip. Allen and PD enjoyed looking for shells and even crabs in the evening. It was really neat to watch them walk around and discover all the cool stuff !
Allen really liked the fact that he could fish right beside our house. We could watch from the balcony and he had a blast. This is one of fish he caught our first day there.
At Hunting Island we visited the lighthouse! It was really neat but man was it high! I was not so excited to go stand out on the ledge but here is Mike, Zachary and PD braving it!
The week before school started we went to our church's annual picnic at Lyman Lake. I have to say we normally do not attend this event. But Allen promised a certain someone we would be there so we did and I am so glad we went! It was great fun and it really was not that hot either!
PD had a great time playing on all the playground equipment of course it is the old school kind that has been banned from all other playgrounds for safety reasons! I guess that's what makes it so fun!
Ok , I had to include this shot. PD called my name I turned to take his picture and got blasted with a water gun! Fun times!
These are some of the sweet girls in my prayer group! We had a fun time hanging out at the picnic!
This is Allen and sweet Mattie! They had fun looking at rocks and such.Later I discovered they were discussing the goose poop they found! I am sure her parents appreciate him educating her on goose poop!
Yes, that is my 10 year old hanging with the youth! I think that is coming way too quick!
So if you hung out and read all that you are caught up on our life this summer. Now that school is back in I am sure it will not be near as exciting! We will see.
PD went to two baseball camps in June. One at Spartanburg Methodist College and the other at Byrnes High School. Since he is so cool I did not get any pictures at either camp. You know boys just don't appreciate their mom following them around the baseball field with a camera! We also enjoyed going to weekly outings with our church this summer. We had a blast going to Pump It Up, gymnastics, lunch out and Hatcher's Garden. In July we celebrated PD 's 10th birthday with a blow out party! He had not had a b-day party since he was five so we decided to go all out this year. Thanks to PopPop and Anne Mommy we had a water slide, bounce house, horseback riding and fishing for PD's party! Everyone had a great time. Here are some pictures of all the fun.
We also enjoyed getting together with some of my prayer group for play dates this summer. Even though PD is the big guy in the crowd he usually has a great time! We went swimming at Stephanie's mom's pool one day and had a great time!
The night before we left for the beach our church had a lock-in at Fun Bees! We met at the church at 10 for board games. At midnight we went to Fun Bees for unlimited putt-putt, go carts and games. Since Allen was going to drive the next day, I got to enjoy staying up all night with kids 1st through 6th grade! We had a blast! I was playing Putt-Putt at 4 am!
Our sweet neighbor Kady offered to drive PD around the track. He was not interested in driving but had a blast riding around with Kady!
The boys played basketball the next morning when we got back! They just kept going and going and going....
The Saturday after the lock-in we left for Harbor Island with my parents, brother, grandma and my brother's friend and his son. We used to vacation there with our friends the Oates every summer but had not been there in I am afraid to say it but 20 years! So we decided to visit and see if it has changed much. It is totally different from Myrtle Beach! There are only a few restaurants and not much commercial stuff to do. We had a blast! We saw lots of ocean life that normally you don't see. We even found one end of the island where we could hang out and not see anyone on the whole beach! PD enjoyed seeing dolphins, a shark (yikes! too close for my liking), an alligator, jelly fish, crabs, horseshoe crabs and turtles. He was into walking the beach and discovering new stuff. I think it was one of the most relaxing vacations we have had in a long time!This is on the boardwalk in Beaufort. It was about a 20 minute drive there and it had lots of neat shops and cool playground.
This is PD and my mom on part of the island that was just us.When the tide came in that grass would be covered with water. 
This is my mom, dad and Grammie. My Grammie enjoyed getting out and walking on the beach and watching Allen fish. She sat on the porch at our house and read books and talked to Allen as he fished most of the week.
Here is PD on one of the neat things at the playground in Beaufort. I think he could have stayed there all day!
We visited Hunting Island one day and walked out on the pier. It was a really neat view and you could see Fripp Island from the end.
PD enjoyed playing Volleyball with my brother, Zachary and Randall! My mom and I even played him and my brother one day but sadly there are no pictures to document it! Let's just say PD said "Oh mom come on!" about 100 times during our game.
This is one of my favorite pictures from our trip. Allen and PD enjoyed looking for shells and even crabs in the evening. It was really neat to watch them walk around and discover all the cool stuff !
Allen really liked the fact that he could fish right beside our house. We could watch from the balcony and he had a blast. This is one of fish he caught our first day there.
At Hunting Island we visited the lighthouse! It was really neat but man was it high! I was not so excited to go stand out on the ledge but here is Mike, Zachary and PD braving it!
The week before school started we went to our church's annual picnic at Lyman Lake. I have to say we normally do not attend this event. But Allen promised a certain someone we would be there so we did and I am so glad we went! It was great fun and it really was not that hot either!PD had a great time playing on all the playground equipment of course it is the old school kind that has been banned from all other playgrounds for safety reasons! I guess that's what makes it so fun!
Ok , I had to include this shot. PD called my name I turned to take his picture and got blasted with a water gun! Fun times!
These are some of the sweet girls in my prayer group! We had a fun time hanging out at the picnic!
This is Allen and sweet Mattie! They had fun looking at rocks and such.Later I discovered they were discussing the goose poop they found! I am sure her parents appreciate him educating her on goose poop!
Yes, that is my 10 year old hanging with the youth! I think that is coming way too quick!
So if you hung out and read all that you are caught up on our life this summer. Now that school is back in I am sure it will not be near as exciting! We will see.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Here It Goes..
Ok...after pressure from some certain people who will remain nameless (you know who you are) I am going to attempt a blog. I am not sure this is the best time to start considering I am opening my kindergarten doors to 26 little ones tomorrow! But we will see how it goes. We celebrated the end of summer this weekend with a fun time at the lake with some friends! Peyton had his first experience on riding a tube and loved it! He would have stayed out there all night I think! Here are some pictures of the fun!
The next Survivor castaways?
The next Survivor castaways?
PD looks a little uncertain but he had a blast!
Don't worry we didn't let PD drive!
Swimming fun!
We had such a great trip. There were a million things I could have been doing that needed to be done before going back to work but I don't think any of them would have been more important than spending time with friends making memories with our kids!
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