Girl Names?

The Partin Family is adding a new member and we need help with names:) We will be welcoming our new bundle this coming weekend, a white cockapoo. What, you thought we were crazy enough to have another kid? Please!

She is about 8 months old and as I said she is white and very CUTE! I really like the name Hattie and of course I have always been fond of Sadie and Sassy for a dog. Camden likes the name Saucy and Grace changes with every other name you mention, Chris could care less. There are many names that I have written down it is just too hard to narrow it down to one or two to pick from.

If anyone has any suggestions please feel email us and let us know what it is. I will post pics once we get her home and settled.

February already!

I cannot believe that we are already half way through with February!!! Where does the time go? I have been very busy with PTO duties at school...planning the new playground, passing out candy and collecting money for current fundraiser that is going on and now I am involved with the school board and the bond that we are trying to get passed in May. The last 3 weeks I have lived at the school!

Grace lost her first tooth this past week! She has another that needs to come out but she is not quite ready since the other one was a little painful and hard to get out. Hopefully by the end of this week it will be out:)

Camden is getting ready to start baseball in the next couple of weeks and Chris is signed up to help as an Assistant Coach.

We are looking for a dog for the kids, something small that can be an indoor dog. I have looked at sooooooo many ads on craigslist that they are all running together. There have been several prospects and then there are those who put fake ads on there. I know that we will find the right one soon!

I don't know if I should announce this just yet but oh well, my sister is pregnant! After having a miscarriage a year and a half ago and trying to no avail since then she went on fertility drugs in January and got pregnant the first month. It looks like we will be seeing a baby in early October, I keep telling her it is twins:)

As many of you know this coming weekend (25th) is the one year anniversary of my dad's passing and that day is also my sisters birthday. I am dealing a little better, my mom feels like she is in limbo and wants to feel settled and find a job. Keep us all in your thoughts and prayers this next week. I will post some pics later this week, we got a new camera and I have been having a lot of fun finally taking pictures that turn out:)

Some new pics

Grace at Hip Hop class

Children's Christmas Program at church

Christmas Program

Merry Christmas Grace!

Speeding around the yard on the go cart grandma won them this summer.

Speed Diva!

9 days and counting

Hope everyone had a great holiday season. We did Christmas at our house this year with my mom and then on Christmas Day my sister and her husband came over for dinner and a little Wii play.

Yes, the adults...I mean kids got a Wii for Christmas. I am a Pro Bowler and not too shabby at tennis. Santa was very good to Camden and Grace this year between Hannah Montana and Littlest Pets for Grace and a basketball goal and Star Wars stuff for Camden. Then of course they got a Wii which was not in the original Christma plans but the opportunity kind of fell in my lap at the last minute and I could not pass it up.

The kids have been out of school since December 19th and on the 20th I was ready to send them back! They have been constantly bothering each other from the first day out and they do not go back until Jan 14th since they are in year round. Only 9 more days to go.

It was great to get all the cards and photos from friends and family over the holidays and see what everyone has been up to in the last year. I especially was glad that I was able to get in touch with my old friend Shannon Moon Scott. We grew up together in Florida and she was in my wedding and then we kind of lost contact after our kids were born. I sent her a card at what I hoped was her address and she called me and we caught up on the last 5 years. Hopefully we will stay in touch and not lose contact again.

Camden made the AB Honor Roll this 9 weeks for the first time ever. He got a certificate and when I told him how proud I was he was like "Ok" I don't think he fully realizes what an accomplishment this was. Grace has her first loose tooth and is ready for the Tooth Fairy to come, she needs to get the tooth a little looser first.

My mom moved in with my sister and her husband last weekend. We put stuff in storage and stuff got absorbed into our house and Kathrine's. Hopefully we will get our house on the market in the next couple of months and it will sell quickly and we can find something big enough for her to move in with us. We are going to try and get the rest of the stuff out of my mom's house this weekend.

I hope everyone had a Happy New Year and that you are blessed with a great 2008. I will post some holiday pics soon.

Merry Christmas!

Here is the picture from this year's Christmas card. Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Here are some pictures

We went and saw Santa early this year. I don't know how many more pics I will have with Camden and the Jolly Old Elf so I am glad this one turned out good.




I am raising a "Gator Nation"! My Tebow wannabe and my cheerleader on Halloween at Aunt Kiki's.

We got a new computer and I thought I had all the pics on here already and apparently I don't so I will have to upload those pics later, I am sure Grace will have some HSM on Ice pics this week too that she will want on here.

Wow!

Wow! What a month we have had...first was the possibility of moving. I can now say that we decided to stay where we are, we will still plan on putting our house on the market within the next few months so we can find something bigger with my mom moving in but we are staying here, the whole school situation for the kids just did not sit well with me and that is the main reason we nixed the idea.

During our trip to Florida and Disney I hurt my foot. I did not think it was hurt too bad and continued about my business only to have aches and pains in my toes, foot and leg by the end of the day. I finally went and got it looked at, xrays showed no break but they wanted to MRI it just to be sure. That came back showing nothing so it looks like I did a lot of nerve damage. I have been in a "cast" boot since Nov. 15th. I will start Physical therapy on Dec 10th and see the Ortho Dr again Dec 13th.

This was the first Thanksgiving since my dad passed in February. We got through surprisingly well but it was still hard not having him here. My mom has started packing up her house too so she can be ready to move after the first of the year. Right now she will probably stay with Kathrine and Jared until we get stuff going with listing our house and finding something else. She still has not found a job and will lose her benefits as of Feb unless she gets a job before then. Pray she will hear from the resumes she has sent out or something will come along for her with benefits soon.

Once a year I become a single mother for a week while Chris goes to a conference in Las Vegas of all places. So he was gone this past week and this is the first time that nothing happened, it was a typical school week and the kids were good all week.

I got the tree up last week and decorated with all my snowmen. Now that Chris is back he can get the rest of the Christmas decorations down from the attic and we can get the rest of the house looking festive:)

Our anniversary is this Thurs the 6th. Hard to believe it has been 10 years already! For our anniversary I get to take Grace to see High School Musical on Ice and Chris is taking Camden out to dinner. We are going to see the Connells later in the month so that is our night out.

I am getting ready to get in the fudraising mode again. The school is raising money for new playground equipment and I am on the committee to come up with fundraising, this is separate from the PTO fundraising committee. Between now and March 14th I am going to eat, sleep and breath in the preparations that we have to do for our first major fundraiser. I will post more information on that after the first of the year.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you will have a Merry Christmas!