Thank goodness...

The holidays are finally behind us, whew!! Bet you thought we had fallen off the earth since I had not posted in awhile.

We had a good Christmas here at home this year with my mom and Kathrine, Jared and Addy. Camden got the coveted weight bench he has been asking Santa for for a couple of years now. He also racked up on Lego sets of Star Wars and Indiana Jones. The DIVA got a karaoke machine and cds and a cupcake maker, nothing like the taste of a cupcake that takes 25 seconds to cook, mmmm! Both kids got ipods for Christmas too, Santa figures it will save us on batteries for the portable cd player since we were changing them at least once or twice a week.

The kids also got enough movies between them to occupy us every night during break. We have watched the Hulk, Kung Fu Panda, Indiana Jones and Wall-E. There are still a couple of others around here we have not gotten to yet but I am sure we will since school doesn't start back until Jan 12th.

The New Year was rung in quietly at home with Chris and the kids. The kids made it to midnight with the DIVA getting a power nap in at 11:30 only to catch a second wind just before midnight. There was no getting her to bed after that, ugh!!

I have set a whole new record on encountering my first Most Embarassing Moment of 2009!! Yesterday my mom and sister and I went to the movies, after it was over I took a tumble down the stairs of the darkened theater and busted up my left arm and elbow and my pride. I am brusied and sore but nothing is broken. Thnakfully it was dark in there so no one could see my face so I should not get recognized around town...Ha! Ha!

This week will be spent finishing taking down the Christmas decor and praying for a phone call letting us know if Chris will be heading to ATL for another interview. Keep us in your prayers as we anxiously await any type of good news right now! We would love to go to ATL and pray that if that is the Lords will that He will act quickly!

Hope everyone has a healthy and happy 2009!

Word(full) Wednesday

I am skipping this weeks Wordless Wednesday. As you all know by now I love Facebook! In the year and a half I have been on there I have reconnected with lots of people from FL and NC, elem. school and college.

Tonight I found a really old friend from Fl. that I have not seen in probably 20 yrs, at least 18 I know since that is how long I have been in NC. We grew up together in Babson Park, went to elementary school together, birthdays, playdates, etc... It was so good to find her after all these years and hope we continue to keep in touch. Hard to believe that we are both married with kids now!!

In other news, today would have been Brent and Jennas due date. I have been praying for them leading up to today and today especially. I got a message earlier that they had a really good day so that is a great answer to prayer! Continue to lift these special friends up in your prayers!

The kids at Thales had a treat on Monday. The Mayor of Wake Forest, Vivian Jones, came and spoke to them about Community Service. They were on their best behavior and really enjoyed her visit. (I have pics to post later) Tuesday the kindergarten and first graders went to a local nursing home to bring some Christmas Cheer. They sang several songs for the residents and then gave them a little gift from the students. Everyone had a great time! Tomorrow (Thurs) the 2nd-5th graders are going to another local home to do the same for their residents. Friday I will be chaperoning the 3rd grade field trip to Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill. Camden's class at their previous school went last year and we had a great time, I hope this trip goes just as well!! We are also gearing up for class Christmas parties next week and then track out til Jan 12th!

Chris' trip to DC went very well and now we are waiting to hear when he will be going to ATL to meet everyone in that office. I will let you know as soon as we hear something. Pray that we have an answer regarding moving, etc...SOON!! Can you tell I am not a patient person!!??

Life

We have had a lot going on and a lot not going on all at the same time, if that is possible. The kids had an enjoyable Halloween dressed as Sharpay and Indiana Jones. I have been doing stuff at the school leading up to Thanksgiving...Grace's class took a field trip to the Poe Center for Health in Raleigh and we had Thanksgiving Feasts in both Camden's class and Grace's class. The school also collected canned goods for the Tri Area Ministries here in Wake Forest. We ended up taking 2 van loads and 1 car load of food that the kids brought in.

We had Thanksgiving at our house with my mom and Kathrine, Jared and Addyson on Wed. since Kathrine and Jared were going to his mom's on Thurs and Chris and the kids went to his mom's.

The kids have been out of school this past week for Thanksgiving and will go back to school tomorrow. The Christmas decorations are being put up and my mom and I have finished most of the kids Christmas shopping...I am done way early for once!!

Chris has been talking to several different companies. He drove to Norfolk a couple of weeks ago and last Tues he flew to DC for the day for an interview for a company in Atlanta. Hopefully we will have some kind of answer soon. It would be great to go to Atlanta and be closer to friends in the area and catch up with childhood friends who live in the area too!!

I will post pictures from the field trip and Thanksgiving feasts at school soon.

Wordless Wednesday

Just a brief visit

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have not been around in awhile but wanted to give you a little insight into how crazy things are right now, thus my scream!

Hope to be back soon with lots of news.

Halloween Festivities

The kids were invited to a Halloween Party at a neighbors house. They have been eagerly awaiting tonight ever since the invitation arrived. Camden decided weeks ago that he wanted to be Indiana Jones this year which suited me because we basically had everything he needed already...khaki's, leather jacket, hat...all we had to get was the whip that he has been begging for for sometime now. Somehow I think this was his way of getting the whip!!
I so wanted Grace to be Dorothy this year so she could walk Tebow around as Toto but she was having nothing to do with that. She wanted to be Sharpay, if you don't know who that is you ust not have kids or you live under a rock, she is from High School Musical. Here are few pics I took before they left tonight and I will take some more next week when we go out for real. Enjoy!

(I also thought that Grace looks like Kim from The Real Housewives of Atlanta )

Wordless Wednesday