Football/Cheer Season 2012

Hi everyone! It has been over a year since I have updated my family blog, but work, kids and life keep us so busy these days! Well , Collin is a senior this year , playing football , golf, visiting colleges, and making really good grades! He thinks he wants to attend Mississippi State which is kind of surprising since we have always been Rebel Fans! We were so proud of him in the Senior Showcase at Washington School which took place at Harvest Fun Festival.  This was the Senior Class' first big project together and they all did a great job! Duncan is also playing football for the lt. Generals and doing great! He made a wonderful tackle during the Jackson Academy game and kept the opposing team from scoring, and his grades are also great again this year. He is in the Beta Club and in the Honors curriculum at school! Mary Randal is a Jr. High Cheerleader , takes tumbling at the YMCA, is Historian on the Student Council, plays softball and basketball and is also doing good in school.  She is actuallly cheering tonight for her big brother at the Homecoming Game. The Junior High cheerleaders combine with the High School cheerleaders for this one game; she gets to cheer for Duncan every week. It has been fun having them so close together in age, and it is special for her to cheer tonight for her Senior brother!! Randy has grilled hamburgers at lots of the games, and I have a permanent seat in the bleachers for all these games, but I am loving it!! These are such fun times for us as a family!

Football /Cheer 2012

Duncan did so good this year on the Jr. High Lt. Generals Football team!

Collin and Mary Randal before the Middle School Dance!

His grades are great, he is on the Beta Club and is in the honors program !

 

 Mary Randal is a junior high cheerleader, takes tumbling, softball and basketball and is on the Student Council serving as historian.

Mary Randal loves cheering for her brother Duncan!

Collin is a senior this year and is doing great in school and wants to attend Mississippi State. He plays football, and golf and did wonderful in the Senior Showcase at Harvest Fun Fest this year. He is off to a wonderful start in his Senior year! He has also started on defense in football and served as captain for the last game.  Go Generals!

Magnolia Heights Game!

Summer 2011 !!!! Dedicated to Big Daddy!!

Spring is Finally Here in the Mississippi Delta!

Diane Kurtz, our neighbor's daffodils
Harper's farm tractor

Our peach trees this year were beautiful all bathed in blossoms - now they are covered in tiny peaches but I'm just hoping the squirrels don't eat them all like they did last year!!

I'm eleven now!! Duncan got his usual birthday dinner of lasagne, garlic bread, salad and chocolate cake and his grandparents came over to eat with us!!!! he is in a size 14 pants now - i can't believe his growing spurt lately!!!!! This is Collin at the memphis zoo...he's cool.....

mary randal and benji her dog pose with daffodil - we picked so many daffofils this year from our neighbor's yard she has hundreds of them every year Duncan and his friend Dominick at the Racquet Club playing golf.

me and kids made 400$ during spring break and easter planting watermelon seeds for a farmer friend of ours - we planted them in a greenhouse but here's a picture of them in the field popping up through black plastic - there is an underground watering system and I hear they are doing great!!!

Egg hunt at mim's house after lunch and church. mimi always hides money in the eggs!We ended up staying over there with Jeff's family until 6 oclock.

Easter at Leland Presbyterian

march and april have been as hectic as the rest of the year so far and don't see an end in sight yet. mary randal tried out for Alice in Wonderland jr. play that her aunt lacy is directing today. that will be a lot of practicing and the play lasts a week at the end of june. she is also playing softball now and doing very well at it I must say! Also doing gymnastics and participating in a gym meet in may as well. Everyone is ready for summertime and the boys both had birthdays. We went to memphis during spring break (me and the kids) to the zoo and pink palace museum , we stayed at our cabin one night and daddy's in hernando 2 nights it was a fun get away. We went to memphis again to an old friend from high school's wedding and that was fun too and mary randal and i went last Sat. to memphis for the Memphis flower show and we stayed with daddy again. I was glad to be home this weekend for being gone so much. Iam busy planning Vacation Bible School and Washington School Field day now and ready for the pool and working inmy garden that i planted. here are some pics

Winter Holidays

Duncan and two of his friends in the 5th grade Christmas Operetta , Our family at the Singing Christmas Tree at Bellevue in Memphis, Mary Randal and her cousin , Anna Griffin , at the Wizard of Oz , some "clouds and stars" in the church Christmas program , cupcakes for Mary R.'s Christmas party at school, Me and Kelly, my sister in law, at the Grenada spillway with the kids on New years.

Wow ! I can't believe I haven't posted since Thanksgiving and now February is here. Time seems to get away from me , but I am going to add some pictures here and not much writing because I have to go get the kids from the bus stop in a few minutes. Happy New Year 2010!

Thanks be to God!

Collin and his first deer killed this year about 2 weeks before Thanksgiving during the youth hunt. Duncan also killed a deer that weekend as well!

Logan and Duncan playing at the cabin ! They had so much fun together wrestling!

Mama Bea, my only grandparent living, was with us for our Thanksgiving meal. It's so great having her with us and my kids just love her!

Well Thanksgiving Holidays are over and it's Monday morning and the kids are back at school and Randy is at work. I've been organizing papers, washing lots of clothes, thawing out whole trout for lunch (it's great to have fresh trout on a Monday morning!) I am blessed beyond belief! We went to church yesterday at Grenada Pentecostal again and what a blessing that was! The preaching is phenomenal and the infilling of the holy spirit wonderful! Now I feel I can make it through the next week. The kids really enjoy Sunday school there and Mary Randal made a new friend named Maggie that she really likes. Of course I love all the women there especially new friend Jessica who is expecting her third child. We went to the cabin and had wonderful smoked turkey, I made dressing and homeade rolls and pumpkin pie and gravy and we had a lot of great casseroles and fresh greens and turnips and cornbread. Aunt Paula and Uncle Gary came over and we all played Mexican Train Dominoes until midnight. Mary Randal was a good little hostess and popped bag after bag of popcorn to pass around while we played. Mama and I took Mary Randal and Paige, one of my neices to Jackson to Fresh Market and other shops(my first time there) and had a good day. Charles killed a deer and the boys all hunted a lot but mostly we got a lot of goodrest and sat by the fireplace and enjoyed being in the forest home we have there! God is so good!