Birthday Party Fun and Happy Birthday Logan!

Having fun in the pool!
Jennifer and Dom, BFF
Liam and Logan
Logan's Shrek cake
Happy 10th birthday, Logan!


I'm a little behind, but I wanted to post some pics of our weekend of birthday fun! Saturday we celebrated Jennifer's friend, Domonique's 5th birthday with a big pool bash and Sunday was Logan's day of fun in the sun at the lake. He celebrated his birthday with his friend Luk and by Sunday night we all crashed early!

Big News!

Well, Scott and I are back from Houston. We had an awesome time visiting my cousin and her husband. The big secret was though that I had an interview for a teaching position there and we were seriously considering moving there. The crazy twist though was that the day before we left, Scott got a call from City of Chattanooga about a job he had interviewed for a month ago. Not having heard from them until then, we pretty much figured he didn't get it. Well, he was offered the job and we had until Monday to decide. After finding out I would have more certification hoops to jump through, Scott accepted the job in Tn. which is where we ultimately wanted to be. My parents are now in Gatlinburg most of the time and Chattanooga is 2 1/2 hrs. away. So, Scott is to start work July 9th! That leaves us a month to get out of Dodge! We will be heading up there in a couple of weeks to look for a place. Crazy, I know, but considering in less than a year we have had just about every major life event happen to us, I guess we are ready to take the leap of faith and build our wings on the way down:)

Our friend, Samantha

Saturday we had the opportunity to visit with a family who was in our travel group to China. They are from the east coast and their little cutie patootie's name is Samantha. She is 1 1/2 and just plain adorable! The kids had fun playing in the water and sand and we had fun catching up on our busy lives!
Scott and I are gone until Mon. so will be back posting next week:)

2 Down, 1 to go!

Graduated from the 2 yr. old class and potty trained to boot! Woohoo!
I Love my teacher!

Well, I've got 2 done with school and 1 more to go! Logan gets out next week. Busy week next week. Scott and I are looking forward to our trip to Houston, (without the kiddos!)

"The Dance", A Tribute, Carnival Valor 5/21-28 2006

I've had this made for awhile. It was my first attempt at a slide show with music. The picture quality isn't the greatest, but unbeknownst to us, it truly was a trip of a lifetime. Never forget to tell your friends and family how much you love them:)
Marvin, Connie, Shruti, and Scott, love you guys! Matt, thanks for not letting us miss the dance. It was worth every minute.

Showin' the Love

Happy 1st Birthday, Rocky!

You would have made your daddy proud, Rocky. You snore like him, kill us with your silent but deadlies, and love to sleep!

Jennifer's Graduation Day!

Yesterday was Jennifer's graduation from Pre-school. (Can't say she was her usual smiley self in the pics. The cap kept sliding off her head.) She is now offically a Kindergartner! Where does the time go? I feel like I just went through this with Logan and he's now as tall as me, nearly!

Cheer Banquet

Meigan and Rocky

Jennifer waiting for her trophy (with her side kick!)




Why do the weekends always have to fly by? Scott and Logan have been at church camp this weekend. They came home exhausted, but had a good time.
Last night was Jennifer's cheerleading end-of-the-year banquet. We stayed and partied till after 10:00, which we paid for dearly when I had to get all three of us up and ready for work by 7:45 this morning! Ugh!
As you can see from the pics Meigan received a trophy, too. I guess she was the mascot?

Water park fun!

Yesterday afternoon was Scott's County picnic at the new water park. The kids had a blast as you can see from the pictures. Couldn't seem to catch Jennifer this time, but was glad to finally get Logan in there. He's a very proud big brother, and cared less about hanging out in the kiddie pool when he could've been doing the slides instead.
Off the subject, but cute, went shopping tonight with the girls, all of a sudden Meigan breaks into her loudest rendition of Barney's "I love you" song.

Yikes, Another week has snuck by!

This is what a day of school, a 2hr. speech eval., and potty-training will do to you! She literally crashed last night!





We have had our usual busy week this week. Meigan has been doing better with potty training, though I would like to just take the word potty out of my vocabulary. I have lost track how many times I must say it in one day!
Everyone has been well so far, too, which is a blessing! It was nice to have a day when we didn't have to be anywhere. Course, I used it to clean up the house. No fun!

National Champions!

Proud of her medal!
Hard to see, but this is when they announced the 1st place team and Jenn's team receiving their medals.
Took this one just to show how big the stadium looked and how little they look!
Jenn is the one at the top of the pyramid, yes my heart stops every time!




Yesterday was Jennifer's last cheerleading competition for the season. It was in Tampa, Fl. at the Sundome. The place was huge! I really thought the her team would be overwhelmed by the size and all the people, but they did great and took 1st place out of 8 other teams in their division (4-6 yrs. old)! There were teams from all over Florida and out of state. I was holding my breath and squeezing the heck out of Scott's hand as they announced the places. Scott is nearly deaf from my screaming:) Can't help it, those little ones worked their tails off !
We also enjoyed watching the bigger teams as the stunts get more difficult. I would be a nervous wreck with some of the things those kids do!

Update on today's transition meeting

Well it's good news and bad news. Good news is Meigan will almost definitely qualify for speech through the public schools when she is 3. Bad news, my hopes of her going full time to school next year in the public school pre-k are diminishing. Since her only real deficit is speech and nothing else she would not qualify. She does have a full eval. coming up in June that will determine for sure what services she will receive. Believe me I'm happy she is a smart little cookie. Now I just need new options for the fall. One of which is going back to work somewhere full-time so we can afford pre-school tuition, which is very pricey here and wait listed years ahead! She is doing so well where she is now, but once they turn 3, it becomes everyday from 8:30 to 1 pm and expensive. Would be hard to find something with those hours as far as working. So now I don't know. There's also the possibility that the positions Scott applied for in Atlanta ( I know I didn't mention that!)may come through. Ugh, who ever said life is easy!

Update on insurance

I did get the insurance issue with Meigan's speech therapy resolved, finally. I actually got through to someone who understood and she put a note through to medical review to put a rush on it since Meigan has missed over 2 weeks of therapy.
We also have a meeting tomorrow with the school system regarding Meigan transitioning into the public schools pre-school in the fall. Her speech therapy would then be done through them. Hoping all goes well:)

Happy Easter 2007

Spring Break Fun!

We have had a busy week enjoying Disney World and Seaworld in Orlando. The girls and I went with my parents and everyone had a great time. I have more pics than this that my mom took so hope to get them up soon. The guys are due back tonight from their trip to Tn. They spent the week at my parents'place in Gatlinburg. They even got snow which made them very happy! Hard to believe the week is gone! I'm ready for summer! Have a wonderful Easter!