amazing

You know it takes someone real special to knock you off your feet. Someone who loves me and my girls as much. That goes with the flow and jumps in and helps out. He must really love me or he is really crazy! But Jonathan has done it again.
He is teaching Jenna how to shoot a gun so they can do the 4H shooting club. Breath Bear they are going to be safe. He is starting her off with a bb gun and then will move her to a 22 after she completes her hunter safety coarse and he thinks she is ready. She is so excited and hit around the bulls eye a few times.
And like he has a lot of extra time with everything else he does Jonathan is going to help coach Sam's softball team. They have already started practicing for try outs in March. As long as no one breaks anything (teeth) we will be good.
Spring is in the air and the schedules are getting busy again...wait a minute did they ever slow down?

zoo

For Sam's birthday we went to Columbia to the zoo. The Riverbanks is one of the best zoos I have been to. They had so many animals..penguins, fish, alligators, giraffes, elephants, monkeys, birds, and so much more all in an animal friend environment and up close so you could experience it. They also have a full garden and walking trails. The best part was the weather. It got up to 60 degrees and we were all loving it.
We spent the day at the zoo and ended it with BBQ at Maurice's. What a great day!

Nature Center contest

All 3 girls did the festival of knowledge this past weekend for the nature center. Tori did a project on lady bugs, Sam did hers on rollie pollies and Jenna did one on lunar moths. All 3 girls did great (thanks to the Bear for her help on all those snow days). Tori and Sam received ribbons and Jenna won the category.

Sam's birthday

I can't believe my baby turned 10. I am getting to old. Sammy went to school but I took her out to lunch and we all got together for supper for pizza.

more and more snow

OK whoever is praying for snow you can stop now
the kids have missed a total of 10 days for snow not counting the 2 hr delays and early releases...
where is spring

Tori won a prize for moldy bread

Seventh Grade students participate in a moldy bread contest!


Ok...we can tell she got her mother's cooking skills.....


All seventh grade students just participated in the “Moldy Bread” Contest. Each student took a piece of bread home and was asked to make it as moldy as possible in three weeks. This was fun from a “gross” aspect, but language arts teachers used this as an opportunity to have students write for various purposes, in various contexts, from a variety of points of view.

Students wrote from the point of view of the bread on day one, and they evaluated their process during week two. They described their bread after two weeks, and they wrote to the judges, in their most persuasive tones on the last day, trying to convince the volunteer bread critics to vote for their gross slices of “Sunbeam King Thin.”

Everyone had a great time comparing strategies and creating personalities for their slices of bread!

RED Day

You know more women die of a heart attack than anything else? Of coarse when we were talking about this last week Sam's said, " Do you know why? " I said no why?
She then proceed to state..."because men don't have hearts". After I stopped laughing I told her that wasn't right. The 2 men in her life do have hearts they just don't like to show them. I told her we know for sure Grandaddy Ho does, Granny Bear has a picture of it from his last check up. Then she asked me not to tell Jonathan what she said because he would stop giving her those good hugs. This is American Heart Association month folks. Know the signs of a heart attack or stoke. The Bear & I started it off last Friday with wearing red ( no question in my mind who I look like). Show you care wear your red... I do it in memory of Uncle Lewis, Granny, MeMaw, & PaPaw. I also to it to honor my Bear. Hearts can heal we know that after a problem...see I still have a Bear around! The girls and I will finish the month of awareness off by going to Greenville to do the Heart Walk again. We are collecting $$ so if you would like to give click the link below...
http://heartwalk.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=315991&lis=0&kntae315991=F32BA83DE14A43C9B8FA0102C0FCC00B

more snow

I know growing up I would get so excited that I might see snow coming up to the mountains. The Bear and I have even be know to put the top down when we saw a few flakes. But after the 2 big snow in a month I am ready for some warmer weather. It took me 2 1/2 hrs to get home from work, it took Ho 4 hrs, and Jonathan 6 hrs. This global warming thing is not working for me. I was heading up Ledbetter Rd Friday night after sitting and snail driving for ever. I went around a stuck truck and was headed up the road for the last big hill and was stopped again. Ho was somewhere in front of me so I called him to see where he was. He asked me what are you doing..I said watching some idiot back down Ledbetter..his response...he was the idiot! The company car wasn't doing very well in this. We push and push some more but the car wouldn't go...so we got it turned around and he headed down. I was told to go home and he would call me to come get him once he found a place to park the car. I did what I was told..didn't like leaving him but I had to go to the bathroom. After about 45 minutes I got the call to come get him. So this little Fla girl got back in the big blue bus and went 4 wheel driving. I got him and we went home. Saturday we dug his company car out but we still can't get it home. We have had some good family times this past weekend eating, playing games, sledding, making snowmen, and having fun. I just hope the ground hog says no more winter tomorrow!