Heart Walk

The girls and I went to Greenville SC on Saturday to do the heart walk. As we drove early that morning we watched the clouds roll in. We were prepared to walk in the rain we did it last year. But the sun came out and it was beautiful. We did this 5K to get the awareness out about heart disease. We have lost many special people due to heart attacks or strokes and with our family history this is an important one. We walked in memory of Granny, Memaw, Papa, Uncle Lou and in honor of our Bear and Uncle Ike. Do you know your numbers? Do you know the signs of a stroke or heart attach? More women die of heart disease than anything else. So love your heart and love the ones around. Spread the word..because this is the only heart you are going to get!

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!