Tye's birthday

Two years ago this community had a terrible blow. Trooper Shawn Blaton was killed in the line of duty. A few weeks before his 1st child was born premature but he was able to hold his baby son before he was killed. Tye was small and had lots of problems but he gave us all hope. Unfortunately Tye passed 5 months later. His family took the lost and turned it into something good to help other premature babies at Mission. This past Sunday they hosted a Lula to honor Tye. They were asking for donations for the NIC unit at Mission. The afternoon was great. The pool was cool, the bounce houses were fun, the food was amazing, and the people I don't know what to say. The families of Shawn and Tye keep going on and have fun doing it. They are special people in my heart. They show by example how to live and love. The girls and I went and really enjoyed the afternoon at Maggie Valley. It makes you want to go and hug the ones you love.

Jonathan's birthday

We all got together for Jonathan's birthday last week. I spent the morning with him and when I went to work he worked on the strawberries. That evening we meet at the Bear's to open presents. Yes my country boy got herbs & trees for his birthday but he got some other things too. Afterwards the girls & I took him to Cheddars for supper. I think he had a good time.

Jenna singing

Jenna is part of the VSMS chorus. They received 2's at district this year and got to go to Carowinds for the day this past Saturday. Here are a few pictures of her and her group singing last week.

Memorial Day

We had a great Memorial Day weekend. We went to the sport festival, we picked 7 gallons of strawberries, hung out at Biltmore Park (Opie Taylor's & ice cream), we went to the flower festival, Carl Sandburg's, saw Shrek, the girls went to school, and we went bowling. Not bad for only 3 days.

softball

We are finishing up another season of softball. Jonathan helped coach and Sam caught the whole season. She has no fear of the ball and jumps out of that box at every pitch. She is amazing but I get nervous when that ball is coming at her but she stops it and waits for her next. She has caught pop fowls and got a few out at home. She is my little biscuit. This year I wasn't on the stands like the past few years I was a bat girl and got to coach a base when Jonathan was working. Little league is stressful and we lived off muscle milk and lunch ables. But the Rockhounds did a great job. We still have play offs coming up now. So play ball!

what's up

Ok, I haven't been good about keeping everyone up to date lately. Spring sprung and we have been non stop. So sorry! Let's see my home away from home has been the ball field. Sam is catching again this year and Jonathan is help coaching. Jenna, Jonathan, & I took the hunter safety coarse and we all passed. Sam had a lighthouse project due. Jenna's science team won 2nd place. The twins had spirit week. We had an Easter Egg hunt at the church and an Easter play. We really didn't get a full spring break because of the snow days but we did get the chance to take the girls to Pigeon Forge to ride the go carts and wonder around. We took the Girl Scouts to Reidhill to see all the new babies. Action Fest came to town and Sam got to meet the guy that fly in the jet pack and all the girls drooled over the stunt guys. Jonathan and I took the boater safety coarse and I beat him by 2 points on the test..98! We gave an ice cream party to the winning class at Valley for the class that sold the most cancer sun's and the twins raised $89.00 for the American Caner Society. Asheville got a visit from the President of the United States..traffic was backed up everywhere but the cool part was the cargo plane C30 picking the cars up. I went on the twins field trip to the zoo, the IMAX movie, and then to fun stop to play ( it made me love my girls...some of those kids). We celebrated Mother's Day Greek style. And this past weekend we got to baby sit the puppy Pearl. It's hard to believe that May is coming to an end. Maybe summer will slow us done...I dawt it!

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!