My Little Girl

You know it is going to happen, you think you are prepared but BAM all of a sudden it's here. You receive your baby's senior pictures. Where did the time go, when did this happen? You think you have all the time in the world and one day you realize that time is flying by and your children are growing up. I know in my mind that she's a senior, we paid enough for the pictures and all of the "senior" things that she thinks she needs, but when you get those pictures it moves from your mind to your heart. It seems like yesterday that she was a baby and I can't remember what it was like without her. She has always been with me. We have been through some bad times (my Mom promised they would get better and they did) and we have had some great times. My Dad has been telling me for years to enjoy them being children because they grow up way too fast, and you know what? He was so right. I have a couple of pictures (you know me I love to post pictures) of her.

It's a little blurry, the real one is much clearer, but she is about 6 months old.

She was about 3 here, I loved this outfit, it was so cute. She now hates it.

The big picture is her 1st grade picture and the little one is her first day of 1st grade.

Ashleigh was 12, Wayne was 10 and Blake was 3.

This is one of the pictures we received in the mail today. I loved the flowers.

This is her kindergarten picture and her formal senior picture.

It didn't take any time to get from the left picture to the right picture. Enjoy your children, love your children and don't assume you have all the time in the world. Believe me it goes alot faster than you could ever imagine. She now wants to go to college and become a teacher. She is student teaching at the elementary school and loving every minute of it.

Congratulations Ashleigh, we love you and are so very proud of you.

Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Black Friday

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. A couple little mishaps but oh well, that's to be expected, not liked or wanted, but to be expected sometimes. I always take pies to my parents for Thanksgiving, 2 pumpkin and 2 pecan. I make a mean pie if I do say so myself. Anyway, last Sunday I made a turkey and left it to cook while we were at Blake's football awards ceremony. Ashleigh brought Blake home so I could stay and help clean up and not wonder what he was doing every minute. When they walked into the house it was full of smoke. The turkey had spilled over into the bottom of the stove and there was smoke everywhere. They turkey was done, Ashleigh took it out and turned everything off. She opened the windows and aired the house out. I haven't had anytime this week to try and clean it out, it's self cleaning so that's not really much of an excuse but I am a busy person, and to tell the truth I kind of forgot about it. Wayne tried to cook something on Wednesday for lunch and he said it was smoking. So, now I have to clean the stove before I can cook pies. (If you ask Rusty when I tell a story you get all the details, some you probably don't want to hear, but it's my blog and and you are stuck reading every. little. detail) I turn on the self cleaning and as it gets hotter the stove starts smoking more and more. I figured it would burn off and everything would be fine. WRONG. The house is filling up with smoke, it is burning our eyes and throats and Rusty is convinced we are all going to die from carbonmonoxide poisoning. It was horrible. He made me turn it off, I am still convinced it's going to be ok, as long as everyone sleeps on the deck. ha ha ha We aired the house, again, but now there are no pies. I was so upset, we've never had a Thanksgiving without pumpkin pies. So my brother, God love him who has helped me more times than I can count, gets in the car Wednesday night and makes a trip to Wal-Mart in search of pies for me. It was an experience I do not care to have happen again. We did have a great Thanksgiving even without homemade pies. We went to my mother-in-laws first, everyone was there and we had good food and got to visit. Then we got to my Mom's and had more wonderful food. Wayne was at his Dad's this year and Ashleigh had been invited to spend Thanksgiving with her friend Mara's family in Georgia so we were really missing them. My Aunt and her family were there and we all had a wonderful visit. My cousin was there with her 7 month old Peyton and he is so adorable. Don't you agree?

He really is a miracle, there was a real question whether Nicole would be able to have children and look what God blessed our family with.

We had a good time all of us together, but we were really missing my Mawmaw. The holidays are really hard this year for our family. I can't imagine what my Pawpaw is going through.

Sorry about the fingers, Steven put his hand up as I was taking the picture. He claimed it was an accident.

I spent the night at Mom and Dad's and Rusty took Blake and went back to his Mom's last night. Mom and I were shopping and Rusty and was hunting with his brothers. My mother-in-law was babysitting Blake. Mom and I were up at 3am and out of the house by about 3:45. We were armed and ready to shop. We had plotted our take over of Harrisonburg until we hit Circuit City about 4:15, the line was down the sidewalk with people waiting to get in at 5. I've been shopping on Black Friday for alot of years and I've never heard of people lining up at 10:00 the night before. I am sorry there is not 1 thing in any store that is worth standing outside all night to buy. We headed to Wal-Mart and had a lot of luck there. We stopped for breakfast around 7:30 and then hit the stores again. I got home about 3:30 exhausted. But there was no one home but me and I do my best cleaning when I am alone so I attacked the house and got it into order. And guess what? I got that oven clean and it is ready to cook in again. Horray for me.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and whether you stayed home or ran all over like we do, take time to stop and think about everything we have to be thankful for. We need to do that everyday of the year and thank God that we live in the country we do and that we are surrounded by family and friends that we love.

Good night.

Bridget

Another busy weekend

Well, it's been another busy weekend. Friday we dropped Wayne off with his Dad and then went to dinner at Applebee's with Rusty's mom. Saturday we had Ashleigh's powder puff football game. That was so much fun!! It was the Seniors vs. the Juniors, the Seniors lost but they had so much fun doing it. They all had shirts with nicknames on the them, Ashleigh was #7 "da Gibsonator".

Blake had a good time getting ready with her, to cheer her on.

And the seniors had their own cheerlearders. Aren't they cute? They are all friends of Ashleigh's and she talked them into doing this. They were really good sports about it and they put on a great show for everyone. Check out Donnie's white tights. They one 2nd from the left is Andrew, Ashleigh and Andrew have been friends since 2nd grade and he is like one of my kids.

Ashleigh really does have a great bunch of friends.

This is Andrew and Donnie begging me to let Ashleigh be ungrounded for the afternoon so they could go and all hand out together.

This is Blake and his best friend Christian. They have been best friends forever. Blake likes to tell people they they were best friends before they were born. We were pregnant together. Ashleigh and Christian's older sister have been friends since 3rd grade and they were in girl scouts together. Their mom and I spent alot of time together.

It really was a great afternoon, we had a hilarious announcer, someone running the time clock who had no clue what they were doing so half the time the clock wasn't even running or was running during a time out, but alot of fun was had by all the kids. As you can see our school colors are purple and white. I have a shirt that says "Strasburg, it's a purple thing, you wouldn't understand". I love our small town. If you have ever watched Friday Night Lights then you have an idea of what our town is like. The street signs are purple, not green, and our town police cars are white and purple. It's a great place to live and raise your children.

Today was the Midget Football awards ceremony and the election of the new board. They run for a term of 3 years. Rusty is a vice president and got relected. He was excited about that, he worries about everything and this means alot to him. One of the other coaches took the most incredible picture of Rusty and Blake kneeling down together. He blew it up, had it framed and gave it to Rusty. It was the nicest thing anyone, outside of family, has done. Rusty hugged him, it really touched him.

Well, I am headed to bed, good night and have a great week.

Bridget

Updates

Well, it's really happening, my parents and my brother are really moving to North Carolina. When my Mawmaw was sick I told my Mom that I would completely understand, if something bad was to happen, if they moved down with my Pawpaw. I truly feel that we will get to keep him longer with them there. But now that it is really happening, I'm not feeling so nice about them being gone. I don't want to sound selfish but I don't know what I will do with them gone from here. I talk to my Mom and my brother everyday, and I can still do that, but it just won't be the same. Steven is in Wilmington all this week, he got his job there and he starts on my birthday. I am really happy for him and he will be able to buy a house there, but I am going to really miss him. I don't want to sound whiney (I don't think I spelled that right) but I had kind of gotten used to them not being here and then about 5 years ago they all moved here to be closer to us, so I got used to having them here. Now I have to get used to not having them all over again. I am feeling very sorry for myself, can you tell?
My Dad and Pawpaw were up 2 weekends ago and we went down there for dinner and just to hang out. I miss seeing my Dad, sorry whining again. I took some pictures while we were there so you are going to be treated to my wonderful photography.

My Mom in her dining room. Don't you just love the witty comments that go with my pictures?

Ashleigh, Blake, Aspen (my Mom's dog, on the left) and Abby(our dog) outside at Mom's house.

This one doesn't really need any explanation, just my kids doing what they do best, being silly.

This is Mill Creek, it runs right through the front on my parents yard. It's beautiful, except when it rains alot. Then it floods and we've seen it up to the steps at the front porch.

Ashleigh and her Grandpa. All of my kids are really close to my parents but Ashleigh especially. I guess it's because when Rusty and I were divorced (many years ago) Ashleigh and I lived with them. She was the first grandchild and the only girl. She has a very special relationship with my parents. My Dad taught her to drive, the brave man that he is. Ashleigh is staying with my Mom this week while my brother is gone.

My Pawpaw trying on Steven's halloween costume. Isn't he cute?

Well, now that I have whined and posted my pictures I guess I better go check my laundry and tuck Wayne and Blake in for the night. Good night.

Bridget

Voting

I was reading on Melissa's blog about her voting station and it sounds alot like ours. It's held at our Town Hall and there's 2 little old ladies checking you in, very official and all that. We have 4 voting stations (still done by coloring the circle in on the paper) and 1 electonic voting station. People were standing in live to vote by paper instead of having to use the new electonic voting, I love living in a small town. I was there at 6 am when they opened and I was the 19th person to vote. They also have the kids voting station. I love that, they get voter registration cards at school and then they get to vote on a computer at the voting station. I was a little upset this year with Blake's teacher. When she was telling them to make sure they went and voted she also thought she should tell them who they should vote for. Wait a minute, she's not supposed to be influencing the kids on who to vote for, just that it's very important to get out and vote. I will be sending an email to the principal about this, especially since she was pushing the wrong candidate, as far as we are concerned anyway.
Steven came and took me to lunch today at Red, Hot and Blue. We had such a good time. Steven applied with the Sheriff's Department in New Hanover County and they called him today. It looks like he will be moving to North Carolina along with my parents. It's going to be really lonely without my parents or him here. I talk to them everyday. I had gotten used to them not being here, but they moved here a couple years ago and now I don't know what I am going to do without them.
Wayne has been busy making deer jerky and he can't keep up with everyone eating it. He makes wonderful deer jerky. His friends at school beg him to bring it with him and then offer to buy it from him.
Ashleigh and I went to the Redskins-Cowboy game on Sunday and had a blast. Ashleigh had never really been very interested in going to the football games but this year she decided she wanted to go and she wanted to go see my favorite game. Rusty was supposed to take her but they rescheduled the midget football games for Sunday, I thought he was going to cry. He doesn't miss many Redskins games for anything, but he is very committed to coaching the kids so I took Ashleigh. Ashleigh loves sports and as she pointed out she has been to every kind of professional sports event except the WNBA. That is next on her list. It was the most exciting game I have ever seen. We had so much fun.
I am off to chase Blake to bed. He has to read every night before he goes to bed and then he begs for more time. Wednesday night is Lost night, I have to make sure everything is done so I can sit down and enjoy that without thinking about what I need to get done.
Good night.
Bridget

Things I've done

I got this from Emily, this was alot of fun. The things in bold are things I have done.
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula-NEVER
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow-does a goat count?
56. Alphabetized your CDs- sadly, more than once
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke-horribly I might add
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days-are you kidding?
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet-my brother did
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eatingDo fish count?
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

BOOOOO

We had a great time tonight. Mom and Steven came over and had dinner, simple, just grilled hot dogs and french fries but everyone enjoyed that and then we hit the streets. Blake got so much candy he couldn't carry his bag, I was delegated the bad carrier, mask carrier (it was too hot for it and he didn't want to sweat), his gloves that went to his costume and the flashlight. Mom went with me and Steven stayed to help Rusty hand out and eat candy. I have a really big witch's caldron that I fill with candy to hand out. Of course, I put the best candy on the bottom and hope it doesn't all get handed out. I start buying candy in September, every time I go to the store I get another bag or 2, that way we can get lots of chocolate and of course we hand out alot of popcorn balls. The popcorn balls are one of my kids favorites.

This is Blake in his very scary costume. He wasn't very scary for long, as I said before the mask didn't stay on, I don't think it made it to the end of the driveway. Oh, and those are my shoes and a corner of the laundry basket.

And this is my brother Steven in his costume. Isn't he cute. He's got a great sense of humor and he makes for a great date, any takers, he's not going to last long.

Aren't these cute? They are screamers, when you squeeze their bellies they scream, really loud. One belongs to me and the other one is Steven's. We both love Halloween.

Well, I better go check the laundry and get the kids tucked into bed. Good night and Happy Halloween.

Bridget

Smells like Halloween

Well, at least is smells like dead pumpkins. Dead pumpkins, isn't that funny. I told the kids that was what is smelled like while they were cleaning their pumpkins out. Along with the cookies we were baking also. We made quite a selection of cookies, chocolate chip, white chocolate macadamia, and peanut butter. Anyway, back to the pumpkins. Rusty called me at work today and said "Oh, my gosh, we haven't done our pumpkins yet and tomorrow is Halloween." We have never waited this long to do them, I'm not sure where the time has gone but we are so busy and it seems like we are never home. Rusty said when he got home he would start on the pumpkins, he had football practice so he wasn't going to have much time. When I got home I just had to laugh. He started the pumpkins, his pumpkin.

If you can't tell what is on his pumpkin, it's a Redskins helmet with the Redskins emblem on the side of it. What else did you think would on his pumpkin?

Blake and Wayne started working on their pumpkins, Wayne doing the cutting and then both of them doing the cleaning out. Ashleigh was at work. Blake made a liar out of me this year, normally he doesn't like to clean out his pumpkin but this year he was buried up to his elbows in pumpkin guts.

And drum roll please, the finished product.......

This is Blake's, Rusty helped him.

This is Wayne's. He was really unhappy with it, this was not what he had wanted to do but the other thing did not turn out so he had to do another one. I think it turned out nice.

Wayne will be handing out candy tomorrow and Ashleigh is hanging out with her friends here at home. Normally, my Mom and Dad come up and Mom goes with me and Blake and Dad helps Rusty hand out candy. I think they eat more than they hand out but they do have a great time. I think Mom will still be up but it won't be the same without Dad here. Steven came last year and took Wayne to see Saw II, he wanted to do that tomorrow and go see Saw III but I don't know if they will because Steven has to be up so early on Wednesday for work.

A little update, Blake's teacher loved his project and he said everyone clapped when he finished giving his presentation so he was very happy.

Good night.

Bridget

beta blogger

After complaining about the pictures not loading I started reading about the beta blogger and thought that maybe that was my problem, so I switched over and here are the long awaited pictures.

This is my Mom and one of her gifts.

This is another one and like I said she always says she doesn't take a good picture, that they all turn out with silly looks on her face.

I don't know what we were laughing about but obviously it was hilarious.

Mom and her cake, we had a hard time getting her to stop laughing to get the picture. We had a great time all together, I am really going to miss her when she moves to Carolina Beach for good.

This is Blake squirrel project for school. Did you know the Bald Eagle is a natural predator? How do you like that eagle? You would never know that eagle used to be a crow until Rusty worked a little magic on it, would you? Oh, and the orange spot in the middle is the bull's eye, we got this from a target.

I am headed to bed, good night for now.

Bridget

Mom's birthday and school projects

My Mom's birthday was on October 24th and we had her and my brother come to the house to celebrate with a wonderful homecooked meal and homemade cake. I know my Mom is reading this and laughing, we had chinese take out and german chocolate cake from Food Lion. Hey, I had to work all day and we all love chinese food. We had a great time with her but we were really missing my Dad. He is already living down at Carolina Beach with my Pawpaw. My parents bought his house and are moving in with him. He will be back up here this weekend and my Mom, Steven and Wayne flew down there last weekend to visit. It was Wayne first time on a plane and he loved it. Anyway, back to the party. I have pictures, now these are pictures that Mom did not want me to post because she said they aren't any good but I am going to anyway.
Ok, once again blogger won't let me upload pictures, is it just me? I will try again tomorrow to do the pictures. I was also going to post pictures of Blake's school project on squirrels but that will have to wait also until tomorrow.
Good night.
Bridget

Liar, liar, liar

This stupid thing made a liar out of me. It never said it had posted but when I checked this morning it my post was there. So I was whining for nothing. Oh, well I will put the rest of the pictures on tonight.
Have a great day!!
Bridget

WHHAAAAAAHHHHH!!! I wrote this wonderfully witty blog complete with pictures of Ashleigh homecoming and then nothing. nothing. It wouldn't post, it just keep spinning around and telling me it was posting but after 15 minutes of spinning, I finally gave up. I will try to post them again tomorrow and I will also tell about the wonderful time we had with my Mom for her birthday last night also with pictures. I'm getting good at this.
Good night for now.
Bridget

TaDa, the dress

Well, here it is, finally, the dress that we searched for all over God's creation. Was it worth it? She definitely thought so. The guy she went with is such a nice guy, why can't she like him more than a friend? She always likes the guys who treat her horrible and I just don't understand that. This guy goes to school with her, works in a funeral home (that's what he wants to do for a living, job security) and delivers flowers for a florist on the side. He made her corsage himself. Isn't that sweet? Not that I want her to be serious with anyone, but it would be nice if the same boy was around for more than a week or so.

I must be doing something wrong tonight because no matter what I do blogger puts my pictures where it wants them and not where I am trying to put them. Oh, well at least they are on the blog.



Ashleigh and Justin














Justin, Ashleigh, Mara and Timmy.
















Ashleigh and Mara



















And this next picture is Ashleigh and Mara going to their second homecoming the next week-end at their rival school. Different school, different dates, different flowers, SAME DRESSES. There was no way I was buying 2 dresses. I really like the boy Ashleigh went to this homecoming with also and he worships her. He calls her, tells her how much he likes her, how pretty she is but "she doesn't like him like that". I told him he's too nice to her. Sometimes I don't know what to do with her.















Why, why, why does this keep happening?!!! I was now going to post the pictures of Blake making the cupcakes and cookies and blogger won't upload the pictures. What have I done to deserve this? Maybe they know I need to be doing laundry and not sitting at the computer, but don't I deserve a little blog time? Oh, well I did get these on there so I guess I will have to be happy with that.
Talk to you later.
Bridget

Thursday

October has been such an incredibly busy month. Of course we have Blake's football games and the other 3 teams that Rusty coaches. Then we have the Redskin's games, but we really don't have to mention them, it's bad just really bad. It was so bad last Sunday that when they made their last touchdown Rusty didn't cheer, he didn't clap, he didn't say one word. It really was kind of pitiful, to look at anyway, so I just chose to look the other way and pretend he wasn't there.

Ashleigh had her homecoming last weekend. Her school lost their football game (of course we were there) and that was sad, you're not supposed to lose on homecoming. But she had a great time at the dance Saturday night. She went with a really good friend of her's, Justin. They went to dinner and then the dance. Let me tell you, we had the worst time getting her dress. First she found her dress while she was out with one of her friends, but she didn't have any money with her. So, when she had the money all they had was a size 3 and an xs. Neither one of those will work so she starts looking on the internet and finds it online at a prom site. I pay extra to get it here faster, they email me 2 days later (it was supposed to be here within 3 days) and tell me they don't have her size in stock but they have 1 size up. We decided to take it and deal with any alterations that may be needed. Of course I have to pay another $15.00 to get it here overnight. They email me the next morning to let me know that "Oh, they are so sorry but they are out of that size also." I wanted to scream. It was Thursday and the dance was Saturday. Ashleigh was supposed to get out of school at 1:00 on Friday so I took off half a day to take her dress shopping. In the middle of all of this I bought a parking pass on ebay for the Redskins game and I am trying to figure out how to pick that up. On Friday Ashleigh, her friend Mara and I went to Alexandria to pick up the pass and then to Potomac Mills to Group USA to search for the perfect dress. When we walked into the store, there hung her exact dress, they only had one and it was her size. Was that incredible or what? I thought she was going to cry in the middle of the store. So, what do you think, was it worth it?

CRAP, CRAP, CRAP, CRAP, I tried to post the pictures and blogger is having a problem. Of course.

Blake and I baked cupcakes and cookies tonight to take to his Oktoberfest at school on Saturday. I have pictures of that also but just. not. happening. right. now.

Well, I better take the last batch of cookies out of the oven and I am headed to bed. Have a great day tomorrow.
Bridget

Football Widow

Am I still married? Do I still have a husband? Oh, yeah that must be the man I wake up every morning and pull out of bed. I think it's great that he is so involved with the Little League football but it would be nice to see him every once in a while. Monday through Thursday he has practice until 7:30, doesn't get home until after 8:00, then Friday nights it's the football at our local high school, Saturday is little league games all day (Rusty is the head coach for the freshman, Blake's age, and then he helps with the juniors) and then Sundays is the Redskin games. I think I have defintely gotten my share of football. He loves all of it, he lives for it. Blake didn't have a game this past Saturday but the other teams did so Rusty was gone all morning. Two Saturdays ago Blake scored his first touchdown. You would have thought he won the Super Bowl. Rusty went out on the field, picked him up and carried him off. It was really cute, Blake didn't know he had scored. When they got back into the huddle he asked one of the other coaches if he could have the ball again to try and score. The coach looked at him and said "Blake, you just got a touchdown." Blake said "I did?!" He was so excited. He has wanted to get his haircut, a mohawk, for a couple months now so Rusty took him that evening and got him one.

Well, what do you think? It really does take a while to get used to. It wasn't supposed to be tall and spiked up like that but that's how it ended up and he loves it. I look at it as it is just hair, it will grow back. He's happy and we have pictures of Rusty with one when he was a senior in high school. Oh, well.

Well, we tried a new church two Sundays ago and loved it. It was great. We were a little worried because, of course, we decided to do this the day after the haircut, but we figured oh well what are they going to do, throw us out? When we got there we realized that 3 of the other football coaches are members of that church. Blake also had friends there so he fit right in and had a good time. Ashleigh had to work, but had been to that church with a friend before and had wanted to go back. Wayne wasn't home that Sunday so he didn't go either. We didn't go this past Sunday because we had a Redskins game to go to but we are going back this Sunday. We have been looking for a church to call our own and we may have found it.

Well, I better go check the laundry, check back later.
Bridget