The Turn of the Century Museum

Tyler's Social Studies teacher reserves a day where her classroom turns into a "museum". It is titled The Turn of the Century Museum. Each child chooses a topic from history and writes a report on it and must create a 3D object related to the topic. Tyler chose to do his report on NAACP. Why? He thought that it was a topic related to electricity! If you know Ty, you know that he has an infatuation with electricity. Boy, did he have a lot to learn!

Parents are invited to visit the museum and take a tour. This is Ty with the NAACP symbol, his 3D object.

It's a done deal

Sarah made the decision to attend the University of North Georgia in the fall. The confirmation deposit and dorm application have been sent off. She discovered a website that connects freshman that are attending the same college. She met Cali, a young lady from Alpharetta, Ga. They have become friends and have chosen to room together. They are so much alike and are so excited for fall to come!!

18th Anniversary

January 14th marked our 18th wedding anniversary. We celebrated by having dinner at the Sundial, atop the Westin hotel, in Atlanta. It is the same restaurant that Bo took me to for my high school junior prom 20 years prior. It's such a nice place. The food is wonderful and the view is amazing, as you can see in the picture below. The elevator is glass and is attached to the side of the building, so the ride to the top was unique. The restaurant turns while you dine giving you a view of Atlanta from every angle. We watched the sun set over the horizon of colorful skyscrapers. In all my years, I have never taken the time to watch a sun set. It was my first and was so beautiful!!

We discovered that the reality tv show, The Voice, was having auditions that weekend and we met a blues singer that was trying out. We have become Facebook friends with her and it has been neat to watch her success. Last week she produced her very first album Nashville, TN.

Running Behind

Wow! I have 4 months worth of entries to catch up with. Our schedule has just been so stuffed in the past few months.

I brought the kids down to Panama City for spring break which has afforded me the time. So as I'm sitting on the balcony of our condo, overlooking the ocean and listening to the waves crash on the shore, I am hoping to get caught up.

Connor's 8th Birthday

Connor is another year older. He celebrated his birthday at Next Level Sports Center with several of his friends. They played a great game of kickball among other games before blowing out the candles and chowing down on cake!

Connor has been wanting a hermit crab for a long time. His grandmother and Gene got him TWO for his birthday (yes, they cleared it with the parents first!). He named them Henry and Herman. It's been interesting learning about them. I had no idea that they were so demanding. There is so much to keep up with.  The humidity in their crabitat must stay around 80%, the temperature has to remain around 76 degrees, they require things to hide under and things to climb on. They can actually get depressed. Yes, you read that right! That's why he got two of them. Despite being HERMIT crabs, they actually prefer the company of another. Let's just hope that we can keep up with all of their demands!

 Connor telling Grandma thank you for his new pets:

Herman is hiding in the white shell under the bark at the front of the tank and Henry is in the black shell at the right corner.

The letter came!

Sarah applied for acceptance to North Georgia University in November and we have been biting our nails since, wanting to know if she made it.  I ran to the mailbox everyday and have walked back in disappointed that there was nothing from the college.  BUT, today arrived a letter in a full size envelope from North Georgia.  Sarah was ACCEPTED!  Over 2,300 freshmen applied for admission.  Of these applicants, only 823 were accepted. That shows Sarah's outstanding achievement.  Well done! 

Congrats Sarah!!

Cheerleading!

Sarah cheered at the first football game this season and it proved to be a little early for her back.  She hadn't fully recovered as much as she thought, so she took another 6 weeks off.  She is back under those Friday night lights and loving it!  There are 2 seasonal games remaining before playoffs.

This year, the Senior girls decided to hold the first annual "Red Out" - a fundraiser for the American Heart Association in honor of their classmate and friend, McKinnley (holding the football in the middle of the picture).  She has been battling a heart condition since birth.  The girls sold t-shirts and heartbeat raffle tickets and raised over $5000!!  The winner of the raffle won the football signed by all of the Trojan football players.

Competitive cheer has been been challenging this year.  They have been faced with so many injuries and coach has had to change the routine week after week.  Of course, Sarah isn't on the mat competing, but she is still very much apart of this team and supports them 110% of the way!  She has been helping with behind the scenes activities and music, and motivates the girls every day at practice.  The Trojan Ladies will compete at the Region competition tomorrow in Columbus with the State competition being held the following weekend, November 10.  We all have hopeful hearts for another State Title this year!  The theme this year is "Back to Back".  Go Trojans!!