OK, I'm cheating tonight. I don't feel that badly about it either. LOL We attended the Relay for Life last night held at the Naval Hospital. It was a great time, but we never went to sleep! LOL
I made a promise to someone that I would walk 60 laps around the track for Grandma. Eric picked up the challenge with me. So we walked and sold hot dogs for what seemed an eternity! Bottom line, I kept my word, Eric and I walked our 60 laps in honor of Grandma. By the way, thats 15 miles, not bad for an evening walk! LOL

I have to say, I'm very thankful Eric was with me. We had the best time. He kept me laughing all the way around the track and gave me encouragement when I needed it. We got home about quarter till seven this morning. He made sure I was ok after developing heat exhaustion at the relay, and off to work he went. No sleep at all! So if he falls asleep in church tomorrow...just nudge him gently. LOL The lady in red is Aunt Jo. She died of cancer 7 years ago. One day ya'll, one day there will be a cure. I know it. Well, either that or Christ is coming. I'll take the latter if I had to choose. LOL

I'm with Judy, photographs can be so deceiving! LOL
What you can't see in this pic is that he was just kissing her on the cheek and she is pinching him under the water!

What a Day!

Well girls, today was interesting. So interesting in fact, I had to pull over in downtown Charleston and have a complete and total meltdown. First off, Catie will be alright. She will definately be having surgery involving some yucky stuff and bone grafting. I am more at peace with it now, knowing for certain that this is NOT a cancerous tumor. I cannot express in words how thankful I am for the prayers she has received. We don't know exactly the day, but she will be having her surgery very soon. The surgeon wants us to be incredibly careful with her arm due to her having almost paper thin bone. All I can think is, well great, this will be the time she ends up breaking the darn thing! All the mom's know this is true! Murphy's law! He said absolutely no cheerleading until after surgery. Oh yeah, thats gonna go over well. Like the Hindenberg! We don't know if physical therapy will be involved yet, we'll be finding out very soon!


Driving out of Charleston I wanted to get the day off my mind a bit. So Pooh and I stopped for dinner in honor of our misplaced buds. It's been an incredibly long day and this helped me relax a bit. So Jame, these are for you. I wish you could have been with us.
Don't take Catie with you if you want to eat your onion ring! Little brat! We finished the day with a stop in the 'boro. Everyone on this blog knows this place I'm sure. Pooh deserved an ice cream, and enjoyed every bit of it.
Her big sister in the background was enjoying her chocolate shake!
Her t-shirt says Carolina Princess...Shelby told her it SHOULD say "Carolina Dictator" LMAO!

Go Beaufort!

Can we get a "WOOHOO"? The Beaufort Allstars schillacked Ridgeland tonight 14 to 3! The girls are on cloud nine, so are the parents! ~grin~ They play Walterboro tomorrow at 6.

The Shelb got a run and did some stealin! Her second time up to bat she stole all the way home!

Poppie's words of wisdom must have worked! The pics have beautiful subjects but they were taken with my phone so they kinda stink. Eric says, "actually the girls stunk! after the game of course!"

I have a very short post tonight. We're back from Walterboro and the Allstar game that didn't have such a great outcome, for Beaufort anyway. LOL Turns out, the 3rd baseman broke her collar bone on Saturday. I think it threw the girls off a little. Beyond that, it was just goofy mistakes. Oh well, I wouldn't be able to do any better! I think they did pretty good! We have an 8 o'clock game tomorrow in the 'boro as well.
Oh yeah! They charge $3 for the adults to get into the game! I was thinkin'...geeze we're around $250.00 for this season already! Cut me some slack good buddy! LOL Maybe they're trying to buy a scoreboard with the money! It would help to have a scoreboard! LOL


Tired girl!

Sheldon Card Sharks

Saturday night was card night at the fire house. Here we have our 1st place participant with his winnings. A certain commissioner seems to feel it was rigged. LOL I say, there have to be some type of tiny perks that come with being married to the head of the Ladies Auxiliary! ~smiles~ How do ya like that smirk? Yep, he's rotten!
Now here...our lovely model displays a fine deck of cards. He had to get some thrill out of the night, he was the first one out of the game! LOL
Ahh yes, and here he is proudly displaying the pink dealer's button. Give him a hand ladies, our lovely model! Amy these are for you. LOL

Do you still love me?

I am about to let you in on a little nerdy secret of mine. I LOVE Celtic music! Not to mention the history, the Highland Games, the dancing....I'm sure you get the point. I even learned how to draw celtic knotwork (it takes a looooong time if you do it right!) LOL I'm definately a Carolina girl, but if there was one place on Earth I could go I'd be hopping the next flight to Ireland! These pictures are from the Celtic Music concert at the waterfront this week. They were so good! Another interesting point, they are all active duty Air Force. Very cool.

This is my fourth daughter Leslie. LOL She's always with us, a real sweetheart! I don't mind a bit claiming her. So now you all know. Do ya still love me??? A nerdy Carolina girl that would loooove to go to Ireland? LOL

I would like this pic a lot better if the flash wasn't on. Oh well, still learning. ~smiles~

I have always loved noticing every little detail of my babies. I'm sure all us mom's do it. Noone can tell us in greater detail anything about our kids than we can. Sitting on the couch last night I got one of those chances with Pooh. She has her Daddy's feet as you can well see. Take a look at that last pic. LOL
In this pic you will see my feet and Eric's, as well one of the kiddos. You have to guess the kid! LOL

Great Catch Don't Cha Think?

Sorry ladies, this handsome young man is taken. By fishing. LOL He has fishing and football on the brain 24/7, and if he asks me one more time to take him to Mike's Marine I think I'll lose it! ~grins~Although...this is a whole lot better than sitting in front of the t.v. or playing video games, so I'll take it!
Just call him "fish lips".
Thats the part I can do without. LOL

*Disclaimer* These pics were taken by Big Eric, nice job babe!

Father's Day Dinner

The poor guy only gets snow crab legs a few times a year. He usually ends up shelling the meat for Pooh. LOL He doesn't seem to mind though. He' s a wonderful Daddy.

The Princess & the fish...

I can't add a single thing to this pic! LOL

It's just around the corner...his tackling momentum is building...WATCH YOUR BACK!! LOL

This is my Great Great Grandmother, Martha Elizabeth. The story goes, when my Grandma was born, she was blue and not breathing. G.G.Grandma was helping her daughter deliver her baby as was customary since babies were rarely born in a hospital in the 1920's. Great Grandma Ada was of course very upset when she realized her baby made no sound and didn't have that pretty pink skin. G.G. Grandma took the baby and held her tightly to her chest, gently massaging her tiny body and talking to her very softly. After about 10 minutes I'm told, the baby began crying. She was given the name Martha Elizabeth in honor of her Grandma who saved her life. You know me, I love family stories.
This is Great Grandma Ada and Great Grandpa Frank. And here she is, Martha Elizabeth, my Grandma. It's still ok to have a hero when you're in your 30's right?

I've never watched someone I love so much slip away bit by bit. As much as I love her, as much as I don't want her to hurt...I'm not ready to let go. Time is so precious, and so short and so very fleeting. I was talking to a dear friend the other day. She was telling me that her daughter still wants to climb into her lap and for her to make everything better. ~smiles~I know the feeling, because all I want to do is crawl up in Grandma's lap and smell the lotion on her soft hands as she wraps her arms around me. It's the safest place in the world to be. Ya'll will have to forgive me this one post, I've had so much going on lately I feel on emotional overload and don't have a great venue of ways to get rid of it, so the blog is it. It has taken more than an hour to write this post! LOL Well I think I've clouded my eyes enough for one night. I promise a much cheerier blog tomorrow!

Coincidence? Hmmm...

I present to you...the jury, the evidence. I leave it for you to decide.

You know I love ya girl! LOL

Galilee Comes to Sheldon

I caught Pooh listening! I'm so excited! LOL Caleb has that "huh?" look on his face.
I love how this turned out! Such great talent we have at our church!
Yum! I'll take two of everything! I got down on my knees for this shot. It was a much more exciting view when I got to the lower levels! LOL I think we miss out on important perspectives and points of view when we grow up. Hmm, yeah that was a little redundant! LOL I love the well!

SCRUNCH!!

They had to scrunch into the smallest place we could find. As you can see they had a blast!

Little Allstars

Here they are! Two of the Allstars! Shelby and Cassandra will begin practices tomorrow evening at 7. They will practice 6 days a week with their first playoff game to be on June 25th. Both of the girls worked very hard all season and it paid off. I don't think I could be more proud if I tried!
I would also like some tips on keeping boys away from these pretty girls!! Praise God they are soooo interested in softball! At least for now! LOL

I'm cheating tonight! LOL I don't feel like downloading the pics of the camera right now. This was taken 3 years ago at the tea house in Port Royal. We had the best time, just me and my girls. The guys were home doing what else? Man stuff! Wow! Have they changed or what? I didn't think Christina was ever going to forgive me for making her wear a skirt! LOL I'm happy she finally got over it!

Helpin' Dad

As Bubba says, "I'm a man! I do man stuff and I eat man food!" LOL So here he is being a man, helpin' Dad work on the truck. And here he is passed out after a migraine knocked his feet out from under him from a long day of "being a man!"
Ya gotta love em', the men in our lives, big or small. ~smiles~

God's Crayon Box

This is something man could never accomplish or even remotely compete with. I see the flowers blooming in my yard and it reminds me of a freshly opened crayola box bursting with color. Just beautiful.

A Splash at JuJu's

Giddyup Bubba!

Now why can't she see how pretty she is?? Some one give me a clue! I have come to the conclusion kids are just nuts and in turn make us as parents nuts. Don't cha think? LOL