Orange Brusters

Bailey will be playing fast pitch softball again this spring.

She's excited to get started.

She'd like to learn how to pitch.

She's ready to go out slugging too.

Ready for T-Ball

Natalie is playing t-ball this spring.

Opening day is this Saturday.

Her cleats are so small and very cute.

First Track Meet 2008

This year, Taylor is trying a new event.
Raking the sand pit for the long jump?

Nope, actual long jumping.
After having just learned last week,
she won first place with a distance of 12'3"

Then, onto the mile, last year's event.
As long distance manager, here she helps runners get into place.

On your mark, get set, go.

Taylor didn't win, but came in with a time of 6:44.

Almost Stranded in TX

Last week, I flew down to Texas on my first business trip since the summer of 1999. My flight was on an American Airlines MD-80. I worked there two days and then I was supposed to fly home on another American Airlines MD-80. Does anyone see where this is heading? American Airlines canceled all MD-80 flights for the day I was to fly home and had the two previous days also. I got to the airport and got into line with all of the other passengers trying to get home. My cell phone battery was almost dead so I was turning it off between making calls. I called Joe to tell him that I might not be getting home that day. I called the office to see if they could call the corporate travel office to see if they could get me home on another airline. The best the travel office could do was 6:30am the next morning. I stayed in line. When I got to the front of the line, the very nice ticket agent transferred my tickets to a Continental flight leaving later that morning. We stopped in Houston and were delayed an hour because of bad weather. Once we got on the plane, we were delayed another 30 minutes because someone had parked their truck behind the plane and left it without any keys. They had to find someone with keys to move the truck. Who parks their truck behind a plane at the airport? The garbage man. The flight home was smooth and I finally got into my car about 2 hours later then I should have, but at least I was home. Some of the passengers who flew out that day had been stranded at the airport for up to two days. Check out my knitting page for all of the knitting I got done when on travel.

Make-up?

Natalie got into some fingernail polish and used it as eye make-up.

She's done this before and it will wear off on its own.

The polish is too close to her eyes to try and use anything to remove it.

Spike

Joseph's new haircut taken while he was playing the Wii.

He wanted a haircut that spiked up this time around.

Old Friends

This couple was our two witnesses when Joe and I got married.
We lived near each other twice when the kids were younger.
We had not seen them for almost 10 years.
I'm going to scan in some pictures from our wedding to compare.

Mallory and Elisa were inseparable as babies.

Michelle liked playing video games with Joseph.

Liana was a teenager the last time I saw her, now she's married.

Big mess of kids.

Goofy faces.

Ta Da!

The four musketeers.

Texas Bound

Mallory, Rachel and Taylor's volleyball teams are playing in a tournament this weekend. The winner of each age division, gets to go to the National Junior Olympic tournament in Dallas the end of June.

Taylor's team won the 13's division today.

Mallory and Rachel's team will finish up tomorrow, neither are expected to win their age group. Both teams had a rough day today, tomorrow is another day. Hopefully they will both do better.

First Flowers of 2008

I cleaned up my flower beds this weekend and planted some pansies.

Sleeping Cuties

Joe said that he only fell asleep because Natalie fell asleep first and he was stuck under her asleep on his arm.

Acrobat Dog

Bailey wanted to teach Freckles to jump on the tramoline.

So she got some beef jerky.

And jump he did.

Who are you going to call?

Cutie Pie!

Another Stratton Driver

Rachel only missed one question on her driving test today.

Looking good in the driveway!

A very excited Rachel!

Joseph got a Haircut

Joseph was getting shaggy so I took him to get a haircut.

Nothing too short, but definitely trimmed all around.

Cleaned up in the back.

Officially a Boy Scout

Joseph's last night as a Weeblo Cub Scout.
He received his Arrow of Light,
the highest award that a cub scout can achieve.

His new scoutmaster places his boy scout neckerchief
over the weeblo one before it is removed.

The blue shoulder bands are replaced with red ones.

His new troop also gave him a boy scout handbook and bag to keep everything together.

Each troop can have their own neckerchief.

Joseph is excited about becoming a boy scout.
He likes the new green neckerchief.