Tu-Tu Cute!

These are the promised pics of the tu-tu's I made. They were so easy to make! This is my cousins little girl Cali, she is 8 months old. We had fun doing her pictures since she is older and can sit alone and crawl. I will be putting more from my session with her on my Blessings Captured blog too, but I just had to share these tu-tu's!

My Last Day as a Full Time SAHM

As I was cleaning up this morning I realized this is my last morning of just taking the kids to school/bus and coming home to start my day. This coming Monday I start my job at the court house and although its only part time and I will still have my afternoons, I feel like my whole world is being turned upside down.

This has not been one of my better weeks. It started Monday and maybe in my subconscious I knew this was my last week of freedom. As crazy as it may seem I just have not been able to shake a feeling of depression. I think I did a good job of hiding it or at least I hope I did. But today has just got me in a choke hold so to speak. Makes me want to crawl back into bed with the covers over my head and not come out.

I used to do it all. I had a full time job, took care of the house, the kids, the animals, the family and everything else that seemed to come my way and took it all in stride. So why am I now feeling like I cant do any of it anymore? I'm sure (or at least I hope)I will be OK once I get settled into a routine. Its just the getting there I'm so scared of. The transition from working to not working was alot easier than this is.


I also took my Substitute Teaching training this week and will be able to sub by next month sometime. My mom is the teacher for the class and I think she did a great job teaching it. At least this way I can try out the teaching world to see if I'm cut out for that or not.

By the way I did make 2 Tu-Tu's. They turned out really cute and I'm waiting for a baby to model them for me so I can take some pictures!

Baseball Season Is Upon Us!

For our family after Christmas we know that baseball season is going to be our #1 priority from the end of January until sometime in the summer (depending on Allstars). In the beginning it is a least one night a week and every Saturday. Then it progresses into at least 2 nights a week and some Saturdays. Even though after about 2 months we are ready to drop from exhaustion we love it.

Brant has been playing in Belleview since T-ball, so we have been there for 8 years. Over that time especially the last 3 or 4 we have become pretty close to some of the families and they have since become our "Baseball Family". The kids know each other well and have a good time playing together. They may not always get on the same team and may have to play against each other but they still are all really good friends. Then by the end of the year they are usually together to play Allstars.

This year Larry has decided to be a head coach. He's nervous but confident with Scott as his assistant and with the support of our friends and "baseball family", this will be a good year. It will be a big change for our boys, they will be leaving the smaller fields for the big 13-15 year old field and playing against bigger boys. I know it will be tough for them until they get used to the size and distance of bases, but with this group of boys I know they will have it together in no time.

Once the season starts I will post pics of our team!

Just one more thing I need to add speaking of Baseball. My brother has played baseball for as long as I can remember. In high school he received a scholarship to play at LSCC, where he played for a few years and then got another scholarship for Georgia Southwestern where he played for 2 years. His senior year he had to have a surgery on his elbow due to an injury from being a pitcher. He didn't get to finish playing that year, but stayed to support his team.

Since then every year they have an alumni game at LSCC that he plays in. This past Saturday was this years game. He pitched 3 innings and did a great job! We are all so proud of him! Best of all though was Savannah and Katie watching him through the fence yelling "Go Dad!".

Here is a few pics from the game. I hope to have some really good ones from the sports photographer that was there, he said he would give me a CD with all the pics. He also took some with my camera for me! He was really nice and talked to me a little about photography.

Let's Play Ball!!!!

Look What I Made

OK so keep in mind I put these on a preemie cabbage patch doll so they look huge! Its the only thing I could find in Chey's closet...Anyway, I have seen pictures with these types of head bands on little girls and babies and they are so darn cute. I wanted to get some to use for props, however, they were a little out of my price range so I thought maybe I can make them...

I found the headbands on clearance and the flowers I found at the Dollar Tree. They are not the best flowers and I will be looking for different ones with different colors but for my first ones I think they are cute! I cant wait to try them out on a little one soon!

I'm also going to be attempting to make a tu-tu. If it turns out ok, Ill post pics. Maybe I can get really good at making them by Halloween and can make some for costumes! We will See!!!

What's Been Going on Around Here!

There has been so much going on lately I have not had time to blog or really do anything. I have tried to stay up on reading others blogs and comment when I can but to sit and write my own I just haven't taken the time. So here is a little bit of what has been going on around here!

First we had a good New Year and celebrated by seeing family we haven't seen in 2 years, plus some we don't get to see very often. Although it was so bittersweet being at the church I went to when I was a little girl living with my Mema. After crying the first few minutes of being there (the memories where very strong that day) it was nice to see everyone.

Two days later however we lost my step-grandfather to a very sudden massive heart-attack. For those of you who read my blog from the beginning, he had the old house that Jill, Curtis & Joey (Jeanne's husband) helped us clean up a few months back. Luckily and sadly my mom was on the porch with him when it happened. Larry & Pop where there too working on his rental trailer. They were unable to save him as the doctor told mom he was probably gone as soon as he fell. We had to watch her closely too as her blood pressure shot up and she had a terrible headache and couldn't sleep, but after a few days she seemed to calm and her blood pressure has settled back down some. My Nana is taking it pretty well, she has a touch of Alzheimer's and it seems to have made it not hit so hard, although at the funeral she was full aware of what was happening and I felt so sad for her. It was very nice though and I feel like my mom did an awesome job taking care of everything despite what she went through. We plan as a family to keep working on the rental trailer to finish it as he asked Pop just that morning that "no matter what to finish the trailer". I have heard all my life that some people can sense when their time is near. We all know that the next few months will be busy trying to sort things out, make repairs and decisions on the future of the property.

On the brighter side, I got a job!!! It is part-time (which is what I have been looking for) at the Sumter County Court House. Im not sure what I will be doing just yet other than I start on Jaunary 26th. God truly works in wonderful ways, he has answered my biggest prayer with this. I not only will have a job, I can be with my kids in the afternoons and I can still pursue my photography!!! That was my biggest fear that I may have to give it up with a full time job and my other household chores. But I get to have the best of all worlds and still sneak in a little volunteering at the schools too!

The kids made their transition from Marion County Schools to Sumter this week also. Chey started at Wildwood Elementary yesterday and Brant started at Wildwood Middle today. They both seem to like it and are eager to go back. They also rode the bus for the first time other than field trips and I think that is the highlight for them...lol other than Brant gets to sit wherever he wants at lunch. I dont think we did in Middle School did we??? Here is a pic of them dressed in their uniforms, they both looked so cute!

We also got another bit of news that lets me know there are Angels out there and God really does take care of our needs. Baseball season is coming and signups are this month. I have been waiting to sign Brant up to get the 90.00 registation fee. Being just after Christmas the extra money is hard to come by, but I was going to have it by this coming Saturday. Anyways, I got a phone call last Saturday saying that someone (who wants to remain anonomys) came in and wanted to sponser Brant to play baseball this year. He or she said that they watched him play last year and think he is a great kid and good little baseball player. So they payed his registration fee for him, so all I have to do is go up and sign him up! That touched my heart in so many ways, not just that someone paid for him, but that someone thinks that highly of my son and I have done the right things with him to make him the great kid he is!

I hope all is well with everyone in Blog world and here is a little something I found today, enjoy!

Do not forget to entertain stangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it. -Hebrews 13:2