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!!!!