Going back in time

I have tried to get organized but for some reason it just isn't happening. I can't seem to remember to email the current pictures I take to the store and go pick them up. I run to town and then remember. Oh well...I have just gone back and pulled out some old pictures and scrapped them. The one above is of my hubby and his sisters, Melissa and Denne'. I am not even sure how long ago this was taken but it is a great memory because we have lost Melissa. She was lost to colon cancer at a very young age. Denne' however, loves to call and torment me all the time. She is a great sis-in-law and wouldn't have it any other way, right Piggy Nose?

This picture is of Devin and his friend, Alex. They were in their sweet years here, now.....they are 14 and 15 and in "those years" now. I love him to death but really do you survive teenage boys to talk about it, sanely?

Well, my daughter told me I am bad about updating my blog so I apologize to those of you that care. I will try to do better. And yes mom, I will get the Jeep pic up soon. Have a great day.

It''s been a busy few days!

First of all, we spent all weekend at the Indoor Nationals in Lebanon, Mo. It was a great weekend and great weather!!! Devin raced his stock flat kart on Friday night and ended up finishing 5th, not bad for only his second race in it! Here you see him "knucking" Ben to start the race. Devin is in the black #10 kart.

On Saturday Kaelie and Devin both raced their winged F-200's and Kaelie won this one. As you can see she got the sexy trophy girl and everything.LOL Sorry the picture is so bad I was running trying to get by the flagmen and announcer to get a straight shot, so it's blurry but you get the idea. After this race they were able to remove their wings and race with the 500's. The kart's they drive are 200's but because they raced on Coke syrup Devin was able to not only pass the whole pack of 500's he lapped them two times for the win!!!! This was a highlight for him for sure! Kaelie broke her brake rod after the first lap and didn't get to race.

On a lighter side I wanted to share with you a picture of my darling daughter when she was about 5 months old....isn't she adorable! This is Lindsy, she is now 19 so it is the age that mom wants to show these pictures off just to embarrass her, ya know. The products used are from my Scarlet Lime subscription. If comments are left I will share them with her for sure.

This little girl is our newest addition. Lindsy received her for Valentines day from her boyfriend. Her name is Paisley she is a lab pup and a little fireball. This is our first grand dog so I thought we would show her off.

KYLA

Four years ago today we lost a special girl. Her name was Kyla Quennoz, she was 15. She touched so many lives in so many ways you can't imagine. Lindsay writes her feelings here that so many of us feel. I have, like many others asked, "Why God? Why them?". I heard something one time that made sense to me. God takes the good people that so many of us don't understand why they had to go because if He only took the bad it would not change our lives and make us learn what is important in life and make a difference. She definitely touched us and made a difference in our lives, we will never forget her! Kyla is one reason I take so many pictures. I figure good ones or bad ones I at least have that memory preserved. I treasure every one of them too. She was the same age as my oldest daughter and a friend of hers, as well as a friend to many many others. Thank you Kyla for being our special angel on earth as well as in heaven, and thank you for being their friend, and thank you for changing our lives...for the better.

Lucas Oil Winter Nationals

We spent many hours getting their karts ready. I would like to say thanks to Martin for the time and dedication he puts into the sport for us. I have included a picture of our new Nationals champ, Devin. Kaelie won their heat race but came up a little short and finished second. We are really proud of these two. They play hard and race hard. Devin also tried his hat at a flat kart this weekend for the first time. He made it into the A feature out of about 30 entries and placed 6th. He had a blast racing with the adults in this race, and was a fair competitor.
Here you see my two in the front, Kaelie starting pole position and Devin on her side. If you look real hard (good pictures are hard to get here) Their tires are already into each other and they hadn't even gotten the green flag yet. Ok, Kaelie's tire is into Devin trying to push him out of the way I guess. Sibling rivalry is everywhere in our family.
Here is Kaelie and Martin working on her kart in the pits before she goes out on the track. Checking gears and making sure everything is tightened and ready to go. We had a great weekend and the outcome was not too bad either.

A tough Competitor

We started out our weekend on a great note. The kids received awards at the annual Racers Reunion and got to meet Carl Edwards to boot. They had a great time, too bad it was as dark as a cave and my picture sucked. Oh well they had fun. Maybe someday one or both of mine could be on the stage and the ones handing out their autographs. Carl was great and just like one of the "normal" people you would meet on an everyday basis. I think we forget when people become celebrities that they are normal people too. He was great and got right down in the middle of everyone and asked just as many questions from everyone about their racing as they all did about his. Thanks Carl for being such a great role model.
Now onto a new note..... do you see how pretty my little girl looks (above)?? Well don't let that fool you she gets out and scraps with the boys and girls for that matter and defense is her strong point! She got the award above for Track Champion (tied with her brother) but included in the class were 7 other people....all boys! She had a basketball game last night and my word for the day happened to be "orange" so I thought long and hard and thought a picture of a basketball up close would be fitting for our family and that particular color. Well I got to the game and sat watching and watched as Kaelie went to guard a girl and try to get the ball, the girl decided she was going to keep the ball and swung her arm around to get Kaelie loose and at the same time both of their heads went down. I guess from that you can tell there was contact between the forehead of the other girl and Kaelie's cheekbone. You can't say she doesn't play hard I guess. Can you believe how rough girls basketball is?? My beautiful daughter is now being called "Bruiser". As for the color of the day mine changed to black, blue and red from the orange ball game. She is still pretty though..she just feels tougher now. In fact two girls on the team asked her last night if they could get a picture with her today when it was nice and puffy and bruised. What can I say that's my girl!
(BTW she said she would have smiled for the picture but it hurt too bad.) Her coach contacted me thru facebook and said I forgot to add that she actually did get the steal and our team got the ball. Way to go Kaelie.

Snow days in Bolivar

As many of you know we have had ice, sleet, and snow Monday and Tuesday. As a result my children have had no school and lots of hours to sled and yesterday they decided to go out and build snow men. Not much to do on these cold days in the country ,I guess. Here are my 14, and 15 year old with the neighbor and one of my childcare kids.
After sledding the past few days with, mind you our towns Wal-mart no longer carries sleds, their version of a sled was a pizza pan two place mats and an old tarp. Had a blast sledding down the neighbors hill and in town on many fun spots. Yes, we are rednecks!!! They rounded out the days off with a couple snow people. Kaelie decided to make hers a girl. Yes it does have boobs and on the back she put butt cheeks. Any good woman knows we need to add butt cheeks to make it proper. Add a little flower and candy canes for arms, dig through moms scrapping pile and came up with some ribbon and buttons.
Devin came up with a nature inspired version I guess. A few rocks and some grass and he was good to go. Very proud are they with their little snow people. This is the happenings at our house the past few days not much more has gone on due to the weather but never a dull moment anyway, fun is always to be had around here.

POD...

I do recall posting that I would not be good at updating this POD thing on here...so as usual I have them taken just did not get them up. I still have not included all of them but here are a few. I will start out with "tip". My tip is either clean before each load..the cat...or clean out the dryer of all foreign objects before loading clothes. I was unloading the dryer this day and when I came back in the laundry room to put the wet clothes in I found Tinkerbelle in there instead. Don't try this at home!!
"Instruct" is my word for this day. As many of you know I am married to a basketball coach. He is now the head coach for the Bolivar Lady Liberators. He loves this role and knows that God had a plan (nothing we ever dreamed would happen) when this happened. But all in all he loves it and wouldn't trade it for anything. The plus is he can coach and has coached our girls! Just a little info...they won STATE last year!!!!!
"Water" is always always in this sink. I do child care and have 3 of my own children so dishpan hands are a must here. My dishwasher isn't cleaning so great these days (not that I ever used it anyway) so this is the water in my life..just call me June. LOL
"Fruit" On Christmas eve we were blessed to receive Florida Oranges form the father-in-law. He lives in St. Pete Beach,Florida. Yea, I feel sorry for him too...NOT! Esp after the storm we are supposed to be getting today. Anyway I added some apples and watch the kids attack. My children are strange they actually love this stuff. Thanks for looking and good luck with the weather coming your way. Pray for no power outages.

Jolly..Squares

My word for they day(yesterday) is "Jolly". I took time and thought what does that mean to me?? I looked at things for inspiration online and nothing hit me, then I went into the kitchen and saw this cup from Sonic. It was left over from the games the night before. I thought dang, I would LOVE to have a Sonic coke, and that's when it hit me. When I really have the urge to have one these little things make me very very jolly on the first sip. It is like my day will be fine after that. So after along drawn out explanation this is my POD....Sonic cokes make me JOLLY!
Today's word is "square"...I was, as usual, cleaning up my scrapping mess and this "square" stood out because I have 2 of these little pretties that sit on my desk and hold all my what-nots. They are old soda crates and at the $1 each I paid, I not only got a steal they are priceless to me. Yes it is a little warped from age but so am I so I won't complain too much (about the crates, about myself I can complain all I want!). This makes me excited for warm weather and garage sales, the snow outside isn't helping much. Oh well, have a great day and stay warm and cozy this weekend!

2009 POD journal

As I have already said I am challenging myself to a "picture of the day" (POD) for each day of 2009. This is really rough for me because those that know me know that
1: I am a bit scatterbrained
2. Because of this I get sidetracked easily
3. I do babysit small children and attend multiple games for my children and husband year around.
4. I am always busy. (yes, Kendra I am trying to learn the word NO)

Anyway in stead of trying to do the challenge properly and post on line everyday also, with a picture and something clever to say, I am going to keep them hidden away in my camera and make notes in my journal, then put the cooresponding pictures in there. This way my children can look back on how crazy not only our lives were but their mother too. I hope all of you out there remember no matter what kind of camera or how good you take pictures, take them...LOTS of them. You never know when you won't be here anymore or your loved ones won't, so treasure those memories and then if you feel led scrap them! I made this journal out of my kids cereal box when they finished with it. It is able to expand since it is two pieces and I can include as much as I would like. After all anything left sitting long enough is scrappable ya know. Have a great day.

POD

Some of you may think I am a little off my rocker for letting my kids race, but besides it being in their blood, I feel like they are safe in a winged, caged, and belted kart. My son on the other hand always has to test the boundries! He has accomplished alot in his few years of racing , but always pushing just a little harder every time. My picture of day is of the wing on his first kart. Needless to say, it did not look this way until his last race of the year that year. He did not even flip. He just came around a corner and the kart in front of him hit a rut (that should not have been there) and stopped on a dime. Devin then rear ended him in a turn and got hit from behind and the kart behind him landed on top of his kart. He had a bruise from the seatbelts but all in all was fine. He of course climbed right back in after being checked out, and the wing being bent back up, to look like this (kind of) and replaced a few parts, and raced his little heart out. Again, was taken out by a child that was in their first race that plowed into him, but we did have a great weekend. This by the way was Nationals, and he was not able to finish. Which has led to the desire to win even more since then. So the word for the day was Sport, and this is the extreme sport that my children are in and love. Boogity boogity.