A quick update

As I mentioned before, Hunter drew a duck for the Arkansas Duck Stamp competition. Well...

HE WON 1ST PLACE!!

We are so proud of him. We are planning a trip to Little Rock next Saturday, for the Award Ceremony. We are anxious to hear what he will win!

Great job Hunter! We're very proud of you and your talent!

Acting like tourists

Every spring break, for the past 4 years, we have went camping down at the Bull Shoals State park, on the river, in Lakeview. We borrow my In-Laws RV (mobile mansion) and head out for a week of fun. This year, the kids spring break was cut a few days short, because of all the snow. So, Wednesday after school, we headed out!

The weather was great, except for Saturday, which was freezing, and a little snowy, but other than that, it was fabulous!

I took the kids to Gaston's, to go see the peacocks, which I loved!

Hunter even tried chasing one down...but he didn't have any luck!

Hunter had his friend, Jake come down and play, while Katelyn spent the majority of her time with her cousin, Morgan, the Wallace kiddos and Wood children.

They're such hams!

Then we went to the Visitors center, and looked around at the gift shop and they had this stuffed bear, that had been killed in Marion county, which the kids got a kick out of.

We had a great time camping. The Wallaces and The Woods always make it a good time!

The highlight of the trip...I won $10 in the Missouri lotto!!

Book reports and Duck stamps

I'm so glad I'm not in school anymore. HA!

Katelyn had to do her first book report last night. I think she had 3 weeks to write it, but decided to wait until the last minute. I haven't done a book report for years, and she wanted my help. It's hard to help with something like that, when you haven't read the book. She was doing it on The Bridge to Terabithia. I've seen the movie, and last night, I had to skim the book. I'm not even sure she read the book, lol. Anyway, the teacher wanted some major details and the outline was the longest outline I've ever seen. Needless to say, I had to do some research online. How sad is that? It was only 4 paragraphs, and by the look of the outline, it needed to be about 3 pages. So I'm anxious to see what her grade is!! Say a prayer....

Update!: Katelyn got a 100% on her report! Phew! I guess my online searching and memory of the movie actually worked out! HA!

Hunter just finished his drawing for the Arkansas Junior Duck Stamp competition. It took him almost 2 months, from start to finish. I think he did an excellent job and he has such talent. Mrs. Blasdel teaches an art class once a week after school, that he attends, and he really enjoys it. He drew it free hand and then he colored it with some special kind of colored pencils. So special, you can't find them at Wal-Mart, lol.

We are very proud of him and his talent.

Good Luck Hunter!!

Skateboarding & Tweens!

The dreaded day of my boy wanting to skateboard has arrived. He lives and breathes it daily. I'd say he is outside practicing about 3 hours a day. He's getting quite good at it though, but I hate to watch him...fearing he will break a bone.

We just redid his room, new comforter and such and now my WONDERFUL friend Christel is designing some pictures for his room with a skater theme. We're very excited to finally have his bedroom finished. We moved in over a year ago and his was the only room we didn't really decorate.

It seems I write a little more about Hunter in this blog than I do Katelyn. Would you like to know the real reason behind that? Well, the girl is a "tween" now and all she really does is text on her phone, play on her computer and take crazy pictures of herself. I'm hoping now that spring is right around the corner, she will come out and play with us!

Katelyn was in a Choir program at Church on Sunday morning...did I have my camera? NO!! I can't believe I forgot to bring it. There were only 4 kids that showed up for the program, out of I think, 10. They wore ice cream buckets on their heads and sang a few songs. Now, of all times for me (or Nikki) to not have our cameras!!!

Little Dribblers

The 3rd and 4th graders are able to participate in an activity called Little Dribblers. It's where they learn skills with a basketball and preform little tricks and things during half time of a ball game at school. This is Hunters last year, because next year he will get to play real basketball! He can't wait.

This is Hunter with his best buddy, Trevor, right before their last performance

This is Hunter with his (girl)friend, Karlee. He was very excited to get his picture taken, as you can tell!

They got special treatment, by the Senior High Cheerleaders, since it was their final one.

Valentines Day Part 2

Instead of the normal steak dinner for two, Greg and I took all the kids bowling. We took Katelyn, Hunter, Dominique, Hannah, Kaylee and Karlee. They all had a great time. We ordered pizza, burgers, potato skins and cheese sticks and everyone pigged out.

Then the kids got tired of bowling, and asked if they could "play bowl"...I had no idea what that meant, but soon, I figured it out...

Greg and I thought it looked like fun, so we joined in. There's Hunter throwing between Dad's legs....

This is Hunter bowling between my legs...I was a little nervous.

This is where the majority of my money was spent, the arcade.

Valentines Day-Part 1

Valentines day morning, I got a text from my cousin, Erin, that her precious baby (Emmaline Valentine) was on her way.

This is their first born and I must say, Erin was the cutest pregnant woman I have ever seen. I remember when I was pregnant, I didn't have any cute maternity clothes and I gained way too much weight to just rubberband my jeans together, HA!

Congratulations Erin and Jeff (and Bruce) I hope to see you all soon!



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