LATELY WITH THE LINKS

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Caden's Room, Sir!!

This last weekend we redecorated Caden's bedroom and made it "Caden's Command Post". We had a good time painting, replacing knobs in the bathroom, and especially changing the ceiling fan (Byron did a great job). Caden really thinks it's cool! Just thought you'd like to see......

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Our Okie Time!! Love it!!

I (Tammy) and the kids went up to visit my family in Oklahoma last week. We spent a couple of days at Sondra's house where Brynna had a great time with her cousin Alyssa. Caden also overcame his intense fear of dogs and cats (atleast Sondra's dogs and cats) while we were at her house. We then went to J.B.'s new house (The HomeTeam House) for a cook-out and we stayed there for the rest of our visit. We had a great time with my sister's and the kids cousin's. We went swimming at Mary Alice's pool twice where Caden learned how to dive off of a diving-board. Greyson is a great swimmer and dives and flipps and all that fun stuff. Brynna tried her hardest to dive and we told her she was because she was so excited when she would come out of the water-all smiles and thumbs up-but......she's the reason they named it the BELly-flop. We also got to see Kael's new house--Awesome--we're so excited for Kev and Darlyn. It's a great house. Chris and Lacey are now in Norman and we got to spend some time with cutie-pie Coleman. What a little doll. Goodman a little...Goelz a whole lot! Sheri, Mom, J.B., Greyson and I went to see Snowpatrol--Hopefully we've got a couple of converted fans. Anyway, we had a great time just hangin' out with the family--I wouldn't have it any other way......

Oklahoma Summer Fun!

Magdalene--Maggie Mae

Little Miss Sass is actually what we should call her. Lately, she's been "testing her limits" or should I say "her mom and dad's limits"--Just a little here and there. She's really decided that she has an opinion on every single thing and that it's her way or the highway. I guess we can just call her "Miss Independent". No more holding her hand while walking down the sidewalk, or helping her into her stroller. She'll do it "by self". "By self" is just one of the funny little things she says. "Or not" is big in her vocabulary, too. If you ask her if she wants a snack or not, if she doesn't, she'll say "Or not". She's just so funny. Conversations are never dull and always cute.

Brynna-Bel

My heaven's--getting older every second. She's no longer a little girl. She has turned into, simply, a girl. Not little, but not too big either. We are young enough to still love Barbie--but old enough to really care what Barbie is wearing. A good thing, right?
Bel is in the 1st grade now, and love's to read. She really loves school too. She loves her teachers and her friends. Can you say Social Butterfly? Talk-talk-talk-talk. She's never been considered shy. Everyone is her best-friend, you know, even if it's the first time you've ever talked to her. I love that quality about her. She is a friend to everyone. What a good and sweet girl she is.

Caden--C Dog

I just love my little Caden. He is THE sweetest and nicest kid around--and did I mention handsome. He's now in the 5th grade--the year when things get a bit more hectic. He has more work and he's expected to be organized enough to get it all in one day, do it over the next week and then turn it in. We're still workin' on that one. Organization is not a strong point for us. He changes classes too, which is new to him. I tell you what--he absolutley LOVES science. Almost every day he comes home telling me of the experiment that they did in science lab or goes on and on about protons and neutrons and electrons. I have a hard time following because he goes into every single little detail--and he remembers every-single-detail. What a smarty-pants. He's really discovering how funny his personality is lately, too. He now know's he's funny and that he's got the gift of gab. He takes after his dad.

Greyson--G Money

You'd think I was giving this kid steroids at the rate he's growing. He's only 15, but people ask if he's 17. He's very tall for his age. He might think he acts like he's 17--but we know better. Maturity-?-it's comin' along. We'll just say we're working on it. No, really-all kidding aside--he's a really good young man. He's at the age when typical teenage angst sets in. And..we have our fair share of it. But, all in all, I think he really tries to keep a cool head when he thinks we've asked him to take out the trash one too many times. He's just at an age when we can really count on his help. He is a great helper to me. He even folds laundry (don't tell his friends).
Greyson is doing really, really well in school so far this year. He's got and extra load-basically doing two years of school in only one. We thought he'd really have to bust it and be doing work constantly to keep up. But..he hardly has any homework and he's making all A's. He has a 100% in Geometry!? I asked him if he just has never missed any question ever on anything to get that average. He replied by saying, "No--I've missed stuff, but I got a 120% on a project". Whatever--wouldn't it be great to be that smart?