The End of a Season

The basketball season has now finally come to an end! We had a great season, and our JV team ending up winning the state championship. They were playing the only team that had beat them and that team was undefeated. Our boys played well and they won 36-30. It was a great game and completely worth the trip to Clearwater.

After three years of coaching cheerleading, the squad I had this year was head and shoulders above the other ones. While I won't argue that cheerleading is a sport, it is HARD WORK and all too often these girls and their effort are overlooked . Keeping a crowd alive when the team is losing can be a difficult task, but these girls did a great job through all of the different circumstances. At the end of last year I was thinking, "I just don't think I'm going to do this next year." and at the end of this year I am already excited about next year! We are going to have a camp this summer and I want to do more stuff with the girls when we have a house and a yard.

These are my girls. Dede, the girl on the top row 2nd from the right, was my captain. She is a senior this year and will be so very missed. Katie who is to the right of Dede, is a Sophomore (woo-hoo!) and I call her my "4th quarter beast." I have no idea where it came from, but at the end of every game this wonderful monster would come out and keep everything moving (and LOUD!).

The girls after cheering for the JV championship.

Billy, the girl in the air, was so wonderful to let us just throw her around any way we wanted to! This was our favorite stunt. She would twist and fall and the girls in front would catch her. Pretty neato.

The girls keeping the crowd alive.

The FCC JV Boys Basketball Champions!

After the championship game we drove to the beach in Clearwater. Rain was forecasted so we weren't prepared to go to the beach. So I just took Rusty's shirt off and rolled up his pantslegs. Turned out pretty cute. Like Tom Sawyer on the beach.

This was Sunday afternoon outside. His knot looks better every day. Just going down on its own.

Hope everyone has a good week!

Post to Catch Up

I know everyone is busy. Almost no one can use the excuse of being busy anymore because EVERYBODY is BUSY. However, basketball season is winding down and that will be a bit of a break for us. Our Junior Varsity boys have only had one loss this season and it was in a non-conference game. We are going to the state championship this Saturday at Clearwater Christian College.

Well, we got the house!! I'll post a slideshow of the house later. I don't want those pictures to take up my whole blog when I have so many cute pictures of Rusty.:o)

We had a wonderful weekend in Alabama, but I caught the flu and I still feel a little yucky. Almost all of our families were there to celebrate Rusty's birthday and we are so thankful to everyone for making it special. Rusty had a great time. He especially loved seeing Beau and Max (the dogs) and he says his new favorite phrase -- "Git dog!"--over and over and over.

The house!

Rusty loves to watch the games with Mrs. Twigg through this window from the second-floor hospitality room. It is scarey to see him up there, but maybe he won't have a fear of heights. That's good, right?

Rusty is enthralled in the game--actually they were just warming up or he wouldn't be that close. It's still cute, though.

Getting lovin' from the Grannies.
Mmmm....cake!

My sis and brothers. Everyone is looking pretty good I must say. I love you guys!

Madison Faith

My future is so bright I gotta wear shades!


Rusty got his momma's country feet!

My Alabama boys at home in the country.

The First 1st Birthday Party

We are currently watching the Super Bowl. Last year we watched the Super Bowl from the hospital room after Rusty was born at 3:22. That was a day never to be forgotten...



Tomorrow is Rusty's birthday. We are also going to hear something back on if we got the house or not. (We are in a bidding war with another buyer.) Since we have a basketball game tomorrow night we had a small party today at Mimi's and Papa Dale's house. President's Day weekend we are heading up to Alabama for a great big birthday bash with all of the family.



Here are some pics of the day and a super short clip of Rusty taking a few steps.

We were having one of our special "tickle hugs."

Good thing Momma learned how to make sugar-free cupcakes!

I think this must be why they call it a "birthday suit."