Awards Day and end of school

Emma Taylor's Awards Day was Monday.  She received an award for all A's in 7th grade.

So very proud of her.  That's quite an accomplishment!

She drew this beautiful picture and gave it to me for Mother's Day.

She's very artistic too!

Cameron's field day was yesterday.  He's all packed and ready to go.

He's got a bunch of different balls, sunscreen, and a beach towel in his backpack and loads of water and Gatorade in his lunch box.  He had a very fun day!

Yesterday was their last day of school.  This is Harrison running to the car on his last day.  He was happy to be finished!

And here's Cameron this morning...having a lazy morning on his first day out of school.

Pop Tart in hand and juice and grapes.  He's engrossed in something on TV. 

Harrison is over now playing outside with him and Trip. Cameron got his dog back from his mom and he is delighted to be spending time with him.

He's such a good dog and a great watch dog!

Ben took the boys to a cheesy carnival on the mall parking lot on Monday night.

Thought this was such a cute picture.  They are getting psyched up for our trip to Illinois and Six Flags this summer! 

Since Heather is getting married and vacating her (actually our!) house, Ben will be moving into it.  I know he and Cameron are ready to have a bigger place and a place of their own.  It will be quite a change for us but I'm sure we will still see them lots!

Dance Recital

Emma Taylor's dance recital was Saturday evening.  There are so many kids in the recital that they break it up into three performances.  The older kids had the late performance at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday evening. 

Emma Taylor is in a hip hop class with her friend Lexie who is just to the left of her.

It was very hard to get pictures of her while dancing as she was constantly moving. 

Randy attended his first dance recital ever.  Having two boys, he's never had the privilege of attending a recital! 

They look like they go together, don't they?

Oh to be so flexible!

It was an interesting recital with lots of hip hop and contemporary dances, totally different from the recitals we used to attend when my niece Kathy was a dancer!  Doug was sad that he was out of town and missed it (just kidding, of course...he was quite relieved!)

Catching up!

I've had a couple of messages asking if I'm okay because I haven't updated the blog lately.  I'm okay...just been busy!  I'll try to catch up so hang on!

I started off May with Decoration Day at my mom and dad's cemetery.  It was always important to our mother that the graves be decorated.  I think it's a southern thing!

Karen always makes sure they have flowers, along with my grandmother.

I met some good friends there...Shirley Timmons, Ray and Ellie Bohannon, Marie Stevens, Peggy Templeton and Ray Austin.  All of these are former Zion people and they all have relatives buried in the same cemetery.

The next weekend was Blue Suede Cruise.  Bob Pushee came down and he always brings Kringle.  Cameron loves this stuff!

We polished off the apricot one in record time, enjoying every bite of it!

The weekend was spent at Blue Suede Cruise and Doug got his "new" car done just in time!

Still some things to work out but it made its maiden voyage just a couple of days before BSC.  Doug works best under pressure!

Doug's brother Richard and his son Matt and Doug's nephew Mark came for BSC too.

All the Harrison men right there!

Ben drove the Valiant for the weekend.  Cam loved that!

It was Mother's Day on Sunday so Heather, Emma Taylor, Harrison and Ben went to church with me, then Doug met us for lunch.

Cameron was with his mom so no pictures of him with Mr. Mom!

The house is finally back together and I'm enjoying my new kitchen!  In between all that I painted this table with chalk paint and used dark wax on it to give it the antiqued look.  The table used to be dark wood but was getting beat up from all the use. 

It was more work than I expected but I like the way it turned out.  I probably should have chosen an easier piece for my very first chalk paint experience!

May is when the flowers pop here and I love it!

This Confederate Jasmine and Clematis mix is beautiful and smells heavenly!! 

The spirea is in full bloom.

I'm enjoying them while I can because soon they will be gone.

We've been doing a lot of baseball with both our boys playing.  They usually have games three or four nights a week.  That keeps us running.

 

Friday night the two teams played each other.  Harrison is batting and Cameron is pitching.  That makes for a nervous grandmother!  I just wanted them both to do well!

 

So that' about it...except for a big announcement from Heather!  She's getting married!  Most of you know this and she'll be getting married on May 25th which is Doug's 70th birthday.  What a nice birthday present!  I had a get together last Monday so the families could meet each other which included Randy, his mom and stepdad, his sons Sam and Bowen and his sister Lara.  Ben and Cameron were with us too and Ben grilled burgers for us.  We have known his mom and stepdad for a long time as we went to church with them for years.  They are really nice people.  It made getting together much more comfortable. 

So we have had a lot going on but hopefully things are about to settle down with the ending of the school year and the house being finished.  I would really love to have a relaxing summer!

Happy Birthday to my sister Carolyn!

My sister Carolyn's birthday is today.

Here's hoping she's having a lovely day!  Love you, Carolyn!!

What's blooming

I am totally exhausted but my house is pretty much back in order.  I am so glad that's over and I can get back to my life again!

The yard man came and mulched everything yesterday. 

Fresh mulch makes the plants look so much prettier.  He freshened up the pine straw last week.

So many things are blooming in the yard.

Snowball bush, clematis and knockout roses. 

I hope to enjoy the rest of our spring!

Cameron's great grandfather passed away yesterday morning.  He was Lori's grandfather and they were all very close to him.  He was a really good man and I know Cameron will miss him.  Cameron had seen him at the hospital the night before he passed away and even though his great grandfather didn't know they were there, at least the boys got to see him one last time.  Please keep them in your prayers.

Celebrating Cameron's birthday

Ben and I had lunch with Cameron on Monday for his birthday.

We brought cupcakes for him to share with his classmates.

He was excited to have us there.

I gave him his birthday card when he got home from school.  He got a lot of money this year which is just what he wanted.

He chose to have his birthday dinner at Mugshots.  Heather, Harrison and Emma Taylor joined us too.

More money from Heather and the kids!

He got a free piece of cheesecake since it was his birthday.

He was kind enough to share it!

He had a great birthday.  Next year double digits!

Happy Birthday to Cameron!

This cutie is 9 today!

Love him to the moon and back and can't imagine life without him!!!