Whew been busy around here!!

Sorry I have been out of the blogging world for a few days! It's the end of the school year plus dance recital week and I have been swamped with last minute things that need to be done or get done!

Hopefully, I will be able to post a picture on Thursday of the Red, White and Blue bows that Leah is selling for the dance team.

Some of you have already ordered and thanks so much! I will be getting in touch with you soon on when to deliever them.

Congratulations Leah!!

This past Saturday was the annual end of the year Pioneerette Dance Team picnic and awards presentations.

The awards the girls receive are voted on by their team members. Leah was awarded "The Best All Around Junior" member of the team for the 2008-2009 school year!

Congratulations Leah!

These are the upcoming Senior Officer group for the dance team next year. Leah, Kayann, Allison and Laci. They will be a great group of officers! They have been friends for a very long time and bring a lot of dance experience and leadership to the team for their Senior year!

Congratulations girls this is going to be a great Senior year for you all! We are looking forward to having another National Championship title under our belts!

Happy 17th Birthday to my niece!

Happy Birthday to my niece, Chelsea who turned 17 actually last Thursday but we celebrated her birthday on Sunday with the family!! Chelsea and my daughter, Leah are only 6 weeks apart in age. It has been fun watching them grow up together and I can't believe that they will both be Seniors next year!!

We hope you had a good birthday Chelsea! Don't spend all that money in one place! Love ya bunches! Aunt Susan

P.S. for those of you who don't know we have a running joke that Chelsea looks more like my child than both of my children looking anything like me!

Red, White and Blue Bows are ready!!

I will have a picture to post tomorrow of the bows for you to see.

The dance team is once again selling their Memorial Day/4th of July bows.

They are still $6.00 per bow.

Leah sure would appreciate it if you would consider buying from her. This sell not only helps the dance team overall but also helps Leah.

Thanks again in advance. Just leave me a comment and I will get them too you ASAP!

Happy Mother's Day to two special ladies!

Happy Mother's Day to my mom!! Thank you so much for all you have done for me thru the ___ years!! LOL! I appreciate so much all the things that you given up to do for me not only many years ago when I was growing up but now as well! You have been a great and lovely gran/mom with a love that never ceases! Love you bunches! We had a great day yesterday just loafin around!!

Happy Mother's Day to my mother-in-law, Nina!!
You are another special lady in my life that I appreicate and love so much! Thanks for all that you have done and given up not only for your son, but for our family! You have been a wonderful mom/granny and we love you bunches too!!
Happy Mother's Day!
Joey, Susan, Lauren and Leah!

Congratulations College Graduates

Congratulations to Toree Craven and Vanessa Cannon who will be graduating today from TTU with their BS in Education!!

Congratulations also to John Ryan Tubb for his graduation from Motlow State College today!

Congratulations to my teacher assistant, LeCredia Rutledge, for graduating from Vol State with a technical degree!!

Way to go everyone!!! So proud of you!

It's Here!

To all those who ordered from my initial outfitters party, your things are here!! I will deliever the majority at church tonight. If you are not going to be there, I can bring it to you Thursday or Friday. Just let me know!

Thanks again everyone!!

Thank You!!

I just wanted to say thank you to all my friends and family who came to my "Initial Outfitters" party last Sunday!!

I could not believe everyone who stopped by and looked, browsed and bought!! Lori told me that my party was the biggest that she had ever had!! Wow!! Thank you all so much!

I am looking for everything to be here this week. I will be in touch as soon as I have it!!

I am also sorry that I have not been blogging lately! I have had a busy week plus I am still trying to get over this sinus infection that is continuing to drag me down and I don't have time to be down!!! Too much to do and this past week was busy, busy.

I finally gave up again and the doctor prescribed for me another anitbiotic, Z-pk, so hopefully it will kick in. I am soooo tierd of coughing and feeling worn out. I have had to continue to go but really felt terrible. Guess I can do some good acting!

Ya'll have a good week! I will be posting some pictures of the cousins reunion on my father's side that my mother, sister and I hosted today.

Keep your rainboots on!! Looks like more is headed our way.

Maybe we will get out of school on Monday!! LOL!

To all my blogging friends and readers! You're invited!

I am hosting a party on Sunday, April 26!!! This party has everything a women would want!!! Jewelry/engraveable jewelry; monogramable items from purses to umbrellas to hats to visors!! They even have engraveable things like trays and items that a guy would like. At very reasonable prices!

These things would make great graduation gifts and that is coming up by the way on May 22!! Mother's Day is coming up too!

The party is come and go so you won't have to commit your whole afternoon. Just come and take a look at all the neat samples of everything that she has. And believe me she has lots to show you. If you remember, Lori Steakley that is who is hosting my party. Yes I had her in class back when she was in the 8th grade if that tells you how old I am!! LOL! Lori is now a Hendrix and living in Dowelltown and teaching!!

Take a look at the pictures below and I am including the website for you to look at as well. If you would like something and can't make it to the party, let me know and I can place your order for you!

Sunday, April 26

2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Westwood Church of Chirst

down in the educational building in the large classroom. Go through the glass double doors and the classroom will be on the left just a little ways down the hall.

www.initialoutfitters.com

Happy Birthday today to my sister - in- law,

Carol!!! Hope you have a great day!

2 Important things going on tomorrow!

The Westwood Youth Group will be having a pancake breakfast tomorrow morning from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. at Westwood Church of Christ in the fellowship hall/gymnasium. This is a fundraiser for Relay for Life.

The cost is only $5.00 and you will also get some of that good ole Goolsby sausage and a drink.

Also on your way to the breakfast, the Warren Co. Pioneerettes Dance Team will be having a roadblock to raise money to help support the team. This money will be used for costuming, choreography, camp and any other need the team may need. Your help will be greatly appreciated!!!

Yipeeeee!!!!

It's amazing what being on an antibiotic for 24 hours can do for you!! I am finally feeling much better and the head congestion is GONE!! Thanks everyone for thinking of me!!

Thanks Dr. C. your the best!

Well I went back to school yesterday and was still feeling pretty rough by the end of the day soooooo I broke down and made the appointment to go see Dr. C. I just about freaked out when he wanted to do a "flu test"!!! I thought please I can't have the flu now!! Well good news.... I don't have the flu thank goodness but a very bad sinus infection which has my head totally stopped up and a very congested cough.

With that being said and a low grade temp last night, I decided I needed to stay at home again today in hopes of feeling better. Needless to say, it hasn't happened yet. Hopefully, by this afternoon I will feel the effects of the meds!!

Have a good day everyone. It looks awfully pretty outside.

Bummer!

Well I have been lucky so far this school year and I have not been sick but on Sunday night I could feel the results of a bad cold starting to take effect!!! After church I headed to the drug store to get some vitamins to start taking in hopes that it would fight it off but last night I continued to get worse. So I had to take my first sick day off of school today. I really don't think I picked this up from one of my students. I think that I must have gotten the bug while I had a check up appointment at the doctors office on last Friday!!! I stayed in the bed today until about 10:15 then dragged myself out and took a shower. Feeling maybe some better but I am starting this coughing and having to clear my throat thing now! (my husband will love that tonight!! LOL) Oh well guess I will stop feeling sorry for myself and go watch TV and relax for awhile.

I AM FINALLY DONE!

I bought this 1000 piece puzzle at Hobby Lobby back before spring break. I started working on it during spring break and I stayed up until 2:00 this morning finishing it!!! It has been a stress reliever for me working on this. I have had a lot of things stressing me out lately and this was the perfect medicine for me! As you can see it was a difficult one to do. I am going to have to ask my sister in law, Carol if she would like the challenge of working it??? She loves puzzles too! I gave her a real hard one back many years ago but I believe this one is harder. I will probably look at it a couple more days and then put it back in the box!!

Easter pics

Spring is definitely in the air!! The Grandey's all dressed in some shade of green for Easter today. My niece, Beckee took a family shot for me at the annual Golden family reunion.

Yes the Easter bunny still visits our house!! I used to get the good pictures of the girls just getting out of bed with their hair in every directions but those days are over I guess!!

Leah got a Vera plastic cosmetic case and some chocolate goodies!

Do you see those flashy orange plaid shorts on the couch?? My husband got those for his Easter present along with another pair of white with blue plaid stripes!! You will be able to see him coming that's for sure in those!

Lauren got a Vera lunch box/cooler to take to work with her!!

This is the cutest picture of Lauren and Leah's cousins at the reunion. That's Austin, Travis, Rachel and Brooke!

Here's Travis hanging like a monkey! Boy he sure is growing up too fast!

Cool Dog!!

Our dog, Deacon is soooooo spoiled!!! Can you believe this picture of him posing??? He sat there for the longest with these on with Joey holding him!!

Some pics of Lauren's fam birthday party!

This birthday makes me feel really old!! I just can't believe she is 21!
The future teacher mentioned one day while she was in my classroom that she would love to have one of these portable laminators so that she could laminate all the things that she has collected so far to have in her classroom. Well mom is always listening for these little hints! I think she liked it!! LOL!!

Below is some of the our family. Joey, his mom, Chelsea, my sister Charlotte, and Trevor

Leah and Lauren have always sat with one of their legs up in the chair!! They even do this when they are eating a meal at the table. I don't know it must be in the genes!! That's Marcus sitting there next to Leah. I thought I had everybody in the picture but the sun was shining so bright, I could hardly see who was in the picture. Sorry I missed you Marcus!

Here is Gran , my mother and Austin, Joey's mom's husband.

We were all glad it was such a nice day that we got to celebrate outside!

Can you believe that Deacon actually posed and looked at the camera?? He almost looks like he is smiling just a little! LOL! He is actually Lauren's dog. But he stays with us. He will be 3 years old in June. I don't think that we will ever be able to let Deacon leave our house!! We're too attached!

Sisterly Love!!!

Just had to have one of Lauren and myself.

Leah's tryout pictures

Here are the upcoming Seniors for the 2009-2010 school year!

The girls are getting ready to tryout to their own original routine that they have choreographed along with their own costuming. Allison, Kayann and Laci all performed a lyrical dance routine and Leah busted it out with a good ole M.C. Hammer routine!! The girls always enjoy this part of tryouts but I will tell you the truth, it makes me a NERVOUS WREAK!! Leah waits until the last minute to tell me that she needs for me to fix something on her pants and of course it has to be sewen!! If you know me, you know that I do not wait until the last minute to do things unlike my youngest daughter!!

Lauren came home to watch Leah at tryouts too!

Tryouts open to the public so a lot of people were their watching and supporting their favorite contestant.

This is such a good picture of the upcoming Senior members of the dance team for the 2009-2010 school year. Laci, Leah, Kayann and Allison. They are getting ready to enjoy a good strawberry cake to celebrate their last tryouts. It has been a tradition for the past 4 years for the girls to go to Prater's and eat supper after tryouts and wait for the posting of who made the team at the high school.