Blogging...Facebook...

Well I will have to admit that blogging has not been #1 on my priority list. We have been EXTREMELY busy this past month and it is so much easier to keep in touch with everyone via Facebook. I am going to try to get a little better :)
To wrap up the last month in a nutshell...Jason has been hired in the Caldwell County School District which means we are in the same district--finally! Many answered prayers on that. It is wonderful for him to teach and coach in the same district!
We had a call on a Saturday night a few weeks ago stating that Jason's grandmother would not make it through the night. We packed up to Paducah after dropping off the boys with friends and spent the night in the hospital ER/ICU awaiting information or the next visiting hours. She made it through the night and kept trucking until about Tuesday. That Tuesday night I experienced the most beautiful moment with his family. His cousin Cody had his guitar in the hospital room ( you aren't supposed to leave it in the cold temperatures) in the midst of her struggling for breath and the nurses making her at a "peaceful" state the family began to sing. Jason's entire family - minus him ...lol- is muscially talented. Amazing Grace-My Chains Are Gone has never had a more beautiful meaning. The entire night was such a blessing and moment that you could not trade for anything. It was truly beautiful! If you haven't heard that song I truly reccommend you listen to it or anything for that matter that is by Chris Tomlin. That was when she was given two days...well...then it was Wednesday and she was wanting water and coffee???? WTH? However, come Thursday the vitals were slowing down and things were coming to an end. Jason made it there in the nick of time. "Granny" literally passed away approximately 10-20 seconds after he had a chance to speak to her. That truly meant a lot to him and it was such a calming moment with family. In this event wrestling was put on hold and much time was spent with the family. Lots of tears of sorrow and even joy were shed. It was truly a blessed time.

Things are somewhat getting back to normal around here...or as it seems - just lots of wrestling...things are beginning to wind down for Jason's first year as "Head" coach. State Tournament is the 3rd week in February. We are looking forward to supporting him there. The boys and I will go up with the team. I will keep the books and they will just watch in awe like they did last year. I have started training for the Country Music Half Marathon again. This is time consuming. So many anymore do the whole marathon and I cannot imagine having the time to train for all of that! Whew! I hope to be more on the ball with blogging...Have a great end of January!!!

Merry Christmas!

Dylan and Colin were truly taken by Santa as soon as he called them by name. This Santa is special and we see him each year. They told Santa everything that was on their list...we will see how good they have been and what all he really brings :) I hope that each one of you enjoy the holidays with your families and have a blessed holiday season. Merry Christmas!

Jingle Bell Run...

Just wanted to post the Jingle Bell Run Pictures....

Merry Christmas!

From our family to yours I hope you have a blessed holiday season. We are not mailing cards this year...trying to crunch the budget :) Have a Merry Christmas! God Bless!

Cold Festivities...

Colin, Dylan, Jack and Riley...

Saturday morning I had to work the Jingle Bell Walk/Run which is a fundraiser for my school. The boys did the Kids Fun Run and really had a great time. Dylan came in 2nd and Colin 3rd bringing home two free happy meal coupons! Which is Gold to them since Transformers are the prize in the Happy Meal. It was ABSOLUTELY freezing that morning and I thought that my toes were going to self amputate since they were so COLD!! Shoved my hand warmers into my socks and that worked for a little while. Once we wrapped up the morning festivities we went home did some mega cleaning and laundry and rested up for yet another COLD activity...The Christmas Parade! It wasn't as cold as I thought it would be since the boys float had the church van driving the trailer ( a little heated compartment for the parents!) I hopped in there and let them throw candy and hold their candles...
While the boys and I were having too much fun with our winter plans, Jason was at his first High School Wrestling Trny. of the season. The Caldwell County Tigers brought home the first place trophy!!!!!! What a season opener! I am so proud of him/them!

The Black Friday Madness...

At the Wal-Mart checkout...Jayme and Claudia are M.I.A.

Holy piled up cart...

Kelly says...these people mean straight business!

Butt to butt people.

Don't worry...we weaseled into line!

What a fun trip and experience BFST #1 was for us. We loaded the cars at 3:30 a.m. and headed to Paducah for a days worth of adventure and fun! Once we got to Wal-Mart it was time to find a map and locate our items that were wrapped and place throughout the store on the secret pallets. Who knew that the line for the $4 pajamas would be so nuts! The workers were shouting at people "It's not 5:00 yet - hands off of the wrap!" and one lady was told to put the merchandise back or she would be asked to leave! SO, Kelly and I scavengered our pj's and hid them under her coat so that we could divide and conquer the other sale items we needed! She pushed the cart and I stockpiled through all of the madness to find our items. It was such a rush - yet so much fun! Definitely going as a group was to our advantage as far as waiting in lines went. Jayme took a two-point conversion and caught the items of mine as I threw them to her at Kohl's so no line for me! We took turns helping each other out and never waited in a line more than 20 minutes! Quite an accomplisment.