An addition to the family

Meet the newest member of our family, Tiger (the kids named him). He is really sweet and very outgoing, he's not skiddish at all. We adopted him from "Four Paws Rescue"; his mother only has one eye and was about to be put to sleep, while pregnant, at an animal shelter when the rescue center saved her. Tiger is very affectionate and follows me around like a puppy...and won't stay out of my lap! The kids are loving him!

His response to Maddie

Hudson's parents and grandparents came this past weekend. We had a wonderful time and the kids soaked up all the attention. We were very appreciative of all of their help in adding a lot of landscaping to our backyard, it looks great!!! Here are a few pics.

The Big Game!

We headed down to Warner Robins friday afternoon to watch my niece, Katie, cheer at her first high school football game!! The big Northside vs Warner Robins rivalry in full swing! There had to have been at least 12-15,000 people there, it was a great atmosphere. Unfortunately my alma mater (WRHS) got beat, but fortunately for Katie her school won! No surprise there, they won the state championship last year (they still don't have the four state titles that WRHS does though!!). Mom kept Maxwell and Hudson and I took Olivia to the game with my sister and her family. Olivia really enjoyed watching the cheerleaders cheer and do stunts and tumbling. While we were there Olivia got a chance to check out the horses, I'm waiting for her to ask for one any day now!

Maxwell playing around outside

Macey and her dog


I'll post a pic of Katie cheering as soon as my sister emails me one!!! (hint, hint)

Starting School

Olivia and Maxwell are back into the swing of things and enjoying school. I cannot believe that Maxwell is starting his last year of preschool, our little guy will be in Kindergarten next year, he's going to grow up so much during the coming year! Olivia is in 2nd grade and is having a great time. She has the same teacher and classmates that she had last year (a process called "looping") so there was no anxiety over meeting a new teacher and classmates. She's really excited b/c they are getting down and serious with science this year. She's even had her first science quiz already! If there's one thing that is different about 2nd grade it's the number of tests she takes. I think her class averages about 5-7 a week! Speaking of tests, all of the 2nd graders in the county are taking a standardized cognitive test this week....GA loooves testing their students! Here are some pictures from the first day of school.