It's been a While

Hello ~ all 3 people that may or may not still check my blog!!!

I decided, on a whim this morning, to come back to blogging. I have spent so much time just wishing there was a good way to share info with people, but I sort-of forgot about blogging. Probably because I spend so many hours at work staring at a computer screen, that once I get home, I have no desire to continue to stare at the screen!! But . . . summer is HERE!!!!

We survived VBS at the new church (that doesn't feel that new anymore!) and now we are ready for summer to really start! We enjoyed the pool today with some new friends (from afore mentioned new church!) and then came home to our crazy dog that is now being allowed to roam free in the house for short amounts of time while we are gone. She is doing soooo good!

We are all ready for next week and our grand vacation with Mammie and Pappy to Branson!!! It's going to be awesome! I guess that's about all for now. I'm going to add some pictures just so you guys can see how humongous my kids are all the sudden, and how non-humongous I am getting as well ;) Long way to go yet, but I'm getting there!

My 3rd Grader!!!

We celebrated the very last day of 2nd grade today! Sadie has had a great year, and she had the best teacher! We all love Mrs Staton, and will miss her so much!

Sadie was awarded a great plaque at the awards ceremony today. Only 2 students per class were given awards for Character Qualities and Sadie received the award for her class. Her character quality is Thoroughness. Mrs Staton has said from the very beginning of the year that Sadie is very thorough in her work - it must be perfect before she turns it in. I'm so proud of her!!! Oh, she also made straight A's all year this year!

I can't believe we are ready for 3rd grade, but h-e-r-e we go!!!

So I'm a Little Bit Behind . . . Again

So, now I'm a slacker blogger again.

Since my last post, Sadie has turned 8 - WOW! - that's a big number when attached to my girl! Luke Calton has also graduated from Preschool - all on the same day!!! May 14th was a big day for us.

I totally meant to blog an awesome "Tamra worthy" page of tribute to how big and awesome my kids are getting . . . but I didn't. I did take some great pictures while thinking how great they would look while decorating said post. But they are still on my camera and not yet on my computer. Maybe next week . . .

But I do have something to say that is current! (I know - you are all shocked and amazed!) Luke goes tomorrow for his Kindergarten readiness test at CHA.

I must admit to being a bit nervous.

I know he's ready - we waited a whole extra year, for goodness sake - I KNOW he's ready!

I have nothing to worry about. He knows all the stuff he should know . . . I think.

But what if he doesn't? What if they say he needs to wait another year?

I know, I know - they will totally not say that.

But what if they do?

Being a Mommy is a hard job

(stop laughing Mom . . . and Dodie . . . and Tammy . . . and Grandmother!!!)

It's so hard to know if you're doing the right thing, and by the time you figure out that maybe you didn't do the right thing, you've already screwed them up and it's too late to fix it.

So, now I'm just waiting to get through tomorrow, and then I'll know. And the good news is that I'll be way too busy to think about it tomorrow as I desperately try to finish getting ready for the garage sale that we're starting on Fri morning, and getting my house half-way presentable before Mom and Dad get here tomorrow!!!

What am I still doing on here???

I have work to do!!!

Spring has Sprung . . .

Well, Spring has Circulated more than Sprung through Oklahoma tonight. The meteorologists don't even have any idea how many tornadoes we had this afternoon. We got to have a tornado drill here at the house - climbed into the tiny hallway closet. We haven't had to do that since the kiddos were too tiny to remember. And just fyi, that closet is much smaller than I remember it!!! Probably because my kids are soooo much bigger, but probably also has something to do with the fact that we had to share the closet with and American Girl (Chrissa), Bunny, Sadie's favorite blanket, and Luke's Pillow Pet. How it makes me wish for a basement!!! Anyway, we had some decent hail here at our house - about golf ball size. We have lots of friends that live farther south that got huge softball size hail that went right through their roof. Some other friends with car damage - mostly windshields broken and such. At least one friend that lost the roof off their home and most of the windows. Praising God that they are safe!

In happier news - Sadie won first place at Frisbee Throw in her school's Track and Field Day today. The weather for that was horrible also - it was freezing all morning and the wind was atrocious! I don't know that I will ever get all these tangles out of my hair! EVER!

She also went to visit Bro. Walter at church, because she has been wanting to be baptized. Walter says he feels confident that she understands all that she did (when she accepted Christ), and that she is ready to start the New Believers class that is required before baptism. She is on the waiting list, and as soon as there is an opening - she will start that, and can be baptized after that if she decides she's ready. She has been asking for a while now to go talk to Bro Walter, so she is really excited!

The Future Feighners

So I'm driving carpool today. It's always interesting - eavesdropping on the kids in the back seat. It was especially interesting today.

Sadie's friend, Drew, was telling me what his children will be named someday. He went through several scenarios - evidently there will be three of them, and he has three boy names and three girl names, and they are ranked - in case there are, for example, two boys and a girl - or any other mixture you can devise from three children. ANYWAY - as he's telling me all the plans, he keeps asking Sadie what she thinks and she gives her input and they even compromise on a couple. They finally agree on a firm list. Then . . . I had the audacity to ask Drew if the mommy of the kids got any input. I was informed (with a look that clearly said "where have you been?" and "don't you know of the Plan?") that Sadie would be their mommy. What was I thinking? This has always been understood, I guess I just forgot. And they haven't discussed it in a while, so I didn't know if the plan was still solid. Evidently it is - and with children even planned and named and everything.

I will just say this . . . jr high is going to be interesting!!!

If they can survive that, they could be for real!!!

Here's to the future Feighners!

Fishing with the fam

We went fishing on Sunday at a new place that we'd never been. Our friend Damon told us about it. We didn't catch anything but lily-pads, but the kids had a great time, and it was nice to just get out and get a hook in the water. Hopefully we can find some great places to catch some golly-stompers this summer!

Luke spent some time pouting because I wouldn't let him try to cast his line by himself. Poor little Luke . . .

And now he's finally getting to try it on his own. If you look closely, you can see the bobber way over to Luke's right. Right above the grass. Not exactly where he's aiming. Oh my - let me just say . . . I spent the better part of 2 hours untangling his line from the tree, and the lily-pads, and the other tree, and the fishing pole . . . well, you get the idea.



Josh is attempting to instruct him in the fine art of tossing it out there. He does a pretty good job on instruction, and he finally does figure it out!

When it was time to go, the kids had a great time fishing the minnows out of the bucket to release them into the wild. Sadie's not a very talented minnow catcher, but Luke is amazing. At one point, he caught 3 in one hand! Wow!!!

So, no fish for dinner at the Milleson house, but I don't like fish anyway. We did make some sweet memories, and hope we can do it again soon! If you know of a great fishing spot in the OKC area - let us know! We're ready for some great fishing!

Spring Program . . .

So I was totally going to blog about our fishing trip today, but then I realized these pictures were not up here yet, and they are too hilarious to not blog about. So the fishing trip will have to wait for a later blog - probably tomorrow!!! hehe! Anyway, here is Luke with his awesome teacher, Ms Amie! Isnt' she darlin? We just love her!!!
This is Luke's very last year at FLC, and it's crazy to me. He's been here since he was a wee little thing of 6 months, and now he's going to start Kindergarten. It's all a bit surreal. Anyway, here are some great shots from the Spring Program!

He's got to get the glasses just so . . .

Now the hair check - he did just get a new do about an hour before show time!

And now he's ready to sing - 5 Little Monkeys!!! "You can't catch me, you can't catch me . . . "

Awwwwww - isn't he darling? He rang his jinglebells at the wrong time, but he did it with a HUGE grin on his face!!! Can't help but wonder if it wasn't on purpose???