Happy New Year!

Well, I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! It seems hard to believe that another year has passed... they seem to go by faster as I get older... I wonder why that is? Well, anyway, I just thought I'd share a few photos from our Christmas...

Christmas Morning - Trav & Tay

Trav - my little Gap model :)

3 generations of women ranging in age from 5 - 86!

Gram, me & Tay

Brother & Sister hugging on Christmas morning... now

that's a rare moment!

Just an update...

So... last Saturday Travis had his 1st basketball game... that was so cute! After that the 4 of us headed off to get our Christmas tree, and boy, was it cold out! Just wanted to quickly share a few before I head off to work & school...

Thanks for checking in :)

LouAnn

Happy Thanksgiving!

It's been a while, but I just wanted to add a quick little post to remind everyone that there is something to be thankful for. No matter what we are going through in our lives, personal, financial, whatever, somebody else is going through the same things. Some others have it worse off... I personally have a lot to be thankful for. I'm thankful for my 2 healthy, beautiful children! I'm thankful that my daughter has spunk (although it stresses me out) - she knows what she wants. My son, who's so thoughtful and obedient, is a true blessing as well...

So..... HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Eat up :)

And as usual... a couple of pics

My favorite goalie:

An innocent face:

3 more days....

I cannot stress enough - please vote! This is, in my opinion, the most important election in my years of voting. The economy is tanking, consumer confidence is way down and we are all stressed out and scared.

No matter who you decide to vote for each vote counts! I'll be there at the polls - hope to see you there!



ROCK THAT VOTE...

Happy Halloween...

Sharing a couple of pics from halloween...

MJ, Shane, Trav, Hannah, Aidan and Taylor (yes... she is Batman!)

Trav & Tay... I JUST THINK SHE ROCKS!

Trav does, too... he's so cute!

Hard work pays off... :)

So I just had finals in the 2 hardest classes I've taken so far... Critical Thinking & English Comp. My English Comp final was pretty easy, so I wasn't too worried about an A in that class, but Critical Thinking was hard! Depending on how I did on that final was going to determine how I did in the class for an overall grade. Well... I just received the following e-mail from my teacher (can you see my excitement??):

Hey LouAnn,
I just finished the grades. Congratulations! You got the second highest grade on the final exam: 178 out of 200 points and the highest grade in the class: 969 out of 1000 (A). In fact, you earned the only A in the class.

I am so proud that all my hard work paid off! I worked my butt off in both of those classes and between kids, soccer and work it was really hard. Mostly the guilt on having to spend so much time on this schoolwork that I really didn't want my family to suffer...Hence, sacrificing sleep.

Well, all for now... I'll post again later ~ Thanks for looking :)

LouAnn

It's a rare moment...

When my daughter actually allows me to photograph her...

And one of Trav, for good measure:

Happy Fall, Everyone!