New Years Eve

Playing Football in the front yard... Yeah, my team won. :) HAHA
How many Peyton Mannings are on your team?

Jessalyn and Maddie playing with the Nativty... They kept saying, Grandma take our picture!
Yeah, This looks like a lively bunch... Must have been between canasta games!

Christmas! :)

Dad Passes out Presents :)

Is that A present for Jack???

My lil Nativity

There's Joseph!

AND Sweet Mary!

:)
I know I have shown before how our family tradition is to act out the christmas story on Christmas eve. These are just a few pictures from this year.

Jessalyn's Dance

Jessalyn's school had a lil dance recital was so sweet. She practiced her "dance" at least a thousand times over the past few weeks. She was very graceful and beautiful. What a sweet lil angel! :)
She was running a fever and not feeling well at all but she couldn't stand to miss it!
Do you see her lil friends fro? hehehe.... I thought it was so funny to see a lil kid with such a big fro. Her family thought it was great though. To each his own!

Elf Whispers

Family Gift Exchange

This will be the family exchange for this year. We hope to celebrate while we are all together at Thanksgiving.

Person----Buys For---->
Josh------------------->Jonny
Deborah--------------->Jacob
Jeff-------------------->Deborah
Jenna------------------>Sam
Jonny------------------>Jenna
Jenny------------------>Joey
Joey------------------->Zack
Jacob------------------>Josh
Sam------------------->Jenny
Zack------------------->Jeff

So that's it. You all know it well in advance! Happy Shopping!

Braces

So this morning Jessalyn and I were standing in the bathroom getting ready for church and she says, " Mom I want bracelets on my teeth like cousin Courtney."
I replied,"You mean Braces and you are not big enough to have braces yet. "
Jessalyn was quick to reassure me, "Yes we can do it now, With glue." (As she holds a metal charm bracelet to her teeth.) Oh that silly silly girl.

A Tragic First

Jeffrey Wrecked his bike yesterday. He knocked out his two front teeth which luckily were still baby teeth.

Jeff Says, "I guess the handlebar of his bike came up at his mouth, and connected w/ one tooth directly resulting in shattering it, and the blunt impact also knocked the 2nd one completely out. or his mouth came down on the handlebar....he said he was trying to pedal while standing up (not sitting on the seat) and lost his balance. I will always remember him screaming out in terror, "I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die!!!!" as I approached him, just cause he saw his own blood in his hands. It took a while to reassure him that he would be just fine after the swelling went down. (You've heard of Drama Queens? He is a Drama King when it comes to Blood.) the drama was way too excessive. That boy has seen too many movies. (He totally Has!) Actually, I had to keep from laughing so the neighbor lady wouldnt think I was a bad father, and so that Jeffrey wouldn't absolutely hate me for not taking his accident seriously. He was back to normal after an hour or two, and actually got back on his bike earlier this evening. "

The italics are my comments! :) Every kid has at least one really good bike accident to create those battle scars of youth. I suppose this was Jeffrey's turn! Love you little man! At least the tooth fairy will be there to pay you for those teeth! (Last time he only received $ .50 since it didn't look like he had been brushing enough. So he has been careful to be sure they were kept clean. and even wanted to brush it before putting it under his pillow. hehehehe.) They actually had to go search the street to find them. One was busted into 3 pieces. eeek... BTW I heard Jeffrey even left a note to the tooth fairy. I can't wait to see it I emailed the tooth fairy to see if I could buy the teeth back for his scrapbook.

HaPPy 30th AnNIverSaRy!!!

Today marks 30 Years for Mom and Dad!

Tonight Sis Stuckey hosted a small suprise party. We had cake and talked about funny memories. Jacob, Sam and Zack all came as well as The Sedrick Family. We just had a nice lil gathering.

We love ya!!!

HA HA HA!!! THe Glow Grave

Check this OUt... IT is just what one needs to be fulfilled in the afterlife! ha! THe GLOW Grave

OK, and these Signs were TOO funny not to share. I love the UNiversity one. Church Signs

Jack JAck and Amy

JAck Jack is 11 months old now! Today he and Amy were by mom's pond, aren't they cute!

HaPPy Burfday!! JoN bOY!

Jonny is 26 today! We love you! Hope you have a terrific birthday! That is the latter 20's jon! Getting up there! Better watch out! Before you know it you will be old and soft. hmmm... well maybe just old and crusty! :P

Spelling Bee

Jeffrey received 4th place in the school 2nd grade spelling bee!! We are so proud of him! He was calm and collected the entire time. It was an honor for him to even get to compete. They had 2 class level spelling bees and the top 3 children from each class was asked to participate in the school level 2nd grade spelling bee. (FYI there are 6, 2nd grade classes at his school.)

The word that got him out was "difference" which he spelled "diffrence." Of the top 4 2 were from Mrs. Leslie's class. The 3rd place winner got out in the same round directly behind Jeffrey. So it was close! :) We Love you Jeffrey! You did a great job!
Aren't daddy and Jackjack Cute!

Another Jessa-ism

Jessa runs through the kitchen like she is driving a car.

Jeff: Young lady you are in violation for exceeding the speed limit.

Jessalyn: What does that mean?

Jeff: You are speeding and need to slow down.

Jessalyn: But Dad, That's how my car goes!

Aren't these cute pics. This was one morning before church this past month. Jessalyn wanted pictures of her with her "ears" which is what she called her mini buns. Hehehe. She was Smelling the blossoms on the tree.

Tired Baby

JAck is like most babies his age and HATES to sleep because he realizes he may miss something. So lately he has been fighting his nap times. This day he fell asleep on the tray of his walker. Poor little guy. Another day he was in the shower and decided to put his little head down and was out like a light. Lucky it wasn't the tub! hehehe. Now off to bed! :)

Amy’s Birthday Party

Amy celebrated her 8th birthday party this Saturday at Chucky Cheese. She made out in the present department! Wow wee!

Doesn't Jack look so small in his Clifford ride? He had a blast as it chugged along. (It stopped right as mom got the camera out though.)

Jeffy, Jessa, and Jack-Jack all had a lot of fun. Jessalyn was around more often for pics. J

Jeffrey made himself scare except for a few times when we caught up with him. Here he is in deep concentration playing a helicopter game.

Here is Jessalyn playing air Hockey on a table that is just her size! Go Jessa Go!

I have decided that Chucky Cheese on a Saturday is insane. It was a mad house! It was so noisy. All those kids just having so much fun and being kids. I think next trip we will have to try it on a less busy day!

THe Voracious Reader

Jeffrey was honored at his school this week for reading. He was given 2 awards. Jeffrey is reading more than a grade level above his grade and received recognition for that as well as being the top reader in his class. His school participates in the Accelerated Reader program and he receives x number of points from each book he reads. Since he has only been in his class since January he REALLY worked hard to get so many points and be the top reader! He loves his chapter books now and reads alot of them! We are so proud of you Jeffrey!

Planting the Garden

Jessalyn and Grandma started a summer garden. They planted lots of flowers and some tomatoes and peas and other yummy stuff. Jessalyn was happy to help with her shovels. All that practice digging in the driveway hs finally payed off. She is a pro at digging the holes for the seeds!

Grades are in....

Florals and paper thanks to www.Shabbyprincess.com LOVE her digikits!

Finals Week... FinaLLY!

Ahhhh so finals week is drawing to a close. I have one more final in my experimental PSY class. But all the others are finished. Stress levels are coming down, yeah! I took the one that had me stressing the most today (Statistics). So far I have 4 grades posted and they are all A's. WOOHOO! I'd love to have another 4.0 for the semester but it would take a miracle to get that A in statistics. :) I believe in statistical world we would say that has a probability of 0+. :) Anyhow!
Jeff got a A on his History final though he doesn't yet have his final grade in the class. So WOohoo, awesome job to him!

Bumps and Bruises

Today, when I got out of class, there were messages on my phone. Jeffrey had been hurt at school. So I called mom back and she was on her way to get him. Then I got a call from his teacher explaining the incident as best as she could. Some kids were messing around and jeffy was bumped or pushed from behind and fell hard on his knee. But then she proceeded to say it was swollen and bruised but they were pretty sure it wasn't broken. (Ok so at this point I am really getting worried.) So, I hang up and just try to get to the school as soon as possible. Then the nurse calls and gives me a report and wonders where we are. Mom arrives before me and picks him up. She meets me near the interstate. His knee is bruised but not dire the way I was prepared to see this hideous distorted knee.. Laughing... It was slightly swollen.. No visible bruise just yet, although there was one forming tonight. Poor little guy will be sore but after speaking to the teacher and the nurse and 2 voicemails I was prepared for much worse. Just one of those childhood things!

JackJack on the Mic

For christmas one of the kids got this microphone, you know the echo kind. Anyhow, Jack Jack Just loves it. He sits there and sings to himself into it on a regular basis. Look out we have a true American Idol in the making! Isn't he a cutie! I found him this time hiding behind the recliner just singin' away!

Horsie Horsie

Jessalyn knows where all the horses are on the routes around the area. Recently we noticed a new foul. It was brand new and all spindly legged. She was sooo excited. Mom and Jessa went back to get some pictures and look some more. She just loves anything about horses and love to stop and feed and pet them..

Happy Birfday to JesSaLyN!!!

Anyone who has spoken with Jessa in the past 3 months knows that it is her birthday and she is 4!!! She is so excited to be 4! She informed us she is now almost 5. Hehehe!



She had a great birthday. Her favorite dinner of 'pasgetti and MeatBulbs'.














Then her party was in the evening, complete with Strawberry Pink Pony cake and Pink Ice cream ( well, vanilla with strawberries in it.









Her favorite. She LOVES strawberries.) She got lots of fun things. She got a horse jigsaw puzzle, lots of new clothes, little Peoples Cinderella and stagecoach, Zebras, a book, My little pony and all kinds of fun stuff. Oh and some Shovels to dig with. She just made out.











Oh, I almost forgot, and a pinata!! it was a different one, you pulled strings to get the candy to fall. The kids thought it was`great.




But see, Jeffrey realized something..., Jessa didn't ask for expensive stuff and she got LOTS of stuff... hmmm... maybe there's something to this? hehehe.. It was funny.