Rayne - Nineth Grade

Rayne didn't take back the order form for this year's school pictures, so I decided to take some of my own.  Truth to be told, I like the ones I took better.  Rayne looks really good in blue.  It shows off the blue of his eyes.

Rance and Martial Arts

Rance started taking Kuk Sool Won in July in Fort Smith.  He goes twice a week and seems to really enjoy it.  This Saturday he will be testing for a strip on his belt.

City Lake still

More Spring Break

Girl was afraid to walk out on the dock. Her toes would slip through the holes. Rance didn't like it either.

Spring Break 2010

We didn't get to go anywhere for spring break and the weather was rainy a lot that week. One day when it was clear, we decided to go eat lunch at the city lake. Rance and I went and got subway and dad and Rayne met us there.

Snow in March

It is March the 20th and it is SNOWING!!!

Christmas 2010

Christmas at Sissie's House

Still Snowing

I can't believe how much snow we have gotten this evening.  It is March 20th for pete's sake.  It is not supposed to snow in March in Arkansas.  This is spring break week.  We want warm sunny weather, not cold wet weather.  Oh, well, I think it is supposed to warm up later this week. 
Snowing one day, 70 degrees the next.  That is Arkansas for you.  Never boring.

Rayne won 2nd place in the 7th- 8th grade spelling bee. Yay, Rayne.
Rance said he came in 5th in the 5th-6th grade bee. Lex says Rance slammed down his microphone after he misspelled his word, but Rance denies it. lol

Addie

I spent the afternoon yesterday at Brittany's trying to get some pictures of Addie. It's hard to get good pictures of a newborn. Especially one that wants her passy in her mouth. lol. \

She is a sweet pretty baby girl!!!! I love her!

I did however manage to get some good shots.

Rayne Driving

I let Rayne drive home from church today. Actually he drove home from the bank after we went to the store after church today. He has got to practice. Hopefully he can go take the written part of his driving test next Monday. We have to get his grades and attendance reports from school first or we would have gone over Thanksgiving break.
When I was a kid you could check out from school walk to the police station across town and take the test. These days it's a major ordeal. Oh, well it should be.

Paris's Christmas Parade

Yesterday was Paris's Christmas parade. We all met at Rogerland and then went out to watch the parade. Kim didn't get to come this year and Jeffery was in Virginia visiting Kelly so he didn't get to come either. Here is who did make it : me, Lex, Rayne, Rance, Sissie, Rod, Leigh, Katie, Neal, Christina, and their 3 kids, Mary, Butch, David, Brittany, Daniel, Nikki, Ethan, Daddy, and Connie was working her butt off they were so busy. We all had a good time visiting. Well I did anyway.

Thanksgiving 2009

Today was the best Thanksgiving, except for missing Poppa, that I can remember. Maybe because it wasn't so crowded. It was me, Lex and the boys, Gram, Memaw, and Pappy. We had a nice dinner and a nice relaxing afternoon. When I got tired around 4, we came home.
We spent the afternoon going through Ma Nichols' Bible. She had a lot of newspaper clippings in it and she had written births, deaths, and marriages in it. I had taken a family tree chart and was able to fill it out through Ma Nichols' all the way through to her parents. We found a copy of her birth certificate in a box of papers that Pop had kept.
I had been worried earlier that I would get sad and cry while at Gram's, but the Lord really gave me strength, and I had a blessed day for which I am very thankful.

Rayne's Birthday

Today is Rayne's birthday. He is 14 years old!!!!!!! I can't believe he is that old already. Now he just needs to take his driver's test so he can be my chaffeur!!
Poor baby has basketball practice tonight on his birthday.

Addilynn Presly Bogan

Addi is finally here. She was born on Sunday, November 8th at 11:08 a.m. She is perfect!!
Poor Brittany had a rough night Saturday. The nurses kept telling her she wasn't in labor, and she was hurting really badly. She was throwing up from the pain. She didn't get any help until the day shift came on around 8:00 and then Addilynn was born 3 hours later.
I would like to have a word or two with the night nurses!!!!
Bud took good care of Brittany during all this. He is a good husband!!

Rance

Rance is a character. Monday he was working in the floor on his project for science behind the chair I was sitting in. He thought I was talking to Kymberly on the phone, but it was actually Angela. Anyway, we were talking about some people that weren't married to each other, but were hanging out together. They said it was ok even though one of them was married because they weren't having s-e-x. (I think I spelled it, like Rance can't spell or something. LOL) So after a few minutes Rance gets up and tells me I am having a conversation he shouldn't be in the room for and off he went. That kid cracks me up!!!!

Pig Roast 2009-accident

It started out as an innocent game of volleyball. Yes, the game was not set up in the safest area, but it had been raining and this was the driest spot. I was afraid someone would fall face first into the concrete or the milk truck, but instead someone got tangle up in the net. That caused one of the poles to fall. Daddy ran to help and ended up getting bonked on the head by the pole. Lex ran to help and got scraped down his back by the other pole. That was the end of the volleyball game. Daddy went to the emergency room and they gave him a tetanus shot and told him to ice it every two hours for 24 hours.
Thankfully Lex just got scraped and the pole didn't hit his spine.