May 29, 2008

WAY TO GO CARRIGAN!!!

WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!
AWARDS DAY
AT
PIKE PRIMARY SCHOOL
May 29, 2008

Today was Awards Day for Carrigan at her school.
Thank you Kristi and Hunter for coming to share in this happy occasion.

Below is a list of the awards that Carrigan received and an explanation of the awards



This was on the cover of the folder that she received with all of her awards in it!

HERE THEY ARE!

Outstanding Achievement in First Grade is given to students
who earned all 3's and 4's on their report card.


Good Behavior Award is given to students who
consistently follow the rules of the classroom.


Handwriting Award is given to students with exemplary handwriting.



Math Facts Award is given to students who mastered first grade math facts.



Sight Words Award is given to students who mastered all first grade sight words.






Book-it and Six Flags Hour Reader Awards are given to students who read a certain number of books or minutes during the weeks of the contests.






Accelerated Reading Award shirts go to the top three AR readers in each class. Carrigan was the top reader in her class so she received a blue shirt. Red shirts went to the second place students and yellow shirts went to third place.



Throughout the year Carrigan was also in the Top 20 students for the 1st quarter, Top 40 students for the 2nd quarter, Top 60 for the 3rd quarter and she made the Top 80 for the final quarter.

We are so proud of you Carrigan!!!!!!




Carrigan loves her cousin Hunter!



It was so hard to get the 3 of them to all look in the same direction!

Tomorrow is Carrigan's last day of 1st grade. I can't believe she will be in 2nd grade next year. For those of you wondering if Alan will go to school next year - No. Alan missed starting Pre-K next year by 8 days. He has to be 4 years old by Sept. 1st. Alan will be hanging out with me next year. I've been thinking of fun activities to do with him so that he will think that he is doing schoolwork. He wants to go to school so bad.

I hope that everyone has a great weekend.

Kim

May 27, 2008

MEET CHESTER
The Newest Member of the Flock
(aka The Family)



Sorry it's kinda blurry - he moved!

Chester is a Blue Crown Conure. I was given him by a very sweet lady named Rita. I answered an ad that stated that she had a Blue Crown Conure Free to a VERY good home. I had no idea that she would pick me but she did. She said that she choose me because I was honest and knew alot about birds. For those that don't really know me - I have over 20+ years of bird experience. I love birds! I always have!!!!! :-) My dream bird is a Blue and Gold Macaw!

Below are some pictures of Chester :-)

This is Chester in his new home. I will have to look for him something bigger.
He is bigger than I thought :-) This cage will do for now but in the near future
I will need to get him something else.
Anyone have a cage for a medium to large size bird?



He's posing for his picture!



While I was heating something up in the microwave
tonight Chester decided to venture out of his cage.
That was a big step considering I have had him less than
36 hours. He is really getting use to his surroundings!



Just hanging around!
This was taken right before he decided
he had had enough and went back into his cage.



All of the other animals are doing great. Princess' tail healed up nicely. You can see where it was injured but it looks really good. Dixie is also doing good. All of the birds (Sweetie, Pepper, Fred, Ginger, Kiwi and KiKu) are all doing good. It's funny to hear them all talk
back and forth to each other.

Carrigan's last day of school is this Friday. She will be receiving a couple of awards on Thursday. I'll post them at the end of the week. I can't believe she will be in 2nd grade next year.

Alan is doing great. He amazes us every day.

Rusty is back in Augusta. I love it when he gets to come home on the weekends. I really miss him when he's gone. I look forward to the weekends and so do the kids!

I hope that everyone had a Safe and Happy Memorial Day!

Kim

Look What Rusty Did!

Sunday - May 18, 2008

Look what Rusty built for the kids!


We have been talking about Rusty building a play set for the kids but for some reason (money- HAHA) we just never got around to it. Well - with that extra tax money that we received it seemed like the perfect way to spend it on the kids. With Rusty in school now it will give the kids something to do this summer. Rusty did such an awesome job. Check it out!!!!!

Rusty started building this a week ago Saturday before he left for school.

This is an early stage of the fort or tower - whatever you want to call it :-)



Of course Alan had to help his Daddy carry the ladder.



This is a picture of Rusty and the kids yesterday.
They were both a big help when it came to digging in the dirt.



Making progress!!!



The finished product!



It only took Rusty a total of about 2 days to do this himself.
He did an awesome job and the kids love it!

Carrigan being a total monkey.
She decided to give her had a rest after she got 2 blisters on her hand from playing on the monkey bars.



My little poser!



Of course Alan had to try the bar.



This is Alan sitting in their little hideout. He and Carrigan brought out their chairs, a rug and blankets and made themselves at home. They even brought Carrigan's old moon chair for Princess to sit in.



Silly girl!



She is showing off her new haircut :-)



Alan had to try and do what his Sissy was doing.

Rusty and I were sitting back watching him.
We wondered what would happen once he flipped over!



He's flying!
Looks like he's going to fall flat on his face but.......



I promise - he didn't get hurt at all and he even .....



tried it again and again!



The kids love their new play set. Thank you Rusty/Daddy for building it for them/us!

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On a sad note.......

Please keep Cher and Tom in your thoughts and prayers.
On Friday they found out that they lost Little Garrett. From what I understand...they went to the doctor on Wednesday and Cher was 2 cm dilated and 70% and everything was fine. Cher told Rusty when she called Friday morning that Garrett stopped moving so they went to the doctor to get checked out and found out that Little Garrett had gone to be with Jesus. Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers during this very hard time. Little Garrett was due to be born at the end of this month.

Kim

May 2008

May 13, 2008

Hi Everyone! It's been a busy last couple of days. Rusty is officially in Augusta now. It's hard with him being so far away and not being 20 minutes down the road but me and the kids look forward to the weekends when we will get to see him. I'm hanging in there and I try not to think about him not being at home every night but...Carrigan is the one having a hard time. She keeps saying "It's just not the same". I think that she got very used to Rusty being home the last 2 weeks. Alan on the other hand is still too young to fully understand. He did mention earlier today that he missed daddy. It brought a tear to my eye.

Here is a picture of Rusty and the kids on the last day that he worked at the fire station.

Of course I had to take one of just the two of them :)

Below are some of the pictures that I took the weekend of May 2nd when we took the camper to Augusta. I hope you enjoy!!!!

For those of you that have never been to Augusta - they have a place called River Walk. Obviously it is right on the Savannah River. There is a kids playground which is an awesome place. Parents get to sit on the bench's and enjoy the scenery of the Savannah River while watching their kids play.



Brother and sister love!!!!



Daddy and the kids enjoying watching the boats go down the river!



Alan and Carrigan checking out the scenery!



Carrigan loves her Daddy!



Obviously she likes to have her picture taken!



Mommy take it now - CHEESE!



I love this picture!



Monkey See - Monkey Do!!! They had alot of fun on the slides!

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Here's a picture of Alan's new haircut. They call it a Cesear haircut! It's the same haircut that George Clooney has :-) I was a little nervous about it but it turned out really cute.
He loves for me to put gel in it to make it stick straight up on the top.



I hope that everyone is having a great week!

Love, Kim