Chicod Prom 2009

 

 

 

 

J and some of his friends went to Washington to eat and the took pics on the waterfront after dinner. Of course the girls wanted to take a lot more pics than the guys did, so for them it was hurry up and wait!

Sports Banquet At Chiocd

 

 

 

J received a certificate for being on the football team this year

Grandmommy's House

Her house is always so pretty in the springtime!

 

 

 

 

Mother's Day 2009

 

 

 

Me, my mother, and my babies!

DARE graduation

 

 

 

S won the essay contest from her class and got to present her speech druing the ceremony. She also helped write and performed in a skit with her friends. She played a really good intoxicated girl. She's got acting skills!! OH, and the really TTTTTAAALLLLguy is the sheriff in Pitt county. She was very impressed with his height.

T's 40th birthday

 

 

 

 

For whatever reason, S wanted him to jump on the trampoline with her and her firends. He did a toe touch, pike, and he says, a triple souchow

More Easter 2009!

 

 

 

 

It took them a while this year. Hid them very well!!

Easter 2009

 

 

 

The kids still want to hunt a Grandma and Pop's house....especially since the eggs contain money!!!

J's Spring Cotillion 2009

 

 

 

 

J had his final cotillion at the Greenville Country Club this past weekend. He and one of his best buds decided to take some beautiful young ladies out to eat prior to the dance and these are the pictures from the dinner. J's date is in the pink dress and his buddy's is in the yellow dress. The other pretty girl was a friend of the girls. I'd say they went to the dance with the most beautiful girls there...inside and out!

J's Spring Cotillion 2009 Part 2

 

 

They really had a great time sitting out by themselves. We were in the room directly beside them, but it had a curved opening and we couldn't see or hear them and vica versa....a win/win situation!

Oops!!

I didn't realize that's it's actually been over a month since I posted anything. Sorry!! Let me fill you in on what I've been doing so maybe you'll understand. Over the course of the last few weeks I've been attending school board meetings here in Pitt County. They are proposing reconfiguring the K-8 schools that are in the county to K-5 schools. As we attend a K-8 school and absolutely LOVE it, I am opposed to the Long Range Facility Plan they have presented to the public. There were 5 Listening Sessions that were held at each of the 5 high schools in the county. I attended all of those, spoke at three, and have attended 5 other smaller committee meetings with peers that are also opposed. We have been creating alternative plans, hence the name "Make a Better Plan Committee". We made some headway with the school board and they have decided to postpone any decisions to reconfigure the K-8 schools at this time. We have one more proposal to be presented to them this coming Monday. I've been interviewed by the local news station and newspaper on my stance. I write and read much better speeches than I do interviews! I have also been criticized by someone on the local papers comment section that really stung, but my skin is getting tougher in my old age and I didn't respond....they weren't worth it. I know that my kids won't "rue the day I spoke up for keeping them in a K-8 school with Kindergarten students when they were in the 8th grade" and I KNOW that I spend plenty of time "tlaking to my children more rather than talking to reporters"...ouch! I just hope that one day my children will appreciate and understand what I've believe in and did was for them and their education. Right now I'm just a pretty dumb mom to two teenagers and a tween! LOL!!

Round Two continued

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately the sled broke...it was homemade and had been used this summer for grass sledding...and had already been put back together twice. It was fun while it lasted!

Round Two of Snow Day