Saturday, June 27, 2009
It's been one of those weeks ....
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Lily is so very strange ...
Friday, June 12, 2009
Lily and Elliot
Elliot's 1st Super Waterbabies Class
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Rachel's staying at home update ....
Saturday, June 06, 2009
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Kinder Program
It's hard to believe Emily's Kindergarten year is coming to an end! Where did the year go? Wowzers. She's had a great year and told me she doesn't want school to be out for summer! Mrs. Francis has really made this year special for her and we are super thankful for her!
At Cox they do not have Kindergarten Graduation ... but they did put on a sweet program on Tuesday.
They sang The World is a Rainbow and each class had a color song. Emily's class was Yellow. They ended the program with A Whole New World (which I think is a hard song for little people ... HA) and showed a slide show of pictures from the year.
Just when I thought I was going to hold it together for the entire program they showed the slide show with these songs in the back ground - In the Eyes of a Child and Greatest Love of All - I remember leaning over to Wayne at one point saying “they really picked some tear jerkers huh?” sniff sniff
Nana and Grandfather were at the program and Emily loved showing them her room and her work for the year!
We will post the video here if we can ever find out how to download it to the computer - I think we need a new one - HA
Most of my pictures ended up blurry or dark or red eyed, but here are a few ...
Friday, May 29, 2009
Lily
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Sweet Lily!
Here are some pictures from our first day home (the posted backward for some reason ... HA)
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Happy Long Weekend!
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Snapfish updated Finally!
I added some to Snapfish tonight (FINALLY!)
To view all 2009 folders click here
Here's one of my favorites ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
New Summer Hair-Do

We are getting a puppy ....

Monday, April 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Welcome to the Twighlight Zone....
It started with a spinal surgery for 11 year old Kaitlynn. It was a tense, stressful wait for the surgery to be over. She's recovering well and I was able to breathe easier for her by Wednesday.
Then I get a call from Trina on Wednesday saying Patrick (my younger cousin) was in ICU in Dallas. He had a 20 minute routine procedure that has turned into a nightmare. For updates go here tryfaith.org/patrick. I have been in complete shock and praying like crazy for him, his wonderful wife Emily, his sweet little bug-man Hank, his dad Phil, his brothers John and Chris ... just worrying and praying. His recovery is going to be a long hard road.
Then Friday I get one of the worst calls I have ever received. I was on the phone with a customer at work ... and saw on caller ID my mom, then my dad, then Austen. I finished the call and immediately thought something horrible had happened to Patrick. Imagine my surprise when I heard this from my Dad "Your mom just found Frances dead in the bathtub" ... I had to have him repeat himself 3 or 4 times because it just would NOT compute. It still hasn't. My initial reaction was "that isn't funny ... please don't ever joke like this again" ... then I actually heard my dad and heard my mother in the background and realized it wasn't. I drove home in shock. I am still in shock.
My friend Dee came over and took charge. She fed me, made sure the kids ate and got Emily ready for her Star Steppers Spring Show. I am so grateful for her. I would have never made it through the afternoon if she wouldn't have come by. We went to the show and I came home and packed .... then April, God Bless her, drove me all the way to Winnie in the rain. I can't begin to express my gratitude for her selfless act! She got a flat on the way home .. in the rain alone ... UGH ... she finally made it home at 7am ... Thank you GOD! She's still in trouble for attempting to drive home instead of stopping off at her parents, but I am thankful she made it home OK!
Here's what we know so far ... this completely SUCKS!
Franny died Thursday night in the bathtub. On her 38th wedding anniversary. It looks like she went peacefully but we don't know what happened. We assumed she had a heart attack, the preliminary reports say her heart looked good ... so we just don't know what happened.
Mom went to her house at about 3pm to finish painting a sign she had in their garage. She got to the gate and saw a FedEx truck. She didn't think much about it ... she thought Franny was outside or maybe in town. So, she let the FedEx truck in the gate and signed for the package. She saw Franny's car in the garage and a strange car at Chris and Sarah's so she called Sarah "Is Franny with you?" Sarah said "No, I am heading to a track meet" .... so she went inside to find her. Still thinking she was just busy and didn't hear the phone or the FedEx truck.
Mom found her in the bathtub. Her sister ... her best friend ... the person she did EVERYTHING with ... and all hell broke lose.
She called dad and 911 (well, they called her back because she wasn't dialing right) ... Dad called Chris and Trent and Terry and Eunice ... Trent called Amanda who has been through hell already it's just not RIGHT to lose two babies and your mom in less than 3 years ... Trent called Lester ... sweet Lester who was on his way back to Africa for work. He left Thursday. He finally gets home today and my heart is just breaking for him. Franny was his rock ... his EVERYTHING! Thankfully an Exxon co-worker is staying with him so he is not alone on this horribly LONG trip home.
This doesn't feel real at all ... nope, not at all. I keep wishing Ashton would jump out with his camera crew and tell us all we've been Punk'd ...
We haven't told Emily. I just don't even know where to start. Franny was one of her favorite people ... hell, she was one of my favorite people ... well, shit ... if you knew Franny she was probably one of YOUR favorite people too and you know how much this sucks .... it just completely sucks.
Please pray for us ... for Lester, for her kids (Chris, Amanda, Trent, Sarah, Mike and Angela), for my Grandma, for my mom and for Terry.
The funeral will most likely be Wednesday. Wayne and the kids will be here tomorrow and I'll need to find a way to tell Emily by then.

