New pics of Cameron

The girls joined the Paw Pak at school. They get to run out on the field before every Football game and do one cheer with the Big cheer leaders. This is both girls with their friend Lauren, she was also there swimming teacher.

Cameron has became a Nana's girl since Aspen started school. She makes sure she gets her quality time. We made a Halloween spook house. She wanted everyone to hurry and see it so she could eat all the candy off. I think she may have inherited her Nana's creativity.

Jada and Cameron have became big buds. Cameron will chase Jada for a while, then Jada will chase Cameron for a while. This is what happens when they get to tired to run anymore. Looks fun to me.

Cameron and Aspen went to their first sleep over Birthday party last Saturday. It didn't work out so well for Cameron. She was running in the yard and tripped over a dog. Now she has a Beautiful blue and pink cast.

This was the day after. We took her to the emergency room that night and they put it in this splint. It was fiberglass on the bottom half and then wrapped in ace bandage. She didn't like it very much. Yesterday we took her to Houston to the Orthopedic Doctor that took care of Keith's foot. There is a fracture at the elbow. She will be in her blue and pink cast for 3 weeks then we will go back to see how it is healing. The cast doesn't' seem to be as uncomfortable as the splint was. Not to mention she got to design the cool colors herself. Keep her in your prayers that it will heal okay.

I'm not sure where this space came from and I can't make it go away. Sorry

IKE HAS LEFT HIS MARK ON SOUTHEAST TEXAS

No one in Southeast Texas was untouched by Ike. Thank heavens mostly by inconvenience to us. We got lights and phones today. 50 percent of Jasper is up. This is one time I was glad to be first. We lost one tree and a LOT of limbs as you can see from the pics. I could fill up several dump trucks with all that is laying in the yard. I won't lack for something to do for a while.

Galveston was not as lucky, I heard the water surge there was 22 feet. We haven't had tv, so I don't know that for sure but looking at the damage it's believable. I think it was 14 feet in Winnie. The farmers and ranchers were wiped out. There are dead cattle in the thousands, and more still stranded that might not survive. Bridge city was hit hard also. The news reported today school will not start there for a month

Would you believe with winds here at 70 miles per hour we still have luv bugs. It should have blown them to the other side of the world. Here everyone is with no electricity and having to cook outside and the luv bugs are worse than they have been in years.

THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO KEPT US IN THEIR PRAYERS!!!!!

Some pics of the mess in my yard. The trees are getting really aero dynamic .

HURRICANE IKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, we are about to be slammed by yet another hurricane. It is expected to make land fall in the early hours of the morning Saturday in Galveston. We are going to have winds in excess of 90 miles per hour and a storm surge of 14 feet. That's if it doesn't intensify and it probably will. The storm surge won't impact us here in Kirbyville but the winds surely will with the 20 oak trees surrounding our house. We are going to ride it out with friends that live close but have no trees. We probably won't have electricity for a while, I will try to let everyone know what is happening after we get the generator up and going. Keep us in your prayers.

THE BIG 3

Cameron turned 3 July 26th. She was excited about her party, she had FRIENDS coming to play. Both the girls are a little spoiled to Nana making cakes. They just look through my cake books and pick out the one they want. For some reason they keep getting bigger each year. The pic doesn't do justice to the size. The bottom layer was 15" diameter and 5 " thick.


Her present from Mom & Dad and Nana & Paw-paw. She is a one month old Mini horse, she named her Callie Horsey. She weights about 45 pounds. I had to pick her up to put her in and out of the trailer when we brought her home.



There were lots of friends to help celebrate

LACEY'S BIG DAY

Sorry, I haven't updated in a while. Summer gets busy for everyone. I am having to do 3 seperate post. Dialup times out if I try to post more than 4 pics at a time.

Lacey, Graydon's oldest got married Fridat night. Mr. & Mrs. Ramsey Davis

What better time to take a few family photos. It's not very often we get dresses up.

SWIMMING LESSONS

Aspen and Cameron each took private swimming lessons this summer. Keith and I went and watched them on the last day. We were really impressed. They can both go of the diving board. Aspen swims all over the pool by herself, Cameron still has to use floates in the deep end.

Toni and I went to get some plants for her yard. The people raise and show mini's. The girls fell in love. This baby was 4 month old, the lady has already trained her to do tricks.



Toni came over and rode Angel for me. She hasn't rode in 4 years, Angel hasn't been rode in quite a while either were both a little bit rusty. This was after the short rodeo. The horse fared much better than rider. Angel had some pretty bad spur marks from Toni trying to stay on. The inside of Toni's legs were bruised pretty bad. You should see the girls imitate Angel bucking their mom off.


Aspen cooling of at Graydon's girls birthday party



Cameron and cricket watching spongebob.

WHAT AN ADVENTURE

The fishing has been kinda iffy this year. We went from below normal temps, to above normal. Noodle fishing is best at the temp. in between. But night time seems to be just right. Keith had heard they were biting good at night so him and his cousin wanted to try, what a adventure it turned out to be. They were biting, but the wind was also blowing really bad. Waves were washing over the front of the boat, they were both soaking wet. The wind was blowing the noodles out of sight, and the May flies in. He said they were 4" to 6" deep all over the boat, and you could hardly see. When the waves washed in the boat they turned to mush and stopped up the drain. Then there were some kinda fish jumping out of the water, they would jump all the way across the boat. They were having to dodge them. Would you believe they had a blast. Planning another trip this weekend.

The limit is 25 fish per person. They stayed until they had their limit. I don't think they were thinking about how long it would take to clean them. There were exactly 150lbs. We had 9 gallon zip lock bags of fillets.

BEFORE AND AFTER

Toni decided she wanted to start landscaping. Well, she wanted her yard landscaped anyway. Not that she wanted to do the work. But, she did help, and the girls did too.I planed the layout, picked out most of the plants, dug ALL the holes and put down all the border rocks. She mudded in the plants and helped with the mulch. It turned out really beautiful. Not bad for my first landscape job!!!! Now if we could just get grass. The back yard has grass, but the front is still pretty bare. We have talked about putting down sod after we finish the walk ways. We'll see.

SNOW ANGEL'S .........DIRT ANGELS

Those of you in the North may call them snow Angel's, but in the South I think they are dirt Angel's.

Poor Cameron, we went plant shopping in the heat of the day. I think it was more than she could handle. She fell asleep on the way home. She was just to cute to not take a picture.

Almost supper!!!!!!!

Keith was brush hogging this weekend when he ran across a snake. At first he didn't see the baby cotton tail he was after. Being the good guy he is, he saved her. She rode in his shirt pocket for about 1 1/2 hours while he finished mowing. Between the snake and the rough ride I think she was in shock. She would not eat very good for the first three days, I really didn't think she was going to make, but all is well. She eats like a little pig now. The girls named her Miss Piggy.

NOODLE-IN TEXAS STYLY

A couple of years ago Keith's Grandpa showed us how to noodle, it's a blast. NO, it's not like those crazy people who put their hand in a hole and let the fish bite it. I'm brave, but that just doesn't seem like fun. We usually catch an average of 100lbs. a trip. This year the weather has been kinda strange, they are not biting that good on the south end of the lake yet. We went Friday for the first time this year, thought we would have to go to the bank for a loan to fill the boat up.

These are noodle's. Okay, I'll explain a little more. Have you ever seen the noodles in the kid's swimming dept. at wal-mart? They are foam and about 4 ft. long. They are to play with in the pool, well, unless someone in your family noodle's. We cut them in 6" lengths and rig them with a line, sinker and hook. Then you have to wrap them in white duck tape and put your name and address on them. You just throw them out in the lake and let them float. We usually have about 75 to 100 out at a time.

When a fish gets on one it stands up like a mailbox flag. If the fish is very big 20lbs. or bigger, he will take it under, that's when the real fun begins. It may take 30 minutes or more chasing him around and waiting for the noodle to pop back up to finally get it in the boat. We have a long telescoping pole with a hook on the end, you just hook it around the line right under the noodle and pull it in.

Sometime you catch something that you would rather not put in the boat. This gar is small compared to the one we caught last year. It was as big around as a steering wheel, and could hold the noodle under for 30 minutes at a time.

Not bad for a day of fun.

HOPE EVERYONE HAD A WONDERFUL MOTHER'S DAY

A baby ask God, "They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless?" God said, "Your angel will be waiting for you and will take care of you."

The child further inquired, "but tell me, here in heaven I don't have to do anything but sing and smile to be happy." God said, "your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you. And you will feel your angel's love and be very happy."

Again the child asked, "and how am I going to be able to understand when people talk to me if I don't know the language?" God said, "Your angel will tell you the most beautiful and sweet words you will ever hear, and with much patience and care, you angel will teach you how to speak." "And what am I going to do when I want to talk to you?" God said, "your angel will place your hands together and will teach you how to pray."

"Who will protect me?" God said, "Your angel will defend you even if it means risking it's life."

"But I will always be sad because I will not see you anymore." God said, "your angel will always talk to you about me and will teach you the way to come back to me, even though I will always be next to you.

At that moment there was much peace in Heaven, but voices from Earth could be heard and the child hurriedly asked, "God, if I am to leave now, please tell me my angel's name."

God said, "you will simply call her, MOM."

Parade's,Rodeo's, Bull Riding and Dancing

What a night of intertainment. The Girls get to do lots of social functions to represent their community as Queen's. Yesterday was the Jasper parade and rodeo.

She can sure make cotton candy look good.

JUST 8 SECONDS.....IF THOSE GUYS CAN DO IT SO CAN I

Aspen: Hey Nana, look at those kids riding that bull.

Nana: Do you want to ride.

Aspen: I don't know, I think those kids are at least 6, Maybe I should wait till I'm 6.

Sure looks like fun though. Nana when will I be 6?

Nana: Are you sure you don't want to try?

Aspen: I really think I should wait till I'm 6. THINKING....... Well........ maybe I'll try.

I can do anything my BIG sister can do.

Impatiently waiting for some action

I CAN DANCE

There was a live band at the rodeo. They set up on a portable stage in the arena. Everyone can go down and stand right in front of the stage. The girls practiced their two step, they had quiet a audience.