I heart Baseball!!

Baseball is my favorite sport to watch. I registered Jake to play and he had "tryouts" Saturday. Needless to say it was the cutest thing ever!! They all got to take a swing at the pitching machine and they all tried very hard but needless to say no hits hehe!! After third pitch they were to run to first base and Jake decided to "show off" and slide into first, it was just precious and everyone was laughing the entire time because they were so stinking cute!!! I will know Tuesday night what team Jake will be on and when all of the practices start and games!! I AM SO EXCITED!!!!! I just hope I don't embarrass him yelling and cheering for him cause I am a big mouth when it comes to cheering for my boys!!

 IF you look at the above picture carefully....you will notice Jake and Reece figting for the ball!! HA!! They made it a competition to see who could get the ball first and then takle the other!! I have a feeling it's going to get interesting LOL!!!

 Cooper (Kelcie save these to your computer)

A little fun after practice!!

Are YOU sick of highly paid teacher???

Are you sick of highly paid teachers?




Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or10 months a year! It's time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - babysit!



We can get that for less than minimum wage.



That's right. Let's give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan-- that equals 6 1/2 hours).



Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day...maybe 30? So that's $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day.



However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.



LET'S SEE....



That's $585 X 180= $105,300 per year. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).



What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master's degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an



hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.



Wait a minute -- there's something wrong here! There sure is!



The average teacher's salary (nationwide) is $50,000. $50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day/30



students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student--a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!) WHAT A DEAL!!!!

Cutest Karate Kid I've Ever Seen

Jake has started Karate classes in Haleyville and he loves it so much! Ty gets so upset because he can't go! I feel so bad for the little guy but 2 more years and he can go to class with his big brother!

New Baton Classes

I will be providing a beginner class for ages 4-6. The time of the class will be Tuesday night 5:30-6:30 at kids sports gymnastics. I will be having 2 classes going on at the same time! I have hired a wonderful majorette instructor to take turns teaching each class with me. The cost is $35 a month. Please call if interested 205-485-4615.

Sweet Valentine

Happy Valentines Day Everyone! Today I was at work and Jeff totally surprised me while taking my kids to lunch. He hardly ever gets to come up here because it's an hour away so it was a total surprise. He brought me 2 T-shirts, Auburn gear, and a gorgeous necklace. He is so kind, sweet, and thoughtful and I am so lucky to spend the rest of my life with him.
I also just have to give him a total kutos for being a WONDERFUL step-dad to my children. I was swamped last week with baton lessons and when I got home he had given Jake a bath, brushed his teeth, and got him dressed for bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How great is that???? He also bought Jake his new baseball shoes and glove. He also plays with my boys and treats them like they are his own. I think they both would vlecro themselfs to his hip if they could!!! It takes a special man to treat kids that are not his like his own. I am so blessed and thank God everyday for our HUGE family of 5 kids! Lucky Me!!!

A visit to the Doctor

As most of you do not know I have been under a tremendous amount of stress. I will not go into details about that but it's been absolutely insane what has gone on in my life. I really should call lifetime!! Anyway I have always had some issues with my heart and have always gone to a cardiologist in Birmingham since I was 15 years old. I took meds when I was younger and slowly got off the meds to see if I would be ok without them. I was just fine with an occasional episode once a month maybe if that! The past couple of months it has really been acting up. My heart races, sharp pains in my chest, tight feeling, hard to swallow, left arm goes to sleep, hard to catch my breath, you know all the symptoms to think you are going to have a heart attack but you are not. I decided it was time I go back and get everthing checked out again to make sure my valve was OK and that it had not gotten any worse. Thankfully my valve was just the same and nothing was different about it than before BUT I failed every test they put me though. All of the test combined took about 3 hours (exhausting)!!! Dr. Phillips told me my blood pressure bottomed out on every test and that I had a disorder called disautonomia. I said dis auto what??? I had never in my life heard of it but this is where your brain tells your organs what to do and mine is not working properly. This is why my heart is not beating right, not enough oxygen in my blood, have kidney infections all the time, and my sugar is out of whack. Everything that you do not have to think of that your body does, mine does not work right. Is this serious?? Could be if not treated properly but no cure just have to treat the horrible symptoms that go along with it. I have felt horrible for some time now (like 4 years) and I thought it was just me being ill and tired but nope it's this crap I will have to deal with for the rest of my life. It does cause severe irritability and I so have that, but only because I feel terrible all of the time!!!  I can't get out of a chair withut the feeling of wanting to pass out and then I'm out of breath and then I just wanna scream and lie down and not deal with a room full of 7 year old. The doctor has put me on blood pressure meds because my blood pressure is so low when I move in a different position it changes dramatically, a beta blocker for my heart, and something to help support serotonin in my brain. The meds are not fun to take because they make you feel like a zombie and the ability to function is zero. I am supposed to take it when I get home from work. I have started taking it around 6 and by 6:30 I am worthless. She said it would take my body 2 weeks to adjust to the new meds and after that I should feel much better! I am sooo ready to feel much better!!! I'm at work today but have no been able to have the spunk I normally have I'm like a turtle that's sleepy. I have also said goodbye to sweets and all caffeine products which makes this even harder since I love sweets and Dr Pepper. Its also one of my students Birthday today and guess what her mother brings for snack??? Oh yes CUPCAKES UGGGGHHH they are telling me to eat them but I'm not!! : ) I just hope I can stick to the drs orders!
I have a super supportative hubby that is working out with me everyday and heping me eat right. He is such a health nut and even though he really doesn't push me to do any of these things he still is helping by the way he is so decicated to eating perfectly and working out everyday. He told me last night just to go to bed because I was an absolute ZOMBIE good thing he is a Dr. so he knows what is going on with me. It's almost his birthday and we have super fun plans for that weekend and I am sooo excited!! I will post pictures soon!!! So as I begin this fun journey of having a weekly pill container I will keep you updated on being 29 but feeling and having a pill case like an 89 year old woman.

Kitchen color

Our house is beige all the way through and I just hate it. It looks like someone with NO TASTE went through and picked the colors. I talked to Jeff about changing one room at a time, that I could not stand the borning beige color all the way through. He said ok and I picked a pink for the ceiling and green for the walls. I wished I had a picture of his face when I showed him what I picked out...it was priceless!! Anyway we went back to the paint section and I asked him to decide on 4 colors I had picked out and the pink and green is what we agreeed on.I turned out better than I thought and I can't wait to color the rest of the house!!!

Final Decision.....

I have finally made up my mind on the outfits my twilers will be wearing at competition in Destin. I decided to be safe than sorry for ordering the candyland costumes. The top outfit is for the younger twirlers and the fringe is for the teen class. The finge outfit will be ordered in the blue and the halter top will be ordered in bubblegum pink.  All plans are final now for our competition in Destin this summer. I have 12 rooms booked at the beach and outfits picked out now I just gotta  finish their routines!