Celebrities?

You would think so.

Not really though, these kids have been together through some of the toughest times of their lives (thus far).

And oh the drama.

I thought high school was tough when I was growing up.

But alas, they always stick together.

And remain a pretty tight group.

Not to mention they all get very competitive when it comes to their appearances.

A small group of friends?

When Cory asks to have a few friends over (in my mind I’m thinking 5 or 6) I think twice now.

Having a few friends over after Prom resulted in a very loud rambunctious group of 35 kids.

I’m so happy it was a stormy night so the neighbors 5 miles away (across the ravine) didn’t call us in for noise.

Here are photos from this wild and crazy night.

Cory went to prom with his very dear friend Kimberly.

The one on the right is one of Cory’s BFF’s Sam (who’s giving me the peace sign apparently).  The other one is filing his nails ~ I think.

I loved the rainbow tie die tux.  The girl in white and blue is Emma.  She’s a very sweet girl and I loved her dress.

The guys.

This is Hannah.  She’s a very very close friend too.  She’s in Rewind with Cory and is probably his best female friend.

Another of Emma because her dress was my favorite of the night.

The guys trying to look studly.

Cory helping out his friend with his cuff links.

Okay the first studly pose didn’t work out so well so they tried looking like nice boys (they really are for the most part).

The girls.

All of the girls this time.  Had to go try at an angle so they would all fit in the photo.

So then they decided to try for all Seniors.

Cory and Jenna.  I loved her dress too.  She’s a beautiful girl though so I think she can make a burlap sack look good.

Another girl.  I don’t even try to remember names anymore.

I’m sure I’ve met these girls before but seriously there were some that the Mom’s pushed up into photos with Cory just to get the photo.

You’d think he was a celebrity or something.  Come to think of it I did have a Mom once tell me he’s like the movie star of the school.

I’m NOT joking.

Going for studly once more.

It is amusing to say the least.  I think they are a blast.  The pink sunglasses are my favorite.

Another girl.

Cory and Kaitlyn.  She is Jon T’s girl.  He is currently in Florida with his very sick Mama.  He plans to move back though.

I think this one is Jordan and I think she graduated last year.

Another of Jenna.

BFF’s.

Another girl.

And another.

She’s a foreign exchange student from Sweden (I think).

Beautiful.

My favorite of Cory for the night.

Ethan (Olivia’s brother), Kimberly and Cory.

Ethan and his parental unit.

One last girl.

There were no photos of after prom or after after prom.

I was too busy keeping kiddos quiet and doggies from freaking out.

I think they had a great night (albeit emotional).

You know since it’s one of their last big hurrah’s.

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The images in the above collage are from our family vacation to the East Coast last summer.

It was an extremely wet trip, raining every day except for one.

The one and only day I was able to get any senior pictures of our 2 seniors – in Central Park.

Really I just wanted to play with my collages today because I’m kind of bored.

My honey is sleeping the day away because he’s working this weekend, child number 2 is with his male parental unit and child number 1 just took off in my jeep to pick up his clothes at a friends house and then to work.  Unfortunately he suffers from his Mother’s luck when it comes to his vehicles.

I’ve been hanging in the loft with my girls playing with collages and at times standing on guard with fly-swatter in hand ready to destroy 3 wasps that keep threatening to swoop down and attack my baby Zoey.  Can I just say I hate wasps and they need to leave my poor innocent puppy alone.  She doesn’t know that wasps taste nasty and besides I think she really only wants to play.  You know kind of like kitty’s play with mice before they eat them.  Yes, she gets confused sometimes and thinks she’s a cat.  I haven’t the foggiest where she gets that idea.  We don’t have cats, I’m severely allergic to them.  She bats toys around with her hands (front paws), pounces on her sisters and scratches at the furniture.  You know now that I think about it, I think she may have a personality disorder.  Yes that’s it, she has 2 personalities; a cat personality and she must have a dog personality because I never knew any cat that liked to get into the shower before and not only that but her Mama was a dog after all.  I still believe though that she’s the sweetest thing on Earth and the most cuddly snuggle bug that ever shared a pillow with me before.  So, I’ll keep her – personality disorder and all.

BAM!!!.  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  2 down and 1 to go.  Take that you wiley beasts.

I think my Honey needs to call the wasp exterminator.

You know before my girls get hurt or I get stung trying to protect my doggy family and go into anaphylactic shock

.  .  .  .  or something like that.

Hey.  .  .  . it could happen.

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Finally.  .  .  .we have nice weather.

I think it was the first decent weather we have had so far this year when I captured this:

and this one:

I captured these from the loft window peering down to our back yard.

I believe it was a nice day for homework on the trampoline.

.  .  .and of course I couldn’t photograph Cory doing homework without one of Cade.  He wouldn’t have it.

and for a little cuteness:

We’re trying to get Zoey used to going into the kennel.

Not much luck so far. 

Mainly because I can’t bear to see this sad face.

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The day has finally arrived.

If you click on the following link:

I Miss You

You can see Cory’s music video.

This is the music video that his teacher submitted to the state competition.

Which is:

TODAY!!!

(please be patient, the site is very slow and it takes awhile to load)

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Cory’s basketball team started a tournament on Saturday.

I drove down after working all night to watch the game.

Afterwards I was going home to sleep.

Or so I thought.

The game was very close.

First they were ahead.

Then we were ahead.

And so on and so forth.

Then finally at the end we won by a single shot.

A little unsettling to say the least.

Thank goodness it was my day off.

I didn’t really need that sleep anyhow.

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Okay so maybe I’m a little overboard with the title. 

But this boy:

. . .makes this Mama proud.

Not only did his music video get submitted to state competition but:

Tonight he went to a DECA competition and placed in his individual category and advances to state competition for that as well.

Congratulations Cory!!

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This year Christmas started extremely early (at least for us) in the morning.

Britt had to be at work all the way in Anderson early so we started our day at 5:30am.

Britt is a bit dramatic and wiggles around quickly.  This is the only photo that wasn’t a complete blur.

Here is my very tall Christmas tree.  I know there isn’t a topper, but the ladder isn’t tall enough to allow for someone to reach high enough.

I’m not sure how ‘awake’ Cory was at this time.  He went right back to bed afterwards.

Cade on the other hand is excitable no matter the time of day.

Christopher was very happy to have his iPod replaced.  Of course I had a mushy card and even more mushiness engraved on the back of it.

Yes, I got a wii fit and Cade is probably more happy about it than me.  Please forgive our sleep attire, or at least Cade’s.  He chooses to always wear my old t-shirts.

Hope you all had a very Merry CHRISTmas.

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Entry 14

In August Cory and some of the others from his Rewind Group spent a weekend producing a short film for a 48 hour short film competition.  You can see the original post here.

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Today I have a list
I think I may start to live by my list.
I have such a busy life that I can’t keep my daily events straight.
Today for instance, at the top of my list is:
Drive to Starbucks
I actually have a need and not just a want for Starbucks today.
You see, my internet service sucks.
I mean it really sucks. I’ve not had internet in two days.
I have an internet based business so this is really begininning to get on my nerves.
I have to drive into town to use the service at Starbucks.
This also means I must purchase something while I’m there.
I am seriously contemplating sending my Starbucks bill to IBEC to make them pay for it.
I mean I am paying full price for a service in which they are unable to render at this time.
I’m actually typing this post out at home as a wordpad document which I will copy and paste into my blog service.
I figured if I have a 2 hour limit while I’m there I’d better get some of this done.

We’re finally over the pig flu at my house, it only made it’s way through 2 of us luckily.
Hubby never got it and neither did my oldest offspring.
My youngest though had it bad. Really bad.
His fever lasted for 6 days.
All we have left now is that very annoying cough that seems to last forever and ever.
Cade’s cough is almost over thank goodness. Though the cough medicine with codeine he was on was nice at helping him rest, it was such a chore to get it down him. He didn’t like the syringe they gave us to measure with because it didn’t allow it to go in fast enough. He likes to take it quickly then have a little drink of water to get the taste out of his mouth.
So this Mama gave it to him in a shot glass.
There’s nothing like teaching your 8 year old how to take a shot.
Does that make me a horrible mother?
I think not, I do whatever I need to in order to get the meds in.
And besides, he doesn’t even know what a shot glass is for.

Boo ~ soccer season is over and honestly it was merely a nuisance this year. I mean we made it to maybe half the games due to either sickness or bad weather.
I did however get some photos to share:

Don’t ask me why the boys tongue hangs out all the time.  It helps him to concentrate.  That’s what he says.

I say it helps him to catch bugs.

Notice if you will his lack of fashion sense.  His brother would be very disappointed in this.  I do notice that he is wearing a green t-shirt over a burgundy sweatshirt, navy shorts (he has black ones but won’t wear them), black socks and lo and behold his shoes match his socks, well kind of, his socks are black and white and the cleats are black with a red swoosh.  We were close on that one.  Seriously this is the ensemble he chose to wear.  The boy is stubborn.

PS, I think he chose the burgundy sweatshirt because it says Harvard on the front and he thought it would make him smarter during the game.

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What a crazy week.

We started off with Cory having a fever Sunday night.

Upon waking Monday morning though, his fever was gone, but he did have a cough.

We are Dayquil/Nyquil users here and I didn’t have any other cough medicine around so that’s what I gave him.

He wanted to try making it through Statistics class at least, that and he needed to return his Mac to Rewind so we took him in a little late.

Ten minutes later the clinic at his school called to say he had a temp of 99 degrees and I need to come get him.

She accused me of giving him something to mask his fever so he could come to school.

I was slightly offended to say the least.

Number 1 ~ I checked his temperature and it was normal.

Number 2 ~ Tylenol doesn’t even touch his fever, ever.  I’ve known him his whole life and let me just say that ibuprofen is the only thing that works.

He didn’t have the normal flu symptoms thank goodness, and I believe he had a sinus infection.  So a course of antibiotics fixed him right up.

Myself on the other hand had every symptom possible, cough, sore throat, muscle aches, headache, fever, and fatigue.  Plus since I also have asthma I also had the wheezing and low oxygen saturation levels.  I seriously spent almost an entire day hovering around 90 percent.

This sickness lasted for 3 whole days.  YUCK!!!

I really did my best at trying to keep my germs away from everyone, but poor Cade has now come down with this yucky sickness.

The photo below was taken before he got sick, I had him scoop his own cookie dough in hopes of keeping them germ free.

Kudos to my wonderful hubby whom did his best at nursing me back to health.  Luckily he hasn’t gotten sick.

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