Can you guess????

Any idea why Marissa is so excited in this photo?

I mean, she is just holding this ordinary birthday card right?

But it isn't the card that is so exciting young grasshopper....it is what is inside that has had her giggling for the past 2 days and floating on air! Look for yourself......

Yup, that is what you think it is. An official birthday wish and autograph from none other than Miley Cyrus herself. You can imagine how excited Marissa was! She was over the moon with happiness!
Happy birthday Rissa!

Potential Blog Hiatus

Hello everyone......
Just thought I should post a note saying that I am heading to my Mom's for the next 9 days and will be very busy, so my blog may not get updated.
My Mom is celebrating her 75th birthday this weekend, and in honor of that my sister and I are hosting a party for her. My sister lives in Baton Rouge, and she and her family are here for a week so we are all staying at Mom's together! (Poor PaPa!)
Oh, it is gonna be so great..........Rissa's birthday falls a few days after Moms, so we are having a cookout for her with a Hannah theme of course. Following her Hannah sighting this week on the same beach as Mom lives, what else could be more appropriate? Then we are rolling right into 4th of July, with a low country boil and fireworks on the beach. I am looking forward to this time so much!

Somehow things seem different. For a few years, it seemed like my sister and I lived on different planets. Being almost 16 years apart in age hasn't helped, nor has living halfway around the world from each other for a good 10 years. Now, however, we talk almost every other day or so and email constantly. I cannot wait to see her today and spend this whole week with her. I love my sister very much and I hope this week turns out fabulously for all of us!

I will post pictures of the two of us if I can get someone else to hold the camera. Bad thing is, my sister and I are the photobugs in our family!

OH MY GOODNESS!

SHRIEK! SQUEAL! SHRIEK! SQUEAL! SHRIEK!
Can you image the excitement of a pack of pre-teens who actually got to see Miley Cyrus? That is what we experienced yesterday. We went to Tybee for a day on the beach, hoping to see the set and take Rissa's picture in front of the carnival set (it makes a pretty background and we figured that was the closest we would ever get to seeign Miley)






Later than evening, we managed to get some info out of a security guard and we hung out in just the right place to be less than 6 feet from Miss Miley herself! And while she did not stop for any autographs, she was close enough to us that Riss got her star fix! She was truly beautiful, and seemed very happy.

A creative day!

Ok it is killing me that I still can't upload pics from my camera. All 3 memory cards are full. Jamie thinks he may have accidentally put the cord for my camera in his laptop bag, which of course is with him on the boat. He will be home tomorrow morning and we will solve the mystery. (Or buy a new cord and/or card reader.) In a pinch, my camera on my trusty phone works ok. Here are some pics of Riss and Zack working on project number 3,972 at my kitchen table.


And I worked on a little project of my own, a guest book for my Mom's upcoming 75th birthday party. I cut all the pages to go inside....emphasis on "cut", as in, I made them the wrong size. of course, that was the last of my white cardstock. So, tomorrow, I buy cardstock and complete the book. We are leaving the pages blank, with no lines, so people can sign in and maybe write a personal message to her or whatever. There is a pocket inside the back cover for a CD of photos, pressed flowers, birthday napkin, or whatever she wants to put inside.





Whatcha think????

Summer livin'!

Ah....summer. It has been so hot here! It is hard to believe it is just mid-June, and it is so unbearably hot already. This weekend it is supposed to be 101........way too hot for me!

The great thing about hot weather is that water cools you off so quickly. Jamie finally talked me into buying a slip and slide for Marissa while her cousin Zachary is visiting. Everything inside of me screamed "NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" since Riss has had 5 broken bones in her short life and somehow throwing yourself onto a slippery surface on the hard ground just didn't make good sense to me in light of that, but I caved. Looks like one reason he wanted her to have one so bad is so he could play too!

Awards Day

It's finally over! Goodbye sixth grade!
Marissa had her awards day at school. She received quite a few awards! I knew she would get a certificate for exceeding her reading goal, but I had no idea what else she would get! Her awards are, in no particular order....

Honor roll
Citizen of the Week
Highest average for the year in Science
Most Improved in Humanities/Social Studies/History
The Thinker award for the IB program
Excellence in Physical Education
Exceeding all standards on the CRCT
Exceeding her reading goal

We are so proud of her for finishing the year with such an outstanding performance!
Watch out 7th grade...here we come!

(Oh, and it didn't hurt either to have the IB program coordinator stop her in the hallway to say how proud he was of her achievements and he was expecting great things from her next year! What an honor!)

AUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!

Now that I finally have time to post and something to post about, I CAN NOT FIND MY CAMERA CORD TO UPLOAD PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Working on a creative way around that.....
Tried to put the card in my reader slot, but my reader slot is malfunctioning. It is janked as my daughter says. :)
Tried to put it in the reader slot on her computer, then save to flash drive. Small problem. Her desktop has no card reader slot.
Thought about putting them on Jamie's laptop. Small problem. He has the laptop with him on the tugboat.
New plan....
About to go crashing into MIL's room and upload them on her computer, then save to flash drive, then bring to my computer and upload them here. Will this work? Not sure....tune in later and check.....