Homeschool mom of 3

Just a quickie here, some of you know that Courtney has been going to gymnastics now for about 2 1/2 -3 years. She has been at this one place now for 2 years, I know. Well, today she has been promoted to Level 2!!! Not sure what all that means as far as what she'll be doing now, but it's exciting for her and us that she's been promoted. She has been waiting for this day to come since all her friends have already been promoted a while back.

Just wanted to share my happy news with everyone.

Keep me and my family in your prayers please as we will be traveling cross country to CA, laving Thursday and coming home the 29th.

We are leaving this Thursday to head out to the sunny state of CA!! This will be our second time out there and we all really looking forward to it. Although, I must admit I'm not really looking forward to the drive. Sam has been asked to speak at a mini-lectureship again. The people out there are wonderful, so friendly and God loving Christians! I will make sure to blog about the trip when we get back :)

Yep, that's right as of last night my brother is the mayor of Springhill, TN!! I was so excited when I got the call. He has been an Alderman for the last year, but this is great news. In fact the United Auto Workers backed him 100% and are already talking about him taking a Senate seat!! This is a picture of my brother, his wife and two daughters. They were so proud of their daddy!

Just wanted to share this birthday cake I just finished. Those are little ladybugs on the side, I made them out of skittles! Sorry, they are hard to see, but it was hard to get a picture of it too. I actually like this one other than my writing. I really need to get better at writing.

Tuesday night was the "Oscar Night" at the Ruffin Theater for all the plays done last year. So last year Sam was in Clue, I was in Dr. Doolittle and Sam directed A Christmas Carol. Each play gets and award for best actor, actress, and if any children actor and actresses too. I kinda knew I would get it for my fat lady and pig role in doolittle and I did. I was VERY surprised and shocked to hear them call my name for the Actress of the Year!! That means I was picked as the best actress out of every play for the year! SHOCKER!!! I was totally floored by it and still don't think I necessarilly deserve it, there are some very good actresses out here.

Sam won Director of the Year award too! I was so proud of him. This was his first time directing too, but he did SO good.

O.k. so I'm not the best at keeping this blog, and I apologize for that. I do have some news that I wanted to share with you all. I got the part of M'Lynn in the upcoming play Steele Magnolia's. I'm so excited!! It's going to be in June. I'm pretty nervous/scared too though because this will be the biggest part I've had so far. I'm scared I won't be able to memorize all my lines.

I'll try to keep you updated on this. We should have our first practice Saturday.

I know this is probably considered bragging or boasting, but I wanted to show you that we still have about 4 inches of snow left from 3 days ago!