Been awhile.....

The Edwards Family The Edwards cousins

Me-Maw and Paw-Paw with all the kids

Me, LeeAnn, and Eddie

LeeAnn in front of our tree

Oleta's kids and LeeAnn on Halloween

The Edwards clan at the Pumpkin patch




LeeAnn diving in to the pool for Butterfly

LeeAnn doing the Butterfly


LeeAnn's new glasses



Thanksgiving with the Bailey Family

The Bailey Cousins

Me and my girl



Celebrating Grandpa's 70th birthday

Celebrating Grandma's 66th birthday

WOW! I haven't updated my blog since May. I am sure that no one has checked it but just in case I will update. LeeAnn is now in swimming. She started swimming in September on the Novice team. She was on the Novice team for two months and moved up to Bronze in December. She has been in three meets and has really come along way. I was only putting her in swimming so that she could learn to swim. Who knew she would love it sooo much and be so good at it??? Now, I just hate to take her out because I know that it is exceptionally good for her. LeeAnn is not the most active child so she has really gotten in wonderful shape through swimming. She has two meets coming up in January and I am anxious to see how much improvement she has made since moving up to the Bronze team.

She still sings in AACC and loves that as well. She had her Christmas concert in early December and has had a couple of weeks break before she goes back in January. She told me her favorite things are singing and swimming.

For Christmas I finally broke down and bought her the Wii she has been begging for. I have to say we have had a lot of family fun with the Wii games. LeeAnn and I especially, but we have convinced Eddie to "bowl" with us some and he enjoys it too. This will be her only game system because I don't see the point in having two or three of them. She will rarely have time for one when she gets back to school and all her activities anyway. Also, for Christmas Eddie and I decided to get each other new furniture. Long overdue. It has been almost 20 years since we bought our first set of living room furniture. It is really nice and we love it. I still haven't taken pics of just the furniture but the pictures of the Edwards family at Christmas are on our new couch.

We are thinking about trying to become members to the dolphin club so that LeeAnn can continue to swim this summer. It is VERY costly so it depends on what I can save between now and then and also if they let me make monthly payments like I have heard they do. If we become members she will still be able to stay on the swim team in the summer as well. I know with the two of us being off during the summer we will get lots of use out of a membership.

Which brings me to my next concern. My job. As most people around Anderson are aware ACS closed more schools again this year and we won't know if we have a job or what that job might be for awhile. ESMS won't be a middle school anymore. It will be 4th-6th and we have never had a building with just those grades before. So, needless to say, there are more questions than answers. It bothers me not knowing, especially since LeeAnn will be in 6th grade next year. She has no idea what to expect and I can't help her since they made all these changes. She will have one year transition before moving on to whichever high school ends up being the junior high.

Also, LeeAnn got glasses recently. Her vision has been getting worse for awhile now so we finally got her eyes tested and sure enough she needed glasses. She is seeing so much better now and she looks adorable in her stylish frames!

We celebrated Dad's 70th birthday this year and Mom's 66th. I am soooo thankful for my parents and every single day that I get to have with them. God really blessed me with them!

We had a great Christmas and a wonderful break. I have several New Year's resolutions that I hope to work on in the coming year. Hopefully this will be the year I get motivated and get things done. Only time will tell. I will post a few pics.