Here is Tot in the lovely cabin we stayed in. the bunks were HORRIBLE sleeping...like sleeping on the floor. But we did it!! We were good Leaders and went through with it.



Here is the cabin we got to spend one of the worst nights of sleeping I ever had in my life! =)



This is the main lodge that we spent 14 hours INSIDE learning about the outdoors


After a long and tedious weekend here is Tot happily leaving Camp Hardee.... see she is leaving me behind....

two weeks ago Tot and I had to go do our Daisy (Girl Scout) outdoor training....but of course it rained and POURED all weekend long ...so needless to say we stayed inside all weekend long...but we read a lot about the outdoors! HA HA HA....we are now officially able to take the girls camping....which I am not sure is a good thing.

The girls were out riding their bikes the other day and I had to snap some pictures...

1. because Madison has finally gotten the knack of pedaling her own bike and we don't have to put her in the baby seat anymore!!! Yea says Jerry (she was on his bike)

2. Kayla thinks she is sooooooo cool...that she rides with one arm hanging down

but if you notice...she still has her training wheels on!! It won't be long before they come off...she is outside everyday riding her bike now that Spring has come!! It won't be long before I put up pool pictures!

I forgot to put these up...when we went to Myrtle beach for Easter we went out to eat at the Dixie Stampede....and they do the group photos of everyone before they go in... these were the results! Have a good laugh!!! we did! (Kayla looks possesed and when they added the background in they cut off arms...hair...etc...we all look a little deformed...but we had a good time!)

Latasha wanted me to make her mom a cake for her birthday...so here was the results. I haven't made a cake in awhile I wondered what it was going to look like but it is hard to see from the pics but I thought it was one of my better looking cakes...one that I made on my own...with no instructor. Also it was light purple with dark purple decorations...you can't see that in the pics. =)

Here is Madison in the Grifton Shad festival parade. Yes we have a festival for FISH down here, next will be the strawberry festival and then onto the Watermelon, Collard, Dogwood, etc.... We have a festival for EVERYTHING down here in NC. Sorry the quality of the video is bad...I was sitting in the car shooting up at her.

Madison was in her first parade as Wee Miss Grimesland. She LOVED it!! This was right up her alley. She threw candy...she smiled...she waved. She is definately a little ham.



Here she is waiting for the parade to start...she waited for a good hour patiently...next time we will know not to get there so early!

Here she is next to the convertible we got (1976 big boat...Jerry said he needed a hat and cigar and he could have been boss hog!)

on the back throwing candy...and loving every minute of it...she hated to stop and have to pose for the camera....she just wanted to throw and wave.

just another pic. of Madison enjoying her first parade as Wee Miss Grimesland. I am so proud of her she did a super job! She was such a big girl!!

Today would have been DJ's 10th birthday. Hard to believe he would have started his "double digits." The above picture is one of my all time favorites of me and DJ. This picture was taken at my Moms house in Howell, NJ. It was DJ's birthday...I want to say 3rd. It looks like he has an heavenly light shining down on him already.

Daisy troop #841 outting:

here we are at IFO http://www.ifozone.com/cart/nc_store.php in Greenville and we had a great time making kites!! We would have had a super kite flying day except that it wasn't just windy but stormy as well.! A Tornado touched down a few counties over.


the window in the back doesn't show the storm that came through....but it didn't matter because the girls had a great time making their own kites... Next we are heading to River Park North (April 26th) The girls worked hard all year and now we get to play!