Race for the Cure

On Saturday, I will be running in the Race for the Cure 5K with my sister Annette and sister in-law Lisa. A few of my friends have joined our team and are running with us. We are going to have a great time! Over 14,000 people have registered for the race! This is a great race to be Annette's first (and hopefully not only) 5K. Unfortunately, on Tuesday, she injured her shin and has been in a lot of pain. We may need to wrap her leg real well or worst case scenario, load her up in Dalton stroller but she's going to do the race!!!!

To commemorate our inaugural family 5K, we had shirts made that say...Check your 'maters 2010 and on the back S.A.L.S.A -N- for a cure. SALSA N is the letters of the names of everyone racing on our team. Shannon, Annette, Lisa, Someone who backed out (Stephanie), Alda/Ana and Nancy. What a great bunch of girls!

I will be collecting money until Nov 15 so if you are able to donate, please go to my page and support our efforts, as well as research for Breast Cancer!

http://race.raceforthecurememphis.org/site/TR/Race/General?px=1262563&pg=personal&fr_id=1100

Dalton turned 12!!!

I know you are going to find this shocking but my little guy isn't so little any more. He turned 12! Even before he turned 12, his voice started changing, he's getting taller and his face is looking pre-teen. Before I know it, he's going to be taller than me. He's turning into such a handsome young man!








Dalton with his friends in the back yard.

For his birthday, he had some classmates come over and watch a movie in the backyard on the big screen. They watched Diary of a Wimpy Kid. They ate pizza, decorated their own "popcorn" cupcakes, ate popcorn and lots of candy. I'm sure those parents LOVED me! The kids that came were just precious and Dalton loved every minute playing with them. His best buds Austen and Madison came and that made his day!

These are a few of my favorite pics of my guy this past year.





First week of school.



Last March, Dalton and Mrs. Dye were green eggs and ham.

Dalton dancing with the ladies at Ally's wedding.

Dalton at the Star Wars concert.

Dalton being Dalton.

Dalton doing one of his favorite summer activities.

Ethan Farley

Please keep my friend Rhonda Farley in your prayers. Today her precious 7 week old son passed away at 2:50pm. In her words, he can now be in heaven with his brother and sister where his Papa can watch over him and he is no longer sick or in pain.

baby Ethan

Things with Ethan are not good. His organs are shutting down and they don't think he'll make it through the weekend. Still holding out for a miracle. Please pray for Rhonda Hall Farley and her family.

Enjoying 3 at school...

I am enjoying having all 3 kids at school. Week 1 the kids were ready to go. Channing was just dying that she had to wait til Wed. Then she was super upset that she didn't get to go back until the following Monday.

The first full week of school for the boys was a success. Sullivan got a couple of check marks but is that really a bad thing? They were for talking so I'm kinda glad he's already found a buddy. Now he's just got to work on the talking thing...or at least getting caught at it.

Dalton definitely has his work cut out for him this year. Lots of homework for 5th graders. His teacher really wants to push him this year...which means I'm going to be busy with lots of homework this year too. You would not believe how big he has gotten and how much he's changing. At our last checkup he's almost 4'11" and 85 lbs! And his voice is changing. He's squaking all over the place. Next Craig will have to teach him to shave. He has a little mustache growing!

Channing Gail's first full week of school went great too.

On the first day, she allowed me to walk her to class and asked for me to eat lunch with her. After lunch though, she was ready to go home and got a little upset when she realized she had to go back to class and I was going home! Day 2 I got to walk her inside school but she said she didn't need me to walk her to class...her brother would do that!
She still wanted me to eat lunch with her so I caved after she said she'd miss me if I didn't eat lunch with her. How can one turn this down? Day 3 she said she didn't need me to walk her inside. I could drop her off in the car line and she'd be just fine. So, I'm officially pulling up in the car line and dropping all 3 off. ***tear***

Pink day


Green Day


Blue Day


Red Day

Please Pray for my friend Rhonda's 3 week old twin Ethan

Ethan update: He has multiple brain bleeds in his capillaries, mainly on the right frontal lobe. They predict he will have cerebral palsy and some other deficits but unsure at this time. He also has swelling on his brain. He is on continuous plateletes and fresh frozen plasma to try to help with clotting. My friend Rhonda made it clear tonight that they love their son and are willing to take care of him no matter what deficits he may have. Ethan has fought this far and they are not going to give up on him now. At this time they are saying he is not a candidate for a liver transplant because of the brain issues.

School starts this week

The kids start back to school this week. I'm going to miss having them around but they are ready to get back to some structure. Channing Gail (as she wants to be called this year at school), only goes on Wednesday this week for a staggered day of kindergarten. She is so excited about kindergarten she can hardly contain herself. My last little one is starting school. Where did all my time go? What's next....college?