catfish

yeah! keli posted some cool pictures so i snagged them. these were taken the night we caught catfish on the trot line. the top one is me and the bottom one is my big sis keli. i love her so much. she looks so pretty in this picture.it was so much fun, i will never forget that night. as you can see, i had a little light hanging around my neck- that light was strapped to my forehead so we could see the line as we were checking the hooks at about 10pm in the pitch dark. the funniest part was that my dad parked on the shore and shined his headlights at us, which attracted every gnat in the state of mississippi. we were SWARMED. keli and i were laughing so hard and choking on the bugs at the same time, which made us laugh even harder.

funny faces

Josh, me, Emily, Carrie and Randy. We love when my Mom says "Make a face!!!" I think Randy wins the prize in this one. I can't NOT laugh when I look at that.

Julian's field day

I got to go to Julian's field day at his school. That was a lot of fun. Julian is quite popular with the little girls, much to my dismay. Of course it's easy to see why. Shortly after these pictures we got his hair cut though! Notice that most of the boys in his class have the same shaggy hair. It just had to go. He fights me about getting his hair cut. I guess this is the style.

Emily's Art Show

So I need to play catch up here! First on the agenda was Emily's art show. Her school did a good job of displaying all of the students' artwork all over the entire school. Not a bare wall in sight.

Emily is a really good artist. Some of her best work is done during Sacarament meeting. LOL

Josh's mom was there too. I know Emily felt pretty special. It was fun. The kids did a few musical numbers from The Sound of Music.

emily is 7

Emily turned 7 on february 20th!!! we had a great mother/daughter day. I let her play hookie from school ( my mom used to let me do that sometimes on My birthday)....so i told her we'd do whatever she wanted to do!!! First we had breakfast at the waffle house. MAN they make good waffles. WOW. i hadn't eaten there in years. THEN we drove to slidell to the Toys 'R Us and looked at every single thing in the store. She decideed to get a family of white tigers (she's holding one of them in this picture)...she loves stuffed animals lately. I had caught this huge white tiger at a mardi gras parade (which is on another post, by the way) and she wanted a momma tiger and 2 baby tigers to go with the "daddy tiger"....SO then after that we went to this pet store (where i took her picture by the guinea pigs, LOL)....and then we stopped by my parents' house and my Mom gave Emily some birthday money so she decided she wanted to go to Books-A-Million to spend it.

Well, she ended up buying more stuffed animals, LOL. She got a family of snow dogs that time.

THEN we went to the movies and saw "The Spiderwick Chronicles" which was REALLY good, in my opinion.

THEN the whole family went to the new Bass Pro Shop in Baton Rouge with my sister Carrie and her husband randy and his family. That was FUN. Afterwards we all went to eat at Backyard Burger.

SOOOOOOOOO I think she had a pretty good birthday.

Here's me and my sweet husband Joshua. March 18th was our 13th wedding anniversary. He came home with 3 pots full of purple tulips. He said "And they'll come back every year around this time to remind you of our anniversary." HOW SWEET IS THAT, may I ask???? I can't even begin to explain how much I love this man. We only knew each other for 2 months when we got married. I was only 18! And people thought we must have been plum crazy. Well, we were. CRAZY IN LOVE. And we still are, but even MORE now. He is my favoritest person EVER.

He makes me laugh every day. I look up to him because he is one of the best people I have ever known. He is kind and good. AND LOOK AT HIM. what a hunk.

Julian

Julian made his first basket tonight!! He has played 3 seasons so far and this was their last game of the season, so I can't tell you how happy I was to see him make that shot!!! I was jumping up and down, screaming "That's my baby!!!!" and CRYING. what a spazz!!! It was great. Joshua was the coach this season, and he did such a phenomenal job. He is such an awesome man. he really shines no matter what he does.