- MVI_0465.AVI

Muppets Bohemian Rhapsody

This is so wickedly awesome!

Big Baller

Here's a bit about my oldest boy Isaiah who just finished up his first season of football.  He fell in love with the sport.  He LOVE, LOVE, LOVED it!  He's played basketball, baseball and now football.  Neither basketball or baseball did he respond to as much as football.  Poor guy cried when Ev & I were too sick to take him to practice :(  Can I tell you again how much he loved it.  When we did tryouts he could have gone in either of two different age levels 5-7 or 8-11.  He turned 8 midway through the season so they decided to put him on the 8-11 year old team.  He was the littlest guy in the age division by far, and wasn't as developed as a player as the other guys on the team, but overall I'm glad that's the level they put him on.  I think if he had been with the littler guys he wouldn't have been challenged as much and probably would've been bored.  He picked a few things from the bigger kids that I wasn't too thrilled with but mostly they were so sweet with him.  One of the kids in particular really took him under his wing ~ telling him where he was supposed to be on plays, putting his arm around him & high 5ing him for encouragment

Isaiah's big job throughout the year was on defense. His job was to rush the quarterback. He was a bit too small for offense. The quarterback would throw it was over his head on passes and he got to play runningback a few times and did well, but again there were bigger players that were a bit more effective. He rocked in his role of rushing the quarterback. He put pressure on him and caused quite a few turnovers this year, but it seemed like he was always a second too late for the sack. 

Don't know who this kid is but I love the expression on his face:

This last Saturday was the championship game against the 49ers.  Isaiah rocked it with the SACK!  In the picture below you can see they quarterback's flag in Isaiah's hand and the ball still in the quarterbacks hand.

On the left side of the picture you can see Zaiah holding up the flag.  The whole side line was yelling for him, his teammates ran up and congratulated him, it was so cool!!!  Ev said, he's like Rudy.

Here's the championship team for 2009 with their gold ball:

One last picture because I love the way it turned out.  The kid with the ball is TJ, one of Isaiah's teammates.  This kid was REALLY GOOD!!!  I'd say he was 50-75% responsible for them being the champions.  He was REALLY GOOD!  He was also the one who was so kind and encouraging to my Zai.

Missing him.

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I'm not sure what triggered it today.  I don't think the feelings of pain and loss ever, ever go away and today I miss him badly.  Sometimes a song on my Ipod will find me washing dishes with tears streaming down my face, or a picture of him will flash up on my computer, or my kids will ask about him.  Most days are good and I remember him fondly, but every now and then I remember that I'll never see him again.  I'll remember the pain of the phone call telling me he was gone.  I remember racing to his house in the dark of the night, the flashing red & blue lights in front of his house and wrapping my arms around Tom, not even trying to fathom the horrors that he saw.  I'll remember the anger that he chose to leave us.  Then all I feel is loss . . .  It's nothing that can ever go away.  If there was a pill I could take to numb that pain I would.  It hurts in a way no one else can understand, unless they've lived it.  But even then it's different for all of us.  Today. I'm just missing him.

Some recent pages

It's been awhile since I've posted my LO's.  Doesn't mean I haven't been scrapping, just haven't been posting on the blog :)  I'm still LOVING my gig scrapping on Creashens Creative Team.  Still not sure how I got the gig as the talent on that team is through the roof.  I'll keep at it until Shen realizes I'm not in their league :)

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Everything from Frankie loves Hollie by Creashens (October Digital Artists Magazine)




Everything from "Anne with an E" kit by Creashens at Catscrap.com




Inspired by this LO by Kayleigh: http://www.myscrapbookart.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=204921&cat=all&limit=last1




Papers:

sweetness by Creashens (catscrap.com & twolittlepixels.com)


Staple:

sweetness by Creashens (catscrap.com & twolittlepixels.com)


Stitches :

lulu & rocko by Creashens (catscrap.com & twolittlepixels.com)

sprung by Creashens (catscrap.com & twolittlepixels.com)

sweetness by Creashens (catscrap.com & twolittlepixels.com)

Journaling:

these pictures of you were taken when you were 3 years old and a chubby little thing looking back I am amazed at how much you’ve changed with those roundcheeks and arms. I just want to go back in time and squish you.

Now at six years old you are just as tall as your brother TWO years older than you. You are a bean pole with LONG skinny legs. Almost no fat on you. I am daily amazed by the changes.

Oh no he didn't!

Ev has this crazy relationship with his lawn.  He loves the way it looks and goes to GREAT pains to keep it looking perfect.  He spends 3 hours on Saturdays working on his lawn and has a process that he follows every time.  He fertilizes,aerates (sp?) etc at specific times of the year, and when we hear neighbors or people walking past commenting on what a beautiful lawn it is, Ev swells up with pride. 

We had a friend (a perfectionist friend mind you) that offered to mow the lawn for Ev once when he was out of town.  He politely refused. 

So imagine my great surprise when Ev asked me to take a picture of Alorah's first time mowing the lawn.  He had her mow the whole back yard (not the front because it's a big hill).  That told me in not too many ways that he still wasn't feeling well after his bout of illness.

He was feeling well enough to ham it up a bit :)

Halloween

Halloween was a not so great time for the Williams household.  The parents were down sick, REALLY sick.  Ev had 5 days straight of fever & I had 4.  It was bad and unfortunately it fell on Halloween.  We couldn't let the kids suffer though :(  Thankfully we were able to call in reinforcments in the form of Papa D.  He was a lifesaver.  He took them to McDonalds for dinner and then home to get costumes and then out trick or treating.  THANK YOU POPPY!!!  I had a super high fever but was able to snap a few photos ~ sorry that half of them are blurry, I was so out of it I didn't even notice :)

Alaina the fairy (Alorah & I made her AWESOME skirt) :

Isaiah as Darth Vader:

Micah as Thomas the Train

Isaiah again:

Alorah as Hermione Granger: