The First Day at Swim Practice

The girls started summer league swim team today with the Cypress Lake Sea Lions. It was so cute.


The girls are getting ready to start, waiting in line. Sloan is in a phase where she's afraid of most anything. I thought Sloan would end up "swimming down" an age group, but Evie ended up "swimming up" an age group. Very nice for mommy, less back & forth & time wasted waiting.


Evie is ready to take her first "start".


Now Sloan is ready to take her first "start". Sloan was a little scared this morning before she got started. Now she can't wait to go back.


After they practiced seated "starts" then they moved on to starts from the deck. Evie took right to everything.


Look at Evie!


Sloan was still a little scared - evidence: the closed eyes start.


She did it anyways! We will get through this phase!

Another busy day!

Yesterday we had a lot of activity. Sloan had her final Taekwondo test last weekend and today she graduated from the Tiger Cub program into the Junior program at the academy. She's very excited about this progression to the classes with the big kids.



In addition to the graduation ceremony Evie had buddy day at ballet. Sloan decided she would try it out. Sloan was so excited to find one of her friends from school was also trying the class out. I don't think Sloan will be dropping any of her other activities to persue dance classes but it was worth getting a picture of my tomboy all dressed in her dance clothes.

Last day of school & the birthday weekend

Sloan is a FIRST GRADER! She had her official last day of school on Friday. School is out for the summer.



This is the weekend for birthday parties! We have 4 that we have been invited to and 3 that we are planning on going to. I was so sad that I forgot my camera for Blake's party on Friday. His family has such a great backyard & all the kids had SO much fun.

I did remember my camera for Will Travelstead's party on Saturday. They have a home on the lake and Will's party was very cool for the kids as well. Nate & the girls burried our Will in the sand & he really seemed to like it. Will also took a ride in the swing with his first sno-cone, he liked that a little too.





We missed one party today as there was just too much to do. Sloan had her final Taekwondo test today as a member of the Cub program. She will graduate from the Cub program into the Junior program on Wednesday - since she's now 6 you know. I am sure I will have more pictures from that. We have one more birthday party tomorrow, and then the rest of next week should be blessedly slow - for us.

Kids play

Anyone ever want to tell your kids to fight it out? We got the girls these "Soccer Boppers" - now they start to laugh as soon as they start to fight. It's kinda funny.


Remember the Slip n Slide?

Sloan can actually slide a little ways. Evie has not gotten the concept yet... She jumps on the slide & then wiggles & squirms her way down to the end.

We are here!

I have several friends now who do this blog thing... I have spent months now amazed at Lisa's eloquence (really she's amazing). I have spent weeks amazed at the things the Goodrums are doing. I sit back and think my life isn't that interesting and I am surely not that well-spoken about it. But, I figure, so many people are interested in how things are going here in Mississippi that I may as well get started. During my swim this morning I thought - I do send out a lot of emails, updating all of our friends on how things are going, how Will is growing, what the kids are doing, all with pictures too. This seems like as good a place as any to get that information out to all, probably with a little more reularity too. So I will get you all caught up on the last few weeks - they have been really busy...



Central Mississippi A&M Club Muster

I was the Muster Chair for this year and the event went off without a hitch. We had a pretty good turn out & a lot of enthusiasm for the growth of our club.

Sloan turned 6!

AHHH! I am the mother of a 6 year old - April 24th! It just sounds crazy. Really, she had a Super Party April 28th, where things were Superman or Supergirl themed. We had the party at Friendship Park & it too seemed to go well, the weather cooperated, the kids seemed to have fun & it wasn't too stressful - really.

The Crawfish Boil

My hubby's radio station sponsors a big party here each year - The Miller Lite Crawfish Boil May 4th & 5th. There are lots of bands, TONS of crawfish, and it's really pretty fun. Even if you don't like the music or don't eat crawfish, the people-watching is hysterical.

Evie's 1st dance recital

Evie was a Ladybug in her 1st dance recital May 5th. She really ate it up & had a great time! She loved all the attention. She had observation day a couple of weeks before the recital in her class... Evie doesn't do so well when she can see me in the class...

Kindergarten Graduation

Sloan has graduated from Kindergarten - yesterday. I really don't remember doing this when I was in Kindergarten. It was such a cute ceremony, a little long though in Will & Evie's opinion.

We also had a big fundraiser for Sloan's (and Evie's) school the weekend of May 5th - The Gardens of Madison County. The girls & I baked and baked and baked for this!

School gets out on Friday & Sloan can't wait. The girls will be participating in Swim Team. Sloan will also have TaeKwonDo - she has graduated from the cub program & will begin the junior program this summer, she also wants to try soccer this fall - ugh, HOT! Evie will be attending dance camp and we already have her registered for lessons this fall.

Nate has started work on a jeep, he sold his 2002 TJ and I think he will be starting a blog on his progress for that as well. It looks to me like it will be a huge undertaking!

I will stop for now as it is time for me to load up the family and run another errand!