Derby Race

Kamden's AWANA derby race was last night at church. He chose to have an LSU truck. He and Heath have been working diligently on it for weeks.

Here's the finished product.


The race was double elimination. He got to race 5 times.

This was his first race.

He won!!


His second race, believe it or not, was against an Arkansas Hogs truck. So the announcers made a big deal about how the LSU Tigers were going against the Arkansas Hogs.


And.... He Won!! All these Hog fans weren't too happy about that; they wanted a rematch. LOL! The picture is blurry but you can still see the streak of yellow ahead of the other truck.


After that, he won another race and lost his last two.

After the race with his participation trophy.

Running Away

Last night mine and Kamden's conversation went like this:

Kamden: "If you don't let me watch The Dukes of Hazard tonight, I'm gonna run away tomorrow."

Me: "Tomorrow? Why not tonight?"

Kamden: "BECAUSE it's too dangerous right now."

Me: "Well, what are you going to do tomorrow night when it gets dark and dangerous and you aren't home?"

Kamden: "Well, I built me house in the woods so I'll be safe."

LOL! Oh, how I enjoy my conversations with this child!

Ready, Set, GO!

Last night I ran my first 5K since we moved to Searcy. I was registered to run one last year and I pulled a muscle in my leg the week before the race so I couldn't do it.

This race was for the Children's Services Center in Searcy and it benefited abused children. It was called the Light Up The Streets 5K and it was at night. The race path was lined with glowing balloons and markers and all the runners had glow necklaces and bracelets on. They had a DJ at the start/finish line and they were serving hot chocolate. It was a bit chilly outside but it was a lot of fun!



Before the race. Austin had a preteen D-Now weekend at church this weekend and they stayed up until 3:00 that morning so he was a little grumpy. :)


Still waiting on the race to start.

Kamden drinking his hot chocolate while waiting on me to pass by.


Watching for mom.


About to cross the finish line!!


I finished in 31:37 which is a 10:12 mile. I placed 12th in my age group out of 43 and overall I was 62nd out of about 500.

Basketball is Over

Kamden had his last basketball game today. He has improved so much from the beginning of the season and he really enjoyed playing. I think he scored about 20 points during this season.

Dribbling in for a goal!



Who said white men can't jump? Look at that boy! :)

Now that basketball is over, we move right on to baseball!!

Valentine's Weekend

It's hard to believe it's already been a week but last Wednesday night Dustin, LaRay and Lawton came to visit for the weekend. Thursday was Valentine's day and the boys had their parties at school. Lawton and LaRay went with me to the parties. Lawton had a great time 'going to Austin & Kamden's school'. Not long after we got home from school, Paw Paw Rusty, Nonnie and Maw Maw Rat got here. Heath smoked a brisket while we were partying at school so for our Valentine's dinner we had brisket, beans, potato salad, bread and peach cobbler, chocolate covered strawberries and strawberry cake for dessert. All of it was SO delicious!!

Friday, the boys were out of school so I took them to the park to play while the others went shopping. Then we met up at Froyo for some frozen yogurt.

Sweet boys climbing at the park.

After Froyo, we came home and they played outside. We had hamburgers, hotdogs and s'mores for dinner Friday. We love having s'mores on our firepit!

Fun on the trampoline!

Paw Paw and Lawton roasting marshmallows. (Paw Paw's looks a little burnt!)

Then we celebrated LaRay's birthday. Friday was her 24th birthday and her and Dustin's 5th anniversary.

She had a little help blowing out the candle. :)

Saturday we went to Kamden's basketball game. He was so excited they got to watch him play! We didn't do much after the game. The boys played with neighbors and we had fried fish for supper.

Everybody left Sunday to go home. Lawton wanted to stay with us but he told me I'd just have to drive him home at bedtime so he could sleep with his momma. HA!