Pinewood Derby

Back in January John's racecar won the Pinewood Derby Race
in his Tiger Den. Here he is with his car and trophy.



Yesterday was the big race against all the other den winners in the district.

They raced over and over two at a time. Once they had 3 losses they were
out of the race. John did not win be he still had a good time.


Waiting his turn.



One race that he did win.



All done.

old photo

Laura on the left and me on the right.

The only photo of me and my first best friend Laura Aven. My birthday is April 2nd and
her's is April 1st..I'm one year older. She and her twin brother had 7 older sisters (I think). She had redish hair always cut in a boyish bowl style. We did our fair share throwing huge wads of wet toilet paper onto the ceiling of my sister's bathroom and waisting as many or our sister's maxi-pads as we could by making casts for our "broken" arms and legs. We took little Susan W. with us to break into a neighbors fence and sat at the edge and played on the stairs of a swimming pool..we were all found later- ALIVE. I remember the walk home and what I was wearing, I do not remember getting into trouble. I must of been 5, Laura 4 and Susan 3.

I moved across town when I was 7. I saw her again when I was about 11 and then one night in Buckhead when we were about 20. I did read about her and her brother in the Roswell Neighbor during our high school years. She went to Roswell and I went to Milton, rival high schools. She was Miss. Roswell High School during her Sr. Year. Her brother, Jimmy was the star quarterback on the varsity football team starting in 10th grade. We even dated the same guy, not at the same time.

I drove to the old neighborhood in November of 2005. I left my business card and a note to Laura in her parents mailbox saying to email me or call. She did email me in December. We emailed back in forth a few times, said we should do lunch. But we got busy. She was still in school . I need to send her an email.

my sisters' kids...

just a few photos I took off their my space pages

ashley at work



katie the gangsta



parents to be
sarah & david

happy valentine's day !

mixed signals

Last week John asked to get a hair cut every single day. Asking everyday if

he could get a short short hair cut, short on the sides and front and spikey on the top. All he talked about was hair..the whole week. Apparently kids were commenting on the static in his hair every morning when he took his hood/jacket off. I told him we would not get it short but we would get a hair cut after school on Friday. I had more cut off in the back and above the ears than normal so I felt like it was a good compromise. Before he got out of the stylest chair I asked him if he liked it he said no...and I said oh well....this is it, sorry. I will put some gel in it in the morning to keep it from sticking up. So we went from this.....


to this...



ughhh..I don't like it. Too 1992 surfer/skater hair cut to me. But it will grow fast!!
He was pretty excited to go back to school on Monday to show off his new look. He got home and did not say much about it. I guess the excitement had worn off. Then I open his backpack and pull out his library book and see this....

potty training update week 2, a little late ( week 2 ended 1-31-07)

Monday the 29th was the last day diapers were worn during the day. Also the first day we went out in public without a diaper and used a public potty!!!

1-29-07