Team Building with AHS

Nothing stands in the way of this group of daredevils.















I might be smiling here, but....














as you can see below, I am only one step away from certain death. Did I mention that beam is like 40 feet in the air? Hence the gear.

First Grade Honors Program

Princess is going to miss her teacher, Ms. Beard. She gave Rena the good friend award and Rena just had to hug her good-bye.

Girl Scout Day Camp

Our little princess got to go camping all day with other Girl Scout Troops.
They made pet rocks...


















Beaded "peace and love" necklaces, using the beads to spell it out in Morse code.














Despite that it was raining, we still had a water race. The girls at the bottom of the photo are plugging holes in the pipe while princess and the other girls in the line take turns running cups of water from the bucket to the pipe. The best part of this game was that the girls plugging the holes just couldn't help taking a break to stand up and look inside the pipe to see how high the water was. And each time, it would leak like a sieve.

Grow and Learn

We found our frog. There is still no verdict as to what kind of frog he is... any votes?

Baseball for Prince

Our first baseball season at the local church. Prince gets a trophy from Coach Pitman while we dine at CiCi's.

Raising the next generation of geeks.

Would you like to know just how sad our weekday evenings at home are? Last night after baseball practice, we ate dinner and as usual heard our little frog start singing. He just went on and on, which caused him to become the focus of our dinner conversation. And what did we do? We became determined to figure out what kind of frog we have in our little water fountain.

So I whip out my iphone and search frogs of Tennessee by sound. That is right, we sat on the floor of the kitchen (next to the window closest to the frog) for a hour playing frog sounds until we could unanimously decide that we have a Crawfish Frog.

Crawfish Frog
Rana areolata

Photo by Bob English, LEAPS

Description: Crawfish frogs are typically 2.25 - 3 inches long. They are dark gray in color and are characterized by dark spots outlined with a light border on the back.

Reproduction & Growth: Females lay masses of 3000 - 7000 eggs. Eggs are attached to stems of vegetation. Metamorphosis of tadpoles takes about 2 months.

Habitat: Northern crawfish frogs are normally found in lowland woods, river floodplains and wetland prairies in western Tennessee. They remain underground in the burrows of other animals (often crawfish burrows) during the day.

Voice: (WAV file 66K) A deep snore that sounds like "waaaaater." (Recording courtesy of Carl Gerhardt.)

To add insult to injury, we are going to catch him this weekend JUST to be sure!!!

Ultra Glitter Weekend

While Tom and Prince were roughing it out in the rain and wind, Princess and I had to find a way to enjoy the weekend.


Princess and her Girl Scout Troop celebrated the end of the year and the ultimate girl spa and salon. We had "Runway Party" and each girl got make-up, glitter lotion, glitter hairspray in their up-do, dressed up and danced down the runway.


There was some serious drama going on.















And the party didn't stop there. We also went to skate night and "walked the wall", but look at the smile on her face.