Football

The Spring football game was lots of fun, but oh my it was HOT. The game was in Avon Park, and it really stunk at the field (I think they had fertilized recently in the area). The football players played one quarter against Avon Park and then another quarter against Sebring. Although they lost the game, I thought that they boys played a good game.

Morgan and the other cheerleaders did a great job. For this game the JV and the Varsity cheered together. Normally the JV will cheer for the JV games so there will be only a few girls.

Please enjoy the pictures of both the game and the cheerleaders (most of the cheerleader photos have Morgan only as she is the one I birthed and care the most about, know what I mean). The football photos are of various boys as we have no vested interest and I couldn't really tell you who most of the kids are.

8th grade dance

My baby is growing up :(

She went to the 8th grade dance this month and boy was she BEAUTIFUL.

Don and I were chaperone's at the dance and to tell the truth we were dreading it. We agreed to do it to help out some friends. But really when it was over we had a really good time. Lou and Jennifer even agreed that it was fun. The kids were very well behaved and the dancing was not as bad as I had expected. Please enjoy the few pictures that I took. I didn't get many because I was trying to stay out of Morgan's way and let her have fun without me constantly being in her face.

Aquarium

When we were planning the trip to North Carolina for Christina's wedding I was looking on the Internet for things to do in the area, cause I don't like to spend lots of time in the sun. I found a state owned aquarium that was about 30 min away and thought it would be fun. I know that Don and Morgan love fish and would really enjoy the aquarium. Mom and Bob decided that they would go with us. We had a wonderful time.

At the entrance to the Aquarium they had a big stuffed gator. Don thought this was a good idea.

This may be the bigges tbull frog I have ever seen. I thought it was kinda neat though. They had an area at the aquarium that was all freshwater things. They had alligators, snakes, frogs and freshwater fish and then you went inside and they had all the saltwater things. In the freshwater stuff they had an albino alligator. I went to take pictures of it and there was a worker standing nearby and he wanted to talk about the gator. I told him we were from Florida and he was amazed, that was where they got the gator from. I told him we have a local guy who just hatched a baby albino and he was amazed. Then he said that he knew the family.

I thought that these horseshoe crabs were fighting, but that is not really what they were doing.Maybe the aquarium will have baby horseshoe crabs in the future.

My favorite thing at any aquarium is jellyfish. They elude me. I want to take gorgeous pictures of them, and for some reason that rarely works. I have a fancy new camera and have been wanting to play with some of the features it has, so I used the jellyfish to do some practice. Some of the pictures were good, some were not so good.

I personally think this picture turned out really good.

This is the mouth of a prehistoric shark called a meglodon. You can tell that it would have been a BIG eater.We were trying to look like we were scared.

A cool looking clam.

At the end of the outside area there was this big plastic frog. Morgan kept telling us she wanted to ride the turtle. We think she may have her animals confused. She got on the frog and then started sliding off so Mom had to help hold her on. I thought this showed just how goofy they are.

Christina's wedding

 Early in May we took a huge family trip to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina to witness the wedding of one of my cousins Christina and her fiancee Jason. We had a great time. With the exception of Aunt Mary's husband Steve, the entire Putney family was in attendance at the wedding. That has not happened in a long time. We drove up with Mom, Bob, Don, Morgan, Aunt Mary, Grandma, Papa and myself. We took two cars and had a caravan going. It was fun, but what a LOOOOOOONG trip. The weather at the beach was beautiful. The bride was beautiful, of course. When you are looking at these pictures and you are thinking wow those are some beutiful ladies, I would agree. I must say that Don, Bob and Rick were all there, but for the most part eleuded the camera, so only one picture of Bob and none of Rick or Don. Also although Christina was beautiful and I have tons of printed pictures they are not on the computer, so no pictures of the bride. Sorry.

Mom, Suzy and I all dressed up. Dad said he alway thinks that Suzy and I look like him but that mom claims we look like her. I think this picture clears that up, don't you.

Mom and Morgan before the wedding. I think they look beautiful. Mom and I did Morgan's hair and I think that it turned out awesome.

I LOVE this picture. I think it looks like one that you would find in a picture frame that you are buying at a store.

Cheerleading

Morgan is now a JV cheerleader for LPHS. We are excited for her and know that she will have a great time. Aunt Suzy was a cheerleader when we were in high school and she was really excited. Don and I went to LPHS as well (so did Aunt Suzy and Grandpa Mat and all dads brothers and sisters), so that made it cool for us old people. Morgan has been going to practice a ton and we are anxiously awaiting the spring football game so that we can see her cheer for the first time.

What have we been doing???? That is what everyone wants to know

We have been very busy lately working with a group of people from church getting a youth ministry started. STR8 UP youth ministry is opening this week !!! YEAH!!! One of our friends had a vision of a youth house in Lake Placid that is a safe place for teens to go work on school stuff, learn about God and play. Don, mom and myself have joined 4 others on the Board of Directors for this ministry and we have been busy planning the ways that they youth house will operate and also planning an amazing open house. The open house will be on June 1st from 6 to 9 pm. We are using the old Foster Paint building on South Main Street and hope that if you are not busy on Friday night you will stop by. Don is cooking hot dogs and burgers, I am making a ton of cupcakes, ladies from the community are making cupcakes and we will have drinks. We are also having a silent auction that has some awesome items up for grabs.

Starting over

Well..... it has been a really long time, but I am going to give this another try. We have been super busy lately and therfore I will have a bunch of posts in the next few days. Please enjoy and check back again. Also if you comment please keep it nice and clean or I will deleate it and you.