Monday, May 26, 2008

Grandma Annie

Here are a some pictures of Grandma Annie Archer. Some of you may not know that back in March she was diagnosed with a brain tumor. This tumor has been very, very fast growing and she has put up a great fight. Her time here will not be much longer, but she has lived a good life and has a wonderful, loving and supportive family! We love you very much Grandma!

Update: Grandma Annie passed away today around 5pm. She will surely be missed!










Friday, May 9, 2008

Just the Girls!

Last Friday and Saturday Mom, Sariah and I went to a craft show in Findlay, where Mom had a booth. We set-up Friday night, then we stayed overnight in Findlay and Saturday morning we had to be back at the Hancock County Fairgrounds at 7:00am. We weathered rain, wind and horrible humidity, but ended up having a really good time. Because of the weather mom didn't sell too well, but it was fun to be together, Just the GIRLS!






Sunday, April 27, 2008

My absolute favorite pastime

I have been doing flowers for my friend Linda's (Iliff) wedding. Some of you know floral arranging is my absolute favorite thing in the whole wide world. I thought I'd share what's been keeping me busy the last few weeks. She wanted Iris and Lilac. I was nervous about these two flowers, but they turned out very nice! Enjoy! I had a blast doing them!








Monday, April 21, 2008

Ammon's VERY bad day!

Well, I got my first "email" from Ammon's teacher. It seems there was a little altercation at recess. Ammon says he thought 2 boys, who by the way are some of Ammon's good friends - which surprised me, were talking about him while they were standing in line to come in from recess so he decided to "bang" their heads together. Who is this child? What has school done to him? Obviously this is totally unacceptable so, Ammon had to move his stick in class. The teacher says when she asked the two boys what was being talked about they told her something completely unrelated to Ammon. We spoke with Ammon and he had no good reason for what he did. He was punished accordingly! Well, then to top it all off I got a call from the school secretary asking me where Ammon was to go after school and I told her he is to ride the bus the same way he does EVERY afternoon. Ammon rides the bus home to the Coleman's and has since late January and this has NEVER been an issue before....Until Wednesday! Ammon was put on THE WRONG BUS and sent home to an empty house, and YES, he was let off the bus! Luckily the neighbor boy had a babysitter at his house and Ammon went there until we got everything figured out and knew where he was. Jason on the other hand was waiting at the Coleman's for Ammon to get off the bus! We're VERY unhappy about this "mix-up" as the transportation director at Ben Logan calls it. He has assured me this will NEVER happen again and I sure hope for his sake it doesn't!!!! I can't beleive that a bus driver, who knows this child should not be on her bus in the afternoon; would first of all, not question why he was there, but would then take him and drop him off, when apparently there is no one home! Holy Cow, he's 5!!!!!!!! Anyway, there's the recap of Ammon's Very Bad Day! Poor Kid!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

A plea for help!

I found this little saying and thought "WOW! That's so how I feel most days!" I had to share!

Lord, keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth...AMEN..!!

Monday, April 14, 2008

Cuss Words...OH MY!

OH MY...we were sitting at the table, Ammon and Sariah and me, after church eating lunch and out of the clear blue sky Ammon says the "B" word. I said "What did you just say?" hoping that I heard him wrong, and he said it again. I immediately asked him where he heard that word and he said he couldn't remember, but he had heard it. OH MY! I told him he was to NEVER use that word again. He asked "WHY?" so I told him that it was a cuss word and it was very bad and he was never to say it and that prompted an argument about cuss words and how he didn't beleive there was such a thing and if it was so bad, what did it mean? OH MY! I explained the meaning and that there were really bad words and that he was way too nice and good of a boy to be using such filthy language, nevermind that he would be getting to gargle vinegar if he ever said it again. I told him if he didn't want to beleive me he could ask his dad when he got home...and he did! I think Jason was shocked...and his first question to Ammon was "Did you hear that at church today?" How funny! Ahhhh...life with kids is great!

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Just for Heather!







Okay, Heather asked, so here are some recent pics of the kids! When I remember to bring home the SD card from my digital photo frame on my desk at work I will upload some pics of our Spring Break Trip. The top picture of Ammon is his 2007-2008 Kindergarten picture. The middle picture is the picture we took for our Christmas cards 2007, and the bottom picture is one of Sariah's 3 year pictures.