Hannah's Field Day

Hannah had field day at school and I got voted as the class mascot again this year. (Actually, I am the only parent willing to dress up for a class in the entire school).
Anyway, her class name was Hulme's Hedgehogs. So I was the hedgehog.

Everyone did great and had a great time.

The girls all together.

Hannah and Elizabeth rocked at the three legged race and blew the competition away!

Relay for Life

The telephone company had a fundraiser and if they were able to raise $500 or more, they got to color my head for the Relay for Life.

I ended up having to make a trip into town to Lowe's. every kid I say thought it was cool. Did I mention that the Lowe's I visited was not in our county so they didn't realize why my hair was pink and purple.

The Bed is Finished!

The bed is finally done, assembled and Hannah in moved back into her room. For those who don't know the story, our neighbor had bought some plans online for a loft bead and built one for each of his kids. When he had finished them, Hannah said she would like one so I set out on the project. I got the list of wood and headed for the local Home Depot. Mark helped me cut all the wood and so all that was left was to sand, stain and assemble. Well that anticipated two weekend project became a 4 1/2 month project. However, it is done and she loves it.

Instead of a desk underneath, Hannah opted to put her bean bag and a book case so that she would have a reading area.

Below is a picture with the room lights out. We put rope lights under the bed for lighting so she could read without having the room lights on. We ended up with a total of 72' of rope lighting.

We also got her a matching dresser ( I didn't build it ) that is upright so it takes up less floor space opening up her room.

Patrick's Final Ball

Patrick finished cotillion and escorted JoAnna for the final dance at the Spring Ball at the beginning of April.



He looked very handsome and JoAnna was stunning of course.

Patrick escorted a young lady out of the ball to her parents.

Hannah sports new eye wear!

Hannah is sporting some very cool new eye wear. She got them this week and so far has done well. She uses them primarily for reading.

Flashback to 1994

Back in 1994 JoAnna and I were married. JoAnna and I met on a blind date set up by our friends Jake and Kate, I worked with Jake and JoAnna worked with Kate. Needless to say, we hit it off and got married in November of '94. Our wedding included family and friends, some we are still in touch with and others we had lost touch with. JoAnna's Maid of Honor was Kate and her Husband Jake was one of my Groomsmen.

Their daughter was our flower girl and their sons were the ring bearers.

Well, we were going to church a couple of weeks ago and I headed into the choir room to get my music and this lady was in there that I had not met before. We exchanged greetings but didn't say a whole lot. I thought she looked familiar but just couldn't place it. I found out that she and her family had attended the church for years and were good friends with the pastor and his family but had moved to Florida. She, her daughter and mother were up visiting for a few days. I talked to Joanna in the church and she was looking at the bulletin and the lady's name was in there because she was singing with the choir and with the pastor. JoAnna looked at me and said surely it can't be the same person.

Well it was and we had just reconnected with friends that we had lost touch with about 12 years ago. We had a great time talking that Sunday and then one of the choir members had a going away party the next Saturday so we had another memory session.

Super Museum Sunday

It's been awhile since I have updated the Blog, we have been just a little busy but I have gotten to it and have some new things. Super Museum Sunday is when they open all the museums in Savannah for free and so we tend to head to the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum. They had a new addition this year of a B-17 Bomber that flown in the war and then fought fires and was decommissioned. The Mighty Eighth was able to get it from the Smithsonian where it was in storage. It is now in the process of being restored and will be named The Spirit of Savannah which was an actual B-17 that was a member of the Mighty 8th and was shot down on it's third mission in WWII.

Eric and Patrick

Hannah checking out the exhibits

Patrick and Hannah

Patrick

Oh No The Big 40 !!!!!!!!

JoAnna's Birthday is February 2 so we celebrated the weekend before. She knew there was a little get together planned but with Sheala's help we had a good sized get together. JoAnna's sister Jody and partner Beth drove down from NC and surprised her so JoAnna was excited.

We didn't want to push our luck with 40 individual candles so we opted to go with words. This way we knew she would be able to blow them all out.

The happy Birthday song!

Her 30th birthday that she mentioned at the end, if you remember, she made a comment about the center of the cake. So for her 30th, I ordered a cake with 30 red roses and it was supposed to have a chocolate pudding center. Well, I didn't pick up the cake, someone else did and brought it so when we opened the box, there was a beautiful white cake with 30 red roses and a blog of chocolate pudding on the center of the cake. It looked like a big pile of poo. It is a birthday we won't soon forget. One of our friends Celes was there for the 30th and was here for the 40th. It was great to see her again.

We ended up having a picnic on the family room floor. It was fun. Everyone was in a circle so we could all talk to each other.

Celes and JoAnna, catching up.

Elizabeth, Jeanne, Beth and Jody playing Boom Blocs on the Wii.

Patrick waiting his turn.

Inauguration Pictures

Here is a slide show of the pictures we took on the way to DC, while we were there and on the way home.

The Infamous Purple Ticket

As I started my count down to the Inauguration, many of you saw that we had received purple tickets. If you have seen on the news, searched YouTube, CNN iReport or just done a google search, you will see what we were doing and going through! Here are our pictures and video from the Purple Gate. I missed a great picture where everyone was holding up their purple tickets.

I am putting our whole story together to put up so that it can be read as a whole. Overall, it was an experience of a lifetime and we are glade we made the trip.