Thanksgiving 2010

Thanksgiving was great this year. Dad drove up to spend Thanksgiving with us.
I cheated this year and ordered food from Cracker Barrell...OMG totally worth
it. I fixed a few extra sides but Cracker Barrell was WONDERFUL. My sis and
Kendall flew up on Friday morning and stayed till Monday and drove back to
Jax with dad. We have a wonderful time with them as always. Dad took Tay
camping again this year. He got her a new sleeping bag and tent. They about
frozze to death. Friday night it got to about 20 degrees and I think that Tay
put on all the cloths she packed to sleep that night. The next morning dad got
up and the water jugs were frozen so they decided to pack up and head to the
house because it was just CRAZY..they did get to do a bit of hiking but the weather
was not good.....

Volleyball

Volleyball for Taylor is in full swing. She is busy with pactice 3 times a week.
She also has a packed volleyball tournament schedule. Looks like she will also
be going to St Louis in March. Taylor is so excited!!
We will start playing in January that is when the real fun begins......
I will keep you all posted.

WOW

I did not realize it has been so long since I have done a posting.
Things as always have been CRAZY but hey that is normal for us..
Kids are busy with school and doing really good. Both made A &B
honor roll so can not complain about that. Hunter is not doing
sports right now and Taylor is crazy with volleyball. We just finished
up school volleyball and they had a record season so that was great.

Now CLUB volleyball has started. We tried out to 2 clubs this year
and we ended up with Atlanta Boom 15 Diamonds. Which is cool
because she gets to play up in her age bracket. So we will have
commitment night on November 10th to make is official. Now
we figure out what kidney to put on ebay to pay for club..LOL

Thanksgiving is right around the corner wow how the year has
flown by.....guess I better start thinking about them menu...

On that note I better get going....I promise I will try to do better.

Our Kendall

Since my sister and her family was with us for Easter
we had to do something for Kendall. So we had a Easter egg
hunt at the house for her. So here she is our Kendall..



Me and Uncle Rusty counting up my loot




I found another egg



Pretty at the park...is she
super cute or what....

Easter Weekend

Easter Weekend Taylor had a BIG volleyball
tournament called the BIG SOUTH. It was CRAZY
over 800 teams playing on about 125 courts.
My whole family came up for the weekend and
it meant so much to Taylor to have everybody here
to see her.

Kendall and "her" Taylor

Crazy Weather

I know I have blogged in the past about our crazy
weather but here are some pics of our house
early March. IT WAS CRAZY.....

Baseball

Hunter's baseball season has started so we have
to split our time between the two since Taylor
still has volleyball. So I am with Taylor
and Rusty is with Hunter. From time to time
we get to all be together at both events.

Here are some pictures of my little man:




Hunter Pitching


Playing firstbase



Getting ready to hit the ball..

Volleyball

We have been super busy with Taylor's volleyball
schedule and traveling all over the place. We are
coming to an end with her final tournament this
weekend. All of the family has had a chance to
see her play so it has been a good time for everybody.

Taylor playing volleyball

Update

Well as always I am so bad at doing this blog thing.
We have been very busy here at the "Parrish" house.
Taylor is full steam ahead with volleyball right now and
we are always on the go. She does practice 3 times a week
and now the tournament have started. Right now we
are traveling every weekend.
Hunter just got signed up for baseball and I am so excited.
We have been out of the baseball scene for a few years now
and I have missed it. He said he wanted to start back this year
so we got him signed up and he will start his practices soon.
Report cards just came out for the 2nd nine weeks and they both
got A-B Honor roll and we could not be prouder of them.

I put up a few new pics and post so hope you enjoy and I will
try to do better!

Christmas Cookies

For as long as I can remember every year at Christmas we would
go to my grandmothers house to do Christmas cookis. So with me
being the oldest grand kid followed by 7 other I have done this for
many years. It was always so much fun and I have such great
memories of those times with all the cousins doing cookies with
grandma. Well much time has passed and she is getting older
and the grandkids are "to old" to still do that. So I have tied to
pick up where she has left off. I have not always done such a
good job at doing it every year but we have made it happen.
So this year we went home Christmas week to spend time with
family and we did cookies at Karen's house. It was such a fun time...
Enjoy the pics..


Rusty was trying to help her out while she rolled
out her cookies..man she did not want any help!
She kept saying, "I got it"


As you can see we made this a whole family afair!



Yes, that is Karen in an apron. Heck I dont
even own one of those....She is trying
to show off her Betty Crocker skills..LOL
If you look at the pick you will see a cookie "gun"
yea she has had that since she got married and
yes this was the first time we took it for a test drive.




Both our sweet girl.....


Kendall was such a good decorator....I asked her
to smile. Her response back " I cant right now
I am busy"




Okay Aunt Wendie I am ready now she tell me!
I tell you what the girl will keep you laughing...

SNOW

Well as luck would have it since we have moved to Georgia we have been having a time with the weather. Worst dry spell in history, followed by
the flood of the century. Then we have SNOW. Kids loved it since they got out of school early and then school was closed the next day.

We got some pictures of Hunter with a snow ball and a picture of the snow in the front yard.

This Florida girl will never get use to it. Yea is super pretty when it's falling but we do not know how to handle it. The day school was out, I too was stuck at home since all the roads were iced over. So it was a work from home day for me.
Which was not a problem because it was COLD!!!!!!!

Finally

Well I finally go it together and got
some recent pictures of the kids.
I hope that you enjoy them....

Kids Pictures

Our Volley Ball Girl...........

My little red head football player......

CLUB VOLLEYBALL

We have now entered the uncharted waters of
"Club Volleyball" what a process this has turned out
to be. Georgia has about zillion of them but for us it
was trying to pick the best option for Taylor, location
and cost. (I had NO idea how expensive sports could get)

Monday: We headed over to Cobb Atlanta Volleyball.
She heads to the courts with all the other girls, the parents
have a meeting. Option 1 your daughter will get offered a
spot that night for the team and you have call backs. Option 2
you just get a call back. Okay no pressure...WRONG...I was
so nervous. But Taylor did just fine, she got an offer the
first night for the "RED" team (much like being selected for
the "A" team).

Tuesday: Taylor went to open court night and just practiced
to help with the following days ahead.

Wednesday: Head back to Cobb Atlanta for the "call back"
and again she did great and once again the coaches approach
us an told us they really wanted Taylor. So as parents we are
so very proud and say great we will let you know what we decide.

Thursday: Now we are on to Sky Volleyball tryouts. Not to
many girls show up for this try out but some had other tryouts
that overlapped. So the girls are all doing volleyball stuff and the
parents again have a meeting. Much like Monday night they
would either make and offer for the team or just ask you to come
back. Well Taylor put on quite a show and they really liked her.
(only have 10 coaches watching you and making comments on your skills
no pressure right??????????) We are the first parents to be approached
to they want Taylor to come play for them. Then about 15 min after that
he make an announcement that is he calls your daughters number he would
like to see all of us in the other room. OH GREAT!!! Well they call her number
we head to other room and all of us find out we have a spot on the team, then
we found out she has been offered to play up with the 14 year olds. We are thrilled.....


Now we have two clubs that would like Taylor so now we have to all sit
down and figure out what would be best for her. This club volleyball is
big stuff we have make sure she is at the right place..the PRESSURE....

With all that being said, I am super impressed on how far she has come in
such a short amount of time. She never even played volleyball till this summer
at a few camps we put her in. She continues to amaze me everytime I watch her.
She is such a natural at it........

We will keep you up to date on what happens with the "club" thing. We have
to make a commitment to a club on November 11th on what we want to do. That
is the drop date on all decisions for all girls that want to play.

Update

Well once again I am a bit behind on getting everybody
up to date on what has been going on.

We are almost finished with football season, we will wrap
it up Saturday with our last game. I have to admit this
season has went by super fast(oh I am not complaining).

Now that Taylor is finished with school volleyball we are
now moving to the uncharted waters of "Club Volleyball"
Apparently it's the thing to do when the school volleyball
season is over. It's a way to the girls to keep up with your
skills. What we did not know however was how nerve
racking the whole process would be. I think I am more
stressed out over this process then she is.

Catching up

Man it has been awhile since I did a post so
I thought I would do a bit of catching up..
Taylor has completed volleyball season
Saturday was the final wrap up. The girls
had a great season and Taylor had a wonderful time.
We are still doing football with Hunter and he is
getting better and better. I am so proud of my
little man.

We have dried out from all the rain and now
the cold front has found it's way in. It's a bit
to soon for me but mother nature really does
not care about me. I don't think it got to 60 today
so you know I was NOT a happy camper about that.
but according to the weather report it should be warming
up this weekend.YEA...however the leaves are already starting
to change colors so its so pretty right now...

My baby girl is getting ready to hit the big city of NEW YORK..
she will be flying out on Thursday morning EARLY and flying
back home on Sunday afternoon. So we are busy doing
laundry(story of my life) and getting things packed..
I am so jealous she is going to NYC. She is so excited
about this trip....hope she has good weather...

Guess that is it for now..more later..

Drying out

Well thank goodness the rain has decided to give
us a rest. I have never seen anything like it.
We have not had it as bad as other places
in the error so we have been blessed.

Left the office yesterday at 3:30 to beat
the traffic. Not so much...everybody else
had the same idea. My normal commute is
about 20-25 min. Well yesterday it was
1 hr and 45 min. If you know me, you know
how much I hate to sit in traffic. So needless to
say when I got home I was OVER IT....

Taylor got out of school at 1:15 instead of 4:15
yesterday so they could get the kids home before it
got really bad here. Hunter gets off the school bus
around 2:30 we around 3:30 he was still not home.
So our wonderful neighbor left for the school to pick up
her son and Hunter. The bus never came to get the kids
from school because the roads had flooded.
It took her over and hour to get to the boys and we only
live 10 min from school!!!!!!!!!!!!! During this time Hunter
called home all freaked out about what was going on but
Rusty assured him that Sherry was on here way to get him.
So he was much better after that. Poor kids eat lunch
around 10:30ish (which I would think was brunch) but
anyways....by the time he got home he was starving....
He ate all his dinner last night.......
So the kids had no school today well the whole state was
out of school today for that fact, due to the weather.
It was a beautiful day today not a drop of rain......
Go figure.....

Water Polo

Well if you have been watching the news then you have seen or heard about all the rain that we have gotten here.

This is the most recent picture of our football field and now looks like a swimming pool. So we can not have any football practices or football games.

So maybe we could try water polo????

The Grandparent

Well my mom and dad will be coming up
this weekend so they can experience what
our CRAZY weekends are like. Taylor
has volleyball matches this weekend in
Rome, GA. Yes, Rome Ga and to boot
we found out we have to be at the school
at 8:15 AM. I did a map quest tonight and
its about 1 hour away. OH JOY
So no sleeping in......................
we will be hitting the road EARLY!
She will have about 4 matches then
we have to be at Hunters football
game at 3. So the grandparents will
be going all over the place this weekend
to keep up with the grand kids and our
activities. Hope they didn't think this
trip would be a vacation....HA HA...
We can wait to see them since it has
been awhile.
Hey mom and dad....don't forget the
bread and I promise to have the coffee
ready on Saturday morning since we will
all need it.

BIG FOOTBALL PLAY

Hunter had a great football game on
Saturday night. And of course I could
not attend since I had a house full of girl
over to Tay's party. So Rusty was
sending me text messages keeping me
up to date on how my little man was doing.
He caught a great pass that was the talk
of the game. It was for the 2 point conversion.
He was so excited!!!! I was so upset
that I had to miss his football game and
then to find out I missed his biggest play
was even worse. He plays again this weekend
and I hope I will not have to miss this game too.