Kitchen Update

Well we are currently waiting for the check to come back from the mortgage company... it was suppose to take only 3 to 5 days for them to process but we mixed Christmas and New Years in there and they are also processing a lot of checks from people of the hurricane and fire losses. But in the meantime we are getting all the touches figured out. Cabinets, Floors, Counter tops, Floor plan and an antsy husband that has a hard time sitting and waiting. But while we are waiting for the cabinets were getting the floor torn up...all that hard work we put in to get the hard wood down 8 years ago...and Will figured we would not have to deal with it again...and it was easier to put down then to tear up. The reason for tearing up the hardwood floor is that we could not match it. In the process of tearing up the hardwood floor we came back to the original floor that we had covered up 8 years ago, ugly 1973 linoleum...


Here is a picture of the floor... that we covered up 8 years ago... and part of the floor that I loved... my hard wood floor.

Tae Kwon Do Picture

Tae Kwon Do brought in a photography company and Billy really wanted to have a picture done. So mom gave in...but the night of the pictures mom totally forgot and when I remembered we were 1/2 hour late... and no where near ready for the pictures...but got one anyways...

Snow AGAIN... 1-2-09

This morning we woke up to snow...about 4 inches...now for a place that hardly gets any snow and when we do, it disappears by noon because it warms up, we have been hit with more then I remember since the kids were born.
We would have been out in the snow earlier today, but some little girl had to have a tooth filled... and Grandpa Norm and Grandma Donna were up, so we went out to lunch with them. By the time we made it out side Will got home...so we all went outside to make a dragon - or should I say - WILL made the dragon...but he did have some help, not from the kids but from the dog...Pele. The making of the dragon got delayed a couple of times also...Billy was more interested in snowball fights and building his ammo of snow balls and hiding them under the tree then the dragon, but he did get a couple of good shots at Will.

William G. Staley's

Will and I got to talking and thought it would be nice to have a picture of all the William Georges together... and it would be nice to give to Grandma Staley. We'll here is a picture of what we were able to create...
Top Left corner: Grandpa Staley (Sr.) - Bottom Right Corner: Grandpa Bill (Jr.)
Top Right Corner: Will (III) - Bottom Left Corner: Billy (IV)

We printed the picture and took it down to Grandma Staley, you know we have these pictures and have looked at them before, but the neat part about it was she was able to put the story and what happened. To find a picture of all of them in their uniforms... no words can be said. But while at Grandma's... (here again, I actually remembered the camera), I got a picture of her with Kayla and Billy, two of the Great Grand kids.

SNOW....

As I've mentioned in the last posting... I have been very bad with pictures lately. It seems that I always remember when we are half way to our destination, or when I go to turn it on the batteries are dead... Oh, and I have the rechargeable batteries... but I got in trouble with Mr Firefighter for leaving it charged in to long... but anyways, we received snow this year on Friday, December 12th and we actually had snow for two weeks... where is stayed. Our normal snow is that it comes for one day and gone the next.

I was especially enjoying the weather... you could go outside and not get soaked and you didn't track in all the dirt or mud. My other half was not in the same mood... just the opposite. On the days that the roads were really bad the tool truck didn't even leave the yard. He went and got chains for the Tool Truck but when he went to steer, he didn't go anywhere - all the weight was in the rear end. So, instead he took out the flatbed truck and piled up the tools in the back seat and headed out.

The snow stayed for Christmas and it even snowed on Christmas Day...I don't think either one has happened for the kids. Was very nice. The next day it started to rain and there went out snow.

We have a hill that is in our development and all the neighbor hood kids are there. Do they wear out some energy... love it.

Billy Winter Concert

Billy had is Winter Concert on 12-11-08 and I remembered my camera. An item that seems to be forgotten a lot lately.

This year they had all the Kindergartners and First Graders together on one stage...and all sang the same songs. It was great and watching them all in their performance... it was also timed just right... about 25/30 minutes.

Here is Billy with Mr. Finger - have not a clue just something that he was doing for a while...

This is Skylee - she is in Kindergarten

School Pictures

Due to the change in the company that the school used for school pictures this year... the packets were priced a LOT different then last year, so due to the price I'm attaching a copy of the pictures for everyone to view. When we got the first packet back, both kids had mug shots... Not Happy. This is what the retakes turned out like.