Back to School...

Well sadly, I'm officially back to school and I'm already missing my time with the Parkster. Dropping him off at the sitter has been difficult and if I hear "You're Gonna Miss This" by Trace Adkins one more time...killin' me!! But now I have two reasons to look forward to coming home in the afternoon; of course the other being Kevin!

Last week was a busy one around here. Tuesday we celebrated my birthday my mom and Loni and Wednesday we celebrated with my dad. Gotta drag those things out as long as possible. Then Thursday I had a Relay for Life meeting.

Relay for Life is a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. The Maize Softball Girls and myself decided to put a team together, raise some money and participate. Altogether we raised about $1,700 - AWESOME! The evening started at 7 pm Friday night and went until 7 am Saturday morning and was held at Maize South Middle School.

Someone from your team had to be walking the track during the 12 hours, so we all took our rotations. They had TONS of activities for everyone else who wasn't walking - volleyball, ladderball, washers, plinko, twister, a DJ, a moonwalk, massages, and so much food! The girls and I had a blast, but I was definitely tired about being up for about 26 hours! Parker got to come up for a little while. He really enjoyed looking around; there was so much to see.

Then Saturday Parker got to experience his first power outage. The storm rolled though early evening and brought quite the lightning and thunder. Our electricty went out, but Parker still enjoyed himself!! Scary Parker!!!



And the other day, Parker got to meet one of my favorite softball players from Maize, Christy Jones. She graduated in 2007 and went to Georgia Tech to play softball. It was great to see her again and see that she is doing great! Too bad Parker wasn't in the best of moods to join us in the picture.