Family Pictures 2009

Grandma Betty and Grandpa Jerry with the grandkids

Get Grandpa

Heath Family 2009

I love this picture! Give us a nice little smooch! Jared is going to download pictures to put on his computer at school as his screen saver and he said he can't use this one. I don't know why...I think it is a great shot!

Tackle time!

Everybody circle up! My eyes look really blue.

Eli....concentrating

Daddy gets Lexie

Lexie had a hard time in the beginning, but she came around. All of us: Alexis, Courtney, Eli, Jared, Mackenzie

Kenzie looks so cute...I really like this one!

Caterpillars Don't Need Baths!

I've made it a point to teach the girls not to be afraid of bugs. Living in this house, there seems to be a lot of bugs that the girls find outside that they want to show me. Mainly they bring in the lady bugs and moths. I am not keen on it and quickly have them bring the bugs back outside. Even in the house, Mackenzie will find flies and spiders. She will catch a fly, I don't know how but she does and then she tears their wings off. I am not a person that likes to torture things and so I tell her if she is going to kill it, then kill it quickly. So...she has stopped tearing wings from little bugs.

But....my point...caterpillars. Yesterday the kids were playing outside and Jared and I kept noticing Alexis come in and out, in and out, filling up her water gun. It didn't really phase us and then when we went out to sit on the swing, we noticed Lex coming in for more water again. We asked what she was doing and she said that she was getting water for Kenzie to give the caterpillars a bath. I went out and saw Kenzie holding a plastic bag filled about three inches with water and two caterpillars floating on the top. We ran to Kenzie and told her she needed to get the caterpillars out of the water. She said, "No mom, they need a bath!" We told her that they didn't need a bath and that baths would kill the caterpillars because they can't swim. We poured out the water onto the porch and waited....waited...waited! After a small moment, one of the caterpillars started moving. At first, I thought it was just the wind rustling the hair on the Caterpillar but then it started slowly creeping away. It was alive! But the pour other one died. Mackenzie was sad that she had killed the Caterpillar. She now knows that caterpillars don't need baths!
Inspecting the caterpillers to see if they are moving! Poor poor caterpillar!

Kenzie's first day of school...Did I cry?

Mackenzie's shirt has little apples on it. I thought that was fitting for school. Anyways, here we are ready for school.
Here we are watching out the window for the bus to come.

Jared was jealous that he didn't' get to see Kenzie get on the bus. She looked so cute!

Eli and Lex are waving goodbye from the porch.

My little girl back safe with me on the porch after a great first day of kindergarten.

I was sure that I wasn't going to cry and yet, I put her on the bus and the tears started flowing. But I am fine and Mackenzie did great! The bus driver told me she would get home around 3:00 and so I went out onto the porch and waited for her.(not the whole time, just at three I walked out!) I was going to set up a blanket out there and wait like my mom use to do for us (that is one of my most favorite childhood memories, she even did it my senior year because I said I liked it so much.) But I was watering the lawn so it would have been kind of wet. She jumped off the bus and ran to me and hugged me. We went inside and she showed me the stuff she brought home from school. She pulled out a box and a fome egg and showed me humpty dumpty. Then we did her homework of drawing a picture of her first day of school. It was a good day! Alexis and Eli did well too. We colored together and went out to lunch with Uncle Byron and Aunt Jemayla, took naps and had snacks. We got it all on video and I am trying to get that uploaded for you to see but it isn't working. Hopefully it will work soon.

So, we are back on line and got a new camera and so there should be posts more often for your reading enjoyment. Some things to look forward to are our pictures of the house and...well...ummm...I guess that is it so far!

Horribly Behind!

Hey out there to everyone who checks my blog and is dissappointed when they see that I still haven't written anything though it has been a month and a half. I am back. So much has happened and I will write about it but for now, just know, I am back!