Good News, Bad News

Which one do you want first? The good or the bad......
Well, let's start with the good news.....
the HOGS BEAT LSU!!!!!



We didn't go to the ballgame, had to stay home and watch the Curley Wolves in the Semi-finals but listened on the radio while we were in Texarkana. I thought Dusty and Andrew were going to have a stroke in the last 28 seconds!
Speaking of the Curley Wolves, that's my bad news.....they lost tonight, 21-22 in the last couple minutes. Not a happy ending!
Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving. If you went shopping today, hope you didn't spend too much money. If you ate leftovers, hope you didn't get too full. We opted for the movies. All four of us loved Madagascar 2. It was almost as good as the first. Dusty said he thought he liked it better but it's a toss up for me. Andrew loves the penguins!

Happy Thanksgiving

May you and your family be blessed this Thanksgiving.

Good Girl Gets A Hair Cut

Maggie got a hair cute today. She has to get beautiful for the holidays. Vickie gave her a poinsettia and a bell on her collar. Wonder how long that will last?

Thanksgiving Vacation Has FINALLY Arrived

My Thanksgiving vacation has finally made it's way to me! I am so excited! The kids have been off all week but I had to work yesterday and a half day today. I came home to a huge pallet in the living room. That was so nice! I have informed my family that we will not be putting a tree up until the house is nice and clean. Of course, my nice and clean and theirs are two different things. So......that's what we will be doing with our time off. And in between I may allow them a little smoked turkey and dressing.

Wonder How The Cookies Turned Out?

Well.......wonder no more! Here they are, minus the buckle but still very cute and edible.

Sara and Sophie brought one up for each of the office staff.

Curley Wolves Win Again

Before the game.....

After the game.....

It was a cold one, but it was good. The Curley Wolves rocked in their first round of the play-off games. They beat the Harding Academy 41-14! We were prepared with our coveralls, toboggans, hand warmers, hot chocolate and gloves. Andrew left like a popcicle. Maybe he will listen to his mama next Friday night. Sara was tired and bundled up! She did listen and stayed warm and cozy.
Go Wolves!!!!! Make it all the way to state!!!!! Go Wolves!!!!!

Cute Thanksgiving Cookies I Coffee-cat-ed

I bought the stuff to make these cute Thanksgiving cookies tonight. Sara's class has been talking about different aspects of Thanksgiving this week. My friend, Shannon, had a picture of them on her blog. She is going to make them for her son's class.
My wonderful buddy, Mrs. Penny Plunkett, promised today that if I bought the stuff for her class they would make them, too. I got the stuff for her class and Sara's so she has to keep up her end of the deal. I know she will!
The kids will have fun making and eating them. I hope their teachers have as much fun as they do! I'll post pictures of the festivities!
P.S. Sara is always saying (to this day we correct her) that "Andrew is coffee-cat-ing her". So I coffee-cat-ed Shannon. If there is such a word!

A Shopping We Will Go

Dusty and I made our first trip to Texarkana for Christmas shopping. He was off so I took a vacation day and so the fun begins. We did pretty good, just needed lots more time(we had to be back to get the kids from school). Of course, as soon as they got in the car the questions began. We had them go in Sara's room (not Andrew's because it's on the side where the car was parked and we knew they would peek) so Dusty hauled everything into our room.
We will have to wrap in the next couple of days because they are NOSY!! As tradition goes, we shut our bedroom door and wrap. They are waiting at our door like little vultures to see whose present comes out next and after a little shaking it will finally come to rest under the tree.
No, I dont' have my tree up yet. I don't do that until after Thanksgiving. I am usually not shopping yet, it's early for me. I am on the ball this year. But I think the wrapping will commence or Dusty is going to have to find some good hiding places!
We've got plenty more to buy, we only made a dent in it!

Andrew

This is Andrew in the woods after he killed his first deer. We are having it mounted. He hasn't hunted much since, guess he basking in the glow right now.

Clay Joins The Crew

Clay Xander Frances Hartley was born at 1:56 p.m. on Friday, November 14. He weighed 7lbs. 6 ozs. He is my sister's 4th boy. Yes, FOUR BOYS! Bless her! Mama and baby are both doing great and will hopefully get to come home today.

Guess What I Got?

Dusty and I have now completely entered into the 21st century. We have texting.......Andrew's had it, Kim's had it, Wendy's had it, even Janet's had it. We were the only ones that didn't.........until now!
Dusty was off today and texted me at school and my phones on my desk and heres how it goes from there....

Satarra: You have a text.
Me: It's a voice mail. I don't have texting.
Satarra: Do too.
Me: Do not.
Satarra: SEE!
Satarra opens my phone.
Me: COOOLLLLL!!!! Dusty finally got us texting!!! (me jumping while Satarra, Wendy and Robert make fun)
Me: Show me how to reply.
Satarra lauging at Valarie.

Next Text is to Shelbi....
Me: Guess what I got (no question mark, Andrew's showed me 40 times but can't rememeber)
Shelbi: wat?
Me: Texting
Shelbi: I c
She wasn't as excited as me!!!

After school text to Andrew....
Me: Hey! (with exclamation, mind you)
no reply, he came to find me with a big smile, "You FINALLY got texting!, when did Daddy get it?" Like I can't do it by myself!

Dusty is already firing them off to all his buddies. I have only texted Shelbi using Andrew's phone a little bit. I'm uptown now though!!!!

I know Kristi, "I'm special!" WOOHOO!!!!!

Simple?...... Not at the Cobb's

We have had a bit of a mess in our house this week. We were simply going to go electric and get new central heat and air. Well, the Cobb's apparently, or so Dusty and I have decided, can't do anything simple. It's been a bit of an ordeal, from having furniture moved for 4 days, to having to get an electrician, to Dusty falling through the ceiling, to having to take an extra day of work off to fix the ceiling, to coming home from gymnastics and having fire ash all over everything from them trying to weld(for lack of better word) something togther in the house, ash covering everything on that end of the house (Andrew's bed, my couch, kids' bathroom, tops of every picture frame, lamp shade and surface in the living room and luckily Sara's door was closed) and last but not least, after them being here for 4 days to finish finding out that the only thing keeping them here that long was that their gage they were checking our unit with had a hole in the wire so it was not registering like a working unit should. With that big run on sentence done, I spent one afternoon in my bathroom with it's beautiful new tongue and groove pine ceiling cleaning. Dusty and Daddy had to take out all the shelves in the bathroom closet along with almost everything else in the room. I found myself deep cleaning the closet. I had a little blast from the past.
Sara is seen here wearing the very ear rings that I wore to my senior prom. I gave them to her. She has been sporting them around this weekend. Stylish, huh?

I also found some troll Christmas ear rings that Lord only knows where they came from. Along with a HUGE fad in my early teenage years, the infamous Swatch Watch. We went to Dallas one summer to Bob and Pam's and they were waiting for me and my sister in the room we always sleep in on the nightstand. They were awesome!

So, with the excitement of Andrew's deer yesterday and the ballgame the night before, I just was a bit lazy and somewhat overwhelmed when I thought about what my house looked like inside and what needed to be done, therefore, I did a little bit of nothing. Today, I have motivated myself a wee bit, not near what I should and am washing clothes and trying to clean a little. I really need to be cleaning a lot but nothing is simple...........especially at the Cobb's house........or so we have come to learn.

Andrew's First Deer

Andrew killed his first deer on the opening morning of deer season. He killed an 8 point. Daddy was honking the horn up the drive way and Andrew came to the door ringing the doorbell. He was so excited! They had to track it, get it on the four wheeler and pull it out of the woods. They are gone to Firestone now to show Dusty and to check it. SO EXCITING!!!

More Fall Pictures.....

Aren't they beautiful?!?!?!?!

Sara's Pink Girl

GO VOTE!!!!!

Hope to see you at the polls!

Sara's Awards

P.E.S. had its first honor roll assembly last week. Sara was on fire. She got all three awards. We are so proud of her. She is loving the first grade and doing great!
She got an honor roll award.

She received a Good Citizenship Award.

She also received an Accelerated Reader Award for first graders.

I should have taken a picture of as many kindergarteners, first graders and second graders in a group as a could. It was a sea of red because Wednesday was BE DRUG FREE and wear red day.

Wolf Pack, Wolf Pack, Wolf Pack

That's what the kids were saying when we came on stage for the Halloween costume conest. Weren't we a great team? I have a whole new perspective on football players.....it was hot as heck under those pads and I wasn't even playing and that helmet killed me. My hair was wet and sweaty after it came off, so much for straightening it Friday morning. Wendy said her neck hurt from holding it up! We had a blast! But best of all we listened to the radio at noon to see who won around Prescott. We won the school division and got a whopping $20.00 prize!
ENJOY!
Me and Wendy M.

Wolf Pack Pyramid - me and Wendy, Candy (Robert) with her knees in our backs and Wally (Satarra)

Robert, Jennie Williams, Satarra, Tammy Jackson, Wendy M. and I

By the way, we (the real Wolf pack) stomped the Harmony Grove Hornets!
GO WOLVES!!!!!!!!

Halloween

Hope you had a Happy Halloween! Ours was fun-filled all day long!

Dusty, Andrew and Sara carved jack-o-lanterns Monday night while I cooked brownies for P.E.S. PTP Fall Festival. Sara had to have a baby one. They chose the big ones face from one of Sara's Halloween books.
Fast forward to Friday night - Dusty had to work late so we got ready.....Andrew for a movie with his friend, Laura with Cody and Cassidy.....Sara for trick-or-treating. Our first stop was Aunt Kim's then we were off to town. We took Andrew to his destination then Sara and I went to our annual trip to Mr. and Mrs. Avery's. We met Dusty at Verion's, hit a couple of houses then Sara said "Let's go to Mrs. Plunkett's and that's it." She's not greedy, did what she wanted to do, went where she wanted to and had had enough.
Here is WONDERWOMAN.........

with her sidekick!

And keeping up with family tradition, we ended the night at Gran and Pop's for chili and treats.

Kept You Waiting Long Enough???????

As I posted last time......yes, it was almost a week ago. I had great news for you all. Andrew had his yearly checkup (EEG and seeing his neurologist) at Children's. His EEG was clear and he has been cleared to get off his meds. For those of you that don't know, he was diagnosed with idiopathic epilepsy in the third grade. That means cuse unknown but 90% of kids outgrow it when they the developing years as a teenager. (not gonna say the word because Andrew hates to hear it) He will be weaned off the medicine slowly. He will be off in approximately 6 weeks. Dusty and I are glad just a little apprehensive. We've done this once already. Dusty tells me we can't took back, jsut forward. We just have to hope and pray that this will be it! I hope you will too!
After his appointment, we had to make our regular stop in the gift shop to just look around. We made wishes in the little creek and water fall that leads outside. Then I took some pictures outside on the new cool playground and outside area. Andrew doesn't like how his hair looks because the EEG messed it up but I think he looks very handsome!