White Christmas!!

We had a great Christmas this year! On Christmas Eve, we had two stops to make: Irma's house for the Phillips family, then to Douglasville for the Casey family. Harrison got to see all of his cousins and got some cool gifts. We got home really late that night and had to go straight to bed so Santa could come.

On Christmas morning, the kids didn't wake up until 9AM....which was crazy because they were so excited. Harrison got clothes, boots, hockey stuff and a sheet of plastic that like ice! He can shoot and puck handle on it. Around 11:00, we were all getting ready to go to Nana Phillip's house when all of a sudden.....it started snowing! It snowed almost all day and we got a couple of inches at our house. The bad part was, we had to leave it to go to Nana's. We drove in snow the whole way there. It was snowing there too, but not as much as at our house. When we got there, we got to see the Cobb's and Aunt Linda and Uncle Louis. It was a great day!

We headed home before it got dark so the roads wouldn't be bad. Once we got home, we started a fire and played Mario Kart on the wii for a while. It did stop snowing in the evening, but the best part was the next day- there was still snow to play in! So, of course, the kids bundled up and went out for a while. Here is a slideshow of our White Christmas:

Fourth grade=Honor Roll

Now that harrison is in 4th grade, he gets graded with A, B, C, D or F. For the first nine weeks, he recieved all A's with ONE B!! He also earned Perfect Attendance. During his conference, his teachers told me how great he is doing and what a pleasure he is to have in class. Keep up the good work, Harri!

Here is a recent picture of my little Bear:

Back to school

Harrison is in 4th grade now....where has the time gone? It seems like just yesterday, he was my little baby boy...


Anyway, he loves school this year, because he gets to change classes. He has Mrs. Barden for most of his classes and goes to Mrs. Connor's class for Science and Language Arts. In Music, they are learning how to play the recorder. He brought it home over the weekend and I taught him how to play "Mary had a Little Lamb." he practiced it all weekend until it was perfect! I couldn't believe how dedicated he was to working on it.

In the sports world: Harrison has decided to hang up the soccer cleats (again) and stick with hockey. He tried out for the Squirt team at the Ice Forum and was asked to move up to the AA team this year. His team from last year moved up to Squirt as well and are staying in Single A. It was a hard decision for us to make, as he had to leave his friends. But we decided in the end that the best thing for him would be to play at the higher level. They have already started practicing and games will start in late September

He's a genius!?!?

Harrison had a great 3rd grade school year! We found out a few weeks ago that he had passed the CRCT, but we just got the scores with his report card yesterday. Not only did he PASS the Math part...he Exceeded Standards!! This is great because in 3rd grade, you don't move onto to 4th grade unless you pass Math and Reading. So definitely a sigh of relief! His report card was great too, all 3's with a couple of 2's. They get 1,2,3 instead of A,B,C.....3 being the highest. So.....4th grade here he comes!

Here is a cute picture that we took at the ballpark last weekend:

TPH in Detroit, MI

Harrison was invited to tryout for the Top 30 Prospects Hockey Program back in March. He was the only player from his team to make the team of 18 boys. They had a weekend training in Nashville back in Mid-April. Then, over the weekend of April 29 - May 2, we flew to Detroit to play in a tournament. Harrison had a great time with the boys off the ice, going to dinner, swimming in the indoor pool and hanging out at the hotel. On the ice though, was a different story. The coaches had him playing Forward, but he normally plays Center. This was frustrating for him and for us. We won 1 of the 4 games. We had a hard time getting goals for some reason. Probably because we have not been playing together all year like the other teams had.

On Saturday we had a six hour break, so we drove over to lake St. Clair. It was beautiful! We found the Edsel and Eleanor Ford Estate and drove in to take a tour. it is 87 acres so we just did the free walking tour. We were able to go in the Garage and the Playhouse. Here are some pictures of the estate:

Josephine's playhouse