Yearbook Photos 2021

Junior

8th grade

7th grade

5th grade

5th grade

kindergarten

 

The Skies Display His Beauty

We had the most spectacular, brightest, double rainbow any of us had ever seen before!

No filters!

 

School Days

 

Decorating for Fall

For most of us in the Fish House, fall is our favorite season.

Football.  Leaves changing colors.  Cooler weather. Pumpkin everything.

We love it.

So while I'm not one to jump the gun and decorate TOO early, breaking out the fall decor in September just before the first day of fall was a good call.

Remember my tiered tray I made last year with Dollar Tree items?  I've loved filling it each season with little nick knacks to display.  These I found at Hobby Lobby, Walmart, and Dollar Tree - or just had on hand.

Welcome Fall!!

 

MQ in the House

Exhausted Pirate

MQ and AB 

Love her garden, gate, and driveway

a Unicorn, of course!

"Is this a good day to help make supper?"

That is her daily question!

And her daily activity in the car ride home!

 

Hoco Week

I used to be really good at taking daily Fish Stick photos during dress up days of Homecoming.

Not so much anymore.

I'm happy if I can get one or 2.

So here's MQ on dress like a pirate day.  Argh!

And sports team day

Hoco Dance

Leah & Caroline

AC, Leah, Rosalyn & Kirsten

AC & Leah

Leah & Gracyn

Leah & Kay

Leah & her date, Mason

Junior girls

Brooke & Ruth

Aubrey, Bess, Anna Claire, Callie, Mae, Marxie, Ruth, Grayson, Charlee

Maren & Ruth

Marxie & Ruth (friends since 3rd grade)

Ruth & Nathan, her date

 

Pave The Way

We have a LONG driveway.

When we first built our house, we paid a company to do a "chip and tar" driveway.

They did a horrible job and with every downpour we had, half our driveway washed away leaving horrible bumps and potholes.  

My Man and GD would then have to spend lots of time trying to smooth it out again.

The contractor was called back to repair his work but he took off, wouldn't return calls and must have changed business names because he couldn't be found.

This left us with an expensive driveway that caused us lots of trouble.

This year, after several major rain storms that left our driveway a mess, My Man and his father decided to have our driveway paved.

It was a big deal to not have our family traffic make it up the big hill to the house for a week, but we drove on the grass and made it happen without problems, until the last day, it rained and we went mudding a little to get home.  😎

Bikes, scooters, Rip Sticks and all the fun outdoor toys we've never been able to use on the messed up chip and tar are now our favorite activity....not to mention a smooth ride up that never washes away!!

Yeah for new driveways!!🙌

 

High Soccer

 I still am in a bit of shock that I have a senior again....my 3rd senior....with a junior right on her heels.

In 2 years, almost half my Fish Sticks will be out of the house.  Where does time go?

One of our favorites things to do for My Man and me is to watch our kids compete.  The older they are, the more exciting the games.

High school soccer is where we are now.

Ruth sprained her ankle in this game and ended up being out for several games while she healed her ankle wearing a boot.

Since these 2 girlies aren't the touchy-feely type with each other, I snagged a photo of Leah helping Ruth off the field after the game.

And this is their dear friend, Anna Cate...the only friend my girls fight over.

The moms of the seniors requested a childhood photo of each senior to put on their locker.

I had so many precious ones to choose from but this roller skating, piggy tail one was a winner!

And speaking of great soccer watching, we love watching our AB play in college.

This year a childhood family friend, Carlie, came to Bryan and played as goalie.  AB and Carlie had played together on our HS team.

It's been so fun seeing these 2 girls, who have known each other since birth, get closer as college teammates.

 

Crowned Clencher

I've got teeth problems.

I grew up hearing my dentist say every year at my cleaning say, "What PERFECT teeth you have!  Beautiful.  Just beautiful!"  I never had a cavity and I never had braces.

Then one day in 2002 while living in Singapore, I noticed that half my back molar was gone.  Just gone.  I have no clue how or where or when.  It didn't hurt so I waited until we came home to go to the dentist about it.  

Seems it just cracked in half and so I needed a crown.

Before the year was up, I broke my crown eating a piece of salmon.  Yep, salmon.  Go figure.

So another crown.  And that has been my teeth story of the last 20 years.

I've had so many crowns, I'm pure royalty.

I've broken 3 molars and multiple crowns.

How can I, the girl with PERFECT teeth, have so much trouble??

I've been told that I clench in my sleep.

Like I bite so hard that I have broken through teeth, crowns and I forgot to mention, several mouth guards have split in my mouth.

It's the most frustrating thing to be harming myself and 100% unable to fix the problem as I continue to cause my hard-working husband to fund my dentist's beach vacation.  😣

So just before we headed to the beach for the Payne family vacation, I had a bad toothache.  I ignored it until I couldn't chew anything and finally went to the dentist.  He found nothing wrong and just clipped my night guard - thinking I was putting so much pressure on my jar by clenching that I was causing pain in my jaw.

This helped me get through the rest of the summer.

Until in September, I heard and felt a molar crack in half while I was eating.

I went back to the dentist and because of the way I cracked it, a crown would not help.  It had to be extracted.

So now I have a hole in my mouth where a molar once was, next to a nice molar crown while the other of my pearly whites are just waiting to be pressed together each night to the point of snapping in two like the others.  

At this rate, I'll be gumming my food by the time I'm 60.

I told My Man to shoot me before that happens.🙅