Twenty Years and Counting "Happy Anniversary"

Twenty Years!

(My beautiful Roses from my husband)

David has been working in Conn. for the past 5 weeks and I had no idea when he would be coming home. His contract is a 5 month contract. At 3:30 am on Friday am,( the am of the 26th, our anniversary) David called me and told me I needed to check the front door. Being dead asleep, I respond What?? He repeats, go check your front door. I get out of bed, Taylor (who is my lightest sleeper) says, mom? what is going on?? I respond, daddy says to check the front door, she follows me to the door and guess who is standing at the door? Yes, David. I couldn't believe it, he surprised me by driving 10 hours after a 9 hour workday to be home in time to celebrate our anniversary. I really enjoy surprises, not that he has been able to pull off very many. (I am very nosey). He really got me, I was stunned and very happy to see him.

( I never have my photo taken and it seems that when someone does take it I am never ready)

(YUCK!)

It seems like yesterday that David and I went to the courthouse to get married. We had our wedding planned for December 17 1988. I went to the doctor because I had found 3 lumps in my left breast. I was only twenty years old. What were they? Where did they come from? and Why are they there? At this time I had no health insurance due to changing jobs and would not have any for 3 more months, my doctor advised me not to wait that long. I did not have the money to pay upfront for the biopsy, after all I had already paid everyone for the wedding that was to take place in December. David's job at the time had a policy that if we were married before the end of the month we would have full health coverage on the 1st day on the next month. So, David and I talked to our families and they were all for us going to the courthouse and getting hitched having the biopsy and then waiting til December for our church wedding, but, we were to keep it hush hush. Well, we talked to David's 83 year old grandmother and my sister (Rhonda) and asked them to go with us. So the morning of September 26th 1988 we went to the courthouse with them and were married, David's grandmother signed our marriage certificate and since Rhonda wasn't 18yrs old yet, we had to have one of the ladies at the courthouse sign as a witness and they let Rhonda sign next to her name. We had our church wedding in December of 1988.

We have 3 wonderful children and look forward to the next 20 years!

My Beautiful Roses

Oh, you thought my flowers, my girls are my beautiful Roses..

Tessa is my little model, she loves to be photographed.

On a rare occasion I can get Taylor to let me take her picture.
She thought she was just being funny til I snapped the picture.
Like to follow in her sister footsteps
Taylor and Nevaeh at the basket ball game on Sunday.

Today Taylor had another Cross Country Meet, she didn't have her best time but she was still in the 1st half of the girls to finish.
You don't hear of many public schools praying before their events, most of the other teams get out and do a cheer, not Perry Meridian girls, they say their prayer as a group. It takes a lot to do something like that at sports events these days. I am very proud of our girls.
Taylor got a great start
Even though she didn't get her best time, I am still very proud of her.

Cousin VS Cousin

Tessa

Kylie (in the blue uniform)

The "other" teams coach (my brother-in-law, Rhonda's husband, Brent)

The Cheerleader Nevaeh, my beautiful niece. (my little sis, Teri's daughter)

Tessa and my niece Kylie's basketball teams played each other Sunday afternoon. They are both point guards, so they were one on one most of the day. They game was not a high scoring game. Both teams fought really hard for a victory.

Tessa is on the near left and Kylie on the right.

Tessa fouled Kylie

Kylie fouled Tessa and she is shooting to pull the game from a tie score.

She makes the shot!

I know the pictures are a little blurry but they were always moving so fast, that even with the camera set for motion I still had trouble getting a great shot.

Kylie trying to keep Tessa from going to the hoop.

This was the score at the beginning of the 2nd quarter.

Here is the score at the end of the 3rd quarter.

In the 4th quarter they were tied 8 to 8, Kylie fouled Tessa and she shot 2 free throws and made one making the score 9 to 8, with less than a minute in the game Kylie got the ball and made a break for the basket and scored 2 points and the end score was 9 to 10. Kylie's team wins!!!

We had such a great time watching them play. My brother-in-law coaches Kylie's team and he told Kylie "Off the court Tessa is your cousin, on the court she is your opponent, don't let up because she isn't going to". Neither of them gave in, they played their hearts out, after the game it was hugs and smiles. No one cared who one.

"Happy Birthday Karri"

Happy Birthday to my beautiful Cousin, actually she is more my sister than cousin, Karri is one of the most beautiful women I know, she is a wonderful mother. I can't tell you in words what you have meant to me. I love you and wish you many more birthdays, may they just get better and better.

Soccer, Perry Meridian vs North Columbus High School

Here are a few photos of the game last night, Tucker and his team did a great job against Columbus North High School, although they did not win Perry Meridian High School put up a good fight.

Tucker is warming up.
During the game.
Waiting for the ball to come to their area, wouldn't want to be called for "off-sides". By the way, isn't that a weird name for an illegal move?

Tucker trying to steal the ball.

This is Tucker #28 and his best friend Andrew #31.

They did a great job, I am so proud of my son.

Tumblin Tucker

Tucker recently spent the day at the lake with his girlfriend Abbie, her parents and a few friends from school. Since this was his first day to spend with her family I guess they needed to break the ice. errr.. water.

Tucker is on the left

(any mother would know her own sons feet)

Yes, I do believe that must have hurt in some way, but I don't believe you will get him or any other teenage boy to admit that to his girlfriend, her parents, or to his friends.

I wish that I had more pictures of that day but Tucker didn't take a camera and these are the only pictures that he received a copy of. They all had a great time. (I would have loved to be a mouse with a camera that day on their trip.)

The Rest of the Photos

Here are some of the other photos taken that Saturday!

Tucker, Taylor, Tessa
My Beautiful Nieces Bailey & Kylie Glover

My Adorable Niece Nevaeh

Can you tell they had a great time?

My Wonderful Blessings

A few Saturdays ago I told my children to get ready we were going to the mall. Tucker was like ok, Taylor said "do we have to?", Tessa was like Yea!!! let's go!!! I did not tell them we were going to get pictures taken. I would have never gotten Tucker to the mall then, Taylor would not have come out of her room. Tessa would have been dressed to the hilt and ready to go. She loves the mall and having her picture taken. Both of my sisters and I took all of our kids to have pictures taken with Nanny and Papaw. Nanny did not know we were going to do this, it was a complete surprise. She thought she was going to have her picture taken with just the youngest grandchild "Nevaeh". Surprise!!! you get ALL six of them in the picture!


Here is the real "Carsuo" kids!

The girls love to pick on their big brother?

Can you pick out the one who looks like me?? the one who looks like their dad?

The whole Gang!

My daughter Taylor

My Taylor

Taylor is 12 years old, she is really coming into her own. Independence has boomed into her essence. It seems only yesterday that she was my sweet little girl who was a mommy's girl. I look at her and see the beautiful woman she is becoming. Kind, considerate, brave, independent and grateful are only a few of the words to describe her. I wish for her all the guidance from above a person could have as she starts to make important decisions in life. Taylor is in the 7th grade at the local public middle school. My daughter is growing up and this seems to be the time in life where kids learn who they should and should not hang around with. What type of career they would like to have when they grow up. Do not forget about the BOYS!!! What an exciting time of her life. I know she will make wise choices!

Bradford Woods

Tessa and I had a great time at Bradford Woods, she really enjoyed the face painting with natural stones, she and her friends chose animals to make them better "warriors".

Harvest Time

It has been great picking tomatos, watermelon, cantelope, cucumbers and now grapes from the garden, I am so excited to juice them and make grape jelly.

For my wonderful husband who is away, we miss you and think of you every minute and pray you will be home soon!