Family

Long Time No Blog

I can't believe it has been over a month since my last blog. My life is a little crazy busy and I haven't had time to put two thoughts together. I went on a fun field trip with Trea to the FW Stock Yards. I think it is so wild that we live 10 minutes from the stockyards and Trea has never been there just to look around and check stuff out. We had alot of fun and took some cute pictures.

Weekend Retreat!

We had so much fun getting away this weekend and relaxing! We went with some Grace families to Laity Lodge, which has to be one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. My kids had so much fun and we are ready to go back! here are some pics!

Dancing with the Stars!

Fall is here and Dancing with the Stars is back! I am so excited! I love love love this slightly cooler weather, football games and relaxing to DWTS. I love Warren Sapp...he is such a cool guy! I also like Kim Kardashian much more than I thought I would. Although I am a little disturbed by Cloris Leachman! She is weird! I want to be on the record that Misty May-Treanor looks like my favorite.

Back to school

Yesterday was my Kids 1st day back to school. Savannah was a little more excited than Trea (he hates school)! It is hard to believe that my daughter has one more year until she is in high school. Am I really that old??? I am a little sad to see the summer end but am alot ready to get back to a normal routine! Here's praying for a great year!!!

Computer Trouble!

My last post was in July about my cell phone and my bad luck continued. After losing my cell phone, my computer crashed and we have been computer free for several weeks. We now finally have it back and this morning my monitor went out. We had to get Savannah's monitor and use it until we get a new one. Fun times at the Dodson's!

In other news, Trea started rehersals for Belles on their Toes-a play that is a continuation of the Cheaper by the Dozen books. He plays one of the brothers who is a prankster named Jamie and he is very excited. I am ready to get school started next week and get my family back on their routine!

Bye Bye Cell phone

I am so bummed out! I went to Kohl's today with my mom and Savannah to get some new duds. Duce called me so I took my phone out of my purse to answer it and just put it in my pocket when we hung up. I went to try on some clothes and Savannah called to see where I was in the store and after I hung up I sat my phone on the little shelf in the dressing room and made a mental note to NOT forget to put it back in my pocket. Do you think that happened? NO! I realized about 20 minutes later that my phone was not in my pocket and went back to the dressing room. Was it there? Of course not and no Kohl's employee had seen it. So after calling Duce (he was extremely happy), cancelling the phone and calling the Lake Worth PD to file a report (for insurance) I just ask myself are there really people that mean in the world to take someone else's cell phone and not turn it in. Duce thinks I am terribly naive to not realize that people are like that. It had to be a woman because it was in the woman's dressing room-it just makes me sad that people do that kind of stuff to other people. Well as Duce puts it-at least I'll get a new phone out of it!

Happy Birthday Trea!

Today is my sweet little man's birthday. He is 9 today! Here are nine things I love about him...

1. He is so stinkin cute!
2. He is always dancing and shakin his groove thing!
3. He knows the name and driver of every monster truck driver and knows without a doubt in his heart that he will be a monster truck driver! (not if mom has anything to say about it)
4. He is the funniest person I know!
5. He is very loving and always sensitive to other people's feelings!
6. He's a tad OCD!
7. He is totally content to hang out at home with his family!
8. He loves his mom!
9. He has complete faith that God will take care of his every need!

There are so many more reasons I love Trea and I am so blessed to have him for a son!

Help

If anyone knows why my link list has disappeared could you please help me...It shows up when I go to settings but when I view my blog it is gone. I am so confused!

Where is Summer going?

I can't believe it has been a month since my last blog. I feel like summer is flying by and I am not sure if that is a good thing or bad! We have been so busy with Trea's show that we are ready to relax. He has had so much fun but now it is finally over. We will be able to get to a somewhat normal lazy summer. Next week Savannah has cheer camp for four days and then it will be smooth sailing! We have had a few weekly rituals going on though...Library on Thursday and Hurricane Harbor on Fridays. Wow how fun are we!

My Music Man

Last night Trea made his acting debut as a townskid in The Music Man! He was so cute I could not have been more proud of him! He now has the acting bug and wants to audition for Peter Pan next week. So in about 10 years when he is the next big thing, you guys can say you knew him when he was a sweet little boy! Here are some cute pics!

My sweet friend Leigh!

Everyone who reads my blog of course knows the lovely Leigh Gilbert! She is a sweet girl whom I have gotten to know better by working at the Grace Place with her, she is kind, caring and a great role model for Savannah. BUT.....you may not know it but Leigh has a dark side! After pelting me with water balloons, KNOCKING me DOWN, breaking my flip flop (which she fixed)and laughing until she almost peed her pants I have been left with a huge ugly black, purple and green bruise all over my leg! (Well a small scrap from sliding actually but the bruise sounds better) Anyway, beware of LEIGH!!!

Cutest Sloth Ever!

Thursday and Friday was Savannah's middle school musical-Suessical. When they first got their parts Savannah came home and was very upset that she had been given the role of the sloth! In her words a sloth is the slowest animal in the world. She made us believe her costume was awful and she was hideous! When it was time for them to come out, we feared the worse...this is what she actually looked like.....





Of course she looked georgeous!

Cheer Fun

Yesterday we spent all day at Six Flags for a cheer competition for Savannah. Her squad got first place in their division! This was also the first time we let Savannah and her friends go off by themselves for a little while and then check back in. After seeing some of the boys walking around by themselves we started having second thoughts! All in all it was a fun day that left me as red as a lobster! Here are some cute pics!


Hope, Ady, Savannah and Kensi


Trea and his ladies



Savannah and her friends had a great time and you can tell Trea did too!

I am so slow!

OK Emily and Kristy, I read your blogs and thought cool-I can probably type really fast. Surely I can beat 75 and 78 WPM (not that I am competitive either Emily) but I have been on that test about 20 times and can not get over 5o words per minute! What a typing loser!

46 words

Today is my sweet daughter Savannah's 13th birhday. Where does the time go? She is all into boys and clothes and sometimes wearing too much make-up but she is too cute for words and I love her so much!! I remember bringing her home from the hospital and she was so tiny and now she is 13!

Snow Day!!

My kids love the snow!!! I couldn't get Trea to come back in the house!!

Isn't he cute!

So sweet!

What a weekend..

This has been such a hard weekend for my family. I don't know all the blog rules or if only fun things are suppose to be on here but I thought maybe I would share in case anyone has any thoughts. We have an above ground pool and deck in our back yard thanks to Ryan and Shannon being so generous! It has been great fun and we really enjoy it but on Friday morning we realized how dangerous it can be. trea and his cousin didn't latch the gate all the way and our beloved sweet dog Princess that we have had for 12 years must have tried to chase something up on the deck sometime during the night. I have never since we got the pool seen her up there so that is all we can thing of. Friday morning we couldn't find her anywhere and searched and searched. My mom just so happened to notice that she was in the pool. We are all just devasted. To think that our poor dog died like that is almost too much to bear and seeing that picture is hard to get out of your head. Trea is having trouble because he knows he didn't shut the gate right and he is such a sensitive little guy that we are worried he will obsess over it. I know it could have been alot worse, it could have been a child that went in and fell in but Princess was a part of our family. I know that sounds crazy but she was with us almost as long as Savannah and it is hard not seeing her sweet face!

DC/NYC

I am finally home from my trip with Savannah and her 7th and 8th grade classes to Washington DC and New York City. It was 5 nights and 6 days of whirlwind fun! We saw so much stuff my head and body were in overload. Our flight was delayed 3 hours because of snow delay and after being at the airport with 50 7th graders we fnally left NY at 9:05 ET. We should have made it home by about midnight but thanks to a medical emergency on our plain I finally got into my comfy bed at 3:00 am. And my sweet husband had a sweet suprise for me! A new little Chihuahua named CoCo!! here are some pics:

Savannah and her friends in Yorktown

New york City!

Here is CoCo!!

Shellee tagged me.

THE RULES:(1) Link to the person that tagged you.
(2) Post the rules on your blog.
(3) Share six non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
(4) Tag six random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
(5) Let each random person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.

Here they are:

1. I am in major love with Tim McGraw! Duce better watch out because one of these days Tim will fall in love with me and try to get me to spend the remainder of my years with him.

2. I make my husband watch general Hospital and What not to Wear. (He really does love me)

3. I have over 100 purses and could still buy a new one every day.

4. I want a tattoo but am too scared of pain to do it.

5. I wish I was 5 inches taller!

6. I am fixing to start watching Season One of Lost that my mom bought me and hopefully not become addicted!

homework torture!!

Have you ever wondered why homework exists? Doing homework at the Dodson house is like pure torture! Sweet Trea took three hours to do one math page and spelling words. He will fight to the death to keep from doing it! Savannah thinks that she can only do homework if I am sitting next to her saying "pay attention, don't watch tv, go to your room and finish now!" And to top it off I find out that she has a 30 seed and 30 leave project due tuesday. We have exactly one avocado seed. Yea for us!!!

I am a blogger!

I have been trying to set up this blog for weeks and have been a little slow. Hopefully this will work!!! I have been keeping up with some bloggers from Grace and thought how fun this would be. More to come from Michelle's World!