Here's a recent picture of Scott and me. Sean actually took this picture of us before we out to dinner. He did a really good job I think. But we were on out way to Outback for dinner.

Auburn Game

All we do anymore is go to ball games. So for a bit you'll hear a lot about football. But hey, it's football season. Is there really anything else happening in the world?

Kim was able to come down today and see her nephew play. Sean and Asia love it when their Auntie Kim comes to see them.



Sean's team did well again. They won 12 to 7. It was a good win againt the Auburn Tigers. Sean scored another touchdown and ran the ball pretty well. He did have a couple fumbles that we weren't too happy about but he's pretty consisent otherwise hanging on to the ball.



I did get a shot of him running the ball and he's stiff arming the guy. It looks like he's doing the heisman.

The pictures I got at work are actually right in front of the building. We have a really nice waterfall. So after the kids got done throwing pennies into it they posed for mommy. Johnny and Laura did too and I got some nice photos of everybody.

Too bad Scott wasn't there. We have so few pictures together.

Welcome Grandparents!

Today was grandparents day at school. Johnny and Laura were able to get away for a few days and celebrate with us. Thank goodness Labor Day is on Monday so they can actually stay and rest and not have to rush off once they got here.

But it was really nice, the presentation they had for all the guests at the school. Asia had a presentation with her class in the room for all the grandparents and then gifts. And then Sean's age group, the rest of the elementary had the big production in the auditorium.

Sean was part of the group that started the ceremony which was pretty cool. He and two other little girls got up center stage to do all of the pledges. He started the one to the Christian flag.

Afterwards, we all went to Chick-Fil-A, ate lunch, walked around, met people and then I was able to get some nice pictures outside. So now we're all home about to watch a movie, The Waterhorse, and Scott's at a football game.

I'll post a review on the movie later and give my thumbs up or down. :)

It's football season! Sean opened up the season today againt the Red Raiders at Q.B. and did a fantastic job. I was actually working in the concession stand so I missed the first three quarters of the game. But fortunately for me, all the action happened during the fourth quarter.

One of his teamates went in to score and then Sean made the two point conversion. Then Sean was able to score on the bootleg (whatever that means). All I know is that my boy was in the endzone with the ball and the ref had his arms up in the air! He then made another two point conversion.

So the game is almost over. One of the other boys steps in, throws the ball into the endzone and Sean is there with ready hands. I think He got those from Scott. But he caught and he scored. Ball game. We won 20-0 against the other team. It was a great way to open this season.

First day of school!

Sean and Asia had a really good day. Sean has a really nice teacher who's very patient, has boys of her own, and some of his friends are the class too. So he's pretty excited about this upcoming year. Asia has Sean's old teachers when he was in K-5, Mrs. Farr and Sandi. She sat right down at her desk and went straight to work on her sheets. And Asia ended up winning the smart board challenge that day, matching exercises so she was pretty happy about that.

It was only half a day so we ended at lunch and the kids and I went to Chinese for lunch and had a good time. Scott couldn't join us becuase he had to get ready for the football teams lock in they were having. All the varsity players, coaches, and the coaches sons spent the night at the school. They had 3 practices in 12 hours. That took the place of the traditional camps they had in the past.

So Asia and I were menless for the night. So we had a slumber party in the livingroom. We played with makeup, painted our nails, ate tons of popcorn, watched Barbie movies and then slept on the floor in the livingroom with lot's of pillows.

So far the beginning of the school year has been pretty fun.

Hey, if you look really close, in the picture of Sean and Asia standing together in front of the school, you can tell that her shoes don't match. :) I got her a matching set this weekend. :)

Sean and Asia had orientation tonight at the school. Sean has a really nice teacher this year and I think he'll do really well with her, I'm hopeing at least. But Kim Edge, his teacher is very patient and has boys of her own plus she knows Sean so already that's an advantage for him. So I'm excited for his year this year.

Asia has Laura Farr and my friend Sandi for her teachers this year. She was really excited to see her teachers but wasn't too excited about sitting at her desk in the room. I hope her excitement to wear her school uniform will spill over to her everyday classroom activities.

All in all the kids are excited about school. It could be the new backpacks and supplies and all the "fun" things they needed for the upcoming year that they're excited about. But I think they're ready to be with their friends, make new ones and learn a little something too.

Wahoo! My new camera is in and I love it. It takes great pictures and I'm having a lot of fun learning all of its functions. I can hardly wait to see what kind of images I'll be able to take of Sean and Scott during football season. It'll be fun to find out.

Thanks to my family for all chipping in so I could get it! I LOVE IT!!!!

I was able to get some images of our trip to Myrtle Beach. We had such a good time. I just wish that I would've been able to get more pictures but my camera died during the trip.

Scott and Sean golfed a bit. Scott took us to the driving range and hit a bunch of balls. Asia met a new little friend next door to our little house and had a great time with her. And we ate a lot of frozen lemonade on the beach. Good times.

But we had a great time on the beach, eating all of that food and spending time with the extended Queen clan. It was bittersweet though on Friday when we had the annual picnic with the family. When it was time for the sisters and brothers to get photographed some of the siblings were noticably absent. So it was great to see everybody but also sad remembering those not present.

Family is so great. I'm ever thankful for mine and all the love we share.

We're home again and it's been a week since we got back from the beach. The kids both got really tan, Sean almost got as dark as me. I got a little bit of sun too but not too much. Scott fortunately didn't burn like he has in the past. So as far as that goes, it was great.

But we did have a really nice time. We had a lot of fun with the whole Queen clan. We went to the beach and the pool everyday. We found some really pretty shells too.

I was in charge of all of the meals so we ate some good food. We had low country boil on night and that has definitely become one of my favorites for sure.

My camera did pretty much die on me so I wasn't able to get any pics on this trip. I'm hopeing that I can get a new camera for my b-day so we'll see.

But we're home and back to the grind. Scott has jury duty starting on Monday. I'm hopeing that he won't be selected since we have the kids to worry about, school is about to start and we just have a bunch of things going on right now. It's a pretty busy time of the year for us.

Anyway, I'll update soon. The kids will be starting school in about three weeks. So we're planning some small camping trips pretty soon and some little day activities. So I'll update as we go.

Love you all!

It has been a very long time since I've posted and I apologize. I've been really busy with my new job but loving every second of it. God is so good.

Anyway, here is an update. Asia turned five! We had a really fun time at Chucke cheese, chucke cheezits according to Asia. Johnny, Laura and Nana came up, and celebrated with us. We had a nice family time eating pizza and play video games.

I do think that her favorite gift besides the Wii was a doctor suit and equipment. We're all mysteriously "sick" now or "hurting" and Dr. Asia has to make us better.
Well that was on the 27th of April.

Scott had a big birthday. He turned 40 this year. Whoa! But at least he doesn't look it. He's been doing a fitness regiment called Crossfit. A bunch of coaches and men from our church have been getting together and working out. It's pretty intense and the benefits of their labor are evident. Scott is getting in shape. He's been running too. I'm there with him in thought.

Then Sean had his ninth birthday. We were going to go bowling but he ended up getting sick on his b-day and we had to postpone the celebration. Needless to say, we still haven't gone yet. But technicall we're still in baseball season and football is this next week too. But we still had cake and presents of coure and had a quiet celebration for him to bring in his ninth year.

Then, aside from all the other birthdays in the family, Johnny, Laura, Christy, and also Mother's Day and Father's day, Scott and I had our anniversary. The past two months have been nothing but celebrations!

So yup 10 years was celebrated on the 20th! I left work early and the two of us met adn went to eat at a Brazilian style restaurant called Fogo De Chao. It was amazing. Kim had eaten there before so she gave me advice on how to "eat". The food was great. And since Scott and I are both carnivores we really enjoyed ourselves. There was every cut of meat imaginable and they were all fantastic.

Aterwards, we went home and took a nap since we stuffed ourselves silly. Darren and Kim Tucker, friends of ours, watched the kids for us. We got up, went to see the tail end of Sean's baseball game that he had that night. They lost. And after the good nights, Scott and I went and saw a late movie, Get Smart, very funny. We both enjoyed it. It's a must buy in my opinion. But in a nutshell that's the latest with us.

This week I'll be super busy at work since we're working on video footage for procedures for the units. So I'll be putting in some long hours this week. Scott is prepared and has been helping me at home stay organized with housework and the kids. Actually, since I started at Chick-fil-A he's done a good portion of the house stuff. You can call him Mister Mom.

And then at the end of the week we'll head off to Myrtle Beach for the Queen family reunion. That's going to be a lot of fun. I can hardly wait since it'll be one full week of vacation. We haven't done that in a long time.

We also went to Panama City for a few days a few weeks ago and had a good time. And the pictures of the kids are their year portraits I did of them on the beach.

Anyway, long one I know but that's it for now. I'll update and post some pics of our beach trip to SC.

School is about to start again, tomorrow actually. So we, my friends and I got together with the kids and went to Scoops. It's a beautiful little ice cream shop down the road and it's the place where you could just stay all day and be happy.

They have all the wonder old fashioned candies in the big glass bowls, tons of neat gift ideas and lot's of yummy chocolates. You walk in and your hit with the aromas of candies and delicious baked goods. The cinnamon rolls they bake are about the size of a man's fist and smothered in cream cheese icing! Yum!

We had a really nice time hanging out and spending time with one another. We all had been so busy over the holidays that we hadn't really had a chance to see eachother. The kids had fun too tasting the different flavors of ice creams and sorbets. Can't wait to do it again.

The last picture was actually of Sean and Asia at a roller rink for a party for one of their friends. Too cute so I had to add it.

I know Christmas is over but I had to write one thing about the elves!

Sean had been coming home all excited about the elves that had been visiting his friends at thier homes. The "elves" would come all the way from the North Pole and do mischievious things to the kids while they're asleep.

So Sean starting writing letters to Santa hoping that he would send an elf his way. Well, needless to say, an elf did visit Sean and more than one I should say.

The first night the elves tp'd Sean's room making a huge mess. And Sean never even woke up. The next night they ate crackers and scattered them around his room. Asia wanting in on the action started sleeping down in Sean's room too hoping to be able to see one.

Well, the third night, they scattered marshmallows and crackers around the room plus toilet paper. But the last night before Christmas Eve, the elves not only made a mess but they left little footprints all over Sean's bed!

Early the next morning we heard a bunch of voices coming from downstairs before church. Sean had gotten our neighbor boys over to show them the footprints. The whole neighborhood was just buzzing. :)

This past week has been really busy with work, typing and cakes. But in the last few weeks I've been elbow deep in flour, sugars and eggs oh my! But it's so much fun. Even though I put in some really long hours when I'm working on a cake I really do enjoy every minute of it. I'm really enjoying learning my mew craft and figuring out how to do new tricks and methods of decorating. I love edible art!

So here are a few pictures of the latest that I've done. The pink and brown cake was for a wedding just before Christmas. I had the wedding cake, grooms cake, FSU, and a bazillion cupcakes for it. The navy and silver cake was for a small private wedding this past Sunday for a military couple. Less is more I always say. I thought it looked really elegant. And the last two were for Asia's little friend Ella for her birthday. She wanted a purse cake so a drawstring satchel was made with all kinds of fun goodies a little girl would love.

Anyway, it's been fun. But I am thankful that I don't have any cakes this week so I can get some rest.

The present that Grandma gave was full of pictures of us when we were younger. It's so much fun going down memory lane.