The Pierce Family Blog

Ha! I love it!

I've now officially pulled two innocent folks into the world of "Twilight"!!!!  My friend Andrea emailed me desperate to locate the second book today, seeing as she started and finished the first book yesterday!  And Liza, who I have been begging to read them has finally been sucked in as well!!!!  I can't wait for you guys to finish them so we can talk about it!!

Weekend Wrap-up!

I feel like we've done alot this weekend and we've had fun too!  Those are always the best kind of weekends for me.  Friday morning Caroline and I dropped Luke off at school then took a little girls shopping trip to Tallahassee for the morning.  We hit the mall and a few other places, she is so good shopping, she just loves to stroll around and take it all in. 

Friday night was the game of course, then Saturday we had a work day at my parents house, all the fam showed up and cleaned their garage out.  It was really fun, we sorted through old pictures and memories and had alot of laughs.  We got the garage all done, then ate dinner at their house. 

This afternoon has kind of just been play time for all of us.  Eugene and I played hide n seek with Luke.  One time when Luke was hiding he turned a laundry basket over on himself to hide.....I thought that was pretty good, I would have had a hard time finding him if it weren't for the constant giggling coming out of him!  We colored, played outside some then tonight we all went to Cherokee Lake again to walk and to visit the playground!  Eugene and I rented the movie Leather heads to watch but the DVD was messed up...ugh....but we ended up watching an old favorite, Out Cold instead!  So all in all another great weekend!

I'll leave you with a clip of Luke playing on the computer.  He loves to play computer games and he now can do it all by himself!  Today he played for about 30 minutes straight!  It's so neat to watch him listen to the game then follow directions, he's such a big boy!

Untitled from Mindy Pierce on Vimeo.

Milestone!

We hit a major milestone in our family Friday night!  We successfully all went to a Central football game!!!  We've had season tickets for three years now and we've yet to go when the kids enjoyed themselves.  Caroline has been too little to really like it and Luke has been too scared!  Last year when we tried it he pretty much had a panic attack in the stands!  So for the past couple years Eugene has just gone without us. 

This past Friday night we thought we'd all try it again.  Luke was excited at first, but when we got in the stands he had his hands over his ears and was shaking a little.  Then, a miracle happened, he started enjoying himself!!!  I mean, really enjoying himself!  I think alot of it had to do with the fact that his cousins and his friend Garret were there.  Peer pressure worked in our favor that night!

My mom had her camera so I took a few really bad pictures, but you at least still get the idea of the fun Luke was having!  Luke and Claire got so into it, cheering loud, yelling, Go Jackets!!  I took this first picture without realizing I didn't have the flash up.....but Claire cracks me up in this one!  You can see how excited they were!

 

Here are a few more!

 

 

Caroline had a great time too!  She watched the game and would clap her hands.  She even watched the cheerleaders and would put her arms in the air and cheer!  We're all looking forward to the next game this Friday.  Finally, we can all go and have a great time!

Luke, The Natural

I was flipping through some pictures Aunt Jenn took at Luke's birthday party and noticed something.....Luke's really a natural when it comes to baseball!  Check out this swing!

   

I got to really looking at these pictures and noticed how focused he looks....

 

His eyes are burning a hole through that ball! 

 

He can field the ball too!

 

 

My day

What a day it's been!  I feel like I've experienced a range of emotions today!  Eugene drove the van to work this morning and took the kids to Mimi's so I could get some house stuff done.  I was able to work all morning without any interruptions....ahhh it was nice!  Eugene was suppose to bring the kids home in the van around lunch....well things didn't go as planned and he wasn't able to leave to go and get them.  So I'm sitting at home and had a bright idea!  Eugene's truck (which is a stick shift) was sitting in the drive way, I've driven it a handful of times.....I got to thinking "I know how to drive a stick", "I've done it before.......it's not that far of a drive".  But in reality I've only driven a stick one time by myself, the other times someone had been in the car coaching me.

I decided I'd just drive up to his office and switch cars with him, no big deal.  I also decided not to let Eugene in on my plan because he would have hexed it right off!!  So off I go! 

I successfully made it out of the driveway!!!! I breezed out of the neighborhood!  I got on Hwy 84!!!!  Then I caught every red light on Smith!!!  It wasn't until I got to the busiest intersection that I had a problem.  I was sitting at the light at Hansel St.  when it turned green...I tried to go and stalled....tried to go again....stalled, then after a few more attempts the light turns red again.  Cars started beeping their horns at this point I'm literally shaking (I'm also thinking the Excedrin I took this morning mixed with coffee probably wasn't the best idea either!)

The light turned green again....I tried and tried, by this time I'm actually blocking both directions of traffic, I was getting close to panic and I must have restarted that car 20 times!  Finally I realized I was in second gear, oops!  So I put it in first and the car started moving, THANK YOU LORD!!!! 

I then proceeded to pull into a parking lot and call Eugene, he came with the van and all ended okay.  Eugene found it all pretty humorous, and after I stopped shaking I did too! 

Tonight Eugene's boss who's in town this week came over for dinner.  We enjoyed good food and good conversation and the kids, and when I say kids, I mean Luke didn't embarrass us!  He was actually quite good! 

Luke is really, really testing his limits lately....and we are really really trying so hard to make him walk a straight line!  I've decided it's time to revisit some behavior books I read awhile back, I'm starting tonight with Making Children Mind without Losing yours! 

This one is for you mom!

So my mom keeps asking me when I'm going to start blogging again.  I've just really gotten out of the habit of it!  I thought though, tonight, for her, I'd update it!  For the most part we've just been chugging along life as usual.  We've really enjoyed the weather lately, but who hasn't!?  I wish it was like this all year round!  We've been going to Cherokee Lake alot!  The kids like to play on the playground and there is a nice walkway that goes all the way around the lake so we've been taking lots of walks!  Today I took Caroline to my moms house for a little while and I picked up Luke and his friend Whitt from school and we went to the Lake, had a picnic and played!  Claire also came along.  The kids had a great time playing.  I tried to take some pictures of the kids but they really didn't want much to do with the camera, I did get this cute one of Whitt, he's such a doll, so sweet! 

 

And this is a picture of Caroline I took earlier this week.  This is her frustrated face!  She squishes her nose up and breaths really fast and loud, it's so adorable!

 

I'd love to post a picture of Luke this week but oh man, has he been a handful lately!  He is just full speed ahead at all times! 

Here are a few videos from this week!  The first is Caroline taking her first steps!  I was standing in the kitchen the other night and Eugene said "Look, there she goes!  I literally grabbed my flip camera that was laying on the counter and started filming, so these are really the first few steps!  Since then she's taken like 10 steps in a row, she'll be running before we know it!

She's up! from Mindy Pierce on Vimeo.

This next clip is the kids singing in the car!  Well, at least Luke is singing, Caroline loves to clap and dance a little to the music.  If you look really close you'll see Caroline trying to put her little light up with her index finger.  And Luke....crazy kid....this is what he acts like 24/7!! 

This little light! from Mindy Pierce on Vimeo.

Just one more...promise!  This is Caroline throwing kisses and kind of saying Daddy! 

Throwing kisses! from Mindy Pierce on Vimeo.

Well, I think that's all for tonight.  I've kind of got a cold going on and I took some nighttime medicine about two hours ago....it's really starting to kick in, time for bed!  Have a great thursday!

Still here!

I feel I need to update you on everything that's happened in the last week or so but the thought of trying to remember all that is a little daunting!  So, I'm just going to jump into today!  

Today is Football day at school for Luke!  This morning he wore his cute little Yellow Jacket's jersey!  I had to snap a few pics before he left because he was just so darned cute! 

   

This next picture cracks me up he was really ready for me to quit taking pictures so he gave me this silly face....

 

As for the rest of us we're all doing just fine!  Caroline has started taking a few steps but her preferred method of travel is still crawling!  I'll post more later!  Have a great day!

Back in the land of the living

Confession time......I'm sure many of you have been wondering where I've been this week.  I know I've been a terrible blogger, I've also been a pretty crummy wife, mother, friend and family member this week!  I have pretty much ignored everyone outside the four walls of our house as much as possible.  It's a little embarrassing, but let me explain......

Let me go back to last weekend first.  I was at Walmart Friday night buying supplies for Luke's party and decided to pick up the book Twilight.  My friend Ursula had said it was great so when I noticed they had it I decided to pick it up.  I enjoy reading at night before bedtime, I usually have a few books going at any given time, a devotional type book, a parenting book and maybe another one for pleasure but I'm not usually a freak about reading, it's just something I do to unwind at night.   We had a busy holiday weekend.  Monday Eugene's parents went back home and me, Eugene and the kids went swimming at my parents house for the day.  Monday evening we got home, got the kids down then I decided to pick up Twilight and start reading.  I read maybe a 100 pages then decided I needed to go onto bed, well actually, Eugene decided I needed to go to bed because Tuesday I had long day.  My grandma from Savannah had been in town over the weekend and I was driving her back to Savannah on Tuesday.  I drove her to Savannah, spent maybe 2-3 hours seeing family then drove back to Thomasville.  The whole way all I was thinking about was Twilight!  I couldn't wait to get started back reading it!  Finally after getting home, getting kids to bed, etc...I settled into reading.  I was so into it I didn't even notice the time!  I read and read til I finished it at 5am!  The next day was Wednesday.  All I thought about was getting to Walmart to buy the other books in the series, there are 4 books total and I just had to read them all as fast as possible! 

It wasn't until later in the evening on Wednesday that we were able to get over that way.  Just last week Walmart had all the books but this week they were out of the second one.  I almost had a panic attack right there on the book isle!  Eugene helped me sift through every single book on the shelf and it wasn't there!  I really debated about driving to Tallahassee then I remembered Ursula!  She had the books!  I called her and she let me whip by and get them, THANK YOU URSULA!!! 

I have stayed up late every night this week reading, last night I fell asleep reading around midnight.  At 2 am Caroline woke up crying, I gave her a bottle then after I got her to bed I started reading til around 4am....I must be crazy right?!  Well I'm happy to say that today I finally finished all four books and even 12 chapters of an unreleased book in the series the author has on her website.  In the course of a less than a week I've read around 2,500 pages!!!  That is just crazy for me, I've never done that. 

I've been so engrossed in the books that I've actually spent more time pondering the story plot than living in reality!  Thank goodness I've had Ursula to call and email when I got to pivotal places in the plot, she's been the only person to understand me this week!  Eugene has really put up with alot, he's said I just kind of seemed spaced out all week! 

I'm happy to report now that I'm back to myself, I know I still haven't posted any pictures but I've got some things to catch up on around here, I've pretty much taken a sabbatical from being a housewife this week so I've got to get back to work, but soon, I promise!