Princess Molly

Cousin Molly was in a wedding after Christmas. She and Morgan came to visit us after the wedding and dad made some pics of Molly in her pretty dress.

Merry Christmas! UPDATED

Santa came! He obviously got our change of address form I sent.

More details and pictures to follow.

-Laura

Well, I'm going to have to set dad down and get him to show me how to post on this by myself. It is taking him entirely too long to post pictures and updates. Here it is January 17th and he's just now posting pictures from Christmas. I can only imagine if he shot film instead of digital pictures!!!

Tupelo Christmas Parade

Saturday was the Reed's Christmas Parade in Tupelo. Here is a slide show from it.

Dad pushed some button on his "fancy" camera and made half of the pictures in sepia tone.

Oh, well it isn't like Christmas parades are all colorful or anything....

Ketchup anyone?

Now that dad has completed his $40M+ budget project, has the County's assets insured, he and mom have signed countless "bank papers", most of our stuff now spends the night in Tupelo, football season is all but over, it is time for a catch-up blog post. It may take a few days for me to make sure dad gets it right so you may need to read this one several times. I'll try to get him to put "UPDATED" or something on the catch-up post rather than posting too many individual entries. Like the ketchup pic? Notice it is Hunt's and not Heinz... Anyway, here we go:

Looks like the last post was from Molly's birthday party - bet a lot of you thought it was such I blast that we were still to tired to update the blog. It was a great party, but that wasn't what tied everyone up. See, August is a special month - not just because it is Dad's birthday, and Uncle Shane's, and Ms. Beth's and several other people's - NO it is special because that is the month that we press the "hold" button on the Thompson Family lives and work and football season take over. Mom and I went back to school on the 10th and dad's first budget as a County Administrator was due on September 15th - got it done, but whew! what a project. I know everyone wants to know what Reagan was doing - sleeping and pooping. And, staying at Meme Carol's (baby sitter in Tupelo)

Reagan and I really enjoyed the football season this year - we got to play a lot with the Robinson boys and eat a lot of good food. I'll make sure dad posts some of the pictures. I think he made like 2,000,000 this year.

From looking back at some of the earlier posts you will remember we had another little project called BUILDING A HOUSE... Supposed to bring Reagan home to it from hospital - HA! would have been fun seeing how mom would manage that without lights, running water, heat/air conditioning - you know all the little "comforts" Anyway, we were finally able to start calling it home around the middle of October. (I'm still sleeping on the couch and Reagan is sleeping in Mom & Dad's room - cause neither of us have mattresses for our beds - I'm not complaining cause I have the TV where I sleep)

OH - and you better wear "grippie" socks if you come over - these stained concrete floors are S-L-I-C-K! I even have a scar to prove it. Dad was supposed to be giving me a shower, but was putting up curtains and didn't come get me fast enough when I finished my shower (by the way - kudos to Uncle Shane on the shower - looks great!)Anyway, I finished my shower and when I stepped out BAM, down on the concrete I went. That got dad moving... He came in and asked what had happened - duh I FELL!!! He stood me up and was checking to see if anything was broke, which I told him it wasn't, then he looked down - so as to not gross anyone out, I'll just tell you my friend - when you cut your head, it bleeds A LOT!!! After a little drama over not wanting to get stitches I decided we should let a Dr. look at it to make sure I didn't need any. We rode around Tupelo for an hour and a half trying to find somewhere other than the ER to go BUT on Sunday night at 8:30 - you are going to the ER whether you like it or not! No stitches and so far the glue only cost $500. Dad wanted to use duct tape, but that would have required a new hair-do. I have a new appreciation for "wet floor" signs. For those of you who insist on asking about Reagan, she did wake up during my drama over stitches but quickly drifted off to la-la-land, never knew we went to see the "hot" ER Doc. ;-)

Dad has started to settle in at his new job, Mr. Michael now works where dad does and gets to help him do a lot of the stuff he (dad) doesn't want to do. I get to go help every once in a while too. Reagan, not so much. Not a lot she could do - unless daddy needs a paper weight.

Mom is all excited about changes going on at school with a new superintendent and principals etc. etc. etc. Dad keeps telling her to chill that as with most gov't plans - it will change a thousand times before it gets done.

Reagan has a new trick - you can ask her a question and she will nod "yes" Doesn't matter what the question is, the answer is always yes... I hope she sticks with that line of thinking as she gets older. "Will you get out of my room?"-YES "Will you leave me alone?"-YES see-I can work with that.

Like I said I may have to have dad revise some of this over the next few days and I'll try to get some pics posted here pretty soon or at least link to the picasa page. Oh, I almost forgot - I was a witch for Halloween and Reagan was a bumble bee.

TTFN

Cousin Molly's 6th B-day Party

Molly had a water slide party for her birthday at Meme & Dede's this weekend. It was a LOT of FUN!!!!! I almost flew off of it! It was cool! Reagan didn't like the water - it was too cold. Here are the pics of me and Molly's friends playing. There are some pics of Reagan over on her site. Enjoy!

Happy Fourth of July!

Me & Sis

Here are some pics dad took with his new camera last weekend at grandmaw and grandaddy's. Reagan looks so funny in one. hehehe

Are we there yet????

Almost....

Burning candle at both ends and the middle

Whew! We've all been busy - New job, Wedding, Coast, etc. But finally - I got dad to work on some of the photos from the wedding and here they are:



I hope to get more things updated on my site this weekend!

Off the highspeed grid

This past Friday and Saturday I was in a wedding and dad made 1400 pictures (not all of me!).
Then on Sunday grandmaw made BBQ for fathers' day.
On Monday, we left for a convention and we are off the highspeed grid on the Mississippi Gulf Coast this week so pictures will have to wait until we get back to Pontotoc.

21 - we have a winner!

Baby and job down - finish house and sell old house yet to go.

Quality time with dad (and sis)

I had spend-the-night company last night - Em came over and we had lots of fun! It was good to see her again. Today the Realtor showed the house again so we went to Tupelo to check on the other house. They have installed out light fixtures and mine looks cute.

Tonight I fell asleep watching 17 (Disney Channel) and when I woke up mom had gone to Wal-Mart so I climbed up in the chair with Dad and Reagan.



Not a whole lot planned for tomorrow.

Progress pics from the house

Not much to say except we are getting there....

Pics from the "Family" Party

Today we had the "private" party for my 6th birthday. Last night mom and dad took me out to Olive Garden for my birthday dinner. I had spaghetti. The waiter and waitresses sang happy birthday to me and we had cake. I had a lot of fun today with Meme, Dede, Grannie Dot, Grandmaw, Aunt Cathy, Aunt Kate, Morgan and Molly.

The one thing that we failed to do was make my picture in my birthday hat - it has been packed up and taken to the new house - we'll get a picture in it when we have the Big Blow-out over there.

Here are the pictures:

House of Cards-Getting Stoned-Happy Birthday Lou!!!

(Dad Posting)
In a few hours it will be the 6th of June (where has the last 9 months gone!!!) HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOU!!!! A small private party will be held in Pontotoc to celebrate Saturday, BUT hopefully there will be a big shindig at the NEW HOUSE!!! later this month, or next, or at least before school starts... maybe.

I hope to be able to get some pics of the stone work (that is if any got put up this week) on the house. They were putting up the base mortar coat on Wednesday so maybe we'll have something to look at tomorrow. Kitchen and MBR cabinets were installed (to some degree) this week and appliances are supposed to show up tomorrow. Yippee!

On the job front - I previously referred to it as a poker match, but since there have been a few "developments" I'm changing it over to a hand of blackjack - mostly because of the field of 37 or so applicants 16 give or take were interviewed and an offer was made (not to me) that person folded. BUT just because they folded doesn't mean I win, but I'm not sure there is anyone else at the table, hence the reason I changed to blackjack. I think I'm probably looking at an 16 and the dealer has a 7 - odds card says "hit me." We'll see if I bust - check back at the first of the week to find out.

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Only 1 day left in May!

You know what that means! Day after tomorrow is June 1st and on June 6th I'll be 6!!!

TOP HONORS!!!

Today was the final AR (Accelerated Reader)awards program. I had a total of 41 points. Which means I read somewhere between 80-90 books! I got a backpack tag (key chain) and a cup cake. I also had the most points in the entire Kindergarten class. Below is the video dad shot.

Color and 2 weeks (give or take) to go on house

Here are the most recent photos from the house taken Sunday (I think.... this week has all run together)

Big Day #2

OK- Tomorrow is dad's big day. His interview is at 10:15. Not sure when they'll make the decision, but I'll be sure and post the results here.

3 DAYS OF SCHOOL LEFT!!!

School is almost over! I can't wait, but I'll miss my friends and Ms. Linda and Ms. Rutledge.

Road Trip

Ok - short post, details to follow later. Since Reagan had to go for a tanning bed appointment at the hospital (see her blog for details) I got to make a road trip with Meme and Dede to Hatley this weekend.

Phototherapy

Reagan's going back in hospital for phototherapy.

Goin' Home

We have left the hospital and on our way to pic up big sis!

Big Sisterhood - Love it!!!!

Yesterday, I got to hold Reagan for the first time. I even gave up a trip to Chuckie Cheese and Toys R Us with Ms. Traci to wait to see Reagan again before we went home. I spent the night with Ms. Traci and Hart last night and had a big time!

My teacher Ms. Rutledge got me a brag book and I filled it up with pictures. I also had cupcakes for my class today that Ms. Marla helped mom get. I also got to go tell mom's class about the baby and show my pictures to them also.

Ms. Traci took me to get a Big Sister present today after school - I got a pink poodle Webkinz and I named her fluffy. Then Ms. Marla took me back to the hospital to see Reagan. While we were there a lot of the teacher's from my school came to see me. (and Reagan, too)

Grandmaw came to stay with mom and Reagan tonight so dad and I could go home and sleep in our own bed and get the carseat for Reagan's big trip home tomorrow!

I can't wait to play with Reagan tomorrow!

Reagan's Album is up

Ok - I'm back in charge of my blog! Reagan is soooooo cute! She's got dad hoppin' and posting pics - check out her blog for her full album.

You can click the link at right of my blog and go to hers and BACK TO MINE FROM HERS also.

Stats

Reagan Grace weighs 7 pounds 5 ounces and is 18.5 inches long

Here I am!

Haven't been weighed yet but in the 7# 12oz range per Dr. C