Just a sneak peek.....

Gotta love those baby blues......
Sweet kisses for momma.

And Uncle Alex ( Momma's baby brother)

She is his whole world. He calls her his princess.

Hugs for Great-Grandaddy with help from Uncle Alex.

Sitting on Grandaddy's lap with cousin Sophie. (Scott's dad)

Playing in the kitchen.

Kisses from one of her biggest fans... cousin Jacob.

He thinks she looks like him.

Brothers Tyler and Jacob opening their Star Wars pajamas from us.

Merry Christmas!

First of all .... I am so far behind on my posting. Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you all enjoyed good times with those who mean the most to you. We shared an enjoyable day with family at our house exchanging gifts and eating delicious food. My greatest joy was to see my daughter love on my Grandaddy. We have waited almost 18 long months for this day and it couldn't have come on a more special day. What an example of innocence. She probably hugged and kissed him 5 times. We cried at the sight of this. He's not in the best of health and it has affected him so much physically and mentally. Sometimes he tells me that he lives another day just to see Raegan and that one day she will love him back. That is so hard on me because I cannot make her show him attention like she does everyone else. She is usually very reluctant to sit in his lap or give kisses but today she let her guard down and didn't hold anything back. With the reassurance of my brother ( Her favorite Uncle Alex) by her side she loved on Grandaddy with all of her might and that was the best Christmas gift of all. Thank you, Lord.

My sweet friend Debbie was kind enough to pass the award to me.The meaning of this award... This blog invests and believes in the PROXIMITY - nearness in space, time and relationships! These blogs are exceedingly charming. These kind bloggers aim to find and be friends. They are not interested in prizes or self-aggrandizement. Our hope is that when the ribbons of these prizes are cut, even more friendships are propagated. Please give more attention to these writers! Deliver this award to eight bloggers who must choose eight more and include this cleverly-written text into the body of their award.

And the winners are.......

Amy

Angel ( Blessed with 4)

Angel (Voice of Adventure)

Laura

Ashton

Krista

Susan

Stephanie

Catching up in Blogland.

I am so far behind on blogging. We have been busy that blogging has just taken a backseat to other things but it has been so nice catching up with my Blogger Buddies. We have been working on potty training again. Raegan is not doing well in Pull-Offs.... oops... I mean Pull-Ups. She is always taking them off. Fortunately, she goes potty but then doesn't want to wear them...so we have resorted to panties. ELMO and Mickey of course. Hey, you gotta do whatever it takes. At night we switch to them and she seems to be motivated to wear them until bedtime. We've only had a few accidents. Today she used the potty 6 times.

Scott and I have discovered Monopoly Electronic banking and we LOVE it. We especially love the fact that you can stop playing and then start all over again whenever you want. We can get a good hour in at night after she goes to bed and then save the game for another night.

We received our results on our state tests this week. About 75% of my students scored advanced but I had 2 students to get below proficient. Overall, I was pleased with their scores. Most students did better than I expected and they were really excited about the results. This week is finals. We have 2 days left of school until Christmas break. We have so much to do to finish out the semester. Its like the end of the year for us because we will get all new students and classes in January thanks to our block scheduling.

I haven't had much time to enjoy my crafts, hairbow making, or sewing. We have a new toy and we are still trying to figure it out. I will update you later on how it is going. I am electronically challenged.....so we'll see.

My sweet friend Amanda has shared good news with me. Her little girl Flor has just gotten out of PGN in Guatemala and will be coming home soon. She has been trying to bring this little girl home for so long now and she is so close. I only wish it could've been for Christmas but a way to bring in the New Year. We are so happy for them both to be Forever Home!

Xerox Thank you cards to our soldiers.

XEROX IS DOING SOMETHING COOL If you go to this web site: www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services. How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!! It is FREE and it only takes a second. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these? Whether you are for or against the war, our soldiers over there need to know we are behind them. This takes just 10 seconds and it's a wonderful way to say thank you.
Please take the time to pass it on for others to do. We can never say enough thank you's. Thanks for taking to time to support our military!

Another Busy Weekend

This weekend we have been so busy. Friday night we went to the Huntsville Botanical Gardens Galaxy of Lights. Raegan was in such awe at all of the lights. It was amazing to watch and listen to her excitement as we rode through the gardens. She was so excited that she wouldn't sleep. Seriously, she was up at 2:15 and then 5:15 in the morning. It could have been the hot chocolate that someone gave her....Hmmmm! Saturday we went to Huntsville again to have our family Christmas portraits made. They were able to get some pretty good shots despite one slightly uncooperative little girl. Then we went to eat Cajun for dinner while our photos were being processed. We also shopped for a birthday gift for a friend's child. In the meantime, we received a call in response to an add that we had placed for a wheelchair for my grandfather. As luck would have it we were able to go get it and still get back in time to pick up our pictures. Whew! Then Sunday after church we did a little grocery shopping, took pictures with Santa and went to the birthday party. Needless to say we got very little house cleaning or laundry done this weekend. As my mom says it won't go away anytime soon so don't worry about it. Well easier said than done. Well enough about the weekend. Here are some of our pictures.

Clemons Family 2008

Our Little Angel

Momma's Princess

Daddy and his Girl

Raegan loved this bear.

She had fun on the firetruck.

We snuck a photo of just Momma and Daddy while Raegan was playing with the toys.

A week of hurdles.

This has been a week of many hurdles.

It has been a crazy week at school. The kids are so wild and ready for Christmas break. Getting them to work for the next two weeks is going to be a challenge. They have been taking state tests this week and the Biology one was today. I hope everything that we have done all year has paid off. We will likely know the results by the end of next week. I am a little nervous to say the least.

I have been working on everything to start next semester of college. I have always said that scheduling classes and paying for them is half the battle. Getting through the paperwork can be stressful....and don't even think about trying to call anyone about any questions you have because you get one automated message after another to eventually reach a mailbox that is not accepting messages because it is already too full. Then, one might think about emailing only to get a response from a person who doesn't enough to help you and will gladly transfer you to someone who can help...... you guessed it.... the mailbox again. Then in 3 or 4 days someone will call and then tell you to check back in a few more days because its not processed in the computer yet. If this sounds like a rant from experience...it is. Finally, I got some answers and I am making progress.

On a brighter note... my sweet girl will be 17 months old tomorrow. I can't believe how fast she is growing. She is doing so many things. She loves shoes and puts on everyone's. Her favorite thing to do is take off her clothes and shoes and put them back on. (backwards and wrong-side out of course and not to mention shoes on the wrong feet) She is using the potty several times a day on a regular basis. She's even used the big potty when we've been away from home. She's acquired a few bumps and bruises from her active playing. They ought to look really nice in our Christmas pictures this weekend, huh? We tried to reschedule but they are booked up until the first of the year. Sooooo we're going to give it a try and maybe they can photo edit the bruise. I hope so! 15 days and counting until CHRISTMAS BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!