I am back

The kids are back in school so I decided I would try to get some things on my blog again.  I have changed it some, but can not seem to get it the way I want.  I will keep trying new things so for a little while it may look different every time you look at it.

Football has started and Southside is 1-1.  We go to West Memphis for a game this coming Friday night.  Not looking forward to the trip.  I will start putting up pictures soon.

We had a very busy summer.  Austin played baseball and practiced football.  We bought a boat so we spent some time at the lake with friends.
We also enjoyed making some new friends and spending time getting to know them.

We got Alex ready to go to college.  I worried a lot more about what was going in his room than he did.  He did not feel that it was necessary to get to worked up over all that room stuff.

I will try to be better at blogging during the school year.

Blog design

I need a new blog design any suggestions on who can help or where is a good place to look.

Baseball is our life

           Austin and some of his team mates  Leonard, Dave, Austin, and Daniel, waiting on a pitcher                        change.  I love seeing them smile during the game and know they are having fun.

                  Austin plays second base on the Varsity team.  This is at a game in Tulsa this past weekend.

               We played in a tournament at Jenks and Broken Arrow and won3 out of 4 games.

                   Alex has had a pulled hamstring and has not been able to play in the last couple of we                          He did bat a couple of times, but really could not run well. 

 I think he is about ready for again soon.

                          Alex was invited to attend a football banquet and awards ceremony this weekend in Little Rock.                             

                           The National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame Inc. puts it together.  I am so proud of

                            him.  This is to honor scholar athletes at the high school level.  I know it is getting closer to the end of his high school years and I am getting a little more nervous everyday.

Birthday dinner with my niece

Happy Birthday Amy

Keith, Allison, Amy,and Lucas at Amy's birthday dinner

We had such a good time last night with part of our family at Amy's birthday 

dinner.  I can not believe she has grown up so fast.  She is a beautiful lady

and so much fun to be with.  We hope she enjoys all her birthday festivities.  

Love you Amy 

Jackson and his snowman

Jackson came over and we made a snowman.  We could not get the snow 

to stick together so we made a smaller one.

Snow

The beginning of the snow.

Bennett and Her-She when we went hiking

Bennett and I went hiking with friends and had a great time.  

New Year

Well 2010 is hear and I can not believe it.  January is full of birthday's and anniversary's.  Happy Birthday to my Aunt Tennie.  She is such a sweet Aunt and I love her very much.  My brother and sister in law, Dean and Monica, both have birthday's this week and they are celebrating an anniversary.  They are doing all this celebrating on a cruise.  Today would have been my sister in law Susie's birthday.  I sure do miss her.  She and I shared many special times.

Happy Birthday  to all.

Alex and Austin are playing boys club basketball and having a great time.  They have started baseball practice each day after school.  Baseball starts for them on March 1st.  I LOVE BASEBALL.  The only thing with high school baseball is that it is usually very cold in the beginning.

The Cardinals will be starting spring training the first of March also.  I would love to make a trip back to Jupiter to watch.

Not long before all the stuff for graduation kicks in.  Friday May 28th is Southside graduation.

Nolan update

I thought I would do a couple of post in one.

 I love Christmas and wanted to share a few pictures of my decorations.

This tree is in my living room.  I decided this year to get a

taller, slimmer tree.

 

This is my mantel in my living room.  

This medicine chest was Bennett's dad's medicine case

that he used when he practiced medicine.  We have displayed some 

of our village in it.  I have a lot of village, but really can not find

a good way to display it.  This is just a small part of one of my villages.

The tree and chest are in my entry hall.

Well football season is over and it did not end the way we wanted.  The boys 

had a great season but did not win the championship game.  I loved watching

both of them play this year.  I will miss Alex not playing next year. A few pictures 

from the last game.

Alex Nolan

Austin Nolan

The run threw before the game

The end of a great season.  Alex 89  Austin 9

Southside pulls out another win.

Two brothers Alex 89 and Austin 9  watching the game and hoping the defense can hold

for us to get a win.  Never fear we found a way.

A little coaching to get ready for that last drive down the field.

My three guys after the game.  What a comeback.

Southside beat North Little Rock 27-24 with a 2 minute no huddle 93 yard drive.

I was so proud of the boys for never giving up.  This is how the playoffs have been for

Southside.  We have made a comeback in all three games.

Southside + Playoffs = Tradition

Thanksgiving

What a beautiful Thanksgiving Day:)) 
 We had a great meal and a lot of fun visiting with
 family and friends.  The meal was so good!!!

These are the two newest additions to our family.
  Aiden Gibson (brown shirt) was born May 15th.  Lucas Gibson (blue shirt) was

born an April 15th.  This was the first time they were together. 
 They are thinking how great next year will be when 

we can be running around together.  They both are so sweet.

This is the only sweet great niece I have right now,
 but we will have another little girl for

Avery to play with in April. 
 I know Avery will be glad to add another girl to the mix.

She is such a sweet little girl and lots of fun.

Jackson is the oldest of all the great nephews and nieces.
  He was so busy today it was hard to 

get him in a picture.  

We are thankful for each one of these children and for all of our family.

Southside wins Beats Bentonville

Alex and Matt Carman were two of the captains for the Southside Bentonville game.

The captains for both teams meeting at center field before the game.  I am so

proud of the Southside football team for the great game last night.

This was Alex after the first touchdown that Southside made.  A very

excited number 89.  You did a great job son.

This is Carl, Drew, and Alex with a guy that helped them

last year during the football season.  They were celebrating the

victory.  They played hard and came back from a 21-7 deficit to win

the game.  Bentonville has a very good team but we beat them twice this year.

Austin did not get to play in this game, but he enjoyed the victory.

More pictures from the Bryant game

After the game these boys were so excited to know they were going

to play against Bentonville the next week.

This is another picture of Alex running after the catch.

Still playing football

SOUTHSIDE WINS!!!!!

Alex caught a pass for a touchdown in the first quarter, but it was

called back for illegal movement.

Southside beat Bryant 35-24 on Friday night to advance to the next round of

playoffs. Look out Bentonville here we come.

Heading to the playoffs

Well tonight the Rebels play Bryant in the state playoffs. I really hope they win. The game is in Bryant so it will be a long trip. I may try to sneak to the high school and get some video of them leaving for the game. The boys will die if they see me, but they have almost died of me taking pictures before. Here are a couple of pictures from the game last week.

Austin #9 Alex #89 I love these boys

This picture is at the pep rally before the Northside- Southside football game

last week. Southside won. I hope someday they will be glad to have pictures.

Senior Night

He was giving me a rose and a kiss. What a special kid!!

Bennett, Alex and I on Senior night

Southside is struggling and so was I Friday night. It just seems like yesterday he was starting elementary school and now he is getting ready to graduate from high school. Friday night was senior night. I did very good till I watched him walk off the field after the game. I know they still have games to play, and hopefully it is several, but we may not get to play another one at Southside. Alex is such a great kid and I know he is having a great senior year. We love you Alex

A review of last week

This is Alex and Julia at our house before they left for the

homecoming dance. They looked so nice.

Austin and Kristen looked really cute. They went to Avery's house before the

dance so we went over there to take pictures. Austin was not sure about

me following him over there to take pictures, but there were plenty of

moms there doing the same thing. The group went to Cheddars to eat before the dance.

Austin started for the first time this year in the varsity football game.

This was his first pass of the game and it was about a 30 yard completion

Bennett went to the homecoming pep rally with me. This was a first.

I had to get a picture of him and Alex

Alex walked Katie Allen during the pep rally. The senior football boys

do this during the pep rally and the dads do it before the football game.

It was a very crazy weekend. The game was Friday night and the dance

was on Saturday night. It was a lot of fun seeing the kids all dressed up.

Alex is Hootens scholar athlete of the week

Alex was picked as Hootens scholar athlete of the week. He

did not know he was being picked and they did it at lunch in the

cafeteria at Southside. This is him getting his award and Chad Hooten

is filming it. They talked to Coach Williams, Alex and Bennett. I know

Hooten's has a show on TV on Saturday mornings, but I am not sure

when his part will be on.

We are so proud of Alex. He is a great son and this year is going to fast.

Southside is on winning streak

Alex was one of the captains for Friday's game against Springdale.

He is number 89. Soutthside won the game on a last second field goal.

It was such a good game and now Southside is undefeated in

conference play.

At the start of the second half Austin came out as the quarterback.

Hunter was injured in the first half so Austin got to play all of

the second half. He and Alex were in at the same time on some plays.

I was very nervous for Austin but he did great. It was such a thrill to have

them playing at the same time.

I took this picture and did not realize till I started looking at my

pictures what this looks like. I think big brother is about to take this

guy out if he thinks he is going to hurt his little brother.

Southside beats Fayetteville JV

Austin hurt his hand last night during this play. He hit his thumb

on the helmet of the Fayet. guy. He is going to be fine.

Austin back to pass!!!!

Austin on the hand off to JJ. He had a great game.

Southside won 23-7

Southside wins big

Alex and Austin on the field at the same time.

Alex is 89 Austin is 9

I usually can not get a picture of them together because they never seem to

stand close to each other.

Southside won a big game on Friday night. They beat the number 1 team in the state.

I am so proud of those boys. Alex and Austin both played in the game. It is a lot of fun to have

two boys on the same team.