A Visit with McKenna Grace

Rylan was having withdrawals..so we headed to Lawrenceville today to see Leslie and McKenna. They both are doing great! Leslie looks super good!! McKenna was smiling in her sleep and making all kinds of funny faces. I enjoyed it WAY too much! McKenna looks so much like Leslie in the first picture!!

Katie VanBlaricum's Senior Pictures

We took some of Katie's senior pictures yesterday afternoon. She did great and we were able to get some wonderful shots! You can check out her gallery here.

Cheerleading

Practice has been going great! The girls are doing so well at keeping positive attitudes and working out. We are very happy with them. Our high lib is amazing(pictured below)! We go to Charleston tonight. Go Eagles!

Bart & Jen's Wedding

Bart and Jen's wedding was this past weekend. The day was absolutely beautiful and everything went great!! Below are a bunch of shots that were taken throughout the day. Erin has some on her camera as well..so let's hope she posts them. Enjoy!!

Sweet Madness

We TRIED to take some newborn pictures of McKenna last night but she just wants to be wrapped up in a blanket and fed. So I told Leslie that we would just hold off and that it wasn't worth upsetting her for some pictures. But we did get a few good shots.

McKenna Grace Funk

McKenna came into our wonderful world today at 3:48pm. She weighed 7lbs 4oz and was 20 inches long. Mom and baby are both doing great! Leslie had a quick delivery and only about an hour of really hard pushing. She did great and I am so proud of her. McKenna is beautiful! She has a full head of black hair. Check out the pictures below! What an eventful day for everyone!! Congrats Rhett & Leslie!! We love all of you!!

Newton Eagles Football

The Eagles played the Tigers last night at Newton. It was our first home game for the season and Newton won 27-12!! The boys played a great game. We had our Future Cheerleader Camp for girls from Jasper County, grades K-8 this week and they performed their dance and cheer at halftime of the game. They did really well, as did our own girls throughout the entire night! We have gotten so many compliments from the crowd about how great our girls are this year..which is really exciting! Below you will find a few of my favorite pictures that capture last night's action. You can go to my photography website to check out more.

I have decided to totally switch over to Eagle Pride! I am learning to love the community and school, and the kids are just wonderful! For the past 2 years that I have been teaching at NCHS, I arrived at the last minute and left as soon as I could. I just couldn't stand to be there any longer than I had to..and I also didn't understand how Rylan could want to spend sooo much time at Noble. But I totally get it now! I'm super involved with everything at the school and I'm getting to know so many people that I actually enjoy every day I spend in Newton!

Especially after the way the Olney boys acted last night! 2 of their players would not shake our boys hands before the game(and I used to babysit for one of them!! argh!) and one of them punched a Newton player in the chest on the field(refs did not see it apparantly). I've heard that Olney has discipline issues and I always knew Newton and Olney were rivals...but there is NO excuse for the way Olney's team acted last night. The boys were very cocky for no reason at all..whereas our boys are some of the best ever! They all have GREAT sportsmanship and are just all around, a great group of boys! So I'm sold! I have Eagle Pride! Good game Eagles!