Hunter's 15th birthday at Golden Eagle Airsoft

Hunter celebrated his 15th birthday yesterday with his friend, Andrew at Golden Eagle airsoft.  Airsoft is similar to paintball but with little plastic bb's. 


Since it was Hunter's birthday the boys could play all day which was from noon until 9 pm.  James said after 2 games approximately 20 minutes of play, Hunter came out announcing he was DONE!!!  


Hunter normally plays in Nashville at an outdoor facility and Golden Eagle in an indoor facility.   James said Hunter was in sensory overload...in an enclosed environment, it was very loud, too much activity and everyone was very aggressive.  James did go buy Hunter ear plugs.  

After several hours of Hunter sitting out and James playing in Hunter's place, Hunter went back to playing.  The boys did end up playing until 9pm so I guess it ended up being a good day.  James said that Hunter hides in the corner and just shoots randomly, hum....  


Hunter didn't tell me all of this when he came home, just that they had a great time and he would love to do it again!!! LOL  By the way, James ended up with plenty of battle scars! :)

                                                         Hunter is ready to go

The Arena - a little city

(blurry but you get the idea)

The Arena 2 

2011.2.23 - Jeff's Brigade Retirement 22 yrs of Service

Congratulations on your retirement, Jeff!!!  You deserve it as do your knees and back!  :)

Thank you for all of your years of service !! We are so proud of you!!!

I think the Company is having a retirement party sometime in March.  I will share those pictures when we get them.  I am not sure if Jeff will still be working over the next few weeks or if he is now "semi-retired."

2011.02.23 Jeff's Brigade Retirement 22 yrs

Driving Manual Transmission

Hunter tried driving my manual transmission in a parking lot today. He did it twice with no stalling, jerking or anything!!!  Mom was COOL!!  I was quite proud of both of us.  


I am not sure what to think of all of these changes.  The last 2 weeks Hunter's grades have been improving and he seems to be trying harder in order to get the rewards.  Why then, has it taken 8.5 years to get to this point or has an alien taken over my child's body???


The past week or so he has told me he is finishing his homework at school.  I am hoping so but waiting to hear from the teachers that we are missing all of these assignments.


Wish us luck.  More later as we are planning Hunter's 15th birthday celebration next Sunday.

Men are like aliens

I had a son almost 15 years ago.  I vowed that I was going to raise him right so he didn't grow up to be one of "those" men.  Now, he has turned into an "alien".

All of his interests seem to revolves around gun, violence, computer games and science fiction.  What happened to the well rounded little person that I was trying to raise??

Last night I sat in the living room to watch tv with them and looked up to see a person "hanging" on a meat hook!!!  I looked over and both my husband and my son were totally engrossed in watching this show.  What is up with this???  How did my sweet child "change" on me?  I have very little in common with them since of course, I am not going to sit and watch a show with a dead person hanging from a meat hook!!!

So confused....

High School Orientation

Tonight was High School Orientation.  It was short but enough to see that school in Georgia has changed so much since I went to high school.  The basic thing was learning about all the elective classes.

The school does seem to do a good job having the kids look at job websites and then individually evaluate each child on what careers the child thinks they would be interested in when they graduate and they help them choose the classes that would best get them to that goal.

Hunter has already met with his advisor and has decided to take ROTC next year.  I am not sure how that is going to go over being he isn't big on exercise.  When we do any type of "structured" exercise he gets bored or tired and quits after 5 or 10 minutes.  This includes doing yoga, moving firewood, mowing the yard.  He does like fun exercise such as bike riding, horseback riding, swimming and playing airsoft which is similar to paintball!  

Hunter told his teacher the other day that he had been working out with his dad!!!  James reminded me that one night they did 10 push ups and 25 sit ups.  Yes, that is his working out!!!!
I just don't see ROTC but maybe they can help get his grades up and maybe find a "more suitable" career choose but I hardly ever right...LOL

a bit blurry but you get the idea that he is very proud!!

The Pac Man

My husband, the "Happy Cheesehead"!!