first time ever...

every year...my dad and i go to the girl's basketball state tournament in murfreesboro. it is our father and daughter trip each year. we usually go on friday and saturday but this year...we went on thursday too!!! to cheer on our LADY PANTHERS!!! this is the first time for our girl's to reach the state tournament...as a basketball player alumni...i was so proud to go and cheer them on!!! we did lose by 10 but the girls played their hearts out and i hope this is the first of many more trips to the boro!!!

quinn in his lchs shirt ready to go cheer on the girls!!!

qualls was over the top cute in his panther paw onesie

quinn with pops (my dad) standing for the national anthem

lady panthers starting line up


time out


quinn slept through most of the game...which is unusual...i think he was not feeling well. we made a trip to the doctor later on in the evening...which resulted in an antibiotic

sweet qualls playing when we got home

quinn ready to play when we got home

where a kid can be a kid....

yesterday...we all loaded up and went to drop our stuff off at the consignment sale. after that...we went to chuck e cheese for some fun! quinn walked in and said "wow...look at this!" ha! the last time he was there was about a year ago so he does not remember it! quinn and qualls both had a great time! i believe their daddy had a good time too!

ready to pounce!!!

already has a pretty good shot! we are working on his follow thru!!! :0)

huh? riding in bob the builder dumptruck!!!

trying to get the ball in the frog's mouth

qualls and jq doing "ride a little horsey"

all tuckered out...holding on to his "monk"

"monk" now goes with us everywhere!!!

disclosure - it might look like quinn wears the same pjs every night...we have MANY pairs of lightening mcqueen pjs. they had them at the dollar general store...if anyone in my family passes one...they go in to see if they have any!!! we have a nice collection!!!

"the flying tomato"

we are really into the olympics here in the dickerson household. we love it and look forward to it every night. tonight was snowboarding featuring "the flying tomato" aka as shaun white. wow!!! that guy is a determined young man...he wants to be the best!!!

shaun white

i love his hair too! my mom and i were talking tonight about the women athletes...and how each one of them have the best skin?!? they need to do a special on their skin care regimen...i would definitely be interested to see what they do!!!

and the little one said "roll over"...

A little late but...

Qualls' rolled over for the first time, January 10th. He was laying on his playmat and there he went! He rolled over from belly to back and back to belly. Since then...he has mastered it and will go rolling across the floor! Cracks us up! Quinn gets just as excited as we do when Qualls does it.

Quinn's obsession...

When Meredith was born...Luke stayed with J.Q. and I.

I believe that we watched the Cars movie a million times.

The whole family would be on a hunt for the new Lightening McQueen. Luke had each and every one of them (yes...Luke got pretty much everything he wanted...he was the first baby in our family in almost 20 years).

So, when Qualls was born...GiGi and Pops bought Quinn the Cars movie...since then he has been obsessed. We have watched the movie a million times (sad thing...with all of the times that the movie has been on...I have yet to watch the movie the whole way through). He has all the cars that are in the movie and as you have seen in other posts...He got the powerwheels Lightening McQueen from Santa. Quinn also sleeps each night with McQueen in one hand and Mater in the other. He also wears his Cars pajamas almost every night.

So...as you can see...Quinn is obsessed!!!

our compassion child...

I frequently visit a blog called Kelly's Korner. LOVE that blog! If you have never visited...I recommend you do so! Her and her husband recently went on a trip with Compassion to El Salvador and I was so moved by her pictures and thoughts while on the trip. I have always wanted to adopt a child this way but have always been scared that the children would not receive the money. I feel certain that the $38 a month we will be giving...will be going to our sweet child that we have decided to adopt.

Meet our Compassion child...

Worrapan Klaipana from Thailand. She is 4 years old and shares a birthday with my sweet neice, Meredith. I was looking through the children's pictures on the Compassion website and she was the first one that I clicked on and noticed she had the same birthday as Meredith. I knew she was the one! I cannot wait to write her letters and send her surprises!