Simmons Party of Five

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Brayden's Basketball Pictures

I took Brayden's basketball pictures yesterday before his game. Check them out. He looks so big, it's unreal. Can you believe he will be 7 in two months? Insane.

I just added "The More You Know" logo to this because I thought it looked like an advertisement for those commercials. =)

Brayden's 1st Basketball Game Pics

Brayden and his team did GREAT at their first game on Saturday. Tony coaches his team, the COUGARS and Chad was our referee (yay!). They don't technically keep score at this age, but our team would have won if they did. =)

Brayden's ready...

Brayden's got the ball...

Brayden with the ball (Nate - from school - was on the other team)

Cute cheerleaders at half-time

Good game, good game... (Tony in the front, Chad in the back)

Monday, January 14, 2008

Fun New Pics

Brayden is so handsome in his new glasses! (FYI - Brayden is NOT wearing a MICHIGAN sweatshirt. His elementary school is called MICHIGAN AVE SCHOOL, so they play on the MICHIGAN logo and school colors to imitate the college team. So, all of you OHIO STATE fans, it's okay. We're still fans, too!) =)

I see some booties, but where's their heads? (This is Ashton and Emy)

Braxton, Emy and Ashton, playing under the bleachers at Brayden's basketball practice.

EMY CUDDLES WITH MOMMY PICS

Kisses

Loving on Daphne

So cute!

Tracy's 40th Birthday

Tara and I went to Nashville on Saturday, the 12th to be with Tracy for her 40th birthday! We ate at the Nashville Palace (cousin Babs' restaurant) and then hung out at their house for awhile before heading back to Cleveland. It was fun and great to see everyone from Russell Springs!

Here's Tra with one of her gifts, sportin' the 40 on the bag!

I can't believe that cigarettes cost $6 a pack now! Hopefully, that'll make people quit!

All of us, after eating, at the Nashville Palace.

Me, Tara and Tracy with Lil General

Tracy, Tara and Me with the General Lee

Us gals, in front of the new fireplace at Brad and Tracy's house

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Mike Huckabee for President! Check him out...

http://www.mikehuckabee.com

Jocelyn's Poetry

Go this site and vote for Jocelyn's poetry she wrote when she was 16. Her pen name is Josey, after her daughter.

http://www.authspot.com/writers/Josey.23969

Here is an email she sent to me about this:

Hey friends,
Would you mind helping me with something? It's fairly simple. I have published a few poems on a website and I would just like you to check it out and forward the link to some friends for them to view if you don't mind. I actually make a little bit of money each time someone rates me. Ask your friends to forward it to friends as well. It is completely free to check out. I would love some feedback on them. My "pen name" on the website is Josey after my daughter. The link is http://www.authspot.com/writers/Josey.23969
Thank you in advance for your support!
Jocelyn Corbin

Sunday, December 23, 2007

Merry Christmas!

Just thought I would say Merry Christmas before we left for Cincinnati tomorrow morning. We love you all and wish you the best Christmas with your families this year!

“Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger." Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests.”- Luke 2:11-14

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Thanks...

Tony's ordination went great, thank you all so much for caring for us at this time of our lives. The service was very special and emotional (of course) and we will hold on to those memories for the rest of our lives. It's amazing to see how many people actually LOVE you so much!
Thanks to everyone who wrote a special letter to Tony. It really meant the world to him. He was surprised and taken back by all of them.
Thanks to Linda, Wayne, Chad, Jennifer, Jason and Michelle who were able to be there with us. Our Cleveland Family is so special! =) We love you all and are blessed to have you in our lives.
Love and Blessings!

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

About the Nathan Impellizzeri post...

Nathan and his sister, Angela, are dear friends to us from Christ Community. Nathan led worship for about 3 years and we were there when he released his first CD, which we have. "Ode to Her" is one of the songs on his first CD and they played it on the show One Tree Hill. Here's Nathan's blog post about it from his myspace:

What's the deal with all these "Hills" and "Trees" sitcoms/soap-operas/pseudo reality shows these days?

I mean don't get me wrong "The Hills" is totally like my favorite-ist show like ever. Yeah! And "Men in Trees" makes my life like so worth living. And "One Tree Hill"...let's just say I'm so excited Nathan and Haley got back together. So I was watching "the Hills" the other day and because I was so pissed at how Spencer was treating Heidi, I flipped over to my second like favorite-ist show like ever, "One Tree Hill." And the tears totally swelled up in my eyes because they played my song to their story. And I thought I wrote that song about my life, but I was wrong. I really wrote it about them. I just didn't know it yet. Check it out!!!

I almost cried when I saw the video because I'm so proud for him. He truly has so much talent!Congrats, Nathan!

Nathan Impellizzeri's song "Ode to Her" on ONE TREE HILL

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Puppy Love

It's 76 degrees in DECEMBER? Craziness, but we LOVE it! We played outside a lot yesterday at Memaw and Papaw's house with Kenzie. Here's some super cute pics. Sorry for the lens flare, the sun was right at me. I couldn't miss these shots, though. Too precious!

Sunday, December 9, 2007

Three Little Monkeys

We totally enjoyed our 74 degree weather today! I didn't know that our trees in our front yard were climable until I saw my Spiderman child (Ashton) climbing it. Brayden soon followed and then, Emy was asking for help up in it. They thought it was the greatest thing. Emy held on for dear life, but thought it was hilarious to look upside down.

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Emy's First Haircut

Emy got her first haircut today. I was cutting the boys' hair and I asked her if she wanted her hair cut. She said yes and was very excited, as you can see in this first picture:

"I'm ready..."

"I don't like brushing out the tangles..."

"I don't know if I want to go through with this..."

"Wait! It wasn't that bad and I'm soooo super cute!"

The pretty bengal princess, all finished!

I love this picture!

Brayden's 1st Grade Christmas Program

Brayden sang with his 1st graders at Michigan Avenue's Christmas Program Monday night. It was so cute! Autumn (his cute little girlfriend from kindergarten) is the girl on the stage by herself. She starts the song singing solo. ADORABLE! Brayden is in the 2nd row, 6th child from the left. The video of their song is below this post.

Brayden's 1st Grade Christmas Program Video

Leif, Jen and Abby came to visit!

We LOVE our dear friends, The Hyrne's! They came to visit for a couple days and we had so much fun!

Yes, this is the true Leif Hyrne...

Abby (3 1/2), Leif and Jen

Merry Christmas, HO HO HO!

We LOVE seeing Santa in the mall! Emy wasn't afraid this year and thought it was funny to sit on his lap - she smiled like she was such a big girl! The guy taking the picture was busy with other customers, so Santa told me how to take the picture and I did it! So cool that this picture was actually taken by me (they don't allow other cameras so I couldn't have done it myself with my own camera).
Another special thing is that Santa told our kids a story, the true story about the candy cane. White is for purity, Red is for the blood of Christ, and the three stripes of red are for The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit. We all thought that was such a cool thing to know!