New Basketball pictures

Wellsville hosted United Local this past Friday night and showed them exactly what Tiger Basketball is all about.  Wellsville won 107-71, it was quite a game.  Chad played very well, that boy can sure play some defensive ball.  Here are some pictures of the game.

 

 

  

  

  

  

 

Pictures from last night's game

I got pictures from last nights game, thank you Ole' Nib for the help, you have no idea how much I appreciate this. Here are several shots of the game last night.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good game last night.

Wellsville played Leetonia last night and Chad played an excellent game as usual. He scored 4 points in the Reserve game and 3 points in the Varsity game and didn't foul out in either game... good job Chad. Waiting to get some pictures of him while he is playing, I don't get to take pictures working the door but there is a very nice man in town who has agreed to send me all the pictures he has of Chad playing so I can get them posted and also to have some for this sports books.

Not much else going on in our world this weekend, we are going out to Don and Karen's for dinner tomorrow night and then we have a TouchDown club meeting tomorrow night but other than that we are just gonna chill out. I hope everyone has a great rest of the weekend.

Long time

It has really been a long time since I posted anything here on my blog, I get caught up in my scrapbooking, helping Chelsea with her homework and going to all the ballgames that we can and I just forget to post on here. I am going to try to do better.

Chelsea got her report card today from the Career Center and she had a great first semester, 1 A and 2 B's, we are very proud of her, she has worked hard for her grades and she is doing a great job in the cosmetology department as well.

Chad has been doing fantastic this year in basketball, he does seem to foul out often but the boy plays a wonderful defensive game, his shot has improved this season and he got to dress Varsity last week. All of us are very proud of him and his Dad just beams, good thing the Elliott men are not competitive isn't it.....

Steven and Beth are doing well, the grandbabies are growing like weeds. It seems like there are never enough hours in the day to get to see them as often as I would like but we try to see them as much as we can.

Well, that is enough for now, but family..... I will try to get this updated more often.

My heart melted today.

Well today about did me in, I went to see Madison after my dr. appt. this afternoon and she was in rare form. She was just chattering away, I told her hi and called her an angel, she tried really hard to say angel after that but it just was not coming out. Just a little bit after that she looked at me and said GeeGee, that did it, she finally said what I have wanted to hear since the day she was born. Johnathan always calls me GeeGee with so much love in his voice and I am so excited that Madison was able to say it today, she was patting me on the knee and said GeeGee, I told her I loved her and she tried to say that back, our little baby girl is one smart cookie. Of course that could just be a grandmother's prejudice coming out. More later.

Latest stuff and pictures

I have some new pictures to share with y'all, just everyday kind of stuff but that is the kind of pictures I actually prefer. Oh and a couple of pictures of Chad from last night's football game, they were in the paper so I scanned them into my trusty computer.

Madison is very expressive and she has her Pappy wrapped around her little finger, she never wants me, just Pappy. If I go to the kids house without Doug she will look at me and hold her hand up and shrug her shoulders and say Pap. Sort of like yeah ok, you're here but where is my Pap? We were at their house a couple of weeks ago and it was so nice out we sat outside, Madison decided to shuck all her clothes and was having nothing to do with putting them back on. Some kid had left a bike laying on the sidewalk so she decided she needed to check it out.



I am pretty sure that this picture shows that she is in training to be the next Mrs. Al Bundy with that hand in her diaper.



I am not sure what is so funny to her at this point but something sure was.



For some reason Maddy took off running, she looked so determined to get to where ever she was going, probably to Pap.



Yeah she was definitely heading for her Pap, looks like she is quite pleased with herself now.



Chad has a special relationship with our dog Missy, he is able to get her to do things that no one else can, like here where he is using her for a pillow.



I love this next picture, Doug and Chad were messing around on the couch and Chad just kind of collapsed on Doug and Doug laid his head on Chad. Don't let those eyes deceive you, Chad is actually grinning.



The next 2 pictures are from the ballgame last night, it was exciting to see Chad carry the ball, I wasn't to fond of it when all those other players would pile on him like they did but I gotta take the bad with the good I guess. The papers said that he rushed 10 times for 49 yards, it sure seemed like more yardage but the statistician recorded 49. He had 3 runs that were called back, you could tell he was getting very testy about that happening, Chelbug said "Look at Chad, he has his hands on his hips, he is getting mad". According to Joe Hall she was very right, I guess he had a few words to say in the huddle but I can't repeat them here. Chad played a good game, he said today that his ribs, arms and calves were sore, he took a knee in the ribs on one play. He had told me he was gonna get me a touchdown for my birthday yesterday and he sure did, when they all came off the field after the game he gave me a hug and said Happy Birthday, it was very sweet and meant a lot that he would hug me in front of all his buddies but lord he was wet, sweaty and stunk to high heavens but I was still glad to get the hug.






Chelsea started out at the Career Center on Monday, the 24th and so far she is having a blast. She is working on braids and roller sets right now, she braided my hair the other night and did a good job with what she had to work with. She said I am going to be her first haircut and I am hoping that I won't have to wait until next semester for that!! She comes here every afternoon and does her homework, I have even got her coming on the days she does not have homework to study her terms for anatomy and the cosmetology terms she needs to learn. Friday they had a test in her Cos lab and she made 100, she was so pleased with herself, they had another test in there and she made an 85, she was not to happy with that one because she knew the answer but she flipped her terms so it made her miss 2 questions but that was all she missed. She is really coming out of her shell and getting involved in things at school and she is very involved in her church youth activities. We have our Pre-Trial on Oct. 7th, that is when they will assign the Guardian Ad Lideum, but if Kerry will agree at that point then it will be over and Chelsea can come home. So keep good thoughts for us on this, Chelsea wants to be here and of course we want her here.

My Johnathan started 1st grade this year and so far so good, he likes school at this point so that helps, he is getting so big, it just amazes me every time I see him how much he is growing. He looks so much like Steven did at that age. Steven takes him to the bus stop everyday and then Johnathan goes to Steven's after school everyday, I never thought Steven and Maria living so close to each other would work but they have made the right choice (most of the time anyway) to work together for Johnathan. Johnathan stayed with Steven the majority of the summer and I was tickled about that since that meant we got to see him every time we went to see the kids.

My doctors can't seem to figure out what exactly is wrong with me, they think I have some form of Lupus so I saw another specialist on the 25th, he said I definitely have symptoms of Lupus but he is not sure that is what it is, he confirmed the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia, he is the 3rd specialist to confirm that one. He ordered a ton of lab work, 11 tubes worth of blood and a chest x-ray, I got my blood work done there but I am going to have my chest x-ray done here. I am sick and tired of feeling sick and tired and would like an answer to all this mess, hopefully this doc can give me one. I had lost 30 lbs when I got so sick but I am gaining it back since I can eat and keep it down, I would have liked to have kept it off but I like to eat. The way I was losing was not the way to do it for sure.

Well, I have rambled on long enough, shared some pictures and what new news we have, everyone please take care of yourselves, we love you all.

Using the blog

I think that from now on when I have pictures for y'all to see I am going to post them on here that way you won't have to download them to see the picture, you can always print or save the pictures if you want them for anything.

Team Picture

Here is a team picture I took Friday, not as clear as the pros but I added a little bit to it.

Long time since I posted to my blog.

It has been a long time since I posted to my blog so I guess I better get things caught up.... but where to start.... well Madison turned 1 on May 10th, I can't believe she is already 1 and this girl does not walk anywhere, she runs. I can no more keep up with her than I can fly but Miss Madison is Pappy's girl for sure, when we go see them she starts squealing, yelling Pap Pap and begging for him to pick her up, she sees me and waves hi to me. I have tried to get that child to say GeeGee but it just is not happening, she won't even say G, but if I have a coke then she will come to me for a drink because she knows she is going to get one. She is quite the character. She calls Steven Daddy but she has started calling her mom Beth, I told Steven he is going to have to start referring to Beth as Mommy to get Madison to call her Mommy. Here is a picture of Madison at her birthday party.



We have gone fishing a few times so far this year, Chelsea always wants to go so she is always with us at the lake, we have taken her friends with us also, these girls are to funny, the first time we took Maria she wouldn't take her fish off the hook but now she is an old pro at it. Here is Maria with her first fish of the day.



The next time we went we took Maria and Mindy with Chelsea, Mindy would not bait her hook, she would not touch the fish and she sure wasn't going to take her fish off the hook but by the end of the day she was doing it all and having a good time doing it. Here is a picture of Mindy with her first fish.



Here is a nice picture of all 3 girls, it is great seeing them all together, Doug and I are both very fond of Maria and Mindy and of course we love our Chelbug.



Let's see, what else has happened this summer, I fell down the stairs at home and sprained my knee but have since found out it is not just a sprain but it is livable with. Chelsea fell off the steps at her mother's house and sprained her ankle pretty darn good, it looked real pretty in living color,

this particular picture was taken 2 days after the fall. Mindy helped Chelsea up and then she called Doug to let him know that Chelsea was hurt and they were trying to make their way to the fire station, Doug of course told them to stay put and he would come get them. He brought them home and Chelsea was hurting pretty badly so we propped her up on the sofa with pillows, put her leg and foot up higher than her heart to help with the swelling and we iced her ankle, she didn't much care for that part but she was a good girl and kept the ice on when we told her it was time. So she laid on the sofa, everyone waiting on her like the princess she is.