It has been several weeks since I have blogged! Actually I got more involved in facebook and kind of left my blog behind, but I'm gonna try to do a better job of keeping up with both. There has been so much to go on! Including Cole's birthday and Jack got a job and started today!
Just ended another week with Cole. I was sad to see him go. Hopefully it wont be long and he wont have to go every week...
There is a lot to be seen this coming week. Jack and I have 2 very important appointments. And I am so thankful that I have so many wonderful people out there that are keeping us uplifted in their prayers.
I have had somewhat of a difficult past couple of weeks. Especially at this point in my life; the quote for today is also a lesson I need to learn.
And that lesson: My job is to take care of the possible and leave God to the impossible.

...and her heart grew 3 sizes that day!

This morning when I took Cole to school he jumped out of the car and waved at me all the way to the steps. He turned climbed the steps and when he reached the top he turned back around and blew me a kiss!!! Boy did that make my heart swell! What a good boy!
This past week was also his birthday, I will post more at some point this weekend!

A busy life

Life has been so BUSY!
Jack did graduate, it was a good night surrounded with about 14 friends and family members. Graduation was good, then several of us went to eat Mexican. Of course, Jack and Robbie were fooling around and they spilled a whole glass of tea right in my lap! After supper Jack, Robbie, myself, and a friend of mine stayed in Nashville for a few hours. It was an ok night but I was very thankful to get home and in bed! Anyway... here are a few pictures of graduation.

Here is Jack and Cole and Jack's brothers, TJ and Robbie. Robbie got to take about a week leave, he is in the army and based in Colorado Springs Colorado. It was good to see him. His brother TJ left 2 days later on a Sunday for the army himself. Jack is very proud of his brothers.

3 Generations of the Watts men. Jack Jr., Jack III, and Cole.

And of course Jack and his wife e!

Here are the two of us with my parents.

And finally a picture of Jack receiving his diploma. We all were so proud of him!

Jack's mom and Doyle and Grandmam and Grandpa Hill also come for the occasion. I thought I got pictures of all of them too, but I guess not. I am going to have to get them to send me some of those pictures.

Well Jack finished his extern on Monday and was on the job hunt on Tuesday. He thinks he might have found a temporary position for 6 weeks in Tullahoma. And he had an interview with a local Dr.'s office on Thursday that we think went very well. We are hoping to hear back from that this week.

Colton also had his first day of school this past week. Jack took him to register on Wednesday. Friday when we tried to get him up and ready for school he threw a FIT, told us he hated school and did not ever want to go. When Jack picked him up Friday after school, they both come to work to pick me up. When Cole saw me he rolled down the window and said, "HEY I LIKE SCHOOL NOW!" And he told us just today that he was excited about going back tomorrow, hopefully he will keep liking it this year.

Colton is such a good boy. He is so well behaved and respectfull. I could really go into a spill right now and will not, but I truly believe God has a special hand on Cole right now.

Leads me to my quote for the day, also the Bible verse I got in Sunday School this morning. Comes from Jeremiah 29:11

FOR I KNOW THE THOUGHTS AND PLANS THAT I HAVE FOR YOU, SAYS THE LORD, THOUGHTS AND PLANS FOR WELFARE AND PEACE AND NOT FOR EVIL, TO GIVE YOU HOPE IN YOUR FINAL OUTCOME.

Anyway, all is good in the Watts world. It is very exciting to see what the next couple of months will hold for us!

How to make fresh squeezed orange juice

Cole and I were sitting on the front porch the other day eating Cantaloupe, this story comes from that.
How to make fresh squeezed orange juice according to Cole:
You take 1 cantaloupe, a screw driver and a glass.
You go to the place where you are building houses and get the screw driver.
Take the screw driver and poke holes in the cantaloupe.
Wash the cantaloupe off because the screw driver was dirty from building houses.
Squeeze the juice into the glass.
"And that's how you make orange juice!"
According to Cole.

Enjoy the little things

We were lucky enough to have Colton this whole week! It has been such a good week! We are so blessed to have him a part of our lives.
Mom and Dad bought this pool and we all have had a blast with the pool this whole week! Some how Jack has been the last one in it all week! But here is a picture of Jack and Cole playing, Cole was trying to drown Jack and I think he did a pretty good job at it. :D


Amanda is finally a cosmetologist! CONGRATULATIONS AMANDA! So we took Cole to see her and she cut his hair! She did a really good job. She said she was scared because Cole was Jack's kid, she did not want to mess his hair up! LOL! She knows how Jack is about his hair, but what I don't think she did know is that Cole is just as bad!

A couple of things that Cole said that I thought was funny:

Dad was eating supper the other night and Cole walked by his chair, stopped and looked at dad's head and said, "you know your bald head looks like a bowling ball with eyes and a nose!" Oh how honest that child is!

And...

Because he has stayed with us all week, my cousin Kate has babysat him this week while we were at work. Kate fixed him some lunch earlier in the week and Cole said, "Wow! A woman like you really knows how to cook for a guy like spiderman!" What a character!

Well Jack gets to graduate this coming Friday. He still has 2 weeks of extern left before he can apply for his license, but it is all coming to an end! I am so proud of him! He gets to walk the line with a college education. He has worked so hard over the past 10 months, it is good to see your hard work pay off! Here is a picture of his tassel, he come home with a cap and gown yesterday.

Since everything is coming to an end, its time for him to find a job. So everyone keep that in your prayers.

For the past week and a half my assistant at work, Penny, has been on vacation. And I have been very busy and put in A LOT of hours! It was good for me, but I am exhausted and it has made me even more thankful for Penny. With the bit of stress that I have had over the past few weeks it was refreshing to have Cole around here to lighten the mood some this week. From that gives me my quote for the day.

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

There is a lot of truth to this

Quote: Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become what he can and should be. - Stephen Covey

Weekend in Atlanta

The last weekend in June, 11 of us went to Atlanta for the Redsox, Braves game. We left out Saturday m0rning, but by the time we got there everything we wanted to do was either closed or closing by the time we could get there. So, Saturday once we got there Jack, Cole and I, my parents, and my cousin Kate went to eat. Ashlie and Trent met up with us shortly after and picked up mom, dad and Kate. Jack, Cole and I went to watch Transformers 2.
So we woke early Sunday morning and Jack, Cole, Kate and I went to the Atlanta aquarium. It is supposed to be the largest in the world and the best in the U.S. But Jack and I agreed that it is MUCH better than the Chattanooga aquarium but the aquarium in Gatlinburg is still the best. Anyway we had a really good time and the boy really enjoyed himself.

When we first went in the boy was amazed with all of the fish. Cole really liked the jelly fish and I like the picture.

Cole thought it was the coolest thing that the man was "scuba diving" with the sharks.

He was looking at a shark, he loved those!

He liked the spider crab too.

Some kind of whale, I don't remember. But I liked the way Cole was looking at it.

Another good one.

Jack and Cole were sitting on the rocks by the water fall.

Cole did not want his picture taken all day and he was so mad at us for making him take his picture here with us.

Cole loved crawling back in the cove and seeing everyone from outside. He was sticking his tongue out at his dad.

We left the aquarium and after we got a little lost we finally found the stadium and made it to the game.

Cole at the game.

Ashlie and Trent just love Cole, I think he likes them pretty good too.

Sunday was kids day, so after the game Cole got to run the bases. Here is Jack and Cole right on the Braves field.

Cole was waiting in line to run the bases and he waved at us.

And here he is running the bases. Apparently he told his granny Teressa from the begining that he was going to run the bases and fortunately it was kids day and he got to. Boy did he get lucky.

Here is a picture after the game with everyone that got to go except for Trent's parents and his sister, they got away before Cole was done running the bases. But it was all a good time.

The Braves was just one out away from winning the game and suddenly a fan came running onto the field. It was really funny he got tackled by about 10 security people. Any way here is a link to the video on you tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41-4CVyI3tE It was a good weekend.