SWARM Basketball Team

Walker was asked to play in a different

basketball league this year. 

A MUCH more DIFFICULT league!

We are so glad he chose to do it...

such a great experience and he

learned A LOT

(even though they lost quite a few games;).

Plus it was with an AWESOME group of friends!

Our team was composed of all 2nd graders.

We usually had to play 3rd grade teams

who had been playing for years together.

 Our boys gave it their ALL and we were

ALWAYS so proud of them!

 "HEY, can I suit up and play?!?"

 Isn't she SWEET?

 99.9% of the time!!!

I gotta give her credit that was A LOT of

basketball she had to watch...

sometimes more than one game in a day!

Of course I loved spending time with the

parents.  Through this and that

 in sports & school,

Troy and I have made some great friends. 

Walker chose #55 because that was

always Macy's basketball number! :)

 Walker started getting REALLY aggressive

and REALLY into playing. 

He also practiced in the driveway a lot.

He made us so proud!  :)

 Zach, Garrett, Tanner, Walker, Graham, Court,

Peyton, Matthew

 Way to Go, SWARM!!!

Especially #55!

January Twenty Eleven

January 1, 2011, we celebrated my

beautiful middle sistah's birthday!!!

Michelle is the most kind hearted

person I've ever known in my life.

I bet I know EXACTLY what she wished for;)

So, she's not "4"...but that's the only number

we had!  I guess I better not reveal her age...

even though she looks and acts 21. 

I'll just say that she is ten years older than I am.

(I am 36!)  hee hee! :-)

This little love bug was about two weeks away

from being one when I took
 this pic with my iPhone.  :(

I'm so thankful I got to have another baby. 

Princess Pie...I love her so!

Modern Technology at its best...

Janitor Hudson hard at work!!! ;-)

Then it was time to pack up for a three day

trip to Austin to celebrate a certain

Superman's 22nd Birthday

on January 5th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(That celebration gets its own post!)

 Dancin' Queen...

 She LOVES going to dance...

Mondays at 1:15 with her little friends.

I love her in her leg warmers;)

On January 22nd, we celebrated

Logan's 16th Birthday!

He told me not to put any of these on

Facebook!  ha!

 Logan still isn't finished with drivers ed?!?  Crazy guy!

 Logan is such a good kid.  He has SUCH

a heart and this whole deal with Travis

has REALLY, REALLY affected him.

In a positive light:)

Logan is AMAZING with my kids

and they ADORE him. 

Aunt Mindy adores him, too! 

 Our other handsome 16 year old!

 Logan & Hunter are BOTH
so handsome AND tall!

When Walker isn't reminding me exactly
of Travis, then he is reminding me of Logan!

 I love these guys!!!  AND fear for when

they actually do start driving
 (not so much Logan!  ha!).

 I'm so thankful for celebrations:)

 I'm also thankful for sweet notes I find

on my desk like this one.  Sweet, sweet

girl left this for me one day.  Reminds

me why I love my job...

"Madame Pierce, I am thankful that you

always look like you enjoy teaching us.

It makes the difference. - Alyx"

Sweet students like HER make the

difference for ME!

 Could.VERY.easily.EAT.him.UP!!!

 The rest of January we spent

"Supporting Travis"!!!

 Sweet boy told me to take this pic for Travis.....

Support for Travis Shirts

So one day a sweet girl who had kinda

been "talking" to Travis before his accident

was sitting in class and drew a

"Support Travis" logo on notebook

paper and posted it on Facebook

to show how much she was paying attention

in class.;)  Well, everyone started

commenting that she should make

shirts out of her design. 

GUESS what?!?

She partnered with a dear friend

of Lynna's and they did just that!

God has shown His goodness through

people time and time again during

 this journey! 

 I found THE perfect little model

to show off the first round of shirts!

Aren't the shirts AWESOME?!?

This little guy seemed to already know

that the shirts were the bomb.com!!!

 Jennifer and Alyssa were just incredible

devoting SO MUCH time to getting the

shirt designed just right, creating order

forms, selling them, delivering them...

and EVERYHING else that goes

along with an undertaking like this.

Both Jennifer & Alyssa are now dear friends

of MINE and I love them so much. 

 ALLLLLLLLLL of this in honor of our

Superman who was (IS) working SO HARD

to re-learn everything!!!

A real LIVE miracle.....................

 We wore our shirts for the first time

on January 1, 2011...

we are so proud of them & thought that

was the BEST way to start off the new year!

The shirts have made OVER

 two thousand dollars...

probably even more than that actually.

I see them all over town and it brings

such a smile to my face and such

sweet comfort to my heart.

I have friends who have ordered

them and wear them in different cities.

I even had a friend from high school

call me last week because he ran into

someone (a stranger) with one on in Austin. 

The support for Travis has truly

been unbelievable. 

People are so good and kind. 

 "Be joyful in hope,

patient in affliction,

constant in prayer."

Romans 12:12

There couldn't be a better verse for these shirts! 

www.caringbridge.org/visit/travisbigham

 

 

NYE Twenty-Eleven!!!

Want to know why Haddie has such a

sad face in this picture taken on

New Year's Eve of 2011?!?

 Because she and Walker were fighting

over who got to hold Big Huds!!!

At least it was for a sweet reason!;)

This is much better, Princess Pie...........

 "Play all day!  Rock all night!" 

You go, Walker D!;)

 We had a very low key New Year's...

which was just the way we wanted it.

There was no other place I wanted

to be than home sweet home

with my little family of five! 

I certainly have LIVE entertainment there!!!;)

 I have to be very delicate when I

think about the year we had. 

Dickens' phrase in A Tale of Two Cities

couldn't be more applicable for our 2010...

"It was the best of times,

it was the worst of times..."

Obviously I look at 2010 as the year that my

family's life was changed forever

because of Trav's accident.

As much of a miracle as we are experiencing,

the Travis that we knew for 21 years will

never be the same.  My heart will forever

mourn over that, but at the same time I will

embrace the new Travis AND

the miracle that he is still with us!!!

So as far as the "accident" part of 2010...

that falls under the worst of times.

On the flip side though...

2010 was the best of times. 

It was the year that we were blessed

with the surprise of our lives:

Hudson Jack Pierce!!!

 

 He has done nothing but bring

JOY and LOVE and LAUGHTER

 to our lives!!!

God knew we needed Hudson

and we are SO very VERY thankful 

for his sweet little life!!!

 Here's to more Hudson

(and more Walker & Hadlee!!!!!!!!)

AND

to more miracles for our

Superman in 2011!