Philip Billings and Taylor Butler make the paper!

Philip is the child with the yellow star above his head.
Philip and Taylor made Friday's edition of the Wynne Progress. The article with Philips picture says that the students made the pinwheels with "some" help from the parents. I think that you should all know the real story....
Philip calls his mother from his teachers cell phone one day before lunch and says to her " Can you come to my class and make tuna melts." Dianne thinks to herself "What?" so she asks Philip to repeat the question and again..." Can you come to my school and make tuna melts?" so she says sure. Dianne gets to the classroom and Mrs. Grafton says " Oh, you'll be in Mrs. Swaites room making pinwheels"...Dianne says, "Wait, I thought that I was making tuna melts" Philip says " Thats not what I said, I said windmills" (which was still wrong). I forget how many pinwheels Dianne made, the point is I think she made a huge precentage of the pinwheels/tunamelts/windmills that day. Ha. Ha.

Taylor is the one with the pink butterfly above her head.

Taylor's group picture with the Lady Jackets was also in the Friday edition of the Wynne Progress. I think that Coach Stepp and the Lady did a wonderful job with all the girls.

Mary Margaret's parent visitation went way better than expected last night. I thought that I would at the school all night because of the number of classes they have...but surprisingly I was there at the most 1 hr and 30min. Good reports all the way around....except for the "talking too much" issue. I DIDN'T KNOW MARY MARGARET TALKED TOO MUCH. They must have the wrong child.

The End of Volleyball Camp

Taylor with her autographed volleyball and certificate outside the Yellow Jacket Gym

Taylor is on the far left end with the light blue pants and stripe.

The Lady Jackets finished up the Volleyball camp last night during Senior Night. Taylor was sad to see it come. She is totally hooked on Volleyball. For participating in the camp, the campers received a certificate and a autographed volleyball from the Lady Jackets.

Alisa Brawner

Amanda, my sister-in-law, married to my brother Andy, sent me these photos of their little girl Alisa. Today was crazy hair day at her school and I think that they came up with the perfect hair style. Even with the crazy hair, isn't she just pretty darn cute? They live in Kansas City, Missouri.

Volley Ball and More Kellie Pickler

Taylor is to the far right (black shirt) next to the girl in the white knee high socks.

Kellie Pickler and her red high heel!

Taylor went to the Volleyball Camp again this week and they learned some cool techniques. The one that Taylor had the most trouble with was catching the ball with her knees. Several of the balls hit her in the chest, she finally figured out to MOVE back. So far she still likes it.

Both of the girls have signed up for the UPWARDS Cheerleading program at Wynne Baptist. We have been visiting there and the girls seem to like it. Philip will be in the Basketball part of the UPWARDS program, he looked excited on sign up night.

If you all want to see more pictures of us at the concert, you can visit the Radio Station webpage and click on the Kellie Pickler Concert, there are a few on there that I don't have copies of. http://www.kssn.com/

Kellie Pickler in Concert , Arkansas State Fair

Taylor Butler, Kellie Pickler, and Mary Margaret Butler

October 13, 2007

Arkansas State Fair, Little Rock, Arkansas

TAYLOR, MARY MARGARET, KAYE & NICOLE(my sister-in-law)........WON BACKSTAGE PASSES TO MEET KELLIE PICKLER AND FRONT ROW CENTERSTAGE TICKETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nicole called Friday and asked if we wanted to come over Saturday and go to the Arkansas State Fair and see Kellie Pickler in concert, so I said sure...we would never be able to get tickets at the FedEx Forum for $7 bucks so we went. On our way to Little Rock to Nicoles, I heard on KSSN 96 FM that if you wore KSSN somewhere on your clothing you could possibly win backstage passes. Nicole took us to Wal-mart and we bought some clearenced tanks and decorated them up. We went to the KSSN booth and begged for the backstage passes, but the man said no...someone has to spot you in the crowd. He told us to come back in a few minutes and he would have something special for us. ( I secretly thought that he was going to give us the passes). We walked off and signed up for another contest and came back to the KSSN booth and he handed us FRONT ROW CENTER STAGE TICKETS! I thought this is fine! The girls will get to see up front! I was happy. We did walk around and try to get spotted for the backstage and no one ever came up to us.

We sit down to eat close to the stage and one of the raido personalities came over and sat down , chatting about what he was going to get to eat....then he said that there had been a change of plans, that we should meet at stage right instead of stage left. Nicole told him that we had only won the front row tickets not the passes....then he said.....Oh, man that sucks, now I have to tell you that YOU ARE GOING BACKSTAGE TO SEE KELLIE PICKLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Our crazy shirts worked after all! SHE WAS AWESOME!!!!!! Taylor and Mary Margaret were dumbstruck! They didn't know what to think! I don't think I need to tell you all how much the girls loved meeting Kellie and seeing the concert! She signed all of our shirts and said to the girls "Awe how cute, home made shirts!" Taylor has been humming Pickler songs since we left the concert! She loves "I Wonder" and Mary Margaret love "Red High Heels". This will be something they never forget!

Nicole Butler (my sister-in-law) and Kellie Pickler

Me and Kellie Pickler

Future Lady Yellow Jackets Volleyball Star? Just Maybe

Above: Taylor Butler, Future Lady Jacket and Toby the cat
Below: Taylor Butler, showing off some new volleyball moves!

The Lady Yellow Jackets Volleyball team is hosting a Volleyball Camp the month of October for 3rd thru the 5th grade. Taylor begged to go, so we did. She did GREAT! They started out by warming up, running, "high stepping" and then stretching. They learned how to hit the ball with their arms and not the hands, etc. At the end of the practice they played a game and Taylor smacked that ball right over the net and assisted in two set ups! Pretty darn good for the first time. She loved it so much that we left practice and went straight to Wal-Mart where she spent 2 weeks allowance and 2 of my dollars on a volleyball! I hope we found her a sport!

Mary Margaret Lost the Race

First Picture is Mary Margaret with the "Delta Swarm" and Taylor with the "Go Jackets"

I know that I have fallen down on my posting, its been several weeks. Mary Margaret did not win a spot in Student Council. Surpisingly, she took it very well. She's all excited about the race next year and is already planning what to hand out to the students to win their vote!

The pictures are of homecoming week. Taylor (Intermediate School) had a "High School Musical" day and a Read-a-thon to celebrate homecoming. She dressed up as "Charpe" on High School Musical.

In the Jr. High, there was mix-match day, twinkie day, and of course BLUE AND GOLD day. Mary Margaret started feeling bad on Friday and her english teacher called me from her cell to let me know....(I really appreciated that!) We took a quick trip to Dr. Jacobs and then on to the Homecoming Game. Mary Margaret felt bad but still enjoyed the hoop-la of homecoming. Dianna and her girls met up with us there as usual and an old friend from High School, Kerri Nieswander sat with us too.

Let me say this about Jr. High and High School Fashion....DO THE PARENTS REALLY LET THIER KIDS OUT OF THE HOUSE WITH THOSE CLOTHES? Someone said this about a child with almost NO clothes on at the game "She must have had that skirt in her wallet when she left the house, her moma doesn't know about that skirt!" The skirt was sooooo tiny! Mary Margaret said the girl was in 7th grade. Good Grief!