Hey guys, it's Celeste. I'm 26 and married to the most wonderful man in the world. We have been married for two years and six months now and we love going to Blue Bayou Water park on the weekends. My two little sisters, Sarah and Jordan have been blogging so I decided to start too. Well at least to figure out how to change the backgrounds and stuff like that, lol. (Later) Ok, I've figured out the codes and now make most of the family's blog layouts, if you would like a specially made one just for you, then please ask and I would be more than happy to make you one too!! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:56:00 -0500 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:56:00 -0500   It is Father’s Day. At one time I would of looked forward to this day for weeks, spent months trying to find the perfect present for Daddy, and then trying to keep it a secret from him, which I only managed about half the time, lol. It would have been a day of all of us getting together and filled laughter and wonderful memories, now it is just a day of memories, memories of a Daddy that I will not see on earth again because of a drunk driver. So I will honor him and think of all the wonderful memories that I have of him, like trying not make him laugh when he was driving because his eyes would squinch up and he would have tears rolling down his cheeks, of the pride in his eyes whenever I would be one of the first ones to quote the Scripture for the month at school, of the only time that he ever spanked me but made sure to roll me up in blankets so he wouldn’t hurt me. The times we would go trawling in the little boat that we had or we would find a little dam in the water and would tie up the boat and the girls and I would go crabbing while he would fish and then beat off the alligator with his pole while it tried to take his fish. The memory of the absolute pride and joy in his eyes when he saw his grandchildren for the first time. The love in his eyes when he looked at Momma and knowing that one day, the man that I married would look at me the same way. Watching him pray over us and worshiping God in church and in his everyday life and determining that the man that I would marry would love God more than me, just like Daddy. These are just some of the many memories that I have of my Daddy, they are more precious than jewels to me. I know it is kind of a cliché, but go and give your Daddy a big hug, You never know if it is going to be the last time you see him. I am so grateful that my last memory of Daddy was laughing with him, kissing him, giving him a big hug and kiss and telling him that I would see him later, especially since we had planned to go out for his birthday the next week. I love you Daddy and I will see you again one day, just hopefully not to soon!     http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/701040/ Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:56:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/701040/ 1. If you were to describe yourself as a color, what would it be? :  Yellow    2. What is your favorite animal? : Anything that I don't have to take care of, lol. 3. What is your favorite musical instrument? : I love listening to the piano, violin and flute and if they are all playing together, that's even better! 4. Do you have a favorite number? : 7 5. Roller coasters or boat rides? : I love them both, I can't pick one! 6. If you were an animal, what would you be? : Prolly a dolphin 7. What coin best describes you? : A rare and expensive coin, lol. 8. Do you like tags? : Yes I do but I always forget to do them, lol 9. Do you wish this tag would end? :  Not really, it's not as long as some of the ones that I've done 10. Morning or evening? : Prolly mornings, as long as you don't expect me to think until later, lol 11. Mugs or just plain cups? : Mugs of course 12. Describe yourself as a...: Hmmmm.....I have no idea what to say right here 13. Fiction or non-fiction? : Fiction 14. Do you wish you were somewhere else? : Yeah, back in bed or at my mom's for Thanksgiving 15. Do you like candy or do you not like candy?: Of course I like candy, I can't wait till tomorrow so I can go buy the Halloween candy that will be on sale! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/612601/ Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:40:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/612601/ Ok, you know for sure that you are a Louisiana Cajun girl when you can see this on the side of the road and it not phase you one bit!! Of course the fact that it's not real helps some too, lol, but seriously though, this statue is normally around 3 feet from the edge of the water and it's prolly 2 feet high, this is after Ike came. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/594350/ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:54:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/594350/ This is a picture from our VBS sports camp, this is me and Emily, when she smiles, she has two huge dimples that show up, I'm so jealous of her, lol. *Note, I am wearing a headband with a D and fence on it, it means defense, which I'm assuming that it's a football term, I didn't even realize what it meant until I had been wearing it for bout an hour and someone came up to me and said "Defense!" and I'm like, "where is a fence?" They looked at me like I was nuts and then replied, "On your headband". I felt quite silly after that, lol. This is the cooking with Lucille Show. One of the parents dresses up as her and she is sooooo funny. She keeps telling herself, it's for the kids!!   These are a couple of pictures of the sky on Wed. the 23. I took these on the way coming home from work, I had just hung up with my mom telling me that they needed rain, it looks like we got it all, lol. I found out later that nite that we were getting the tail end of a hurricane that day! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/565600/ Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:16:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/565600/ This is actually on Sarah's (dixiefiddler) blog, I figured since I was hosting it, I could put it on my blog too! Welcome to Sarah's 18th birthday party, let me introduce myself, I am your host, Celeste. This is by invitation only but just in case you forgot yours, here is one so you can join in on the fun!! This day is just full of surprises so I hope you are ready for them. First, we are all getting on a private plane to meet up with the rest of the group. Hope no one gets air sick!!! What? Oh, where are we going? We are going to a place that Sarah has always wanted to go, can anybody guess where? That's right, PARIS!!! The land of French bread, berets, and pastries, but whatever you do, do not drink the water!! (Or is that only in Mexico?) We have arrived at our destination. Let's go in and see what is planned.        First, we need to get you dressed for the party.   Here is your mask and jewelry.  After all that traveling, I'm sure you must be hungry, lets go into the dinning room for something to eat. Do you want your cake now? Yes? Alright! We can do presents after we are done then. Are you ready for your presents before the entertainment begins? Woo-hoo, alright! As you can see, we all know your favorite color is purple so all your guests pitched in and got you a purple guitar and laptop!!! Hope you enjoy them        This is Eric, he will be your escort for this evening's entertainment. We will be having a ball in your honor, oh it looks like they started already, care to join them? When you are finished, I shall introduce you to some of your guests. As you can see, we have some very special people that came to help you celebrate, here is Emily Rossum (she wanted to sing for you). Over here we have Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire doing a special dance for you! I'm sure you know who this is, if not, it's Ted Dekker, he is going to read something from one of his books for you. All of the family really wanted to be there on your birthday, so SURPRISE!!! We are all with you in our thoughts today. The Dixon's also wanted to be with you on this momentous occasion, so surprise again! Well, I hope you had a wonderful party, I know all of your guests did. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/560957/ Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/560957/ Hey I thought it was sooo time for a new entry but now that I'm thinking about it, I don't really have anything to say, I must be a very boring person. Seriously, I am in such a routine during the week, I wake up at 6:30 a.m. to get the coffee on for the hubby, then go wake him up, it takes a few minutes, lol. Then I get him out the door and get ready for work, try to do a few things in the house before I leave, then I'm out the door by 7:45, 7:47 at the latest, at work by 8, where I make my boss his morning latte', at 10:00 I go to the court house and the post office then I come back, at 11:30 I make him his after lunch latte', then I go to lunch at 12, back at around 1, work till 5 then I leave to go home and I'm normally home by 5:30. On Wed. night we do have church and Friday nights are our date nights so that adds a little variety but not much, lol.           I have been getting ready for Sarah's birthday, you know getting her presents ready to ship up to her!! I hope mom takes plenty of pictures of her when she opens them. Sandy and I have been helping out at our church for a mini VBS sports camp and it is cooler than I thought it was going to be, haha. This is Cherry the Ant doing her pole vault. Bro. Stephen (Cheerleader) and Mrs. Paula (Football player) collecting the offering. Needless to say, the girls won this time, you can't see it but they have pieces of ice in the water. This was the sports arena also known as kids church. This was the concession area, also known as the Fellowship Hall. Oh the hubby did have a mini surgery on his finger where he cut a wart off and it grew back with a vengeance, I wish I would of thought to take a picture of that thing, it was DISGUSTING!!! It was prolly bout and inch long and 1/2 and inch tall and it was red and raw looking and it bled all over the sheets, so I would have to wash them every day!! I'm so glad it is gone, the doctor said that if it would of gotten any worse, he would of had to do a skin graft on his finger. This is what it looked like after the surgery. Ok, it's time for me to go home now! Bye!! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/558253/ Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:27:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/558253/ You know that place right between almost about to fall asleep and actually falling asleep? That's my new favorite place because in that place is the easiest place to see my daddy. Holding on to the teddy bear, that each of us kids got, with some of his ashes in it, I close my eyes and wait for it to happen and it always has, at least since the accident. Sometimes he's laughing at me cause I done told him a present secret that I got for somebody. Sometimes, he's smiling at me cause I did something that made him proud but he's always there and always happy to see me. I fight falling asleep cause then he goes away again and I'm sad, but then I'm happy again cause I know that God will let him come to my remembrance again the next night. I love seeing his smile and hearing his laugh and feeling him hug me and oh, how I wish I could do all that again in real life, but I know that won't happen on this side of Heaven, so as much as I was looking forward to Heaven before, it's even more enticing now.     I just wish the pain would go away, or at least not be so hard and stabbing when I remember. I was on my way back from lunch the other day and I saw a cross on the side of the road, and I was like, "My daddy's one is nicer than that" and I just started crying while driving cause it hit me that my daddy has a cross on the side of the road. That happens to other families, not ours, not ours. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/543928/ Fri, 6 Jun 2008 13:47:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/543928/ I found this online and thought it pretty much described what I'm feeling... My dearest daddy 'I love you', I think of you each day. I feel your arms around me, that's how I get through my days. You are looking down upon me, to guide me on my way, but its very hard without you, each and every day. People always tell me, the grieving will subside. But how can it get better, without you by my side? No matter how hard they try, to help me with this pain, I am all consumed by thinking, It will never be the same. I know one day we'll meet, in Heaven up above. It's the one thing that helps me, to never forget your love. My dearest Daddy, I love you, You are with me every day. I will keep this love within me, until that beautiful day... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/541835/ Mon, 2 Jun 2008 11:42:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/541835/     Today is my Daddy's birthday. This is not how it was suppose to be. We are suppose to be baking a cake with no frosting or maybe half with pecan frosting. Hubby and I are suppose to be bringing Daddy out to eat Mexican tonight. I am suppose to be giving him his birthday gift (Rocky DVD's) that came in the day we found out he was killed. We are suppose to be laughing at how I can't keep surprise secrets and told him what I had gotten him. We are not suppose to be going out to the crash site because I had to go back to work the day that they went, we are not suppose to be grieving our hearts out. We are not suppose to be crying our eyes out, we should not be going to insurance companies and lawyers and picking up plaques honoring him and picking up Daddy's ashes. Oh God, this hurts so bad, when will it stop? Is it really better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all? Why did this have to happen to our family?     Someone told me that it is wrong to ask God why and to cry when something like this happens, but then my mom told me that even when Jesus was on the cross, He asked God why, why have you forsaken me? And the shortest verse in the Bible is "Jesus wept". Even though He knew that He was going to raise Lazareth from the dead, He still wept, I think so that we could know that it's ok to grieve, but will it ever end?     I know that Daddy is having an awesome party in Heaven right now, with the most unbelivable guest list imaginable, but he is suppose to be here with us. Birthdays weren't just another day in our family, they were meant to be a big blown-out affair because the world changed the day we were born so that's a reason to celebrate.     Each time I think it's getting a little better, I think of something that I should call and tell Daddy about because he would laugh his head off, or I'm talking to someone and say, "my Daddy could" and then stop because I remember. I keep thinking that he's on a long run right now and will be walking in the door saying "Hey Bay, I'm hungry." I have been thinking that my future children will never know him because of the fact that we waited to have children, they will never know the most wonderful grandfather in the world. I miss you Daddy. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/536597/ Fri, 23 May 2008 20:15:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/536597/ It has been 2 days and 3 hours since this nightmare has started for our family. 2 days and 3 hours since we had our daddy taken from us. Will life ever be the same again? Will we ever get over this giant hole in our hearts? My daddy was our everything and we keep waiting for him to come home to us but we know that if he could of, he would be here by now, saying how sorry he was to make us worry so much. I am so scared that I will one day forget the sound of his voice, his laugh, his smell (Steteson Colon) but that hasn't happened and I pray that it never will.     Sometimes I get angry because he was taken from us, when I lie in bed at nite and I think of the way that he was taken from us. I get angry at the person that caused the accident. I get angry cause the day that we found out, Daddy's birthday present came in the mail. I get angry cause my future children will never get to be spoiled by my daddy, they will never get to know what a wonderful man he was.     My daddy was the best man that had ever lived, well he was tied for first with my hubby. I know this because it is so. When people found out about what happened, they were like, "Well there goes the best one there was" Why did it have to be him? Why not a man on death row? Lord forgive me for my doubts and questions and anger, but I am so hurt and confused right now. The ONLY comfort that we have is that he didn't suffer when the vehicles exploded. I was reading about a person that asked God, "where were you when this happened?" and God answered back, "I was there with him, I had my arms around him at the time" I know that God was there with my Daddy when it happened.     I am grateful that we had him as long as we did, and that he didn't feel anything, that God was there with him and that he took him before he knew what happened. I am worried because I don't know if the other guy knew Jesus and he didn't go to Heaven, I am grieving for that family as well, for them knowing that he caused my family such pain right now, I pray that God comforts them as he is comforting us. I am glad that I spilled the beans to Dad bout what I had gotten him for his birthday and he was eggcited bout it. I am grateful for the values and faith that he instilled in each of his children and that they will continue living in our children. I am grateful for the memories that we have of him so that my future children will know him in a way.     I am so grateful for my Mom and Daddy accepting Jesus as their Savior over 23 years ago so that I know beyond a shadow of a doubt where he is and that we will be seeing him again. I am so grateful that I went to my sister's house (where he was staying when he was working) on the Thursday before with my father-in-law so he could fix her a.c. and that I stayed and visited for about 3 hours and had supper with daddy and Sandy and her kids even though I was tired and wanted to be home. I am so grateful that he was able to come to church on Mother's Day Sunday and that I got see him there, I am so grateful to have my last live memory of him to be one of laughing cause I was in the foyer selling some stuff for Missions and he passed right by me and neither one of us saw each other and my best friend since Kindergarten poked her head around the door into the foyer and was like, "Celeste, your daddy is so cute!" and I was like, "My daddy is here?" and she was like, "Yeah, he told me, hey you, how you doing?" and Sandy was like, "Yup, that's my daddy" and I guess she went tell him cause I look up and there was Daddy to give me a big ol' hug and kiss with a huge smile on his face saying, "Hey! I didn't see you there!" and I was like, "Yeah cause with my bright pink shirt on, I really blend into the light blue wall" We all laughed and he went back into church and I went back to selling stuff and then into Kid's Church to help out and that was the last time I saw him. I am so grateful to God for picking him to be my Daddy. My brother and sisters and I are who we are today because of him. My future children will be strong men and women of God because of my Daddy, because of the way that he raised me and Hubby and I will raise them the same way. This is my legacy to him, I will honor him and his life by doing this. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/532011/ Wed, 14 May 2008 06:59:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/ryansgirl/532011/