Saturday, August 29, 2009

You say tomato, I say to-mah-to...


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We have some. Do you want any?

We are having a great school year. Lots of new friends, reading more words, promoting PTA...by the way, have you joined Harper's PTA? It's $5...Anyway...

Jack is doing well, Jenna spent last weekend with us and had fun, John is traveling a lot for work, our street is being worked on so our sewer doesn't collapse, the work trucks are SO interesting for Jack...

Wow! We are busy in a good way, and I will try to post more later...

Monday, August 10, 2009

Beauty

This was our Sunday morning. Smiles and sunshine. Sweet babies and swimming and it was lovely. A fun weekend followed by the start of school Wednesday. Lauren will be in first grade and Mrs. Arnold will be her teacher. She is excited and scared. So am I.

Here we go...

Sunday, July 19, 2009


Vacation

We had a wonderful time. We went to Chattanooga, TN, to Ruby Falls, Rock City and rode the Incline Train. Of the three, Rock City was the best!! It was pretty scenery, nice temperature, and best of all, at our own pace. If you haven't been, GO!! http://www.seerockcity.com/
Then we went to Ft. Walton Beach, FL. The kids liked the beach, but LOVED the pool! Lauren was a fish before we went, but reached a new level of swimming and flipping and jumping and cannonballing!!! Jack had a lot more freedom this year since he uses his swim belt and can move all over. Made the whole trip easier since my tiny monkey wasn't attached to me the entire time in the pool!
We ate some good food, did some shopping, and a whole lot of swimming!!!

Monday, June 29, 2009

Having a ball at the mall!


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Fun on the farm at the family reunion


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Notice that she has my coke...


Summer...

So...summer...so far we have finished VBS (she loved it!!!), ACROS fun and fitness camp (she LOVED IT!), and we are now finding out how good she is at swimming. She's pretty good. Really, she is. She can swim underwater, doggy paddle, jump in and go under, and has jumped off of the diving board (OMG!!!!!!) and isn't afraid of the water, which scares me a little bit.
Jack has longed to go to "bibey scool" (I'm quoting how he says it) and to "gymnastis", and now it's swimming he wants to do, too. Instead, he got to go to the park that sits next to the pool, which isn't quite the same, but we do what we can.
We have spent a lot of time with our friends the Morris' and swam in their pool and jumped on their trampoline and played on their swingset and they were kind enough to keep the kids overnight for us so we could go to an out of town wedding this last weekend. They are awesome friends and we are truly blessed to have them in our lives.
I will post a few pictures in a minute, but with vacation coming up and then school starting I am beginning to wonder just how fast time flies...

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Summer vacation so far...

Has been awesome! We have had a lot of lazy days, just what summer break is all about. She is signed up for VBS at Aldersgate again this year, a week at Acros, two weeks of swimming lessons and then we will leave for Florida.
Both kids are signed up for the EVPL summer reading program.
We are going to have a great summer!!!

YAY for us!!!

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Watch this...

30 seconds later, she went to the front of the swing, grabbed his feet (like I do to her to swing her) and pulled him out of the swing and from where I was sitting, I heard him hit the ground. Not good. He is ok and so is she after being slightly traumatized, but hey! Life goes on...

We are officially done with kindergarten and she did AWESOME! All four grading periods, A honor roll, perfect attendance, 3 grading periods of citizenship, and she got the teacher for 1st grade she (and I!) was hoping for so that's the icing on a delicious cake!

I am SO proud of her! May her school career always be so successful!!

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Raphael Jude

By the way, here is the new nephew. It took a while for me to post it, but here he is! Cutie!!!