The Tall Mountain

Today we headed over to the Sawnee Mountain Preserve to walk up the Tall Mountain. I guess all Dora fan's can tell where Luke got this from. It was about a 3 mile hike. The kids did great. Alex had be to carried a little bit, but overall they were angels!! Of course, once we reached the top of mountain I had to get some pics. Enjoy!

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All About Alex

I decided to try to catch a few cute shots of Alex in our yard by my blooming trees. It started off well and then soon turned into craziness!

Here she is showing me her "Princess of CareBear Land" pose. She loves Care Bears and so that is what we call her.

Just being silly here.

This was one of my favorites!

Steve says that this is the true Alex. In true princess fashion she had a "moment" during the photo taking. She always makes this face when she is in trouble, did not get her way, or is feeling a little overwhelmed.

Love her smile. Everyone has been calling her "Little Angela" lately.

Rain Out!

After all the kids were loaded into the van we headed off to Stone Mountain. We stopped at KFC along the way to pick up dinner. The park was very crowded so we ended up parking about 1/2 mile away. Once we arrived we found a nice spot on the grass and began to pass out dinner. About 5 minutes after we arrived it started raining really hard. At first we thought that it was going to be a passing shower so we just sat there and kept eating. Boy were we wrong!!! It rained for about 5 minutes really, really hard. The kids were screaming like crazy people so Scott and I decided to try to find them some shelter, while Steve and Natalie tried to save some food and supplies that we had taken with us. To late.....we were all soaked!!!!

Here is a photo of the mountain with all the water running off.

Natalie and Steve gathering all of our stuff to go home. We were only in the park about 10 minutes.

Scott trying to calm Alex and Gabby down after the rain storm.

Natalie and Gabby waiting on the car.

Luke and Alex.

Me and Luke.

Steve and Kade.

Here we are in the car. Half of us were stripped down to the bare necessties. I had a puddled of water forming in my seat.

Parking......$10

Food.....$32

Laughing so hard you can not walk......priceless!!

Sunny South Carolina!

We hit the road again this summer and ended up in South Carolina to stay with my brother and his family. It was sunny and hot all weekend. We were busy the entire time we were there. I had two Tastefully Simple parties and we stopped at a few attractions in town. On Friday we took the kids to the childrens musuem. They loved it. It was divided up into sections and the kids could learn about sports, different cultures, jobs, farming, medical positions, law enforcement, and even something simple like how mom and dads shop and pay for items. Saturday we went to Monkey Joes and let the kids explore the indoor playground. Everyone was wiped out after that. Here is a slide show of pics from the musuem and Monkey Joe's! Look closely and you can see Alex's new hair cut!!!

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July 4th Weekend

We kicked off the weekend with a cookout and fireworks with friends. Almost every year we gather at Delaney to celebrate the 4th. Melanie, Morgan, Josh, Beth, Olivia, Zach, Brad, Lindsey, Michelle, and our crew try to meet up every year. It was a small crowd this year which gave the kids access to the entire parking lot. Beth brought some toys and they were the hit of the party. Alex jumped on the bike and wanted to make sure that everyone gave her a spin around the parking lot. Here she has convinced Morgan to push her.

Olivia jumped in to give her a ride. Poor Zach laying on the ground and both girls ride right on by him.

Next, she decides to give Luke a ride and as you can tell they are not agreeing on the direction they should go.

The next day we hit the pool before our cookout with Brad and Lindsey. Kade and Mason posing for a quick shot.

Kade jumping off the diving board.

Not sure what they were playing here, but they were giggling like little girls!


Here is Luke and Alex swimming around the pool in their floaties. They have come along way since vacation. No way they were doing this in June.


Luke giving his best smile!

Daddy swimming with the litte ones!

Happy Summer

Beach Baby!!

This year we were lucky enough to visit the beach an entire week. I must say that it was the fastest week of my life. We had a great time and no rain!!!

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Vacation Bible School 09

Here is another reason I have not been blogging lately. This year I took over Children's Ministry for our church. For anyone who has never done this before it is a BIG job. As one of my duties I had to direct our VBS. It was a huge success. The kids loved it and so did the adults.

Let me begin by saying that I am not very artisty and crafty. It takes alot for me do some things. I had to build the sets for VBS. With the help of my hubby Steve and another volunteer we were able to create a pretty good set.

The backdrop! I was very pleased with the way it tured out. This was my project.

The shack before it is put together. This was Steve's project. He had to cut all the boards to size and then I painted them.

Here is the completed set. A fellow church member was able to get some supplies from her work to stage the dock.

I did not get many pics this year since I was running around like a crazy person. I did get this one of Steve and the kids before they were taken to their class.

Some of the kids singing songs.

Luke and Wendi in the nursery.

Alex.

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