Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Slowing down?

I think we might actually be slowing down a little. Just in time for school to start in a couple of weeks.
Bible School was wonderful.  There were 8 precious soul saved! Praise the Lord! We had a really good crowd. Of course this was our first time working/attending Bible School at Brushy and they do an awesome job! The Lord is truly blessing!


That would be my crazy son with the guitar ;)



We left for San Antonio, TX the day after Bible School. It was a wonderful trip. What a beautiful city.  It was VERY HOT! The day we went to Sea World it was 107!!! Crazy, I know! The kids did really well even as hot as it was.

                                                                    On the airplane.
           The first night we were there Grant got to ride in a "gerbil ball". He loved it! I think I would   smother.
Payton loved the kiddie water slide!!

                                                                On a ride at Sea World.


On the River Walk boat tour.

This was the before the meltdown...it was a 40 minute boat ride, mostly on history of San Antonio and almost 100 degrees. Not fun for a 4 year old!

This was after ;)

Beautiful!! I could have stayed there all day!!


For the next couple of weeks we are going to enjoy the rest of summer vacation at home!!
 


Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Summer full of birthdays!!!

Yesterday was Payton's birthday...Happy Birthday Payton! We had two parties for her this past weekend. One Saturday night at my parents house and one Sunday after church at our house with Toby's family. I felt bad not having a "real" party with her friends but it was such a busy time that I didn't think I could pull it off. I don't really think she minded.

At mom and dad's with her Olivia cake!

Opening presents!!!


2nd party at our house...yes I got 2 of the same Olivia cakes. :)


Singing Happy Birthday!

My title says a summer full of birthdays because Grant's birthday was in June. I hadn't started this blog yet but I wanted to post some pics from his birthday when we were at the beach...

Eating a foot long on his birthday at Sam's Corner!!

Can't believe my kids are 9 and 4!! Wow, where does the time go!!

We are having Bible School this week and last night was the first night. I am teaching the 2,3, and 4 year olds. We had 20 in our class!!!!! Please pray! ;)

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Fourth of July weekend...

We celebrated Fourth of July all weekend with 4 different cookouts and lots of family time. Friday night we took the kids to Price Park and had a picnic supper with KFC. The kids got to wade in the creek.

Saturday we took the kids to a parade then had a block party on our road. I didn't even take my camara to the block party :(

Sunday we went to church then had a cookout/singing that afternoon at church. So thankful for a wonderful church family! And... I forgot my camera again :(

Yesterday Toby was off so we went to Tweetsie. It started raining about 3 hours after we got there so we didn't get to do as much as we wanted but it was fun.




I have to tell a story about Grant at Tweetsie. Last year we went to Tweetsie and watched the clogging show. They asked all the kids to come on stage and dance. Well Grant was soooo embarrased (to say the least). So this year he said he was absolutely NOT going on stage. I told him that was fine he didn't have to. Well when the clogger asked all the kids to come up Grant and a few other boys were still sitting in the audience. The clogger came around and gave them all "shakers" and asked them to stand up and take so many steps forward. That landed all of them right on stage! Grant was not happy. I had to get some pictures...
Last night we went to eat with Toby's family then just came home and shot off fireworks. I think we were exhausted from a weekend of go, go, go!

Monday, July 4, 2011

No Time...

So this blogging thing is a little more difficult then I thought it would be. Difficult to find time! And it is summer...supposedly the time to relax, no running, carpooling, ect. I still can't find time during the day!

Well the Day in the Life of... didn't go so well. Maybe I will try to do it sporadically. We did have a good week last week. It felt like a really restful week even if I couldn't find time to blog.

Tomorrow I plan on blogging about our Fourth of July weekend. It was a lot of fun and very busy!!! Off to bed now, I have a baby-sitter coming tomorrow to watch the kids. I have a drs appt then I am off to find Payton a birthday present!!!