A night in the life...care group

Here is Todd driving to care group- what a cutie! Ok- Billie one more shot for you- sorry, my window won't go down- kinda blurry!
Here we are at our care group leaders house, enjoying a time of fellowship!
We all brought a dessert to share- Barry and Jen brought red velvet cake- yummy!

I brought a Lemon-Lime Dessert- kind of started melting in the picture! Jeanie and John brought yummy doughnut holes!

Oops this picture is suppose to be after the next one- oh well-

Scott enjoying his dessert!!:)
Todd messing with the camera while we were talking- A picture of Todd's eye- there were some shots of his nose, ear & mouth- but I will spare you!



Here is Andrea enjoying some dessert!:)

Here are Rachel and Amanda- after Care Group ends their girls always come down and hang out with us- we love it. They are such a great family- we have really enjoyed getting to know them all! That concludes our night- sorry didn't get home till late so that is why I didn't post until today!

A night in the life...picking up the babysitter

Here we are on the way to get Aliya-she serves us in babysitting for care group nights! Emme doesn't look so happy- kind of caught her off guard.
Billie this one is for you- unfortunately it is a little cloudy- but crossing over this bridge on Lake Allatoona is so pretty.

Kylie, with her red neck teeth in!
Here is Aliya with the girls- thank you so much for watching them, we really appreciate it!!

A night in the life...dinner

Ok, here we are snapping the ends off the green beans- we love fresh green beans! Lovely aren't they?:)
Ally tried to help- she just would snap the beans and throw them into the bowl- Kylie would try to correct her and let her know that you can't throw the yucky end into the bowl. She did not quite get it!
Kylie begged me to put this one in- she took the picture of me dancing to the cd Thousand Foot Krutch- we usually make dinner listening to some sort of music.

And while we are waiting for water to boil, or chicken to cook, we dance together!
Kylie made the dinner tonight:), here she is stirring the green beans, we like to saute them in fresh garlic and olive oil and a little bit of butter. Yummy!!
Kylie is grilling the chicken- we love to grill!!

Yeah- daddy just came home from work- he looks so handsome!!
Here is our yummy dinner!

Congratulations Katie and Jason!

Congratulations Katie & Jason! Well most everyone already knows that our dear friend Katie is engaged, however I wanted to post the news on my blog as well! They are planning to get married this September- and staying in the area! Yeah! She has been living in the apartment over our detached garage- so it has been nice having her close by!! We will miss her, but thankful she will only be about 10 to 12 minutes away. She has asked all of us girls to be in the wedding, which we are so honored and looking forward to taking part in their special day!
We love Katie and are so thankful for her and the friend she has been to all of us. As Emme says "she is my bef friend". She has been watching our kids since Emme was a baby, so almost five years now- thank you Katie, our girls are so excited when Katie comes to babysit!
We are goofy girls!!
These are some pictures we took while visiting out in Colorado.

We love you Katie and are so excited for you both!!!!

yeah Kylie!

Yeah- Kylie is done with first grade!!! It went well this year. We are glad to have some time off for a little while. Now- I am ordering books for next year! I will be teaching Kylie 2nd and Emme kindergarten- and chasing after Ally. Fun fun!!

We don't really have much planned this summer- just hanging out and relaxing! Oh and she was not riding the four wheeler- just posing for a picture! This is one of daddy's - I need to take some more of her on her own.:) They have not ridden in awhile- maybe we will take them out today! Looks like it is going to be nice- yeah!

Ally's Dora Party

Here is the cake I made for Ally- the writing looks totally off, oh well- 5 hours of decorating for five minutes of eating- totally worth it. I enjoy decorating cakes! Love the look on Ally's face while we were singing happy birthday to her!

Sneaking a lick of icing.

She is so cute waiting to blow out her candles!

Big girl- Happy Birthday!!

Thank you to everyone that made her day so special!!!

Happy Birthday Allyana!

Happy Birthday! I love you so much! Little Ally is two today! What a big girl! Gotta love the "racin' stripe". All my girls had that little strip of hair down the middle!
She is so joyful!! I love this picture of Ally!!
Well, I have pictures from her Dora party yesterday- however my camera battery died. So until I find my charger, they will be stuck in there.

Miniature Golf

We took the girls miniature golfing tonight! Ally was dancing to the music the dj was blasting over the loud speaker. Sorry this one is kind of blurry, but here is the gang!
Emme and Kylie posing in front of the waterfall- poor Emme hit her eye today, it is a little swollen.

Thought this was a neat shot of all the girls!
Ally was upset because we she wanted to get into the water and we told her no- gotta love the bottom lip!

They gave Ally her own special club. So cute!
Here are my cuties- minus one- should have taken one of daddy with his girls.
Oh, the winner of course was daddy!! I loved Emme's honesty, Kylie too, but Emme was cracking me up- she would yell 9 or 10, 8, whatever her score was- and most of the time it was those numbers, where as we would quietly say 8 or whatever. No concept of the game, just to get it in the hole and count how many times it takes to get in there. She was just having fun! We all had fun- thank you Daddy!!

Painting!

The girls did a little painting today! It was such a nice day today, we went to the park this morning and then came home and had the girls do some painting while Ally took a nap- otherwise I think the deck would have had a little more paint on it if Ally was awake!:)
Excuse the mess on the side- guess I need to go through all that junk!!

Thank You!

Well first I want to say thank you to everyone who was praying for Todd yesterday! He is doing well today. Here is the scoop- Todd called me yesterday morning from work asking me to make him an appointment to see the doctor- ok that was the first sign that something was seriously wrong- Todd never wants to go to the doctor. He then calls back and says can you come and get me and take me to the hospital. He was feeling really dizzy and was having shortness of breath- his speech was really slow and slurred. And have the time he wasn't really making sense. I was already on my way at his point and he calls again and said they(the guys in the office) have called 911- just find out what hospital they are taking me too. I made it there before he left,so I followed them to the hospital. They did all sorts of tests, EKG, blood work, and a Cat Scan, but after hours of waiting, all the results came back great. He is healthy and they could not find anything wrong. Praise the Lord for that. While we were there he was progressively feeling better, so that was good. He was saying that while he was inside at the ambulance he could see me and was thinking I don't want to leave her and the girls- he was having thoughts that his might be it. That was how weird and awful he felt. He had a vision from the Lord that he saw Him arms wide open, not like He was welcoming him home, but that he was taking care of him and there was nothing to worry about. And then He sort of patted him on the back and said get back out there and do my work. You still have a lot to do for me(the Lord). So Todd was encouraged by that- (I hope I explained that they way he saw it). But we are so grateful for everyones prayers during that time yesterday- we truely believe the Lord healed Todd. Thank you so much! It is such a joy to see the body of Christ come together and join in prayer for one of the body- thank you also to Katie for watching my girls all day! WE love you all!

Air Conditioner down!

Yeah- our downstairs air conditioner stopped working. Not good- our house as most of you know is always freezing. So we had someone come out today to see what the problem was- well I had a coupon for a free service call, if they find the problem and we decide to use them, the fee is waived. Well he found the problem- a switch plate that turns the unit on downstairs went bad and this de-humidifier that is plugged into the air conditioner was unplugged. So what would of cost us maybe $3 to 5 dollars for a new switch plate outlet thing, ended up costing us $85 for the service call. For him to fix it, the quote was like $160 for parts and labor. Crazy stuff! But at least our air is fixed. And that it wasn't anymore than the service call I had to pay for. Thankfully it has not been too hot. The nights have been cooling off, so that is good!:)

"Chapstick"

While I was posting about corn on the cob Ally came in to show me what she was up to- putting "chapstick" on- only it wasn't chapstick, it was a glue stick. Silly girl. Thankfully she put most of it around her mouth and I don't think she figured out how to make it turn up, so there was not very much to put on.