Kylie's Outer Space Party

Kylie wanted and outer space theme for her birthday. So we played a couple of games having to do with outer space. The first one we played was "Saturn's Ring Toss" with hula hoops and water balloons. The next was a "Moon Rock Race" object to transfer as many moon rocks (packing peanuts) with a robotic arm (tongs) to your teams bucket. They had a lot of fun!

Her cake was a moon, I could not find astronauts, so we made them out of marshmellows!


We transformed the basement into outer space. I found glow in the dark planets that we hung from the ceiling and stars we put on the ceiling, plus I had a black light and I gave them all glow bracelets, they had so much fun!! Happy Birthday Kylie!!

Happy Birthday Kylie!! I can't believe you are seven already!! We are so thankful to the Lord for you! You bring so much joy to our lives. Thank you for being such a wonderful daughter and big sister. We love you and hope you have a wonderful birthday!!

Braves Game

Here are Chris and Kristy watching the game!

We went to a Braves game the other night with some friends of ours. We had a great time! It was very hot and the Braves lost, but something about being at the stadium and at a professional sports game was exciting.

Kristy was so excited to do the tomahawk motion!

You can tell by the "shine-ness" on our faces how hot it was that night!

Kylie caught a catfish!!

My uncles house is right on the water, my grandpa had it built so looking down from the deck was water. He had a concrete foundation built out into the water from the shore line (if that makes sense) so looking down from the deck is the lake. We have always fished off the deck, well the one night Kylie had the first catch and she caught a catfish. She was so excited, but did not want to hold the line nor touch the fish! She made my uncle hold it and take it off the hook. I never liked that part either- they are so slimy! Here she is with my Uncle Matt, getting up the courage to actually hold the line! Yeah Kylie!

A visit with a friend

When we used to live in Missouri I had a great friend named Katie- she was such a good friend to me. We kept in touch after we moved to Virginia- this was in the middle of my eighth grade year. We both became busy in High school and lost touch. Our parents kept in touch with Christmas cards every year and we got back in touch after we both had been married and had our first baby. She had a boy named Riley and I a girl named Kylie! Now she has three boys and well I have three girls. I emailed her to let her know I was coming up for a visit to the lake (her mom still lives there) to see if she might be able to come up (she lives in Dallas) and that was the one week she was planning to come up to visit with her mom. So we got together. It was so good to see her and her boys and her mom. It has been about 15 years since I have seen her, we had a great visit. Here are all the kids!
Her parents landscaping is gorgeous a waterfall and creek with minnows and crawdads in it!!
And they have horses, which my girls were so excited about!!

Kylie feeding the horse.

As many of you know Ally loves horses, so she was so excited!!! I am so thankful the Lord arranged for us to be able to meet up.

Bridal Cave

On the day I had a meeting, Todd took the girls to a cave close by called Bridal Cave.

Todd said there were some really tight spaces to walk through.

Here is my mom with all the kids.

Miniature Golfing

One morning we went miniature golfing, it was fun but really hot!!
Here is Emme!
Daddy helping Ally get the golf ball in the hole.

Randy's Frozen Custard

We use to go here to get frozen custard when I was younger. It is so yummy!! Jonathan (love the look on his face!), Kylie, Matthew and Andrew!

A shot from behind of us all eating the our custard.
Emme and Grandma


The whole gang!

Ally and Aunt Becky.
Nicole and Emme enjoying their custard.