Meeting Virginia

The girls finally were able to meet and hold my friend Katie's baby girl, Virginia. Katie has actually watched my girls since Emme was a baby, so the girls were so excited that Katie was having a baby and even more excited once she arrived. They were very eager to meet her!!

Mikayla and Virginia are about 5 1/2months apart, may seem like a lot right now, but Katie and I are looking forward to some day these two girls being good friends!

Mikayla and Ally

Mikayla turned 5 months on the September 10th- she is getting so big! What a joyful baby girl!
Ally loves to sing and dance for her and she loves to watch her. It is so sweet the way they interact with Mikayla!
She will lay like this for awhile- arms, hands and legs up, basically balancing on her belly?!

Ice Cream, Ice Cream...

...we all scream for Ice Cream! Kylie had a gift card to Brusters and asked if we could go after piano lessons- I also had a buy on get one free, so I took the girls to get some yummy ice cream.

Kylie had Apple Pie- a new flavor for fall. Yummy! I had the Coffee Oreo flavor- very good!
Emme always gets Cotton Candy Explosion- tastes like Cotton Candy and has pop rocks in it.
Ally got Oreo flavored- she was a sticky mess!

Poor Mikayla- she sat and watched us eat our ice cream- someday sweet girl you will get to enjoy yummy ice cream!! She did get to enjoy the beautiful weather we are having!!

Virginia Northe

Well I finally was able to go and meet Virginia Northe on Thursday night. Our battery in our Suburban died on Tuesday night- the night she was born and we were not able to get a new one until Thursday night- I was dying to meet her and was so excited to finally be able to meet her! She is so cute- love the hair! Congratulations Jason and Katie- she is beautiful!


Momma and baby- Katie I still can't believe you are a mom! You are going to be a great mom, Virginia is blessed to have you as a mom! Love you!!!

The APF/AAPF Georgia State Powerlifting Championship

On Saturday Todd competed in the APF/AAPF Georgia State Powerlifting Championship. He took first place in his weight class and he broke a National Record for the Bench Press event, both in the AAPF(Amateur American Powerlifting Federation-this is a drug free federation). This is the first time he has ever competed in a full meet (squatting, benching and dead lifting). He did really well!!

His final squat was 760lbs- here is a video of the squat...



Three of the girls wearing their Growler's Gym shirts to show support for their daddy! I wished I had a onesie made for Mikayla- how cute that would have been!
This is a video of Todd bench pressing 705lbs!! His opening lift was 672lbs which was the first National Record he broke, then broke it again by benching 705lbs!



Mikayla did really well. As you can here in the video's there was heavy metal music blaring the whole day and people screaming, weights dropping, but some how she managed to take two naps while we were there?!
This is a video of Todd dead lifting 611lbs. This video makes us all laugh because Jon G. totally smacks Todd to get him "pumped" up. They all totally "cheer" one another on to get the weight up.


We were there from around 11 until 4:30- the girls did so well. There is a lot of time just sitting around waiting as each competitor lifts. So the girls did a lot of coloring then cheered their daddy on when it was his turn.
Here is Todd with Jon getting his first place trophy. Jon is the one who first told Todd about powerlifting and has played a major role in instructing and coaching Todd in powerlifting.

Happy Birthday Todd!!

Todd, I hope you have a wonderful birthday! I am so happy the Lord brought us together, thank you for being such a great husband and daddy to our girls. Thank you for leading our family to follow the Lord. Thank you for loving me and caring for me and our family! It is amazing to look back and to see what the Lord has done in you and also how he has used you to spur others on to grow in godliness! Thank you for loving the Lord and wanting to be more and more like Him. Thank you for your example of humility, your desire for accountability, your desire to grow and seek after the things of the Lord and not the world, your desire to live a transparent life - "living in the light", you are such a godly example to me. I hope and pray that you have a wonderful birthday today! I love you so much!!! Happy Birthday!















Happy Birthday Todd!!!

The monster at the end of this book

Ally was "reading" this book today and did not know I was recording her...so cute! This is really a cute book about Grover monster!

Dress Up and Dancing

Well Mikayla does not have a choice at this moment in time whether or not she wants to participate in "dress up time". The girls love to put all sorts of hats, veils, crowns, necklaces etc. on her head! She doesn't seem to mind!
Here are Emme and Ally dancing.
Emme striking a pose...
Kylie was dancing for a little bit, then Nancy Drew caught her attention and so she laid down on the couch and began reading in her leotard...
I love to watch the girls get into the dress up tubs and put on different outfits, then play music, usually this cd which is a collection of songs from different Barbie movies that my friend gave to us. They are so cute to watch dance in their dress ups... Mikayla really enjoys watching them dance, it is so cute!

Tent making and fun on the trampoline...

In school this week we are reading about "houses and homes" through out history and this was one of the ideas in the book that you could try on your own, was to make a tent. Abby and Elle come over on Thursdays and they graciously agreed to help the girls. They did a really good job!

Afterwards they all jumped on the trampoline!
Trying to make Elle fall over from her sitting position.
I like this one of Elle in the air. Thank you again Abby and Elle for coming over and helping me out and playing with my girls! They love when you girls are here!! Thank you!!!!

There was a little collision between Kylie and Elle! Just giggles afterwards...