Summer in pictures

Destin, Florida


Legoland Discovery Center - Jonny Rockets - Atlanta, GA

Catfish Farm, Alabama

Darby Wive's Challange - Fort Benning, GA

Trip to North Carolina (Visit with friends)

A trip to Petsmart to get cat food - New member of family...Georgia

Catch up April and May

 My Brother and his family along with my parents were here for a few days in April. They had a conference in Orlando, FL and I was honored to take care of my little nephew for a few days. When they returned, the boys went to an Atlanta Braves game.

We had a little pre-birthday for Christian while Grandpa, Grandma, Uncle Josh and Aunt Liz were here.

 Ashlee and her cousins

The big 10! 

Christian has been really into Coke since we visited the Coca-Cola museum in Atlanta back in January. He really wanted a "coke" themed birthday party. Well as luck has it, Coca-Cola sponsors the Columbus State University's Space Center here in Columbus. I also had a great coupon! So we had his party there and incorporated space into the coke theme. Here is my attempt at a coke cake

anxiously awaiting the cupcakes

May is a busy month of birthdays for our family. Christian's is the 9th, Rande's the 25th, Eden (my niece) is a couple days before Rande's and my dad's is a couple days after. My sister (Christie) has a birthday just a few days into June. Here is our little family celebrating Rande's birthday. He invited his friends over the next day for a party. =)

Ashlee chose to do ballet/tap this year after basketball. She had her first recital at the end of May. I must say, she is really good and has a natural ear for the music and moving according to the beat.
Mommy was proud.

Zoo time!

Christian's friend, Nathaniel, from school asked if we could all go to the Atlanta Zoo together over spring break. His mom is a member and had several free tickets for us three to use. I was not too impressed with the zoo. It was small, but loads of fun. They had a train ride there as well (not free like the Portland Zoo - one of my favs). Christian also wanted to try to climb the rock wall. He's never attempted this before, nor has he even had the desire to do so. But he did and was pretty successful. I was proud of him even if he did not make it to the top.

Ashlee and her Elephants - she just loves them!

Climbing buddies

Easter

Thanks to Aunt Christie the kids were stylin' for Easter.

Silly Photo
Cute and sweet photo

The church we are attending had four services last year with over 5,000 in attendance, therefore, they suggested we, 11am Sunday attenders, choose a different time. So we decided to go to church on Saturday evening. It was so different, but an amazing service. They took secular artists like Usher, Creed, Matchbox 20, Van Halen, Brad Paisley, and others to share the story of Jesus. I was curious how they were going to do this, but it turned out great and we enjoyed the experience. The kids had the Easter story told on their grade level, an Easter egg hunt, and bouncy house.

On Sunday we had an Easter egg hunt and then made a ham dinner with all the fixin's and invited our neighbors over. I hope your Easter was blessed as well!

Love the confused looks