Happy Birthday Jonathan!!

Happy Birthday to our amazing, wonderful son Jonathan! Can't believe you're 30!! Holy cow, that really makes me old!! You are such a talented, special, Christian young man and we are so proud of who you are!!

You are such a good son, husband and father!

We are so blessed to call you ours!!! Happy, happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday Lolly!

Darn, got the pictures backwards again! Never can remember how to upload them so they are in the right order! Oh well!! We celebrated Lauren's birthday on Sunday and had a wonderful family time! We love getting together as a family! Even Miss Emersyn had a fun time, although she didn't get to enjoy the cake or homemade ice cream!

We've almost outgrown our dining room table as a family. Hmmmm! Guess we'll be looking for something bigger before too long.

We are so proud of our children! They have turned into such wonderful, loving, Christian adults!

Lauren has had such a big year this year! She finished college, got a job teaching kindergarten and a brand new car. She is so special to us! We are so proud of her accomplishments, her loving heart and her caring ways!

Happy Birthday Lolly!!! We love you so very, very much!!!!!!!

Isn't She Lovely?

Just couldn't help thinking of that song!!

A Summer Sunday

Don't you just LOVE Sundays? We do! We usually get together as a family and either grill or eat out or just hang together! Now that we have Emersyn, it's added a whole new angel to Sundays. There's so much to see, show her and experience. We got so tickled at her last Sunday as she explored "outside". She had a ball picking up leaves and rocks and just running around! She probably picked up 10 rocks. She'd look at us like, can I eat this? We'd make a "yucky" face and say don't eat it, so she'd just look at it.

She did try a few leaves but never really ate any of them.

The funniest part was watching her "experience" the grass. Every time she put her bare foot down, she'd pick it up really fast. When she lost her balance and sat on the grass, she tried to hold her legs up. It was hilarious!!! She finally got better at the grass after we put her shoes on. It just serves to remind us how much of life babies have to experience.

Emersyn LOVE the outside. Even when it's 101 degrees or so!

Our Special Angel!

We just love our precious Emersyn. She's growing up so fast and has developed such a cute little personality. She is so special to everyone in our family. My mom and dad just can't get enough of her. They think she's the cutest thing in the whole world and, of course, they're right!!!! She just loves to play and will crawl, pull up and play until she drops!

We also think she's so smart. She will work at something until she figures it out.

We just love our Emersyn and are so thankful that Jonathan and Anne Marie are so willing to share her. She is our precious angel!!

Graduated and Grateful!

Our beautiful, wonderful daughter graduated this week from Kennesaw State University, Summa Cum Laude, with a batchelor's degree in Early Childhood Education. Wow! What an accomplishment!! Today we had a fun graduation party with lots of food, family and friends!! Oh, and lots of gifts too!

Lauren in front of the Education Building at Kennesaw!

Lauren and Chad. So proud!!

Way to go Lauren!! We love you!!

A Beautiful Mother's Day!

We had the most beautiful Mother's Day today. It was filled with family and that's what makes it so special! We started with a cook out and ended with tons of photos (much to everyone's chagrin). Our Emersyn was so precious! She's getting so big and is learning so many new things every day. She has 3 teeth and stands alone. (Hasn't figured out the walking part yet though).
She's a little copy cat and does some of the cutest things! She is very much loved!!

Here's a photo of four generations of ladies!

And here are the guys.

The original four.


I love my family!!