{Princess Ava}



{4th of July}

I know this is late, but blogger has been giving me some trouble lately, and I have had a hard time getting this post done! So if anything looks weird and something, that's why! I don't know what's going on with it! Anyways, we had such a great 4th of July this year! We were able to have both Timmy and Ava for most of that week, so that made it even more special! The weather was VERY rainy that whole week, but luckily it let off long enough for us to enjoy the parade and the sun came out long enough for a few of us to get a pretty nasty sunburn!

  

                                                                  Waiting for the parade to start

  

  

    

Mom got the kids shirts and they decorated them! They were so proud of their shirts and  were so excited to wear them on the 4th!!

                             Spraying on some rubbing alcohol to add a tie-dye affect!

                                                                          The finished shirts!!!

   

After the parade, we had just enough time to eat our picnic out on the deck and have a quick water battle before it absolutely POURED the rain!! It was a very quick and heavy downpour and then it was done and the sun was back out, so we were back outside!

                                                            Timmy and Ava playing in the sand

   

  

  

                                                                    Roasting marshmallows!

  

It rained several times off and on over the afternoon, so during one of the rainy times, Kaleb brought down some puppies from our neighbor that he works for, so the kids could play with them!

                                       Khara, he wants a Golden-Doodle, in case you can't tell!!!

Waiting for the fireworks to start at the lake! They were incredible this year!

    

                                                           Doing sparklers after the fireworks

Hope everyone else had a great 4th of July!

We miss you so much, Timmy and Ava!!!

{Katrina Renea}

Happy 14th Birthday!!

We love you!!

{Look at this beautiful, big girl}

Zoey at school.

She is getting SO big and growing up way too fast!!!!

{Vacation 2013}

Finally!!

Vacation time again!!!

We left Friday afternoon, May 24th for a week in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

We had great plans to do a LOT of nothing!!

Still, we weren't completely lazy the whole week, but it was so nice to relax; everyone needed it!

Saturday was cold and rainy, so we definitely took it easy.

Sunday we went to church and took a walk down the mountain in the afternoon.

Monday was Memorial Day, so we took advantage of some good sales and went shopping!

We went to visit Mom's Aunt Margaret and Uncle Glenn Tuesday afternoon.

We had a such a wonderful visit with them!

Kelley gave mom a manicure

On Wednesday, Kaleb, Katrina, Dad and Kelley tried out the zip-line at the Resort.

It lasted about 45 minutes and is basically flying down the mountain on a rope for 750 feet!

They really loved it!  

Dad

Kelley

Katrina

Kaleb

Thursday we went bowling! 

Dad, of course, won both games, but it was still super fun!!  

Most of us hadn't been bowling since we were in Texas for Kent's boot camp graduation (6 years ago.....you remember that, Kent??), so we felt like we had a good excuse for our poor scores!!

Kaleb

Kaitlyn

 

Kaleb and Katrina both got new bikes!!

They rode around the resort some, but it's on the side of a mountain, so down hill is great, but up hill is next to impossible!!! There is a great park nearby, though, that is perfect for riding bikes, so they really enjoyed that.

(The bike next to Kaleb, is Dad's new bike......................He wishes!!!!! haha)

It was a fabulous week, but we packed up early Friday morning and headed to Baltimore for Kaitlyn's Graduation rehearsal that afternoon and ceremony on Saturday
(more on that coming as soon as we get the pictures from the photographer)!!!!