Nashville Trip

Dinner with Nana & Pa

Mommy & Aubrey

Taking a break!

Water fun!

Driving with Mommy.

Ready for lunch.

Digging!

Grocery conveyor belt.

Computer time!

Washing the dishes.

Boys building their cars.

Aubrey & the water.

Climbing in the engine.

Aubrey driving.

Discovering.

Aubrey knew exactly what to do with the tire!

Aubrey & Nana watching the trains run.

Aubrey & Davis playing drums.

Aubrey & Davis driving.

Andrew in front of his favorite steam train!

Andrew using the crane.

Andrew liked the conveyor belt, too!

Andrew & the water.

Mya, Charity, Leslie, Brandee, Jill, & Aubrey.

Good friends from high school.

Brandee, Jill, & Aubrey

All the kids (minus Mya) at Cracker Barrel.

Davis & Emily reconnect so well every time they get together!

Andrew climbing (that's about as far up as he went!).

Junie B. Jones' Bus!

Junie B. Jones! She was hysterical! Andrew couldn't stop laughing!

The boys with Storm Troopers.

Davis getting ready to hit the pinata.

Lightsabers!

School is out and it's time to head to Nashville for the first full week of summer, only our trip got lengthened just a little bit. We decided to have most of the inside of our painted and since fresh paint & little children don't mix well, we headed to Nashville a few days early, making our trip last 10 days! It was one of our best trips yet! Rick couldn't join us and we missed him but the kids couldn't have been better! The trip there was long with three torrential downpours and a 1 1/2 hour traffic standstill in Atlanta, but not one complaint! While we were in Nashville, we were able to enjoy 2 fun days at the bookstore- Star Wars and then Junie B. Jones. We also were able to get together with some of my good friends from high school at a place called Bounce U where all 7 of our kids could play. Probably our most fun day came at a Discovery Museum in Murfreesboro where the kids built cars, played in water, watched trains, played in a grocery store and a kitchen, and walked around a trail outside to see waterfalls and ducks. It was such a great trip and we hated to leave but it's nice to back home to our own (newly painted & carpeted) home and most of all, to Daddy!

Preschool Carnival

Aubrey getting a tattoo.

See-Saw!

Looking for the ducks with the stars on them.

Andrew playing bean bag toss.

Almost!

Aubrey showed Andrew how it was done!

Popsicles!

Taking a break.

Waiting in line for cotton candy.

Showing off their dinosaur & ladybug tattoos.

Andrew fishing.

Aubrey fishing.

Mrs. Lisa!

Mrs. Kellie!

Wednesday was Andrew's official last day of school for the year and on Thursday his school held their annual carnival. There was bean bag tic tac toe, tattoos (Aubrey LOVED that part), a fishing game, bean bag toss, hula hoops, Popsicles, and cotton candy. It was hard to say who had a better time, Aubrey or Andrew! Andrew could not have had a better year and we are incredibly thankful to be able to have Mrs. Lisa and Mrs. Kellie again next year for Aubrey. Andrew will move to the big side of the school and Aubrey will just be starting in the fall. Mommy will most likely have to break out the tissues!

Field Day!

Mommy and Davis

waiting his turn

Buddies!

GO!

Almost to the finish line!

With Jan & our rubber chickens.

with JonAntheny, our neighbor & Davis' friend.

Once again it's my favorite event at Davis' school- Field Day! I helped with the Restaurant Relay and it was so fun to see Davis come through!

Mommy's Birthday!

Aubrey sharing with Nana & Pa.

Aubrey helping herself.

"mmmm"

What's this? Cake?

Andrew enjoying his cake.

Davis definitely enjoyed his cake!

35 is going to be a great year! Nana & Pa came to visit and we had a wonderful time. Aubrey mostly enjoyed eating off Pa's plate! It was nice of him to share!

Mother's Day celebrations

Muffins for Moms at Andrew's school.

Andrew with Mrs. Kellie.

Mother's Day dinner at church.

Davis & Aubrey at his school.

Muffins for Moms at Davis' school.

Davis presenting his poem he wrote about his mom.

What a wonderful mom's week this has been! On Wednesday, we had Muffins for Mom's at Andrew's school. On Wednesday night, we had a great Mother's Day dinner at church where Davis was our server. Then on Friday, we had Muffins for Mom's at Davis' school where he wrote a very nice poem about me! I am blessed three times over with such loving and amazing children. I love my job!

Seth's birthday party

Ready to begin

Aubrey was completely unsure and didn't last long!

Andrew doing the moves with everybody else.

Waiting his turn.

Getting ready to kick.

Jumping off the trampoline.

"Tiger Claw" jump!

Davis demonstrating his moves!

Aubrey with Mrs. Jan (Seth's mom).

Break time!

Earned his first stripe!

Davis' good friend, Seth, joined Karate about a month ago and yesterday he his birthday party at the karate studio. Our whole family is good friends with his family so we all went. I think Andrew had the best time of anyone there! He is so seldom allowed on the mat since we are usually just there for Davis' class so yesterday he was super excited! He did all the moves right along with the big kids and even earned his very first stripe! Is he going to be interested? Who knows, but yesterday he had the time of his life!