Wow, we have a eight year old. As a friend said at her party she is half way to driving age. We are treasuring every minute we can since time is flying. Currently a few if her favorites are… Favorite thing … anything with emojis Favorite subject… Continue reading Leia’s EIGHTH Birthday Weekend
Saturday we headed out on the ‘long’ drive to Gatlinburg with a caravan with Stacy/Mark and Mimi/Al following us this year. Looking forward to getting to share Thanksgiving in Gatlinburg with our family that could make it this year. We arrived shortly before checkin and was pleased to see the code worked where we could… Continue reading Thanksgiving in Gatlinburg 2017
Sweet Leia had her 2nd grade program today. It was all about patriotism and America being a melting pot. Every child had to dress up natives from the land in which their family originated. Leia dressed up as German girl. She was thankful that daddy, mommy, Mimi, Mr Al, and sweet Ivy came to watch her.… Continue reading Leia’s 2nd Grade Program
The girls got a long weekend the week end before our Thanksgiving trip since they had Veterans day off. The weekend was productive, relaxing and stressful, and simply not long enough. Every morning the girls got to stay in their PJs until they were ready to get dressed although they woke up before 6am. Our new… Continue reading Veterans Weekend
So thankful to get to spend Mimi’s birthday with her! It was a low key day with great fellowship but went by entirely too fast. Mimi woke up and had breakfast with Al before heading to Lisa’s to meet her girls. We chilled out and waited on Stacy to arrive then the three of us went… Continue reading Happy Birthday Mimi
We finally got to celebrate Deedee’s birthday with her this weekend since she and Grandpa came to visit us for the weekend. They surprised the girls and picked them up from the bus at Shades to take them to Surge for a little high jumping fun on the trampolines. That evening we went to Brio’s for… Continue reading Weekend Fun: Celebrating Deedee’s bday, neighborhood block party
What a fun Halloween! The girls had to go to school since it feel during the week even though they thought it should be a school holiday. Mommy decided to give them a treat and clean up their rooms since they had forgotten to clean them for 3 weeks; they had gone to far and… Continue reading Halloween 2017
Mimi texted about getting the girls for a spend the night party so mommy and daddy got a date night. We ended up on a double date with Mark and Stacy. We laughed a lot and got to have some great conversation. Not sure if we enjoyed our night or the kids and Mimi enjoyed… Continue reading Weekend fun
Lisa was thankful she got to go to Ivy’s first field trip at VHEW with Mrs Chambliss’s class. They are such a sweet group of students. The farm was so organized too! There was about 14 classes at the farm and their was a schedule for each class. Our scheduled was the hay-maze, cotton picking,… Continue reading Ivy’s Old Baker Farm Fieldtrip
Lisa was out of town when VHEW had their annual school carnival but promised the girls we could go to Shade Mountain Carnival since they missed the one at school. It was very well organized and the girls had a great time! We arrived when they opened to loop through the games. Aunt Stacy wanted… Continue reading Shades Mountain Carnival 2017