Summer Time is Here at Last!!

After we finished up vacation bible school last week we have been taking in all that summer has to offer....with lots of trips down the slides/toilet bowl at Point Mallard (and I do mean LOTS),

(I don't even know how many times she went up the hill dragging that float, that is bigger than she is- most the time she smiled and someone helped her...but boy what a BIG HILL for a little girl. Sam would help her when he was on his way to the toilet bowl)

and down she comes-always Smiling :)

Sam enjoying the slides but his favorite is the

Toilet bowl

At our pool we have plenty of Cannon Balls,

and dips in the pool on these HOT summer days...

always some kind of Pose from her (we are only using swimmes for jumping off diving board)

For me this is my typical spot - pretty nice place to BE..Enjoy SUMMER!!

Big Apple Adventure- VBS

What a wonderful week at our church.. it is none other than VBS time. This year we traveled to the NYC for our BI-BI-BI-Big Apple Adventure.Can you see how excited they are to have their picture made together.

Each day we meet in the Sanctuary for a Bible story and the VBS songs, then we broke into our groups for rec. time , craft time,music, and story time in our classroom (look how cool our room is- it is our very own Pizzeria in New York City).

We also have a service project that is presented to us at the beginning of VBS that we took up offering for- this year due to the tornadoes in April lots of churches have lost so much so Mrs. Christy found First Baptist Church in Phil Campbell that was in need of everything- crayons, paper, etc.. they lost it ALL. We took up money all week (boys vs. girls) and raised over $7,000 for this church WOW!! Our church staff had to take a PIE in the face -

During the week the children are presented the ABC's of becoming a Christian. (A-Admit, B-Believe, and C-Confess

and Sam prayed the prayer and ask Jesus into his Life!!

What a FUN week!!

Mountain Mania 15K

Shawn and the rest of the "running group" ran the Mountain Mania 15K on Burningtree Mountain...

His time was 1:25- Good Job!!

happy birthday

to the 15 year old today- JORDAN!!

(these are the cute shoes she bought at Bridgestreet with money from Nana and Papa)
She has been at our house this whole week-so we had to get a little celebrating in before she went back home. The family meet at Alfonso's for supper on Thursday nightand then on Friday we went to Bridgestreet to get her, her only birthday wish- new sparkly Toms(only to find out they don't carry that type anymore). We stopped in Orangetree for yogurt and while we were there we used Heather's IPad and ordered her the two pairs of Toms that she wanted- She also spent a little bit of her birthday money on another pair of really cute shoes . Smith and Heather went and found her a belt and red watch at this new store at Bridgestreet.

Happy Birthday - hope you enjoy your day!!

Finally!!!

We have already been in the water this year (even me in the pool in May- that is a first) I knew I had to start early with Penny(my non-swimmer). She is my 5 year old scared to death of the water and of going under.. I was determined that this was going to change. I have already pulled her in while she was crying (bad mom) and showed her that she could touch the bottom of the pool. We have been taking baby-steps this whole week. We started with walking in the pool without floaties, counting and going under (big step), holding my hands and kicking, and trying to get her to blow bubbles - so far so good. I was in the pool with her today and was trying to get her to kick and put face in... All the sudden she did it!!!! She went from scared to a swimming fish!!!

Yeah PENNY!!