Happy Birthday Gabby!

Seems like yesterday that I was here with her:

And now she's 3!

Happy Birthday Gabby!!

June

The big event in June was VBS. Our theme this year was Gold Rush. The kids learned that Jesus is the only true gold - it all was great. We also enjoyed some pool time and just hanging out.

Five Little Monkeys is still a favorite

She loves board games

She loves to wear her rain boots - rain is optional

Cuteness

Playing in the sprinklers

1st attempt at his 8 month picture - right before naptime

Much happier after his nap

Mary Laine with her big friend Matthew Ryan. He offered to hold her hand on the way to our car after lunch one day. I overheard him tell her, "Mary Laine, if a bee landed on you, I would catch him with my bug catcher!"

My friend Allison welcoming everyone to Gold Rush VBS

Aunt Sis came to see the VBS program

Celebrating the 4th of July a little early -

on our way to the Stars and Stripes Festival

May

May was a fun month for us. We were able to start going to the pool (but, since I was trying to keep up with two kids in the pool, I wasn't able to get any pictures of it). We also went to Jackson with Mimi and Aunt Su-Su. We went to the zoo and also took Mary Laine to see her first movie - Rio. Langdon hit the 7 month mark. We took a trip to Thomastown to visit Great-great-Aunt Ada, Great-great-Uncle George and Diane, and Mary Laine got her first salon hair cut, Gary got to go on a few golf trips while we were busy with all of our summertime fun.

Is there anything sweeter than a sleeping baby?

LOVE it!!

The giraffes were definitely her favorites

Choo-Choo!

So excited to ride the train

Langdon and Mimi waited for us at the station

The conductor told her to keep her hands inside the train,

so she sat like this the entire time.

We love bathtime

7 months old

Sitting on the back porch, discussing life with Uncle George

Checking out the chicken coop

Love reading time with Aunt Ada

First big-guhl haircut

More April Cuteness

He is Still Risen in August

I did this a few years ago in June... I guess that having two children puts me two more months behind on my blogging. Here are a few pictures from Easter this year. It is so much more fun being able to celebrate now that we can start to explain to Mary Laine exactly what Easter is. Although I do have to say, when I told her that the empty eggs were better than the ones with candy because it reminds us that Jesus wasn't in the tomb, I don't think that she agreed.

Mary Laine was sick on Easter morning, so she and I didn't go to church, but we did go to Mimi and Papa's to eat lunch with the Sturdivant family that afternoon. Here are a few of our pictures.

Getting to be such a Big Boy!

Wow - I realize that I've only posted Birthday/Anniversary songs on here since early June. I have alot of catching up to do. We've had a very full summer. We have been on the road on and off since mid-July and are finally home for good (well, until our trip to Auburn next month). We have had such a fun summer and the kids are growing and changing so much. I will try to sit down over the next week and post about our summer adventures. But I wanted to go ahead and get something on here to show what Langdon's been up to lately. Two days ago, he finally decided to start crawling (he's been scooting backwards for awhile now), and he also said his first word (aside from "Mama" and "Dada") - he said "dog", and he signed it, right after he crawled over to Deacon. I caught a little bit of the crawling on video, but couldn't get him to actually say "dog" again. I'll try to catch him doing it in the next few days.

Happy Anniversary Mimi and Papa!

Happy Birthday Uncle Jimmy!