how come you don't write anymore?

so we have been VERY!!!!! busy since school has let out.  Not with anything big but just with the day to day activities.  So before the year gets ahead of us any further I am posting a long blog of photos. so here we go

i uploaded the photos backwards. We are starting from yesterday and will end at the beginning of May. sorry

Movie Day

With our best friends at Free Movie Wednesday

seth, addie, john, dylan, ezra, carter, chloe

New Mexico Trip

Wedding Day for Kelly

Last week I was part of the most beautiful wedding for my best friend Kelly.

John and Addie pose for their yearly Peter Piper Pizza Picture

John and Addie loving on Nana's new cat Ferguson/Fergie/Fergus

John and Braydon mixing up a saucy dip for the supper time bread.  Letting boys be boys is very rewarding...

so much that it wears Addie out

Hair Cut for Daddy

John really enjoyed getting to help daddy cut his hair.  I love these sweet learning moments in life

Not a morning person : (

Addie has a hard time waking up.  She takes after her momma. But a warm bottle and sometimes a warm dishwasher is all she needs to perk up.

Tattoo time

If you don't know that John is OBSESSED with Transformers you must be living under a rock.  He is always wanting Dan to draw tattoos on him.

Date night

 Dan and I went to the annual GI dinner in May.  This is one of our 2 set dates a year.  This dinner is for the Fellows that have finished the entire medical process and finally have REAL jobs.

Next year it will be Dans turn. 

  WE HAVE ONE MORE YEAR TOO GO!!!!!!!   YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Family Photo

Practicing for our family church photo.

Cookie time

The kids made and decorated the prettiest and most delicious cookies. : )

Snake Time

John and Dan look at snake pictures everyday. literally.  As soon as Dan walks in the door John has a list of snakes that he wants to look at on the internet.  

Prepping the soil

We planted a wonderful garden this year that is growing nicely.  Here the kids are picking out all the worms in the dirt in preparation for the planting.

Time Out

Addie is attached to John.  Even if he is annoying the tar out of her she will still follow him around.  In this pic John had been sent to time out for irritating Addie.  Addie followed him to time out and started "reading" him a story from her favorite book.  One day they will deny this ever happened but you all are witnesses that they really do deep down inside love each other.

T - BALL

John showing off his tball trophe with coach Dad

John with his team mates.  He is literally a head above all the other kids. 

John hitting his first home run.  We celebrate at McDonald's

Addie was a big help with Coaching.

running to 3rd base

Sometimes other things are just more interesting

#1 fan

showing John the straight and narrow. 

Not much is cuter

there are few things cuter than a toddler walking in their daddies shoes. Especially when they are only wearing a diaper and sucking on a bottle.

Rainy Days

It had rained everyday for weeks here in NC and I just couldn't keep the kids inside any longer so we went out and enjoyed the puddles.

Sweet Southern Belle

I ABSOLUTELY LOVE having a girl.  Addie loves putting her own shoes on and wearing hats. She is a typical girly girl!!!

Beans the dog

Our dog Beanie.

We have a few bats in our Cave

Our bats.  We counted close to 30.  They were packed into the bat house like sardines.

Local Reptiles

Ratty, our rat snake, has made about 3 visits to our house this year. We saw him today and he has grown to about 6 feet. 

Johns first local snake that he got to hold.  It was a very scary moment for me but he loved every moment.  He even was blessed my the snakes musk. STINKY!!!!!