Grandma

Caroline had a project for the first day of school, so we needed a picture of her with her Grandma. I thought this was a good opportunity to get a pic of both kids with her, so I snapped this at church a few weeks ago.

I think the girls look like they're about 12 years old here!

Beautiful Savannah!

I may be moving! I fell in LOVE with Savannah, Georgia!


The houses are gorgeous!

The city is rich in history! There are city square EVERYWHERE! I mean each one has a different fountain, monument, statue, etc....

filled with HUGE live oak trees that are covered in spanish moss! I have never seen anything like it in my life!

Jon took me to Savannah for our second anniversary. He totally suprised me with where we were going. He has now set himself up for failure because I don't know of any other place that he could take me that would be any more perfect than Savannah!

It's just Walking!

...so what's the big deal?

I have owned a really cool treadmill since January (because I, like millions of others in the world, fell into the whole "new year, new you" ad campaign that works every year for retailers around the globe) I can say that I have used it several times ("several" being used lightly here), but I have NOT been devoted in the least!

It's not something that's difficult to do or that takes up much of my time...

I have really good intentions of getting up 30 minutes early...or walking before going to bed...or just exercising three days per week, but I CANNOT MAKE MYSELF DO IT!!!!!!!

WHY??????????? My only answer here is that it's BORING!

So.....

Tonight I am typing this blog post as I **guess what I'm doing** WALKING ON MY TEADMILL!!!!

Ok so that's kind of nutty, I know, but it is getting the job done!

I'm walking!

Horsing Around

Another camp story....

Camp week is full of events like horseshoe tournaments, volleyball games, disc golf, and more! Gracie has been playing in the horseshoe tournament since she was old enough to walk. (not really but it seems like it to me...) Here you can see the concentration on her face as she gets ready to pitch...


And here are the results of the concentration.....A RINGER!

Father's Day

Each year we have family camp week at our church's camp grounds. It always begins on Father's Day which is pretty cool because the camp ground is the perfect place for Gracie and Caroline to remember their dad since he LOVED it there! The girls are standing beside the covered bridge that Josh helped build there. He never got to see it to completion but he would be so pleased with the way it turned out! The girls are standing beside a small monument built to dedicate the bridge to Josh, and there is a time capsule filled with lots of "Josh stuff" inside the concrete on it.

This year for Father's day the girls brought these purple flowers and placed them in front of the monument. They watered them and took care of them all week while we camped out. Sometimes it's hard to think of ways to help them remember and know who he was. Hopefully they will have that same love for the camp ground that he did!

He really graduated!

It happened! Finally! YAY! These are two proud parents.



...And here's one proud wife. :) Congrats, Jon!

Pics of my kids...

We had some professional pics taken of Andy and the girls today. I think this is the first time we have EVER taken them somewhere else to have pics done! The photographer took some great shots of the three of them, but she didn't take any of them by themselves, so we stopped on the way home and I snapped these: (not too shabby for an amateur like me..)

I will be sending out some copies of these soon, but I couldn't wait to share them!