Video of kids playing in the pool

Emma singing "Open the eyes of my heart, Lord" at church

June 1st

May 31st - Daddy's Birthday and then moving into June!

1st Pool Time of the summer. Emma was using the inflated seat as a "diving board". She would jump off of it and land on her bum. Andrew enjoyed himself as well, but had quite an interest in the water hose.

Daddy's Birthday dinner @ Don Juan's

Barbie playing games at the end of the year children's party at church. The goal of this game was to see how many balls the kids could throw into the basket. Not sure if my team won or not.

Helping Daddy Mow the Lawn and more...

Andrew did so amazing helping Brad mow the lawn. He probably did about 3/4 of the yard with him. Brad said, he just kept going. When we all went outside, we weren't planning on Andrew helping Brad mow, so because he was wearing open toed sandals, his toes were green :-) Our cute little man.

Emma helped mow from time to time, but wasn't as determined as Andrew was.

Video of Andrew helping Brad mow the lawn.

The kids enjoyed our Malawi Spaghetti Fundraiser Dinner.
Our team raised close to $1,000 toward our Africa Mission Trip!

The bear was a big hit. They snuggled with him. They wrestled with him.
They tackled each other with him. Pretty funny.

Butterfly Farm on 5/17

Emma & Andrew both weren't too sure about the butterflies at first.
They liked looking at them, but didn't want to touch them or hold them.

After a while Emma warmed up and did end up touching a butterfly.

Andrew would rather just play with the rocks on the ground :-)

Lots to share in May

Emma is helping Mommy make Bran Muffins.

One of Daddy's favorite muffins recipes.

The chalk drawing went a little far as you can see.
Apparently the easel is larger than I realized.
(Hint: look at the screen closely)

Andrew's 1st preschool artwork.
He's been going to the preschool only on Fridays this month.

Well, Andrew continues to live up to one of his nicknames, "Bruiser".
We were on our way to Cici's for dinner, and while he's getting into the van, he slipped somehow and hit (obviously) the left side of his face by his eyebrow on the metal bar that moves the side door. It immediately turned into a big blue knot, but he really didn't cry long after it happened. I ran inside to get some ice, but of course he wouldn't let us put it on his face. He'd rather eat ice. He loves ice!

Below is what it looked like today. Looks worse as far as color, but it is healing. The knot looked better even just after dinner the night it happened. Now he has one of every color of the rainbow on his eyelid and brow :-) He looks like he's been in a boxing match.

Video of the kids singing (and dancing) to the song,
"Praise Ye the Lord"

What we've been up to

April 29-30th
Brad and I took a short getaway to Pilot Mountain. We stayed in a bed and breakfast, went hiking, visited Mt. Airy (the town the Andy Griffith show was based off of), and shared some nice meals together. It was a nice break from everyday life that both of us needed.

Below are some misc pictures:
Andrew shared some of Daddy's chocolate shake from Steak n Shake.

Barbie organized a Mother's Day slideshow presentation at church and this is the picture we used. Emma and Andrew, you are truly our gifts from God.

Emma loves spaghetti/pasta (or "sasta" as she calls it).
Need we say more. Yes, it was bath night that night.