Boys at the Lake

For Christian's 13th birthday,he got to take 4 friends to the lake for a couple of days.  It happened the first week of June, which fell exactly on Rebecca's 12th birthday, but due to her mandatory volleyball tryouts, she had to be at home.  Gigi came and stayed in Nashville with the girls while Matthew and I took these boys to the lake.

We had a great time and they all had so much fun on the water.  They are all great kids and we thoroughly enjoyed our time with them. 

Serious boys

Silly boys

Wow - a mustache so quickly after you turned 13??

Tristan, Michael & Christian

Cameron & CJ on the tube

Matthew drove the boys around on the sea-do

Ready for a wild ride!

Whipping up the water a bit!

Christian & Tristan

Advertising What's To Come......

Happy Birthday Rebecca!

Happy 12th Birthday, Rebecca.

We were out of town but someone took this picture of her at church on her "real" birthday!

Memorial Day & Birthday fun

These are some pictures of our Memorial Day celebration other than just focusing on Rebecca's birthday!  We are so thankful for our friends!

 

Julianna & Angela

Rebecca with Faith & Hope...... that's Shadow swimming in the background!

Mark & Matt playing cornhole!

Faith & Christian

Doreen takes a turn!

Marjorie gave me quite the competition!

Kurt enjoyed the game too

A bunch of goofies....Christian, Hope, Rebecca & Faith

Typical boy!

Celebrating Rebecca's 12th Birthday (Surprise)

Rebecca turned 12 on June first but we were going to be out of town that day so we wanted to celebrate with her early.  We decided to surprise her, so we planned a get together for Memorial Day with some of our friends and turned it into a Birthday celebration for her.  She was completely surprised and loved it.  You'll be able to tell from these pictures!

My sweet friend Doreen made Rebecca the Chocolate cake she wanted and then even decorated it for her!

We even had a few decorations

Rebecca - the birthday girl

Of course I forgot the candles so you can see a 1 and a ? which is close to a 2..... so she had to hold up her hands for good measure!!  (Sorry sweetie)

Not sure what this face is about!

So excited!  I think those were the home made earrings her friend Faith made her.

So excited!

So Happy!  (I actually have more pictures of her with her mouth wide open!)

A Mosaic t-shirt.  That's the Christian singing group we know and she loves!

Ms. Doreen got her a pretty frame and candle that uses batteries - of course she likes the bow too!

She wanted to get her hair dyed but we went with a clip in first....

Happy Birthday, Sweetie!  We love you!

GMS Sports Banquet

Christian & Rebecca were honored at the Sports banquet for their participation in the Greenbrier Middle School Athletics Program:

Christian - Basketball

Rebecca - Volleyball

Preschool Graduation

We could not have asked for a better preschool.  Julianna had just the most wonderful experience at Christian Community School.  

They had a precious graduation ceremony and Julianna loved every bit of it.  She'd been practicing for the songs and the Bible verses so she was thrilled when the night came.  

Marching in...

There's her sweet friend Angela

Saying the pledge

All of their hats were just too big, so Ms. Kim had to help her out

Singing!

Proud of her diploma

Julianna with Ms. Kim

Best Friends!

Julianna & me

The Family

Our kiddos

The Locke's came and Julianna had to have a picture with Mr. Chris, her "Lovie"

The best teachers in the world - they adore her and she loves them!

One of her friends from school.  Isn't that a great picture?!

Our silly girl

Our silly boy!!!