Breath Taking...

Although the humidity gets to me at times, this is the beauty that can come from it! I absolutely love love the sunshine coming through the trees and enhanced by the haze in the air making gorgeous sunbeams! I of course first thought about what a beautiful creation this world is. Although I couldn't capture exactly what the eye could see or the gasps I had during this experience, I just wanted to share the moment with you. (You'd almost think something huge was taking place in my back yard!)

Big, white, fluffy clouds against a deep, blue ski!!! I love it! We see this so much, I just had to take one to remember...might be more another time!

End Of School

What a year! I can't believe another year has passed...Raegan is excited to be called a 1st grader, Tarin a 2nd grader, Jarom a 4th grader and now Rian is the oldest grade at school...a big 5th grader!

What to get the greatest bus driver that is very patient with us and knows to wait or leave at the stop...well, something is better then nothing. He either thinks we are freaks for having 4 kids going to the same school, or hopefully admiration that we even get them out there for 7am pickup as much as we do!

Rian's was invited to be in the Beta Club next year, what an honor!

Raegan loves her buddies

Ammon couldn't resist sitting on his brother's lap!

Tarin loved the end of the year treats!

Climbing Stone Mountain

Last weekend we decided to take a family fun day to Stone Mountain park. Years ago we took the tram up to the top, but this time we decided to do the hike up...I've never done the mile hike up, but I thought it was a lot of fun and worth the fun times together.

The gum pole...on the way down the kids started on a piece of gum to add to the pole...kind of gross, but it was fun making their mark...even if they would never be able to point out theirs soon as they took their eyes off of it.

These rocks are kind of cool...

" 5 little monkeys swinging in the tree..."

Field Day

The school year is winding down! Field day is just one of those fun things the kids just love to do.

wet sponge pass

Mia, Raegan, Natalie, Melody and Kodie


Tarin thought it was funny to put her head in the water...it was a hot, humid day...I don't blame her...

Jarom

Shy boy... wow, we all need a tan!

It was a fun couple of days.

Mom's Day

Trent was able to have no church meetings (which means not getting up at 4:45am) and made me breakfast in bed with the kiddos. Yummy yumm! Here is a cute picture of Raegan before church. What a cutie pie!After church, the traditional day spa began! Ahhh, to have my feet scrubbed and massaged, and my face painted with mud mask...made me realize I should mask more often! OR have more days like these...
For dinner, we had the family over. Troy, Kristin and Bryn. Missy, Nick and baby Jase.

Rian holding Jase and Ammon kissing his cute fuzzy head.

So Sweet!

So Crazy!

Funny kids!

Motherhood! Such a blessing!

Lemonade Stand

It all started with my son wanting to earn money for something he had his eye on...an expensive something I might add. He wanted to grab junk from our garage and sell it on our lawn, until I looked out the window and wondered what he and the others were doing... once I put a stop to that he dragged his feet and said he wishes he could do a lemonade stand. Well, why not! So I started living vicariously through my kids from this point on and wanted to do one just as bad...never done one! To make it more 'successful' I decided to add other goodies to the mix to give people variety. I had the kids put a little of their own money into the equation to learn the process a bit more realistically. For the next week or so we were working hard to make this the best.oreo truffles

brownies/muffins

sign makers

fresh juiced OJ, lemonade, cinnamon rolls...

my set up helpers

The group all together working hard on a beautiful breezy day.

Turns out we didn't sell quite as much as anticipated, but the kids each made (on top of what they origionally put in) a whole...$3.00! Not a lot, but they had fun and got paid for it. I was very proud of them for sticking through with it and waving at all kinds of strangers that Walmart usually drags in.

What?...Who?...

I walked in the other night and saw hard noodles on the ground and couldn't figure out how they had gotten there. I thought I had gotten them all into the pot.

Little Bryn had made her mark...I gave her the box to "shake" for entertainment, but she decided to go a different direction...


Silly girl. So sweet and lovable.

SODA

This is SODA! No we didn't go out and get a cat. This cat just one day started hanging around and loved the kids. We were determined not to feed it and hoped it would go away, thinking it was just trying to get a hand out like all the other neighbor cats. But this one has been the most patient and smartest ever! So in reference to the Star Wars UTube videos of Y-Y-Yoda, S-S-Soda, we named her Soda. We did start feeding her basic cat food...so I guess we do have a pet. This cat has been proving herself for about a month, so I guess it was about time I added her to the blog.

Ammon is our kisser of all creatures!