Kadence is here!!!!

Isn't she adorable?!!!!

Kadence

May 11, 2011

7 lbs 1 oz  19 inches long

I only have a few pictures sent by text messages so the quality isn't the best. I will have some more pictures soon.

Katherine, Jonathan, and Kadence are doing great! We can't wait to go and see them in a couple of weeks :)  I am so proud of Katherine! She was a trooper.

Ella Kate is super excited about going to Texas. She is marking off the days on her calendar. Emma Klaire said, " She is a cutie pie!"

Backing up a little: Ella Kate had her piano recital the end of April. She did a great job!!
                                                                  Before the recital:

During the recital...

Mrs. Patricia and Ella Kate

                                                         Randomness!!!! But Priceless!

I have several other things to blog about that have happened in the last couple of weeks...I hope to soon anyway.
So until next time............I hope you find much JOY!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

I am one blessed mama! I am so thankful for my girls and my husband.

              I am so very thankful for my mother, mother-in-law, and grandmother!

I am so blessed to have such a wonderful, caring, GIVING, mama. She has always gone above and beyond what she had to do as a mama. She is also an awesome Nana! Thanks for loving us so much!
 She is Texas bound today due to her third granddaughter being born shortly!

             So I don't have a new "Mother's Day picture"... so last year's one will have to do.

My mother-in-law is also a super mama. She raised three wonderful sons........and I got one of them!!!! She is also a wonderful Memaw. Thanks for loving us also!

And of course we have an amazing Gran Gran...............who we love also very much!!!!!

So until next time..................I hope you find much JOY!!!!

SWIMMING TIME :)

Ella Kate, Emma Klaire and Pepaw decided to try the pool Easter afternoon..........I just observed. They said it wasn't really that bad!

Emma Klaire isn't sure she wants in............

Ella Kate takes the plunge...............

Ok...she is in a swimsuit...really wanting to get in.....

Emma Klaire taking the plunge.........

a change of swimsuits ....she didn't like her belly button showing....hope she never changes that opinion..

now a shirt on also...she is set..

                                             floaties on............and ready to go............again
                                                    Ella Kate was swimming having a ball...I didn't get enough pictures..

Pepaw had a fun.... of course!

 So until next time...........find much Joy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EASTER!

The Saturday before Easter we dyed our Easter eggs.

                                                                      Great Results :)

Sitting by the fire.........strumming some tunes...priceless !

Easter Morning

Before church Easter Morning

Everyone ate lunch at our house......including Gran Gran.:)

I didn't get any posed picturs.....just snapshots.

Emma Klaire was explaining something to Gran Gran...I am sure it was very important!

I am going to continue on another post. We actually swam for the first time Easter afternoon :)

So until next time................I hope you find much JOY!

It Could Have Been Us!!

Monday night, Tuesday night, and Wednesday was very scary and stormy.

We went to the storm shelter a couple of times.

Wednesday was devastating. Not for us....but for so many!

It could have been us!!!!

We stayed in the halls at school for all but about 2-1/2 hours. The siren would go off over and over, and the children grew very restless. I was a nervous wreck!

Norman came and got the girls around lunch, and they went home and got in the storm house.

We heard a roar...........a tornado passed over our town....................it so could have been us!

I can't imagine losing everything. We continue to pray for these communities. It has been said that is one (if not the top) of the most deadly tornado outbreaks

 in history.

The thing about not posting more often is the fact that I have around 30 pictures I would love to post. :)

Last week we did our usual stuff.......................Friday we were out of school. FUN!  Matt, Mae Mae and the boys came. We grilled out, and  then had our egg hunt at church.

 Ella Kate and Katelyn

Emma Klaire and Abby

I will finish up the last weekend's and this week's post tomorrow hopefully.

So until next time...........I hope you find much JOY!!!   Remember the tornado victims.

Smiles and Sweetie!

Well the last couple of weeks we have just kept going............. and loving this weather (except the storms!)!!! We have had some absolutely gorgeous days. It is so hard to come in ............we just want to stay outside...

 We had pictures made last Saturday. Aren't they priceless ????  :)

















These are the proofs..........I haven't got the actual pictures ordered yet.

This Saturday Ella Kate had dance pictures made, and then we picked up her friend Mclaine. They have a class pet named Sweetie. We got to keep him for the weekend. Fun, Fun!!!

This is a picture of Sweetie in the van after we picked up Emma Klaire from school.. ;)

Ella Kate, Mclaine, and Sweetie

                                     Emma Klaire's new flippers and her sweet little feet!

So until next time ......................... I hope you find much JOY!!!!

PERFECTLY NORMAL :)

Well the last two weeks have been busy/normal/perfect. I have got to where I read several blogs and keep up with several caringbridge sites. As a result................I have realized how my life is perfectly normal..................which is what I want. So many of the families just want a normal night at home..........cooking supper, taking baths, doing homework, etc,............all under the same roof. Thank you God for my normal/perfect life.

I don't like it when I don't blog because I honesetly can't remember everything we did the last couple of weeks.

Last weekend Emma Klaire was sick. She was just laying around, so I finally took her to the doctor. She ended up having an uninary tract infection. Bless her!! I stayed with her this past Monday, and she stayed at Memaw's Tuesday. She is much better thankfully.

Last Sunday Ella Kate was in her first Bible Drills. I forgot to take my camera, but a friend got a picture. So one day I will post it hopefully. I was so proud of her.

Ella Kate had her third grade musical Thursday night. It was super!!!

Friday night Norman and I had a date night....:) Olive Garden and a movie!

Saturday I cleaned the gargage while Norman did yard work and the girls played outside. The weather was glorious to say the least. Saturday late afternoon the girls and I went to the park for a little while and then on the mall to meet Bec Bec. That was lots of fun :)

Today was another beautiful day........church, walked, Wal-mart, church, etc.  Ella Kate went with the older children to watch the Associational Bible Drills. She will get to participate in that next year.

Hopefully I won't wait as long next time to update.  Remember to thank God for your normal/perfect days...I know I am so thankful.

We are suppose to get some reallly bad weather tomorrow. I am not looking forward to that. I wish I could just stay at home with my girls....but work/school beckons. Maybe it will just pass right over us.

So until next time............I hope you find much JOY!!!!!