Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Third Adult

How is it that I have 3 adult children now?
Leah turned 18 on May 11.
We can't believe that this will be here last year with us before heading off to college.
Time goes too fast!
We started the morning with our traditional gift opening before school.


And here is a sneak at her first senior picture photo shoot!💛


Happy 18th Leah!!
We love you!


 

Mother's Day

In crazy May fashion, on Mother's Day I found myself in Nashville, in the rain, at a club soccer tournament watching Leah play.  It's fine - I love watching my kids compete. 💛
Thank goodness we took Mother's Day photos.
I cherish them.



She played soccer that day too and wasn't happy about not being dressed appropriately for photos.  Leah didn't even come for photos.  She was in the shower.  Just how it is.  😊




Cutting in



AB goes out of her way to encourage me and. make me feel loved and appreciated!
Gourmet breakfast in bed!


Precious card from AB

a keeper from MQ

Homemade from Ruth!💚

I'm super blessed by these kids of mine!

 

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Crazy May is Here

May is crazy.
Wrapping up sports.
Wrapping up school.
Planting gardens.
Mowing grass.
School performances.
End-of-year parties.
Field day.

Never a dull moment.
Leah dissecting in Anatomy


Lydia's photo shoot with MQ


Daddy's girl

Choir performance...her first!

track meets

Front yard beauty

Leah's choir performance


baby chicks (we got 25 more)


 

Celebrating Graduates!


And congrats to our niece, Rebecca, on her degree in church music.
She had a hard time focusing on this special day seeing as her wedding was just a few weeks post-graduation.  Lots of fun celebrations going on in our family this year!


So happy to celebrate these graduates!

 

Monday, June 28, 2021

Another College Graduate...or 2

I'll make this official and post a cute photo of AB and her bf.
He's from England, a soccer player at Bryan and graduating in May.
His family is in lockdown due to the pandemic, so they were not able to make his graduation.
While we traveled to Bryan for the graduation of my niece, we figured we could pose in as Aaron's fake family. 😎

Not all of us could come.  The boys had football games and Ruth had a club soccer game, so that left 3 girlies and me.  We pulled over at the Cumberland Plateau for a pretty scenic photo.


This girl loves hotels.  Go figure.

Happy Graduation, Aaron!

This photo has a huge story behind it, but I'll try to sum it up.
Graduation was outside and we all sat together under the trees in the shade.
In the middle of the LONG ceremony, a bird pooped on my dad (zoom in to see the stain on his shirt and splatter on his sleeve).
This was not the first time dad has been pooped on...I think it was the 3rd.
Back in high school, I sat outside with him under a tree at our local pool while I tried to pursued him to allow me to date a college student who was lifeguarding that summer.  He was not a guy I should have dated, but I was flattered by his interest in me and as dad was telling me an emphatic NO and I was getting angry, a bird pooped on him in his business suit.  I internally rejoiced, and it's been a family joke ever since.
This look on Dad's face we call the "crinkled look" 😏
He was a good sport and we all got a good laugh!


Congrats, Aaron!



 

Sixth Grade Sweetness

Lydia loves to do photo shoots with her friends, nature and our pups.
Here's a few of my favorites.





Ruger and My Man headed for a walk.

Sweet notes left at my computer!!💛

I thought you may need another car-sleeping photo of MQ!😂💤

Sweet photos of when the kindergarten class visited the raised beds and chickens with the 5th graders.

And on one of her last days off, we went to get gas and she asked if she could hang out of the sunroof while I pumped gas!😍