saturday, october 30

my wonderful family...4 generations together.

friday, october 29

my two oldest friends...
and my baby brother's high school football senior night

saturday, october 23

jonah put this birdhouse together, with the help of uncle lee, while we were visiting for the weekend. he is such a smart kid...passionate about everything he sets his mind to.

saturday, october 10

i was very blessed with a wonderful birthday this year filled with lots of kind words from family & friends and day a spent with my wonderful husband and our great friend, katy. we had breakfast (and dinner) at one of our favorite houston restaurants, went shopping, ate cupcakes, and went to see a movie.

saturday, september 18

many thanks to continental airlines for enough of a delay on ben and shauna's flight from san francisco to baton rouge that we were able to hang out with them for a couple of hours last night!

sunday, september 12

we ended the weekend with mr joe with breakfast at humble city cafe. humble city cafe reminds me a lot of the city cafe in northport that i miss dearly. they specialize in good, home-cooked food...although i can only personally attest to their breakfast.

what a fun, special weekend. we can't wait for him to come back to visit again!

saturday, september 11

texas a&m and louisiana tech played each other this year in football so it was the perfect game for lee and his dad to attend together. we met up with katy, the garretts, and the benolkens in college station. after experiencing step off for the first time, we headed to the stadium for a special 9/11 tribute pre-service special. it wasn't the prettiest game for the aggies, but they did pull out the w in the end.

friday, september 10

mr joe came to spend the weekend with us. after a round of golf for the guys, we all went to dinner at pei wei...mr joe's first time. we also gave him the opportunity to experience tutti frutti. sadly, there are no pictures from the evening.

monday, september 6

my sister was an awesome hostess for the weekend! love you lots!

saturday, september 4

TUSCALOOSA!

wednesday, august 11

today's pictures are in honor of those close to us who celebrated special days:

mr joe's birthday

jonah's 8th birthday

my mom and dad's 26th anniversary

saturday, july 17

the carnival party for jonah and emma was a blast. i still think it was one of the most fun kid parties i have ever been to!eva seemed to enjoy it too. think she's a fan of watermelon?!

friday, june 25

thankfully, our last day in the city gave us a nice afternoon of sunny weather that we had not experienced since my first day there. we took advantage of this and took a walk along the bay where at&t park sits.later we met up with most of the rest of the epic church team for some ice cream and fellowship at union square. it was a nice end to a fun little trip.

thursday, june 24

my first venture to san francisco's chinatown. i bought a shirt as a token of my trip, met shauna's new friend kit who has an amazing scarf store, and stood in shock on the sidewalk alongside shauna as we realized her van had been towed. luckily, ben retrieved the van within an hour or so, but that is a slightly difficult event to explain to three little boys who just want to ride back home in their van.

wednesday, june 23

i can never get enough of these three! i wish i had just a fraction of their energy and excitement for life.

tuesday, june 22

my first full day in the city started off with great weather...i was wearing sandals and capris! and this is the weather we ended the day with at elijah's baseball practice on the other side of town where the sun rarely shines:
p.s. - happy 19 month anniversary to us!

sunday, june 20

for whatever reason, we did not take a picture with our dad on father's day which was quite a shame.

after church, we went to my grandmother's house for the afternoon. the baby birds i discussed about a week's worth of posts down were still there but not quite as tiny and cute. in fact, they were looking much more creepy than cute this day!

thursday, june 17

one of the first days i was at my parents' house, my dad offered me an outdoor project to do...wasn't that sweet of him?! :)

the job was to clean some patio furniture they have outside. this furniture happens to sit under quite a think canopy of trees so my mom wanted to make sure i clarified that they don't enjoy the filth that these chairs had come to be. it is just difficult to maintain their cleanliness.

i did not make it through the entire set of furniture but i did tackle two of the chairs. those of you who follow me on twitter may have seen this, but these are the before and after shots:

wednesday, june 16

while staying with my parents, my mom wanted me to sort through some of my old keepsake items and decide what was really worth saving and what we could part with. it is funny that she asked me to do this because she would have been perfectly content to keep it all. i could go on and on about all the stories that came out of that project, but here is a little taste of what i found. the picture quality is terrible because it came from a cell phone, but this is my indian headdress from our thanksgiving lunch in kindergarten. i had a vest made out of a paper bag too but i'm pretty sure it was a little too small. the fact that i could still wear this is proof that i have always had a large head.

monday, june 14

my family has learned that we cannot go anywhere altogether without a lot of laughs and a lot of noise to those around us. after spending the night with my grandmother, we met up with everyone else (my mom, rachel, tyler, my aunt, wesley, & hannah) for lunch. we even got the waitress to assist us in our impromptu photoshoot. never a dull moment with this bunch :)