Memorial Day 2008

We had a wonderful Memorial Day. Randy was off and we took the kids to the park to play for a little while this morning. Then we took a drive up the Natchez Trace to the Cypress Swamp. We thought that would be a nice little nature walk for the kids. It would've been if the mosquitoes hadn't been quite so bad..they were huge and there were tons of them. We saw a cottonmouth snake that crossed the trail right in front of us. I am no fan of snakes at all. I was quite glad to get the kids back to the van. We saw some deer, snakes, and one alligator on our drive. That evening, my parents came over to eat dinner with us. Randy grilled hamburgers and hot dogs. And the very very best part of all was....that night, Will asked Jesus into his heart to be his Lord and Savior!!! We are so excited that he has made this decision. He has been asking questions for a very long time now and we knew he was getting close. This was one of the happiest days of our life, to know that he has made this profession of faith. He'll go through a New Believers class for children at church and will be baptized later this year, after he completes that class.

K5 Kids Kamp '08

Our church has Kids Kamp right after school gets out. It's for first through fifth graders but the kindergartners get to go just for one day as a preview day to see what they'll be able to do next year. We had a great time with Will!! We spent the day of May 23 at Twin Lakes Conference Center in Florence. It was so beautiful and peaceful there. We got to take a tour of the cabins where they'll stay, play at the Treehouse area, we had a short devotional and did a craft. We ate lunch in the cafeteria and then went swimming in the pool. We ended our day with pictures in our Kids Kamp t-shirts.

Finishing K5

Will finished Kindergarten on May 21. I can hardly believe that he's on the way to first grade in the fall. Where in the world does the time go? It seems just last week that we were bringing home our first baby from the hospital. He had a wonderful year in kindergarten and we'll miss Ms. Castle and Mrs. Scarbrough but it's on to other adventures now. On the last Friday of school, they had a program and received their kindergarten diploma. Congratulations, Will!! We love you and are so proud of you!!

Beach Trip!!

We took a vacation to Gulf Shores, Alabama, for Mother's Day weekend. We had a wonderful time!! We got to play in the sand, walk on the beach, play in the surf, the pool, see our cousins, and eat some wonderful seafood! We all had a really great time. Wyatt didn't so much care for the water. He did warm up to playing in the sand after a little while. We went to Lulu's to eat and the kids got to play on the beach playground there. Karen, Todd, Jordan, and Jacob came to meet us there and we're so glad we were able to spend some time with them.

Field Trips

For the first time, two of our children had field trips on the same day. Will's entire school went to a Mississippi Braves game and Randy took the day off to do that with him. They had a great time together and they came home sunburned and happy.

I went with Addie's Mom's Morning Out class to the Natural Science Museum and to play at LeFleur's Bluff park. It was extremely crowded in the museum but they didn't notice and still had a great time. We hung out with our good friends Hudson and Addie Hart and their moms. They are so precious and all had a blast.