Thank you Jana!!

Yum! Thank you to my Sista' Jana for the wonderful birthday / Thanksgiving cake!!

Sweetwater Creek State Park

Took the family to Sweetwater Creek State Park over Thanksgiving for a walk/hike. Other than Dean protesting 1/3 of the way in that "this is boring, I don't like nature" and then Kate getting a nosebleed on the way back out it was a great outing. Very beautiful location in Lithia Springs. Not far at all and well worth the drive.

Absent but not gone forever

Wow... it has been over a year since I posted which is about the same time I got on facebook. Yet another thing to blame on facebook.

Riding with Friends

Rode the Tour Of Faith today with friends. From left: Cindy, Amanda, Lisa, ME, Alexis

2009 Jekyll Island Trip

Birthdays! Birthdays! Everywhere!

Dean's 5th birthday was of course on June 22. Regardless of everything else - everyone

gets a cake (or in this case Dean requested a cookie cake) on their actual birthday.

Kate's 7th birthday fell on a Friday - and she wanted cupcakes.

How did I get out of baking entirely??

But then we also got to celebrate with family when the Wisenbaker's came to town -- this time, an actual cake.


What misery -- all this celebration.

My monkey.

"JuneBug" -- trip to Tybee Island

One weekend in June the kiddos and I went to Tybee Island, Georgia to visit with the Darwins for "JuneBug" -- basically a huge birthday party because a very large number of Darwins have birthdays in June (July babies where included too). We had a blast and hate that Todd was not able to join us.

Before we left I had atleast two different people tell me that I HAD to go to the lighthouse and take the kids... so we did and I am so glad. I never would have thought of doing that without the suggestions and it proved to be a unique experience. Kate, Dean and I climbed every step to the very top. It was really steep but we had fun and they were not even scared when we got to the top. Maybe a little... but were both really brave.

And, of course we played on the beach a bit...