Athens (The Vickers were Back in Black)

This weekend we traveled back to Athens to visit friends and go to the Georgia/Alabama game. We left early Friday morning and had a nice relaxing trip. We dropped Brad off at UGA to visit with old professors and friends while I took the kids to our favorite ice cream stop (Hodgsons). Next I took Laken to the gym where she took gymnastics for the three years that we lived in Athens. These girls were her best friends and as you can tell from the pictures, she jumped right back in like she hadn't missed a day. We had dinner with the Arenas family at On the Border-something we did reguarly when we lived in Athens. The Arenas's were sweet enough to let us stay with them as well. Saturday morning Brad, Cade, and Pete (daddy Arenas) went to college game day. Kim and I joined them with the girls later that afternoon to tailgate. All of Brad's UGA friends were in town and they joined us for the tailgate. Pete got Brad a ticket for the game and Emily and Ilsa(Brad's UGA friends) got Cade a ticket. Although the outcome was depressing, the boys had a wonderful time being at the game. We left early Sunday morning so we could get back and go see Fireproof with a group from our church. However, our car had other plans!! Our WATERPUMP WENT OUT!! This happened about twenty miles past Atalnta. Five hours and a thousand dollars later-we were back on the road. Here are the pictures-ENJOY!!

Andrew's Buffalo Park Birthday Party

Thanks, Dinkelackers for a wonderful day!!

My Big Girl

Laken is so grown up these days. She is having a wonderful school year-she gets to change classes, and she has a locker. She has also made alot of friends this year and they are pretty much inseparable. School is still pretty easy for her and she is very self-motivated in swimming as well. She was at Camp Lake Stevens this weekend with several of her friends and had a wonderful time-that's why she's not in any of the birthday pictures. She is still as sweet as can be and remains naive to most of what's happening around her. We are really proud of her and wonder why we are so blessed to be able to raise such a sweet girl : )

Cade's First Flag Football Game

Tailgating

We had so much fun this Saturday afternoon/night tailgating with the Ford family and the Dinkelacker boys. I guess it would have been even better if we had won : ) Laken went to the game with her friend, so I wasn't able to get her picture.


Cade, Andrew, Cody

Me and M.C.

Addy loves playing with "Emmy"

"We found Bully(not really)!!"

Happy Birthday Preston!!

This is the best picture we could get of Addy and Preston together...




Preston opening his presents with Michelle and Chris




Cade had fun playing with Christy's boys, Caleb and Drew

Look what we made...

While the boys and Laken were watching football, my mom and I made this outfit for Addy. My mom is quite the seamstress and perfectionist(I'm so glad one of is!!). She made the pants pattern then instructed me on how to put everything together. I did most of the shirt before she got here and finished it when she left. Anyway, I thought the outfit turned out really cute and the best part-we only spent $6.50!! Thanks, Mama!!

Go Dawgs!!

That's the cheer in our house this fall since it applies to both of our Bulldog teams. This year we ended up with three season tickets to the MSU games and my friend Sadie let us use hers for this game. I'm not sure Addy is quite ready for all that excitement, so I offered one of my tickets to my parents. My mom is a big MSU bulldog fan too, but she decided to stay home and help me sew. As you can see we sent Laken and the boys to the game. They had a wonderful time and thank goodness MSU won this weekend...GO DAWGS!!