Amy's Visit

My sister, Amy, and her two precious children came to visit in Grenada and Starkville this week. We had lots of relaxing fun...

Laken teaching Mary Katelyn about Webkinz

Holden loves Cars-Lightning McQueen and No Stall

Reading books in the laundry basket: What is it about kids and laundry baskets??

Mary Katelyn thought Cade needed something to snuggle with during his nap : )

Playing outside with Papa

Nana let Addyboo lick the banana pudding spoon!!

New Bar Stools

Our new bar stools finally came in. We got them out of the boxes and set them up, but as you can see the boxes were more of a hit with the kids than the stools!!

Knoxville visit

Last week the kids and I went to visit our Knoxville family. We got there Sunday afternoon. We played at the pool, Britt cooked some wonderful hamburgers, and Marianne out did herself as always with the extra stuff including three wonderful desserts. On Tuesday we went to see Bill and Sarah's shop and their neat cabin home in Gatlinburg then the kids got to pick what looked "fun" to them on the Gatlinburg strip. That consisted of pizza buffet, Jurassic Park boat ride, bumper cars, bumper boats, and go carts. Then we toured Bill and Marianne's future lake house-awesome!! And had Mexican for supper per Cade's request. The next morning Laken, Kayce, and myself got pedicures. Then we picked up Daniel, Robert, and Sarah and headed to Biltmore. We had a fun lunch in downtown Asheville then toured the Biltmore home. We had an awesome trip-one we will remember for years to come. Thank you Marianne for planning such a wonderful trip and to everyone else for taking time out of their busy schedules to "play" with us!! Can't wait to see everyone again. I wish I had more pictures-maybe next time...

At Biltmore: Marianne, me, Sarah, Robert

At Biltmore: Kayce, Laken, and Daniel

Laken and Kayce getting pedicures

Addy mastered the stairs

At future lakehouse: Laken, Jacob, Daniel, Kayce, Cade, and Addy

Cheer Camp

Laken had a wonderful experience at cheer camp last week. She has several best friends on the squad and was able to be roomies with one of them. We were able to go and watch the squad at night, and besides one phone call,this is all we saw and heard from Laken. She explained that she was just too busy. The MSU dorm they stayed in was as nice as most hotels. Dorms have come a LONG way-private bathrooms, walk in closets, etc. She was also excited about the microwave, and made some soup and easy mac at night. Laken has always said she's never leaving home-she'll just live with us when she goes to college. All of that has changed-she now says she can't wait to go to college!! Which I can't decide if I'm happy or sad about this : )

Baseball

Cade recently completed another season of baseball. He really loves baseball-especially batting.