Our Church Family At Christmas

Today, our church family celebrated the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ together. Along with the children, we shared the Christmas story together from Luke 2 and sang Christmas carols. What wonderful friends these people are to my family and we appreciate them so very much! We always love sharing Christmas with them.

Christmas Cookies

Today, Julie and the kids baked sugar cookies, peanut butter balls and other goodies for Christmas. It is a Christmas tradition for us and the kids enjoy it every year.

Decorating the ChristmasTree

Today we spent the afternoon decorating for Christmas. We put up the tree and also decorated most of the house as we usually do each Christmas. TJ and Ellie had a ball playing with the ornaments before they placed them on the tree. We had a ball just watching their excitement. They make us all feel like kids again.

Annual Ginger Bread House Contest

On Saturday, we held our annual Ginger Bread house competition. This has become great fun for the kids every year in preparation for Christmas. I must say that it has become more and more competitive each year too.
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Swim Lessons

TJ and Ellie recently completed swim lessons at Campbell University. As I write this entry I am reminded of a very close call TJ had a couple of years ago when he slipped and fell into a pool. He could not swim and unless I had been outside to see it happen and snatch him out of the water, it would have been tragic. I still tremble at the thoughts of that day. I will never forget it. At least now, maybe they are a little more confident in water and have some grasp of what to do in situations like that.

Way To Go Katie!!

Congratulations to Katie for making the Dean's List at UNCG. We are so very proud of you!! Great job!!!!!!!

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Kids and Summer!

Mothers Day 2007

We celebrated Mother's Day today as all our children were home together. Pictured is a proud mother and her precious children.

TJ's Piano Recital

TJ participated in his first piano recital today. He has been taking lessons from David Carson, a long time friend of our family, since January of 2007. TJ looks forward to his lessons each week and enjoys the time in practice as well. He did a great job today and we are very proud of him. Congratulations TJ!!

Away With The Training Wheels

TJ just recently began riding his bike without the help of training wheels. It just seems to have happened overnight too. One day he is needing the assistance of wheels and the next day he is riding without them.

Easter Fun

We had a ball at the Easter Egg hunt at Granddaddy Billy and Aunt Judy's house today. As you can see in the picture the kids used toy metal detectors to hunt their Easter Eggs. The kids placed blind folds over their eyes and hunted for the eggs that were filled with change. As they got close to the eggs the metal detectors began to buzz telling them they had found their prize. The parents and kids had a blast!!