The Best Daddy!

Happy Father's Day to the best Daddy ever! The boys would not cooperate for a picture on Father's Day, so here's one from last week when Daddy came in and picked up the boys after helping build birdhouses at Bible School! We have lots of great fathers in our life and we praise our Heavenly Father for all of them!

Cute story: Kevin was walking by the nursery the other morning before I had gone in to get the boys up and he sneezed. He heard a sweet voice say: "Hey Daddy!" I thought that was precious!

And here's the boys Saturday morning looking at their Bible School treasures!



Cade and Carson are such big boys at Dr. Rabon's office today! Ears look great - just a cold, but I have been wiping noses every minute! By the "weigh" - 24 pounds each!

Vacation Bible School Finale!

Cade and Carson are published (yes, we have some snapfish photo books already, too - but this is special - cause it's got their little prints all over it, literally)! We made these cute books at Bible School!
Here's a sample of two pages! We put the Bible verse for the night with an ocean creature that God made! The special part is it's the baby's thumb prints making the counting animals.
Cade loves to hug Austin! Carson does, too - he was busy here though!Everyone is singing the fun songs we learned in music - Carson is playing the guitar with Aunt Poochie, and Cade is wearing the green lei!
Here's the little ones with part of the older crowd!
The children did so good!
We have so enjoyed all the little ones in the nursery! We had 10 children under 2 at Bible School! I think they all had lots of fun! We made fun little ocean creatures in our Thumb Books above and had lots of pictures in little albums for each child to put the albums in their little treasure chests that we decorated with ocean stickers! And they made adorable stools (I'll take a picture of those tomorrow) with handprints or footprints on them in crafts!

What a crazy week!

We've had licensure at my work and Vacation Bible School at church! I "taught" the nursery class. Here's part of us! We had 8 the first night, 7 the next two nights, and 8 again last night. Two more nights to go!

We're having a blast and learning a lot about the love of Jesus and the ABC's of Christianity! And our survey at work was excellent! And I got to talk to a friend today who had her baby very early. The baby came home this week after many weeks in the hospital and surgery - he has been a huge prayer request of Cade and Carson's since he was born. He is on the same type of monitor that Cade and Carson were on. Praise the Lord he's doing so well! Our God is so good! We have so many blessings to thank Him for!

Austin's Birthday Party!

Austin was ready for lots of fun at his 5th Birthday Party!

He used this big slide more like a launching pad to jump into the pool of water at the bottom!
Cade and Carson had lots of fun playing in the puddles on the big tarp.
And they were thrilled with watching their big cousin!
They even found how to climb up to the slide! (They each got to slide, too. No pictures since I was a little busy at that point.)
Carson liked Grandpa's hat!

Everyone sang "Happy Birthday" to Austin!

Cade played on Austin's tractor!

And Carson had fun grazing!

Our UpstateTrip!

Cade, Suzi, and Carson watch the dogs from Nana and Papa's back door!

Carson enjoyed the ball at the pool - even though the water was super-cold from all the hard rain in the middle of the night!

Cade likes to splash in the pool!
Carson decides to monkey around!
Cade makes bigger splashes!
Cade and Carson have fun at the lake, too!
Papa and Cade drive the boat!

Uncle Ned, Suzi, and Nana are having fun!

Carson is a good first mate!

We played at a little island and took a quick family photo!

Daddy and Mommy rode the tube while the babies entertained the adults on the boat!

Carson loves to ride Papa's pony!

Suzi had fun teaching her young cousins! I know she will be a great big sister to "Baby Dot" (what the newly expected baby looks like on the ultrasound)! Hooray for Uncle Ned and Aunt Suzanne who will be great parents of two toddlers - I know the qualifications!

Cade is driving with Papa again!

Cade wanted to be a big boy and sit in his own chair this morning, so of course, Carson had to get out of the high chair and sit with his brother!

Daddy is taking the picture of Mommy, Carson, Elmo, Papa, Cade, the pony, and Nana before we had to leave this morning!

Carson is playing with his new toy from Papa and Nana on the way home. They were so thoughtful to get the boys interactive toys to have on the way home to prevent the whiney, fussy portion of the ride. A 4 - 5 hour drive (depending on the amount of diaper changing stops) is hard on the little guys. They got antsy after we passed Columbia, so we got out the new toys and the boys were so amazed by everything they did - it kept them occupied the rest of the way home! Hooray for Grandparents - always making sure we'll want to come back! Of course we would go back anyway, but that definitely made it a lot easier to talk about our next trip to the Upstate!

Cade is playing with his toy, too! We switched them a couple of times on the way - like getting another new toy! We had a great weekend with family and a much better ending for this trip!