Our Family

May 14, 2011

The Graduate

Today, my mother graduated from Belmont University with her BSN degree from the school of nursing!!! We are all so proud of her! Bri and I are so incredibly blessed to call her our momma! She is such an inspiration and we love her so very much! Here are the pics from her BIG day...........

The Graduate

the beautiful bell tower on campus

My mom and I

Mom and Bri

Mom and her friend, Rachel

Bri and I

Mom and a fellow classmate

all the graduates

lining up!!!

Mom talking with some of her professors while waiting in line

She is waiting to hear her named called

Here she goes!!!

She has her diploma!!!!!

singing the Alma Mater

She is holding up her diploma!!! She is so HAPPY!!

Mom with her diploma

Bri and I with our mother, the graduate!!

HAPPY GRADUATION DAY, MOMMY!!!!!

May 10, 2011

I think the kids are ready to go............

CAMPING!!!!!!!

Sydney, the karate girl

I just LOVE this photo of Sydney! She is such a hard worker and we are so proud of her! This is Sydney taking a break from sparing in karate class. Thank you Tangie for this photo!!

Discoveries

Okay, so you never know what you might find in our backyard.......sometimes turtles, snakes, lizards, squirrles, hummingbirds, dragonflies, turkey or deer!! Well, yesterday was about discovering this:

The Cicada

Cicadaville

Will checking them out

Sydney and Matt decided to look from afar......smart!

Baby Birds

a small baby bird

five hungry baby birds.........

May 7, 2011

Mother's Day 2011

We all celebrated Mother's Day a day early! We enjoyed a marvelous stake dinner with all the trimmings and yummy pound cake along with a cheesecake smothered in strawberries! WOW!!! It was such a great time with the family! I always enjoy our times together! Happy Mother's Day to my mommy and Tangie!!! Thank you for everything you do! We love you :)

beautiful roses from James and the kids

A mother's dream......all the kids getting along while playing together!

My mommy and I

James and his mommy

Matty and I

Will and I

Mimmy and Will

Grandma and Will

Grandma and her girl

Sydney and mommy

My babies and I

our sweet Matty

James and I

James, Tangie, and Anthony

Happy Mother's Day

May 4, 2011

Recital

Today, Sydney had her first choir recital. She did a great job and it was very cute to see all the kids singing. They sang about 5 songs then we had refreshments! She has enjoyed her time with the preparatory choir and is excited about auditioning for the young singers of Blair. She will be moving up into an all girls choir mixed with young and older girls. She is very excited about being with all the big girls and being challenged! This has been such a great experience and we can not wait for the next chapter! We are so excited for Sydney and so very proud!!