10-2-16 Destin Florida Parasailing

Today you went past your fear of heights and you conquered!!!!so proud of you!!! You were scared to death until you saw what was below you and have fascinating it was. This just goes to show that anything that you are afraid of if you see it from a new perspective you no longer have fear in it. You must rise above every circumstance....

"Fear is not real. The only place fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever really exist. That is near insanity! Don't misunderstand me ; danger is really real but fear is a choice. We are all telling ourselves a story, but that day mine changed" -- Will Smith in "After Earth" 

9/1/16 LOVE NOTE FROM KADENCE

OK, so you say this is not your first girlfriend. However, this is the first girl that I have seen you be serious about. Maybe that I just see the maturity in the relationship so far. We will see how it progresses, but for now here is your love note that was written to you from Kadence Bull. She tells you she loves you better than tacos and you tell her you love her more than Mountain Dew. WOW!  You're growing up on me. I am proud of you.

8/29/16 Still in Transition? Maybe not...

You have seemed to make many friends here in Gainesboro. You have already had two girlfriends. The one you are with now is my old friend Charlotte's niece, Cadence. I know its just a school crush but at some point you grew to realize that there might be value in putting others before yourself. We shall see what comes of it. I know you are wearing more deodorant and that is definitely a plus! LOL

5/2/16

T Even though you got in trouble for kicking a boy and bringing your tablet to school, you still brightened my day. Just look at that precious face and spunky personality!!!

5/1/16 New Bikes for the family

This weekend, Tim bought three good used Mountain bikes and then grandma bought Mikayla a new bike since she was the only one that had the old bike now.  Needless to say, we have rode those bikes all weekend and had so much fun getting exercise. However, you used your daddy's bike on our little excursion today when me you and Mikayla went out.you were miserable! Therefore, I could barely get you to smile for this picture. LOL I sure enjoyed getting to spend time with you this afternoon though.

4/30/16 FUNNY THINGS SAID

Funny things you have said

4/30/15- when making frozen grapes, we used sugar-free lemon Jell-O. You said "you didn't get any lime Jell-O?!" To which I replied "no, we got Lemon"

you said

"Lemon sucks" 

me-"I don't know! But it smells really good"- 

You- "yeah mom so does Pine-Sol!"

4/10/16 - Grandma said that we should sing a special song for our last day at Forbus circuit. Josh yelled out "yes it should be you're going to miss me when I'm gone."

2008- when we were playing Bible 2008- when we were playing Bible Trivia game, the question was "why didn't anyone like Zaccheas?" Josh quickly responds "because he was a wee little man" you are too cute! Haha I love it!

4/5/16 - Family walk together for 3.2 miles

We are all trying to get healthy together as a family. We have fit bits and pedometers to track our steps.  So we have been doing these walks at night and I have so enjoyed walking with you guys. Tonight we walked up past the graveyard all the way to the main road walking down Willow Grove highway and came back through Little Eagle Creek Road. 

We crashed once we got home. I am so proud of you guys!!! I hope to be healthier for you next year. I love doing it as a family! 

4/21/16 Moving to a New house in June

Well, we are getting ready to move  from the house that you lived in since you or a young young child. There are sweet memories of this house, and there are some bad memories of this house. It will be an adjustment season, but we are all excited and anticipating a fresh new start. I prepared for all of us is that we take this opportunity and that God is glorified in every situation we go through. When you look back at this season that changes as you get older, it will make you realize just how precious things like family and friends are to you. I am thankful we are not moving so far away that we will be disconnected from everybody we have ever known. But if that day ever comes, we will be ready. Here is your new house.

And your first experience hanging out with the youth group at Gainesboro first United Methodist Church

3/10/16 with Snowball

Watchin you play with Snowball this morning. You are such a lover of animals. So precious!

Thanksgiving weekend 2015

I believe this is been one of the better Thanksgiving weekends. We didn't have a lot of meltdowns or anything like that this year. It's seem to go over really well. Thursday we went to David and Tammy's house and you all had a great time outside. The weather was amazing! Then, Friday, me, you, and Mikayla went shopping all day and at night me, you, Daddy, and Mikayla went to Christmas on the Square where we drank hot apple cider, ate popcorn, ate peanuts, and had A carriage ride.

Then, at the end of the night, they had fireworks.

Then, last night, we put the tree up together at home. We drank hot cocoa and homemade chocolate chip cookies. It was a really good night.

Christmas 2015

Your minion pajama bottoms for Christmas

Snowball going crazy cuz everybody was trying to get the bone unwrapped for him

Beef jerky in your stocking this year. Go mom and dad! 

Jurassic World?

Bluetooth speaker pretty cool

What could it be an Amazon box?

It's not really a Kindle is it? 

I love this!

and of course the smell of stuff!

After this you received a letter on how you can get an Xbox one which was what you really wanted for Christmas that year. So we helped you along a little bit to work for it.

Then we were off to grandmas house after opening presents at our house. She had y'all play some reindeer games to earn 50 bucks this year.  Each of the five activities gave you $10.

1. Coloring

2.  Keeping balloons in the air

3. Sliding in Oreo down your face into your mouth

4. You had to stick Vaseline on your nose and pick up a cotton ball and move it from one place to the other.

You love this one so much you played it twice

5. You had to make a snowman with marshmallows. Can you guess which one of these is yours?

Course he's the one with the mohawk! ;)

Then of course on Saturday we went to Bill and Angela's house and you wallowed the dog and then we went and saw Christmas lights that night and came home

Santa Claus had a fan this year because it was 78° at Christmas. Crazy weather! 

1/10/16 spending time with big sis

Such a precious gift it is to see you guys dwelling together in unity and harmony as you play Minecraft!