sept 24, 2011

We decided to leave church early today to go on a picnic. Peyton and Brandon weren't with us because their grandparents were coming into town. As we were driving thru Calhoun I was cleaning out my purse when all of a sudden I heard and felt a car hit us. The whole side of Lafonda the Honda was smashed.



Stopped at the Tunnel Hill Railroad museum on the way to Chattanooga. It was not worth the price to get in...which was free.


Dropped Jordan off at Mimi and Papas house because she refused to go on a hike with us. Greg and I went up to Signal Point and went on a 5 mile hike. Then out to O'Charleys for supper.

May 29 - june 4

This year we are taking our summer vacation to Hilton Head. We decided to leave after campmeeting clean up and drive all night. Greg got home around 10:30pm and I had the car all packed...so by 11 we were all in the car and off we went. The kids started out watching a movie, then within the hour or so fell asleep as did I. Around 3am I woke up and saw the gas light on and we had 12 miles till empty...when we drove 12 miles and didn't see a gas station in site...I was starting to panic...or course by this time the kids are awake and talking, making me even more nervous...about 5 miles later we pull into a gas station...and it is CLOSED...what?!? Why would it be closed...luckly a mile down the street we found one open...filled up...and made it to the house we rented by 430 am.

Day 1 (Sunday)

Got up and went to the beach. I didn't realize how many sand dollars there are at this beach...they are all over in the water. Mainly swam all day today.

Day 2 (Monday)

Went out to the beach again this morning to swim. Today we found lots of starfish and sand dollars. The boys rented bikes for an hour, but got sick of them after 30mins :)Went to the outlet malls and bought peyton a really beautiful dress at white/black market. Around midnight Peyton decided to dye her hair blue...she accidently dropped the bottle of blue hair dye and it stained the cabinets and floor...it was everywhere...Of course nothing was open at midnight so finally Greg found some comet at a gas station...after an hour of scrubbing...we got it pretty clean.

Day 3 (Tuesday)

Jordan woke me up at 9am wanting to go running on the beach. So I got up and got dressed...we did more walking the running...but at least we got some exercise

May 8, 2011

Today is Mother's Day and Jordan's first 5K. The start line to the race was at Swain Elementary and went down Millers Ferry, turning around after the bridge then back to Swain. Jordan ran beside me for the first mile, then walked just for a few minutes then ran again. Her time was 36 min 35 sec. My time this race was 33 mins 40 sec. After we showered we all went to IHOP for breakfast Jordan, Peyton, and Brandon all got coffee drinks :) That evening was Albert and Ali's wedding at the Calhoun church.

april 30-may 2

GIRL'S WEEKEND

Saturday after church Dori Boggess and I left for our girls weekend to gatlinburg. It took us a couple extra hours to get to Knoxville to pick up Amanda Smith because we stopped at the street fair in calhoun to look at the booths and eat cake. Once we got to Gatlinburg we met Tammy Peterson and Stephanie Rufo at No Way Joses for dinner. Yes, the same place Greg and I had our wedding reception. Our food was gross and all wrong so after getting the manager involved we got nasty dessert..hopefully the waitress didn't spit on it :)

Finally getting to the cabin Dori and I made a breakfast casserole while waiting for the rest to get there...Amanda and her sister Susan went to the scrapbooking store and Tammy and Stephanie went shopping. Ellia also came for the night. We had alot of fun talking, watching Country Strong, getting in the hot tub, and eating..we ended up staying up till 3am.

The next Amanda and Susan stayed in the cabin and scrapbooked while we went shopping. I got some really pretty material for my reusable bags and Tammy got lots of cute maternity clothes.

I think this weekend getaway was alot of fun and can't wait to do it again!!!

April 8-10, 2011

Since it's homeleave, Greg had the weekend off and didn't have to be at Church, so we decided to take Mom and Dad and their RV out for the weekend. We went camping at Altoona landing right past Cartersville. The kids of course wanted to stay home and do nothing, but we made them go anyway. Jordan, Greg, and Brandon did alittle fishing and jordan caught a small fish. Luckily for me they didn't keep it. They all went swimming and we made a fire that night. Sabbath afternoon we went for a small hike and got to see people dressed up for some battle memorial. The kids liked the free donuts. Sunday Greg and Brandon went to Atlanta to see a Braves game and mom and dad took the girls to Chattanooga to do some birthday shopping. I got time home alone all to myself to do nothing.

april

AFter School we drove to Alpharetta Georgia and gave the kids their first Scuba Diving lesson. They each got fitted for a mask, fins, and jacket. After some brief instructions the kids were in the pool. They had to stay in 4 ft of water.

March 20, 2011

Sunday....Today is Gregs 38th birthday. We took him to play putt putt golf,
rode go carts,
got ice cream from brusters,
then played a game of laser tag.
The kids didn't really enjoy playing putt putt, they all cheated!!! They liked driving the go carts. Brandons cart was the fastest so he beat everyone. The best was laser tag, too bad it only lasted 7 minutes. Greg beat everyone, I was horrible at it. We ended the day with roasting hot dogs over the fire pit and having dinner by the pool. Brandon was brave enough to jump in. Greg got a belt, Dr Martin shoes, a swimsuit and socks.