Cruz's Bling

Cruz had a cavity in his back molar (bummer). After the whole fiasco of finding a dentist without dental insurance he went and got his first (and hopefully last) baby root canal and his silver crown. So here he is sporting his BLING.

Happy Father's Day

Today Bill & William are on their way back from Annapolis, Maryland. William had a lacrosse tournament there over the weekend. The boys lost but had a great time. They got to tour the naval academy and William is star struck. He's already worried about picking the right college. :) Afton had a softball tournament this weekend close to home. They made it to the semi-finals but couldn't beat that darn Mint-Hill team. (We WILL get them :)) So, all of that being said the kids are wondering if they'll get to see daddy today at all. They're supposed to be in about 8:00 p.m. if all goes well.

Happy Father's Day to the men in my life. May God bless you both another year.

Thank You Bill for being such a wonderful father. I certainly couldn't do this without you. I love You!

Silly Kids, that's what suncreen is for!

Yes, these are two of my beautifully red (white) children. Now they know why I insist on sunscreen. I'll bet they'll remember next time. :)

It has been 95 -100 here everyday. It's soooo hot. We need the rain. Anyone want to help with a rain dance?

Discovery Place

Bill's Mom is here visiting from Utah. When she comes to visit we always try to "do it all". Today we went to the Discovery Place and had a great time. Discovery Place is a science and technology center with hands on exhibits. The kids loved it.

William was all tuckered out after pedalling this bike to make the blender and drill work. Doesn't he look like he's working hard?

Here is Patience just chilling. She's just too cool.

Zinnah's working hard:)

Kolu just sat down and watched the movie on the heart. Doesn't she look comfy?




Don't worry, Brooks is fine:) They have a pretend PET scan machine that the kids could lay in. Doesn't it look real? Afton kept asking, "Does is hurt?" She finally laid down in.

Here's my wonderful husband and his friend T-Rex and Triceratops. He's just loves having his picture taken (just kidding).

Here's Afton brushing this big mouth's teeth.

Cruz is flying high. He thought he was "big stuff'" getting to go up in the vacuum chair by himself. He did great. This was his favorite part of the museum.

I had to add this one. I wish it was on video though. Cruz was using a blue screen to snow board. All he could see was his body on a snow board and he had to miss a bunch of obstacles and jump off of jumps. He did great. He looked like a snowboarding fool!

Here they all are. All seven kids enjoying vacation.

From our family to yours; Happy New Year!!

My Favorite Things

Everyone has a favorite thing. (Not necessarily my favorite thing:) )

William loves his MP3 player. He's giving his daddy a run for his money in the technology department. "Just give it to me" "I'll do it". He already wants to put all new music on it.

Afton is the baker. Truly all she wanted was an easy bake oven. Now we just need to bake.

Cruz loves his Nerf gun. (Just because the other boys do) That's o.k. too. He loves his Star Wars guys. Everywhere I go, Star Wars!!

Here are the music girls. I love them a lot. We're just working on the "joyful" noise is just to the Lord and not to the whole family. Does High School Musical count as a "joyful noise"? Happy are they all. That's a happy home. We hope all of your Christmas was a time of joy with your families. May God Bless all of you this next year.

Here's Decemeber......

William turned 10! These books are going to make us RICH!!! (Just kidding.) These are computer game programming books. What geeks:)

AND....



More Cup Stacking. William was very disappointed when Brooks got his cups for his birthday. He finally got his own. This make our house a much more peaceful place to live. Now the race is on!

Christmas Program Time
From L to R:
Zinnah, Afton, Kolu, William and last but certainly not least Brooks.
They sang their hearts out. They had been practicing for weeks and it paid off. Good job you five.

Patience loved watching her siblings.


She'll have a band concert in January. We just can't wait ;)


And here's the entertainment after the show.

CRUZ!



After sitting so patiently and sweetly for everyone else's things, he finally had a "Program" of his own at his 3 day a week preschool.


His Class were Shepherds. Isn't he sweet? Mommy made his costume all by herself. Thank God for Goodwill.

I think he's more angelic than a shepherd though: Hmm......



NOT!!!

But he still did a GREAT job!!
He loved having everyone come to his school and watch him and him alone. It's about time.

O.k., o.k. everybody is hounding me to update. Bill even went as far as to start outlining all the things I could be blogging about. I looked at him with one of my sweetest smiles (full of love, of course) and said "Sweetheart it's not that I can't think of anything to blog about, I just don't get it done". So here is Nov. 2007 in a nutshell. :)

William (and his team. the Weddington Titans, Jr. PeeWee :)) took 2nd in the Weddington Titan Bowl. Way to go boys!!!! It was a great season.




Brooks was chose at the Narrator in his Thanksgiving Day play. His play was on Tuesday, and low and behold on Sun. I noticed he had pink eye. We had to run (not really) to CVS's minute clinic so we could start getting eye drops in. He wasn't willing to miss his play that he had been working so hard on. Go figure! He read 2 pages perfectly (slowly and loud enough) for everyone to hear. After that we couldn't even count how many people came up to us and to the principal to ask what grade he was in. "Is he in 2nd grade?" was the most common guess they had. No, he's our favorite Kindergartner.!!! Good job bud.


Afton has been saving money since last Christmas and finally decided to make a purchase. Of course it was something that wasn't on our favorite list but she had thought long (and long and long) and hard about. So she bought a gingerbread house decorating kit. Here she is getting the walls stuck together.

Ta Da!! Here's the finished product. She had a great time decorating by herself. And shortly after this the infamous question began........"Can I eat it?" Go for it was all we could say. Bill finally told her "It might have been cheaper just to buy a box of graham crackers and a couple sacks of candy". "And miss all this mess?" "NO WAY!!"

This Thanksgiving was very special. In fact 6 years ago on Nov. 22nd it was Thanksgiving Day and I was in the hospital giving birth to a beautiful baby boy, Brooks. He is such a hoot. When he smiles he makes me laugh. Here's his birthday cake that Daddy baked and decorated this year. Good job!

He also got the two things he wanted most: 1. Lego Star Wars II AND

2. Cup Stacking!! He was sooo surprised. It's been cup stacking mania ever since.

So there's to November 2007:)