These Pics Just in from California...

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I just got these pictures via email from Melissa. These were taken by her camera phone. I love them and had to share.

Here is Aimee with Auntie M.

The kittens are four weeks old.

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Here they are fighting for a spot on momma. Look at the little calico on the top of the pile. So cute!

Here they are in birth order...


Black - Girl (we are pretty sure)


Tabby - Boy


Grey (Russian Blue Mix) - Not Sure of sex yet. Probably Girl.


Calico - Girl


Buff - Boy

Here are some playful shots...


The boys like to play together. They both whine when you try to hold them. They just want to play!


OK, So Ashlee did her makeup, but forgot to brush her hair and put a shirt on! Anyway, here is another cute picture with the grey kitty.

All are available for adoption. But I would like to see them go to a loving home that will be spay/neutering.

Ashlee loses her first tooth!

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Today Ashlee lost her first tooth!

She was getting anxious to have it out. Daddy tied some dental floss to it and said she could pull it or play with it or whatever. Then when she had pretty much forgotten it was there daddy grabbed it as she walked by and pulled up!

I doubt she'll trust daddy to tie floss to her tooth next time, but she was happy to have the big space in her mouth. She was one of only two in her first grade class that had not lost any teeth by the end of the year.

Mississippi Visit

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We visited with Rob's mom's uncle and his family today. We met Ma's cousins, Robin and Penny (Rae) and their kids. I didn't take many pictures which makes me sad now. But I had to get a picture of Aimee with her "twin"!

We had a very nice visit and hope to go back much sooner. Rob had not seen these relatives since he was a boy.

Grand Canyon

As you can see, we had a great time on our Trip out to Arizona and California.

See pictures of us at the Grand Canyon by clicking the title above.

Wupatki Ruins

Before we went home we also got to go to see some Indian Ruins and go to the Grand Canyon.

See the ruin pictures by clicking the title above.

Beach!

On Saturday of the District Convention it worked out that the kids and mommy got to go to the beach after the session. We hadn't planned for it so all we had were our convention clothes, but we had a blast.

See pictures by clicking the title of this blog post above.

San Diego "Follow the Christ!" District Convention

On June 7th Grandma took us to meet Uncle Charley halfway to California. We then traveled to California with him. The Kempton's were kind enough to let the children and I stay at their home during the District Convention and we travelled to and from each day with Uncle Charley. We had a wonderful time and saw lots of Mommy's old friends.

Click on the title above to see pictures of us at the District Convention.

Made it to Grandma's

On June 2nd, we drove away from our house in Arkansas with Grandma and Grandpa. We dropped Grandpa at the airport in Little Rock and drove on to Arizona. The trip went fairly well. Only a couple of two year old episodes in the evening.

While we were staying at grandma's Robbie and Ashlee perfected their swimming enough to start using the diving board. But silly mommy never took any pictures of that!

If you click on the "Made it to Grandma's" above it will take you to pictures of us in Arizona.

Guess what we got for our 10 Year Anniversary?

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Diamond had five kittens!

We set up a nice secluded area for her in one of our bathrooms. When she started showing the signs of labor we made sure she was there. Well, she did NOT want to have her babies in a secluded area. She insisted on sitting with Rob. Rob set her on a paper sack and towel next to him and pet her. She was quite content. We were watching a video and she was resting. Then she started being quite interested in THAT area. Before I could get the laundry basket fixed up for her she had the first one. A little black bundle. (Actually it was bigger than we expected.)

And she missed the towel and paper. Good thing I had lysol and an old couch!


Her second was a little tabby. Notice she was moved to the basket!


Her third was a Grey one. (You can't really make her out too well, but mommy is licking her.) The fourth and fifth were a calico and then a little buff colored one.


The fifth one got stuck in the birth canal. Daddy had to assist. The kids were worried. Mom ended up holding Diamond while Daddy delivered the baby. We weren't sure the baby would make it. Daddy ended up doing a little CPR on the kitten. She/He seems to be doing fine now.

Here are some pictures of Diamond all done and resting. They've since been relocated to the secluded area in the bathroom. Diamond is proving to be quite a nice mommy. She had some practice when we took in Rascal last year. She would clean her and care for her.





Exciting day for us on our 10th Anniversary. Not exactly what I had in mind...

Robbie Makes Honor Roll

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Robbie made all A's with one B in English. I actually disagree with the B grade, but I'm not the teacher. He received a D on two papers because he only wrote the correct action verb and did not underline it in the sentence. He had all the answers correct, but didn't follow all directions. So he knows his English. He has all A's in my book!

Here is Robbie's class with their certificates for Principals List, Honor Roll or Completion.

Ashlee Makes Principals List

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Ashlee received all A's in 1st Grade. We are so proud of her.

Below is a picture of Ashlee and her 1st Grade teacher Mrs. Bayird.

10th Anniversary Early - Nashville

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Rob and I had our first night away with no kids in a very long time this weekend. I picked Rob up at the Nashville airport. We checked into our hotel. OK it was really a motel, but it was recently remodelled and quite nice.

Then we went to the Loveless Cafe outside of Nashville. Absolutely worth the little bit of drive. Rob had the fried chicken, greens and fried okra. I had the pulled pork on corn hoe cakes with homemade creamed corn and carmel sweet potatoes. Fantastic food! And not bad prices either. If you do make it to Nashville and decide to go there, be ready for a 45 minute wait for a table. They have several shops in their "motel" area to keep you occupied until your pager goes off for your table.

Next we went to downtown Nashville and walked around. We danced at the Wild Horse Saloon and had a line dancing lesson. We also walked by the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Music City Walk of Fame.

On Sunday we got up and drove down to Lynchburg and toured the Jack Daniel's Distillery. That was very enjoyable and the drive was beautiful too. Side note, if you want to buy a commemorative bottle of Jack while you are there, don't go on a Sunday. We had lunch at a BBQ place in town. The food was decent and prices were very reasonable.

We had a great time. Here are pictures.

This is the only building standing that was on the property in Jack Daniels Day. There is a safe in this office building that Jack kicked when he couldn't get it opened. This would end up being the death of him. He ended up with gangreen (sp?) in they leg that he injured. In our day today, they probably would have realized he had diabetes problems.

Aimee Graduated from Preschool Today

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Aimee's graduation had a Hawaiian Theme. The kids sang and danced to some cute songs. There last "number" was Surfin' USA. It was the most entertaining Preschool Graduation I've been to yet.

The picture above is Aimee with her teacher, Mrs. Amy.

Aimee with Mrs. April



A proud Graduate!




Aimee with Hannah

Greene County Tech Field Day

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Much fun was had by all...

There are a ton more pictures of field day, but I'm just too tired to copy the code for all of them to the blog. You can see them by clicking on any of the above pictures and then browsing our photos on flickr.com.

Robbie's 2nd Grade Luau

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Here are pictures of Robbie's party at school today. Everything ran smoothly. The weather was beautiful.

This picture is Jacob, Stephan, Bailey, Robbie (My BOY), Kaitlin McDaniel, Ramon and Elizabeth.

Jacob, Robbie and Chase



See they did more than sit on the curb all day...





Gage and Jacob




Elizabeth, Alex J and Alex U




Megan M. was NOT the only child to chase the ball during the ball races. A little breeze really carried the beach balls. But I must say, Robbie's Class (Mrs. Hollands) stomped on Mrs. Crafts class in these races!





Chase (He likes to eat Lunch with us whenever I have lunch with Robbie.) By the way, Robbie wanted me to eat in the school cafeteria. Today was Pizza day. Hmmm... Pizza HUH? OK If you say so...




Micah (Brittany in background.)