The Past Couple of Weeks at a Glance.....

We have had a good past two weeks! Summer is officially here at our house as the kid's last day of school was yesterday!! We are all very happy for the arrival of summer and all of its plans. To kick off the summer me and the kids will do our traditional G-Mama visit beginning the first weekend of June. We plan on making a Six Flags trip and it will be the first one for the little ones. It should be fun and interesting! John and Andi are the busiest with their summer plans. Andi is going on two different mission trips, one to the Lakota Indian reservation in South Dakota and one to the Gulf. John is going on a big vacation to California with one of his good friends and then he is going on the Gulf mission trip as well. Then they both have band camp the last two weeks of summer, so summer will go by very fast!! The little ones and I will be hanging out and possibly making some visits to see Aunt Ryan, Uncle Bryan and Mary Paul as well as my friend Amy and her kids. She actually came to visit me this last week and it was so good to see her. We used to work together in Augusta. She is staying home with her two girls now and was able to make the trip during the week. I am so thankful that she came to visit!! It is not easy making a 4 hour trip by yourself with a two year old and four month old, so hats off to Amy!!! We had a great visit!!!

This week also marked Andi's last year of middle school. I can't believe that next year I will have two highschoolers. Andi finished 8th grade with all A's!!! She recieved a Presidential Award for Scholastic Excellence! She is so incredibly smart and talented in many ways!! We are so very proud of her and the young woman she is becoming. Next year will be a big one for her being a freshman and a member of the RCHS colorguard!! We are so excited for her!

Last week John was asked by his marching band director to be the Drumline captain next year. This is a big honor for John as usually it is only seniors who have this responsiblity. John will be a junior next year so will be the captain for two years!! What a great leader we have and we know John will do a great job!!

Below are some pictures of my visit with my friend Amy and some pictures of Andi with her favorite teachers!!
Here are Addi and Abbi. Abbi is one week older than Addi! You can imagine it got a little confusing with an Abbi and an Addi!! ( I made them their matching dresses and they wore them to church on Wed. night. They were so cute!!)



I put several of these group pictures up because as many of you know it is so funny trying to get group pictures of kids. I love to see what all of them are doing in the different pics!!




Addi cheesing it up!!!


Addi and Abbi again trying to get them both to look at the camera!!


Abbi showing off her pretty brown eyes!!!


Some more group shots!! Too funny!!





Andi with her favorite teachers and friends from this past year!! Doesn't she look so pretty and grown up!!!