Tie Dye Party

Each year, our older girls come up with fabulous ideas to celebrate everyone's birthday and offer it as a gift to each of us. This year, we had a tie dye party!  It was so much fun and everyone had a shirt to remember this fun day.

Some of us over achievers (haha) did amazing designs on our shirts.  It was so exciting to see how they turned out!

We got some baby snuggles in there too and of course, they got a fun shirt to wear!  We also had a family meal together-that was my job!  It was such a fun day together!

It ended with a fun evening on the front porch in the summer!  Can it get better than that?  I sure don't think so!  Love my family!

 

Beach Day

Family Beach Day!  We try to have one summer day where everyone meets at the beach!  It is so fun to have everyone together!

Good food, games, antics, sand castles, looking for shells and even better beach glass!  Super fun!

Skyler and Lexi make it even more fun but the big kids get in on the sand castle building too!  Love it!

                                  Sweet family memories in the making!  I love you guys!

Happy Birthday Kiara

I love having everyone around the table to celebrate birthdays, holidays and gather together!  

Kiara turned 15....time has surely flown by for her!  She and Devon are being silly together!

Ice Cream sundaes are her favorite....all the topics over sweet goodness.  Fun evening gathering together!

 

Alert Cadet LTC Camp

Alert Cadet has been such a wonderful blessing to our sons and my husband.  This band of young men have grown up together and support one another in each endeavor!  This was their annual Leadership Training Corp camp that is held each summer.  Good things are always happening there!

Inspections by Major Dagarin as he also speaks words of encouragement to each of our sons.  They adore him and his leadership.

 

Miss Raymond

Kiara competed in the Miss Raymond Scholarship competition.  We were all there to cheer her on!

Devon got to be here escort this year and he wore his Alert Cadet uniform.  He looked so handsome with his beautiful sister!

                                          Kiara did a tap dance for her talkent!  Great job, Kiara!

I am so proud of all of the effort you put into this competition and the example you set for the younger girls!

 

Brandon’s Birthday

Brandon turned 17....so many things to look forward to at his age!  It was a fun celebration with just family and some of his favorite things to eat.  Perfect in my book! 

 

Graduation Party for Michael and Benjamin

What a beautiful thing...to celebrate our sons high school graduation!  We are so proud of you both!  

We played games, had smores around the campfire, chatted with friends and ate lots of good food!  It was fun to see everyone pitch in to help us out too!

Because of Covid, we had calling hours where you could just drive by and wish them well!  They stood at the end  of the driveway and people honked the horn to celebrate too! 

          Sweet friends who did not fear, joined us for fun and fellowship!  It was so sweet!

 

 

 It was a fun time to see Camp friends, catch up and see what was new in each other's lives.

            I love when the big kids take time with the little ones.  They are heroes in my mind!

               Gaga ball is a favorite here at our house.  Our friends love it too.  Great competition!  

        It was a great celebration and we loved celebrating these two guys!  We are grateful to all of the folks who made the trip too!