Fall Fun w/ Friends

Wild Wagon ride at Sharp Farm

Cow herding

Bee class

Wizard of Oz kids 

Church FallFest with Super Friends

Trick or Treating with Neighbors

Fun with Friends

Our super week with Nana & Papa was followed by a super weekend with friends. Some of our closest friends in Fayetteville moved away 2 years ago and we'd been wanting to get together but hadn't- until this weekend! It came together at the last minute and was terrific. C and her oldest were like peas in a pod- they played and giggled and made kites and just had a blast.  (But don't worry, C still knows who he's going to marry!)

KG was pretty excited about Kelly's daughter's Dora tennis racquet. I was amazed at how Kelly's son plays- at 3 he's pretty amazing! It did get us excited about tennis so we've been playing lots of backyard tennis since their visit.

So awesome that even though we've been separated by time and miles, when we were back together it was like we'd never been apart- well except for new stories.  Great friend, great weekend! 

Painting Project

I really like our new shutters. I really like our house here in NC a lot- I fell in love with the yard the first time I saw it. The yard is still my favorite but with new carpet, newly painted trim, and cool blue shutters, the house is great! I am glad we waited to replace the icky carpet until this year. We enjoyed tons of get togethers with lots of friends with lots of small children without worrying about the carpet getting messed up. Now we have awesome friends who came over and painted for us!

can you believe our friends painted for us and brought us an apple pie? And today Christy brought homemade hummus. The kids thought the painting party was a blast- miss naps, play with friends all day, eat hotdogs. The knights of Pine Valley protected the neighborhood. It doesn't get much better than that.

Amy Lynne even went up on the roof to paint!

Happy New Year!

I can't believe it's 2011 already. well, my watch still says 31 DEC but the ball dropped, the whistleblowers blew, the fireworks sparkled here several hours ago so it must be 2011. It's been a great year and we ended with a wonderful day. We started off the morning with a Manna Multisports Family Run. KG and T ran their first races- 1/4 mile each while K & C did their first races- 1/2 mile. C thought it was so much fun that he did the mile with James and finished it 10:20!! he turns five in 2 weeks and that's faster than some of my old soldiers ran. Then James watched all our kids plus a friend (definite good husband points) so I could run the 5K by myself. Five families from our Tuesday morning run group were there plus another 3 from Manna Multisports- nice end to the year.

We had planned a quiet evening at home until a good friend turned our evening more fun by inviting 25 people over to our house for a New Years' Eve party. Between the two events, we were happy to have Pops Leon & Grandma work hard with us in the garage repairing the hole I put in the ceiling. And Uncle B to hang out with the kids.

The New Year's Eve party was a great success. I offered to provide meat and drinks but realized we didn't have any and called everyone coming asking them to bring those too. Great to have friends who are close enough to plan a party at our house and then I can ask them to bring everything for it.

More May Fun

I guess it's been a while since I was on here. we had to send our camera in for repairs. so here's the ones I didn't post yet.

K lost his first tooth- it came our about 10 min after he said it was loose.

yummy strawberry picking with friends

I have 3 good berry pickers now. we went 3 times this season and wish we'd gone more. I made 2 batches of strawberry jam- well one is strawberry syrup since it didn't set. now we're ready for blueberries!