Time Out!

This is one of the funniest pictures, to me. It was taken in May - Luke was doing something to Sarah & wouldn't stop, so I told him he was going to time out. I have no idea why this even popped into my mind, but I said "If you don't stop, I am going to put you on the mantle, and you can't get down!"...well, he did it again, so up on the mantle he went! HAHHA, I was trying to not laugh. He LIKED it, until he realized he couldn't get down, and it scared him - HE STOPPED PICKING ON SARAH :)..I guess it worked, and it made for a funny picture!

I crack up each time I look at this!

Splish Splash - pool time!

Today we met up with 3 other families at our pool to swim and have lunch. We all stayed about 3 hours. Between all of us -we had 12 kids to keep an eye on - and all kids were under the age of 7!! Everyone had fun though :)

Here are MOST of the kids...

Sarah & her pre k best buddy, chatting!

3 Amigos ( Pre K friends )

DC made Luke turn into a duck! Those are pringles, btw.

Saying goodbye

D.C.

My almost 15 year old cousin, DC, is spending the week with us! She spent last week at camp, this week with us, and this coming weekend at the Steubenville Conference--then home to Florida. Gabe is going to miss his big sister, I think??

Sarah and Luke have already had so much fun with her. It reminds me of when Laura lived here and they had that older playmate to goof off with. First thing Luke said this morning was "Is DC awake yet?"-- they are gonna wear her out!!

This morning we fed the ducks at the park. Grammy had given the kids lots of stale bread, so it was time to provide a meal to the ducks...and they ate it all ( 3 bags! ).

Luke and DC

Sarah & Mason
DC, Sarah & Luke

Cate Cantrell

Most of you who read our site have already seen the prayer requests for this family...but if you are a random reader, or just happen to stumble across our site, please pray for this family and leave them a note on their blog. They are my brother Matt's friends and their 7 month old daughter ( they have 2 other children ) is having heart, lung problems and the father is updating daily on the progress.... check it out.

http://catecantrell.blogspot.com/

Father's Day Weekend

Saturday morning, Sarah and I got hair cuts! Sarah wanted to grow her hair "long" for a while, however, we convinced her to go short for the summer. Look how cute it is. She took 3 1/2 inches off. Mine is shorter too.

After the salon, we headed to Hiawassee for the rest of the weekend. Dea and DC flew into Atlanta on Friday, and were coming along for the trip to begin their week of summer camp at Lifeteen Covecrest on Monday.

Kids had fun with their cousins, which they haven't seen in TOO long.

Tyler, Lauren, Sarah, baby Mark, Luke

Luke holding Mark

Father's Day was nice too. The kids made Brian some cards, a coupon book, fill in the blank stories about "daddy" which are so funny...and I took these pictures of the kids in Brian's UGA shirts, and his flip/flops, and framed it for him.

Brian looking at his Father's Day goodies...

We gave Dad lots of licorice. We never know if he really likes it, or he just eats it because he knows that no one else likes it!! That way he gets it all to himself.

No visit is complete w/out a dip in the hot tub!

Happy Father's Day all you Dads...you are the best!!

Hiawassee

Early May we spent the weekend at Mom/Dad's house. Here are some of the pictures from the beach/playground near their home.

Sarah and Luke convinced Brian to go down with them.

Brian teaching Luke to skip rocks (are you proud Mom?)
Mom and Dad paid to have their grandkids names added to the new fence.

American Girl Store

Sarah's Grammy (Brian's mom) gave Sarah a bitty baby ( american girl baby) a few years ago, and she has loved it dearly. This past Christmas, Grammy bought her an American Girl doll ( the bigger dolls with hair!). Sarah has loved this doll, dresses it all the time in her awesome clothing and puts her to sleep at night. These dolls are not cheap--so kids really need to take care of them. I knew nothing about this craze, until recently.

Saturday, Sarah and I were guests of her friend and mom to celebrate Sarah's friends birthday. I never in my life have seen so many girls with their dolls!!!!! It was nuts, but very fun for the girls. Sarah said this was her best day ever and wanted to live at the store..haha.

I bought her one outfit for her doll ( which took a long time to decide, since there were several options!), and then we had lunch in the bistro, where the doll gets her own high chair, and menu.

There are stores in Chicago and New York that are apparently 3 stories high..and Bistros in Atlanta and Dallas.