New favorite picture!

Caught this one as they were rolling around on the kitchen floor! LOVE the way it turned out! :D Just thought I'd share!

Indecisive

For those of you who frequently check my blog, sorry for the the many looks you've been seeing from me. It just seems that no matter how cute a background is, I can't get used to it because I like the black. So, sorry that it's been kinda crazy. But I think I've finally decided that I'll just stick with the black. Well, until another cute background comes along! :)

Fun pictures from the weekend

What a fun weekend! Josh's parents came up on Saturday and met us downtown. We ate at Tony's, which is one of our favorite restaurants in the Art District, then we took the walking bridge across the river to Coolidge Park. And man was it hot!! But we had fun too! Here are some pics from Saturday:

On the walking bridge

Chattanooga has 4 bridges that cross the Tennessee River, one of which is a walking bridge that connects the downtown area to the North Shore.


The 4 of us


1st carousel ride

Coolidge Park has a great old fashioned merry-go-round. And I was completely shocked when we walked up on it and Caroline knew exactly what it was! And she just HAD to ride it. Obviously, she was a little scared at first. But then she preceded to ride it about 10 more times! LOL! And once she figured it all out, she insisted on riding the pig! (Nonnie has those pictures.) And believe me, she comes by that bottom lip all on her own. She's had it since the day she was born! (SK has it too!)

Sarah Kate and Nonnie

It was also SK's first time to ride, but she was so sleepy that it really didn't phase her. Poor kid!

Adin and Caroline in the fountain

Before the day was over, we definitely had to let the kids play in the fountain. It was so stinkin' hot that it was really the only way to cool off! Caroine was timid at first, but she finally walked in after she ran circles around the fountain first!
Saturday was really fun, but we were all exhausted too! Heat, humidity, and lots of walking will do that to ya!

Yesterday we had a nice restful day. The worship service was amazing, and I was really moved by what Gary had to say. (Hopefully I'll get to download it soon. You can find it here.) Then it was home to rest. While everyone else napped, I got to scrap. At 6pm we went to a picnic with a new small group. (We're just visiting this church, but it seems very promising.) Everyone was very nice and welcoming, so we'll have to see if this is where the Lord wants us to be for now. It's hard going somewhere new where everything's so unfamiliar. But then it's kinda refreshing too.

Enter cliches here

that's how the cookie crumbles, gotta roll with the punches, when life gives you lemons you've gotta make lemonade.....yeah, any of those will do. Yesterday wasn't such a great volleyball day. And though I try my hardest not to let it (the sport) dictate my mood, it's still hard to do sometimes. I guess it's needless to say that we lost. That's usually not too big of a deal to me, especially for the first game of the season, but this time I saw where not having a net for the last week really hurt us. Yeah, you read that right. We were a volleyall team practicing without a net for the entire week leading up to our first match. Not fun. Definitely not easy. And I feel like our match would've gone in a completely different direction if we'd had a net....so today we move on. Our net is up, and we have to move passed the disappointment of that first one, and just move on. But I'm so stinkin' competitive that it was still a hard pill to swallow. (sorry. had to end on a cliche too!)

for all my scrappy friends

thought you'd appreciate this!



Yep, those are my all-time favorite Thickers---and all the E's at that!

Pictures!

I just realized that it's been a loooooong time since I've posted pictures of the girls! Sorry fam! So here are a few that I've taken more recently.

Me and Sarah Kate on one of our picnic days.


Sarah Kate


Caroline playing after she'd finished her picnic lunch.


our little princess


I've found that now that volleyball season has started for me, I tend to take less pictures. However, now that I'm aware of that, I'll try to do better. Especially since these are kinda old...like taken last month. But I'll do my best to remember to throw my camera in the diaper bag next time we go somewhere.

Good news!

YAAAAAAAAY! I DID find a sitter! I was eating lunch and I randomly thought about my old student aid who still lives at home while she goes to school. I tracked her down, and she agreed! Yipppppeeee! All is not lost! :D Sorry for that sad post earlier, but when your home with no adult to talk to, sometimes ya just gotta blog about it! hehe!

And here are 2 more LOs I've just finished. Yeah, the first one? It took me a week! It stayed on my fridge for about that long! I couldn't get it "right" to save my life it seemed! But now it'll do! hehe!

"Splash!"


And this one is of my friend's girls. They're all 3 sisters, and they're the most precious girls! Had to make one for her!

"Sisters, friends"