It's great to be 8

What a wonderful Thanksgiving we had. Lots of family here to visit and Riley was baptized on Saturday the 27th. We are so proud of her. After her baptism on we took the missionaries with our family and went to lunch.

Big day for Riley!

Riley has been asking for a few years now to get her ears pierced. Daddy just kept saying when you're older, when you're older. Well, she was finally old enough. She was so excited and all smiles when it was over.

Happy Halloween!!!

Happy Halloween to all!

The weather was great here. Riley cashed in on the candy train. She had the Halloween party at the church, class party at school and trick-or-treat at daddy's office!!! She was loaded with candy before Halloween was even here. Lane had a costume party with his friends on Saturday night. On top of all that we had out church Halloween party and I went to a Halloween theme Bunko. Lots of fun for everyone. We hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween.

Soccer season!!!

What a fun 2 months. Lane and Riley played soccer with the YMCA and enjoyed the Fall season! It was great fun watching them but busy and mom and dad are glad the season is over. Now we move onto 8th grade Wrestling.

Soccer!!!

Another season is underway. Trying to keep up with two practices, two games, and work schedules every week is nuts but the kids are loving it! Both are doing great as goal keeper. One month down and one more to go.

Labor Day Weekend!!!

We spent the weekend in Gatlinburg, TN. Lots of fun like always. The Smokey Mountains are so beautiful this time of year!

Summer at the lake!

We had a great time on vacation. We took the kids to Center Hill Lake and spent 4 days on a house boat. There was a lot of skiing, surfing, tubing, fishing and fun in the sun. We were worn out by the end of the week. It's hard work having fun! What a great time. Everyone was safe and had fun!!!!

Target Shooting

Nancy shooting .410
Austin shooting .410

Gene shooting Desert Eagle

Summer Fun!!!

Summer has been a lot of fun so far just HOT, HOT, HOT!!!! We have spent some time at the lake, gone target shooting and the boys spent a week at scout camp. They came back tired and STINKY and that n=means they had a reat time :)

DaNcE!!!!

Beast Friends!!

Thank You Ms. Heather

DANCE YOUR HEART OUT!!!

Strike a pose!!




Yeah for dance!!! It's been a fun couple of months watching Riley take "Hip Hop". She had fun and made a few new friends. I was so proud of her at her recitle. She was on stage in front of about 120 people and she even remembered to SMILE!!! She did great. Now we have a break for the Summer and maybe start up again in the Fall.

Toothles!!!

Loosing teeth has become very popular around here. Riley has lost 4 so far (2 being pulled by the dentist). She just wont let them go ;) The most recent one was pulled by the dentist and I have NEVER seen a baby tooth with such a long root! She was lucky enough to hit heads with a friend last week and that help loosen up her top front tooth and we pulled it out ourselves.

Her permanent teeth have come in behind her baby teeth and haven't done a good job pushing them out. She was such a trooper -- Getting a shot and letting the dentist pull without shedding a tear. She was too excited to have the tooth fairy visit to be afraid of the dentist.

Rain, Rain, and more RAIN!!!!

A little rain gets your car dirty.......Rain for a Saturday afternoon cancels all the soccer and baseball games.......but rain, I mean RAIN for 48 hours totaling 13.6" causes flooding in Nashville and the surrounding areas. Breaking all kinds of records and causing unreal damage. I am feeling very fortunate that we are all okay and had no water damage. Our house is high enough on the hill that we are safe. A few of our neighbors had some flooding in their basements and the worst of it for us was our rain gutters couldn't handle the amount of rain in the water was washing away the bark in the flower beds. Church was canceled yesterday and school canceled today. Luckily we have about 5-7 days of sun and 80 degrees to help dry us out. Mother nature is a powerful thing!

This is the park across the street from our subdivision. Lane went over with some friends on Saturday and found a 10lb carp washed up on the walking trail. He released in into our new neighborhood lake.



YMCA parking lot w/water 6' deep. There are cars still there underwater.



Wal-Mart parking lot. This is 5 miles north or our house. The bumps in the water are the roof tops of cars.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/weather/05/01/nashville.flooding/index.html?hpt=T1

This link is from CNN. It shows a mobile home floating down the freeway I-24 (about 8 miles east of out house).

http://uservideo.weather.com/video/Opry-Mills-Flooding-Nashville-T

This link shows Briley Prkway flooded. The Cumberland river over flowed and flooded the Opry Mills Mall and the Opry Land Hotel. They evacuated 1,500 people last night. For those of you that have been here to visit the river that the General Jackson runs on (behind the mall), also the same river that runs past the Titans football stadium is usually at 40-44 feet. Flood warning is 47 feet and last night it hit 50.5 feet. They haven't assessed the damage yet but the Mall, Opryland Hotel and The Grand Ol' Opry is in about 2-3 feet of water.

A year with Frog and Toad

It was the 1st grade musical last night. It turned out SOOO cute! The kids have been practicing for 3 weeks and Riley was so excited. The place was packed, I was lucky to get a seat close to the front. Riley was a red cardinal. The program had songs and speaking parts to go along with each season. What a fun night! I apologize for my lacking videotaping skills :)

I am such a slacker!!! I haven't been on here in months to update our family blog....Darn that facebook, what a time sucker. So far 2010 has been a pretty good year. We have had a few VERY cold weeks but I think spring is finally here. Took a drive with the kids to Liepers Fork, TN. What a nice drive on a sunny day, We were there just in time for the fried food festival. We ate some of the BEST sweet potato fries in the world!

Now the kids are on Spring Break and we have had some beautiful days full of sun shine! We spent the weekend in Pigeon Forge, TN. All day spent at the water park and evenings out to dinner and we even caught a magic show. We sure enjoyed our Easter weekend. Feeling very blessed to have a happy and healthy family.