Today...

Our world paused for a moment. Our Papa (Brent's dad) left us, as he slipped with sweet relief to the heaven's above. He is gone, we will miss him with every fiber of our beings, but peace was radiant on his face as he moved on. For that we are eternally grateful. We will strive daily to live up to his grand legacy.Papa, We love you...until we meet again,

and we WILL meet again because

Families are Forver!!!

Movie Date

Some of my girls and our DATE Always been Team Jacob, and even more so now!

Happy Birthday Paige

Birthday Girl!!!

and thrilled that everyone will know

Happy Birthday Paige!

We Love You

You are truly a JOY !!!

hApPy hAlLoWeEn

Halloween 2009...and into a SUGAR induced coma we go!
My man Ed and the grand prize Winner

Happy Fall Ya'll

Share the Road

Start seeing BIKERS

Our family will THANK YOU!!!

Lotoja 2009

206 miles, 3 states, 1 day...6 years in a row and counting

(My butt hurts just thinking about it)

My Man!!!


The other crazies he rides with.
Brent and Tara are in shock, Steve is in agony.

Support Crew...both of us are glad it's over at this point.

People, they do this for FUN!

It's amazing to witness, but seriously they need to have their heads checked.

Brent and Brooke plus 8

Labor Day 2009...Scofield

Those kiddos' parents went to Dallas for the BYU game, and we got to babysit for the weekend!

(Jon and Kate don't scare us anymore)

We had a BLAST!!!

Boat rides

(we had to take turns because there were too many of us)

Swimming

the water was a toasty 67 degrees

FREEZING!!!

In clothes, no doubt

(Amber was NOT impressed with that part...

Oh well, remember Aunt Brooke and Uncle Brent were in charge)

Those smiles are frozen there


The Van Woerkom's and The Simpson's can
POUND some corn on the cob!!!


S'mores


The one and only fish caught all weekend.
Yep, by Gavin!
His dad would be so proud.



Sassy's on the Lake

Sun-bathing Beauties

All the little ones wanted to swim, so Aunt Brooke

jumped in clothes and all. Oh the things I do for my children...the water was

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COLD!!!

Everyone took a turn in the ICE bath, I mean water, except

Uncle Brent and Lauren...CHICKENS (or smart)!



To end our adventure, we got an escort (tow) back to the dock.

The boat ran out of gas on the water.

We were too busy FREEZING, oops swimming to notice...

Details?!?

A Labor Day to remember...

Amber and Mam-maw (my mom) still have a hard time discussing the details.

Again... Oh well!!!

1st Day of School

Caroline

Westside preschool

Paige and Brittany

1st grade (all day) and 4th grade

Mom

Substitute Teacher

(and LOVIN' it!)

So here's to the new school year, may it be a GREAT year for all!

Flower Power

Peace, Love and Happiness

Heaven just got more Beautiful

We know this is what Heaven will look like.

God needed help with the gardens, so He called Becky Home to assist in the work.
At times it is really hard to make sense of 'life'. At those times it is so comforting to know that God is in control, and this is ALL part of His divine plan.

Becky, our dear friend and neighbor

...gone for now, but NEVER forgotten.

Taking the SHOW on the road

For Act 2 (week 2 of our Carolina Adventure),

we packed up the whole crew and moved the

CIRCUS to the BEACH!!!

This whole gang LOVES the beach

and the beach LOVES us...

we provide incredible entertainment

Our roommate for the week

We asked if we could adopt him,
but his mom and dad said "NO"!
RUDE, don't you think...

SASSY does not even begin to describe them.



And in Ring 1 ...

Ring 2...

and
Ring 3 ...

and the producers of the CIRCUS...



To us, this is
The Greatest Show on Earth
(And to see us in action...
Ringling Brothers ain't got nothin' on us.
Trust me!!!)

Favorite Time of the Year

Carolina Trip 2009

A glimpse into the week

Hat's off to TPC Piper Glen

They survived Pasta Night with this whole crew

Mamma Mia!!!
Dancing Queens in the flesh!
This girls night out was one of the best ones EVER
Thank you, Ladies

My how my kiddos have grown
...all 5 of them.
(I was a nanny for Ace and Raven when they were much younger,
but I will ALWAYS claim them as mine)



Spent the day at the lake with my high school girlfriends,
and of course it was just like old times.
Crazy Tubers!

Even CRAZIER tubers!



Then dinner out, just me and MY girls!

Remember in junior high when you doodled all over your paper writing 'BFF'?

These girls and I REALLY meant it!

Feelin' the love!

Check out Gavin's thoughts on going to church with

all these girls...the boy is a crack up!

It's DIVA time...

On your mark,

Get set,

BLING!

Long time NO update

Yeah, Yeah...I've heard you all.

I'm getting around to it.

Stay tuned...updated blog to follow.

Sometimes LIFE just gets in the way.

Happy 4th Caroline!

Well, here we go...

Let the celebrating begin

Caroline and her Posse'

(don't count 'em, just know I am CRAZY!

We all survived)

Caroline picked her Birthday Activities

'Fancy Toe' Date


Lunch at Wendy's


Family Date at the Movies
(pretty intense showing)



Watch out Neighborhood, she has her OWN now


And we finished the weekend celebrations
with the infamous Spanking Machine.


Happy Birthday, Caroline!!!
You are truly a drama filled JOY in our lives.
We love you!