Baseball, Bouncing & Books!

Ty had a really rough patch and we asked him if he were to be good what would he like to do. He said he wanted to go to the baseball field with his friends and play baseball and then come back to our house for a cookout. Well that is exactly what we did and it was a lot of fun! Thanks so much for all of our friends coming and playing and eating with us!!

Friday morning we went to Partyville (jumpy place) to let the kids play. We met Amy, Connor, Macy, Heather & Annalee.

We absolutely love our library! To celebrate the end of the summer reading program, they had a pool party...fun! Here is Ty with Lisa, Hudson & Finley.

Fun 24 hrs!

After work on Friday we drove to Lenoir City and visited with Josh's parents and then on to Aubrey's for a dinner celebration for Mamaw's 85th birthday! It was fun and we were able to see all of Josh's family!

Saturday morning we went to a Lemon Aid stand at the LC Farmer's Market. The money went toward water for people in Africa, good job Sean, Andi, Beckett, Helen & Will!

After that we went to the Knoxville zoo! It was great, but hot! We saw a ll kinds of animals including the elephants.

You can almost hear Marley's lion roar in this pic!

Then on to Tori's birthday party at the zoo! Tori is the daughter of my good friend Sonja. Sonja and I are friends from college and it was great to be able to celebrate her daughter's 5th birthday with her! Here is the beautiful birthday girl Tori!

After all of this we were all worn out, but back at home for a peaceful Sunday! Thanks to everyone for making this a fun 24 hrs!

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What a rough couple of weeks! Our sweet baby boy has been a terror! We went to Nashville last week with Josh's work and Ty was horrible, I could not wait to get home. Then we came home and the bad behavior continued. I thought I was going to pull my hair out. Anyway after a lot of prayers and reading parenting books, we have had 3 full good days. No hitting and no extrememly bad back talking. Kids can bring us so much love but they also bring us a lot of heart ache. :) Here is a pic of Ty cleaning out our fire pit, we think if we can channel his energy in good ways that it might help!

Another thing that he and Marley love is paintign or any kind of art project. Love their creations!

Ty has also spent A LOT of time catching butterflies. Here is the biggest one yet.

We also went swimming with our friends the Beards and had a delightful dinner at the McGowans. Here is to a good weekend!

Josh's Tri & Fishing with the Beard's

What a fun week! Part of the week we were in Muscle Shoals with Josh, we had great dinner at Casey & Ashleigh's house, Friday we had date night at Taco Rico, Saturday fishing with the Beard's, & Josh's triahlon today. Here is a pic of our racer! We are proud of him for doing it in the heat today and we had a lot of fun watching him and playing at all the fun stuff downtown.

Here are some pics of our dinner in Daisy with the Beards. Good food, good friends, and good fishing!









Oh one more not so fun thing, I got my keys locked in my car at Walmart on Saturday morning. Argh! Well let's see what this week holds!

Back to Blogging for the 4th!

Okay I am back to blogging! :) This weekend we went to Lenoir City to visit our family for the 4th. Before we went we all rode our bikes (Marley was pulled behind Josh) to Pastaria for dinner Friday night and it was a blast! Then we went Lenoir City on Saturday morning and had a great dinner with Josh's family and then had lunch with my family on Sunday. It was great to see everyone. We came back to our house for the parade today and fireworks...what a fun weekend!!

Here is Josh with the kids on my parents dock.


My mom and I in front of all of her good cooking.


Sayuri hanging out on the 4th!


All 7 cousins! They get cuter by the day!


My parents got the kids this and they LOVE IT!!!