"June"

"June"

Durning the month of June, our family had many happenings! The first adventure we did was, our family went to the Knoxville Zoo. We took Jenny (my niece) with us. It's about a 2 hour drive from our house. It was alot of fun looking at all the animals and just spending the day together. We had a visit from my best friend Alisa. She flew in and stayed a week with us. We had a BBQ up at the lake with family & friends in her honor!! However it was one of the only days we didn't get rain that she was here. It rained every day after that untill she flew back home to California!Here is a slide show with pictures of the zoo and her visit!

Also there was Father's Day!! So big hugs to all the daddies!!!
I miss mine soooo much!

Also Emmie got to attend Camp Ta-Pa-Win-Go for 5 days. It's a Church based camp where they learn all kinds of verses and have fun all week long. I missed her. She went on a zip line and swam and made new friends. She even came home with a rash :(
I have no clue what it was, but it's gone now :)
Tyler will be attending July 6th-10th!

On June 17th, I lost my grandmother on my dad's side. May she find no more suffering and rest in peace. It is very hard for me in this time to be so far away and not be able to be in California with the rest of my family. I am glad that my dad told her I loved her and hugged her for me before her passing. I wish I could have been there at her home to see all the family gather and be with everyone. However I know everyone knows how much I wanted to be there. I LOVE YOU ALL!!!

(The last Christmas Eve we spent with her)

Also Bryon & I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary on June 25th. We are going to the Bahama's in September for some much need R&R, however we did go grab dinner and a movie. (thanks mom for keeping the kids) I would like to post 10 reason I still love this great man!!

1.) He is the love of my life
2.) He is great provider, not just finacialy, but in all area's
3.) His arms fit perfect around my shoulders
4.) He is a great dad to our children
5.) He is always happy
6.) We enjoy each other's company
7.) We hardly ever disagree
8.) This 10 years was easy and hardly seemed so long
9.) He is a hard worker & good at the things he does
10.) I love the way he loves ma and looking forward to 10 more!!!

I love you Bryon!!!!

I think that's all........untill July

~*May's Mayham*~

So I have decided to try and post once a month for those who follow our family. I did post a you tube video from Emmie's Recital prior.Did ya watch it??

Ok So on May 1st I went with Emmie to a field trip to the Aquarium of the Smokies. We had fun seeing all the differnt aquatic life. I had a small group of 3 kids and we had a buffet lunch with lots of yummy food. On May 11th, Tyler had a field trip to Dollywood. He went with Bryon, and my step father (gpa). They had alot of fun, and Bryon's a group of the rowdy boys, poor Bryon! Needless to say though not to many pictures.

On May 15th the 5th graders got to have there first school dance with the other city 5th graders as a celebration of moving on to Jr. High. He was oh so handsome. They grow up way to fast.

It's a bit silly here I think that our city has the kids go to school on Memorial Day. However, Bryon and I took advantage. The 2 of us, since he had the day off, and the kids....at school. We went for a hike. Laurel Falls. It was beautiful, and my legs protested for days!!

Next came Birthdays!! My step dad's and my husband's are the day after one another. The 25th and 26th, so We celebrated together. Just easier!! Bryon turned the big 3 oh....

I don't have pictures but on May 27th the kids officaily finshed school untill the Fall. So now I have Kendra entering 10th, Tyler onto 6th, and Emmie headed to 4th and a long summer ahead of me.

The last happening of the month....I am the president of a local animal rescue group. We are barely hanging on because of lack of members and foster homes. I did an interview with a local newspaper and we did a car wash to help raise funds.We managed to make $93

Instead of posting all the pictures, I made a slide show for your viewing pleasure, Stay tuned for the happenings of June!

Emmie's Dance Recital

Dancing to the song Freedom for her recital

As most of you know, Emmie has been dancing now for over a year. She is still with the same teacher as we went to Disney with last June. She just had her Spring recital and I wanted to share her youtube video of one of her dances. I hope you enjoy :o)

Pictures!!!

As promised, pictures from Emmie's Birthday and Easter

It's been a while.....

Ok, sorry to all of you who read my blog. I haven't been posting as often as I should or... as often as I need to intend to. So I am going to challenge myself to post once a month!! So, stay tuned and I will add my blog of the month.
Just a quick run threw August 08, I had went to visit my family, and Bryon's Dad visited us. I miss family so much since being so far away. It can be tough at times.




September is fall, and color's here are amazing!



October: Halloween & Tyler's Birthday (11th)





November, and December: Family time :o)



January was Kendra's 15th, however I have no pictures uploaded and already burn them onto a CD. She turned 15, doesn't time fly?

Feb, hum nothing exciting.......

March was Emmie's 9th birthday and I will get some pictures uploaded and posted shortly :o)
Same for April and Easter. Ok so........ Now it's May!!!
I think I am up to date, all but pictures. Stay tuned

July 08

The month of July, there was the 4th and we shot off fire works, and I also turned 30 the month of July.
I went out with some of my friends and we celebrated!!! Nothing to big, I really didn't want to be "OLD" lol so.....moving on to August!!

Also in the month of June......
Here is the city we live in we have a celebration in the downtown historic area to celebrate the Covered Bridge (I will try to get up a pic!!) They have vendors and events thru the week. This year both my girls took part. They had a sining contest, in which the winner could win a chance to go to Nashville and audition for American Idol, or a chance to record a CD. Kendra got a chance. She sang in front of so many people. She didn't win, but I was so proud of her for having the courage in front of hundreds of people. Emmie got to dance with her dance group. It was quite an event. Here is a link to a Youtube video clip of Emmie Dancing. Have a great day!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRPGZqf3rcE

Hello

Hi everyone. Ok, here is one of the first posts to try an update eveyone. I have been busy going threw CD's,resizing, and uploading pictures from events size I last blooged. Which I realize has been about oh, um 10 months. So let's see...... Of course April was Easter, and May we celebrated my husband's 29th birthday. I didn't pull pictures of these off for your viewing pleasure however, Good News!! I have plenty of other pictures!

In June our youngest got an oppurtunity to go with her Dance class and dance at the Magic Kingdom, In Flordia. So..... we decided this was something we wanted for her. It was somewhere around $800 and that covered Emmie & I for a hotel room, and tickets to 3 parks. I was sad that we were not able to have all of the family go, but there was no way we could afford to. We car pooled with another mom & daughter. Which were the same people that we shared a room with. We choose Hollywood Studios, Magic Kindom, & Animal Kingdom as our parks. We were gone for a total of 5 days. She almost didn't get to dance. There was a huge lighting storm. So.....after a long time of waiting the show went on. It was great!!!! What a memory to last her a lifetime!!!







These next pictures are of the lobby where we ate every day (almost) and Emmie ready to dance, The Hotel we stayed in, and Emmie with Minnie at the Breakfast we got to go to.






Stay tuned for more updates........as I get time :o)

I Promise!!!

Hello, it's been quite a while since I last updated my blog. To be honest I haven't updated because I really didn't think anyone was following our blog. So.... I promise that I will, in the next few days update everyone and post some new pictures. So stay tooned!!!