Baseball

 

So last year we went to a Frederick Keys game.  The kids got free tickets for completing the summer reading program.  We invited Grandma to come and the kids had a blast.  It was a bit of a late night for Annie, but as usual she had to be right in on the action.  Both CJ and Emily got game balls.  We are sitting right behind the visiting team's bench (it cost $8 to upgrade all the tickets, totally worth it).  We cheered for them since they were a Virginia team.  We have already signed up for this year's summer reading program and are super excited to go again.  I'll have to get you the dates of the games Grandma.

Headed our way?

What a fun time in Florida.  Grandma and Grandpa bought these bikes at yard sales and had enough for everyone.  They even bought a tiny bike for Annie, but I just pulled her along in the trailer when we went for rides.  If you look closely you can see her on her "scootah".  We tried to ride bikes everyday.  There was a nice pirate park almost two miles away that we would ride to.  There is a really nice bike path so we didn't have to worry about crossing the street or traffic or kids falling into the street or anything.  They also had three more grown up bikes for me and my two sisters.

Cousins

Sometimes I think they think they are siblings.  They did live together for a few years and super close by (3 houses) for a year.  What a nice Mother's Day picture.

Amen

When she was just "learning" about keeping her eyes closed during a prayer she would yell, "eyes, eyes" repeatedly during the prayer.  But she was very determined to keep them closed.

time flies

A little flashback post.  I can't believe we had lived here for two years already!  These pictures were taken as we were planning/planting/starting our garden in 2011.  Look at how little CJ is.  I am so excited for our garden this year.  I've been looking over seed catalogs and dreaming of nice weather...

skating

Annie is getting so big.  As with most third kids she wants to do everything the older two do.  Including roller skating.  Sure this time she has on the toddler skates.  But the next time we went to the rink she had to have real roller skates.  I didn't get any footage or photos of that, something to look forward to next time.

How fun

 

 So we went swimming at my parents' pool the other day.  The kids always have fun swimming.  This time to step it up a notch I decided to try out the underwater feature of my camera.  It took a while figuring out the timing, but when I did I got some pretty decent shots.  Of course, the battery was dying so I didn't get too many shots.  Here they are....

 

8 is Great!!!

 

What a wonderful way to celebrate being 8.  Here is the family on Emily's baptism day.  We are so happy so many friends and family could make it.  

Here is a picture of the (almost) 8 year old riding the waves in North Carolina.  She got to celebrate her birthday there with some of her cousins.