Life at the Lake

We had another fun weekend at the lake. We could really get used to going out there every weekend. . . . While we were there, we had a fun visitor. JASON BRAWNER! He was driving from Purdy, MO to San Antonio, TX to do some recruiting for Camp Barnabas. It was so fun to see him and get caught up on his family. Jason is the Camp Director at the camp and his wife, Alison, is one of my closest friends. He was only with us about 10 hours so I took a picture to prove he was actually in Granite Shoals. . .

Another fun activity was Will got to help Grandpa pick all the peaches off this little tree near the lakehouse. The peaches are so sweet and yummy. . . .

John 3 1/2 months old

Alivia and Will love their little brother, John. I think John may be close to turning over soon! Here is our basic schedule. We wake up around 8 am for the day. He breastfeeds about every 3-4 hours during the day. His longest nap is in the afternoon and is pretty consistently from around 1-4ish. We are getting him into bed around 7 pm after a mini-bath every night. I nurse him to sleep. . . Then I give him a twilight feed around 10 or 11 pm. We get up in the middle of the night between 3-5 am.

The Girls

These are some of my closest friends in Austin. I met Amy and Beth right after I had Alivia at a Lamplighters picnic and instantly knew we had to be friends. So. . . I asked them about starting a playgroup. Now there are a total of 8 members. Since I have known them there have been 7 children born and 2 more on the way! I cherish our monthly girl's nights and look forward to celebrating many more life milestones with them in the future! Thanks Friends.

Alivia's Drawing of Mommy and her Signature

Mimi's Birthday at the Lake

The Taylors and Risingers headed out to the lake to celebrate Mimi's 64th birthday. I have a pitiful number of pictures from the weekend but we were having too much fun! The kids are starting to really enjoy going out there. Alivia loves just riding on the boat and jumping off the back to swim in the lake. I got some good wakeboard time in with some coaching from Peyton. Matt and Will took a 3.5 hour nap on Saturday. . . ahhhh. . . .they both needed it!

Happy Birthday Mimi. We love you and appreciate all that you do for us.

Prima Ballerina

Alivia has been looking forward to this dance class for many months! She met Avery and another friend Katherine there and had a blast learning how to put on ballet and tap shoes and some basic steps. It was adorable to watch and Will longed to join in the fun as well. There are 3 more classes and we are considering signing her up for weekly classes in the Fall.

Fellowship Weekend 2010

We had a fun and crazy weekend out at the lakehouse with 2 other Fellowship Families and their kids. All together there were 6 adults and 8 kids. When the kids outnumber the adults, you know there will be a touch of chaos! The kids all got along so well and loved being on the boat and swimming in the lake. We look forward to more fun times with the Schooler and Truss families.

Grayson, Tyler, Alivia, Bentley, Will, Becca, and Luke

(Baby John was snoozin')

Kim, Christy and me (side note: Christy and I graduated the same year from Anderson High School!)

The boys - Ryan, Matt and Rob

Cheese!