Monday, January 2, 2017

January 2017

As you'll notice in these pictures, we did get a fairly respectable snowfall this January.  However, there are also plenty of other pictures of walks and basketball games and all sorts of outdoor fun!  I had captioned one of my January pictures .....  I love how mild and beautiful January [and February too] has been.  Other then the snowstorm, it's been wonderfully and unusually nice

subbing in Chloe and Alice's class, it was a blast!

Saturday, 1.7.17 - SNOW!




we were like the pied piper on our morning walk, picking up kids :)
Lucas, Ryan, Kayla, Abs, Kinsley, Chlo

at best count, we had 37 people and three dogs in our backyard for our spontaneous s'mores and sledding party :)
Love our neighbors!!
Chloe and Mari




Grandma was in Athens for work and spent the weekend snowed in with us!



on Sunday we emerged briefly for the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby
Abby's Flat Stanley joined us :)
It snowed overnight into Saturday morning, and we were out of school on Monday and Tuesday



Classic Georgia!!
the very next pictures on my camera are of kids in tanktops and flipflops!  
from 30` to 70` in two days!





Nana's here for the weekend!
a 9mile bike ride on the greenway, Abby's personal best :)

We volunteered at the Packaged Good on MLK day
the kids colored pictures to be included in care packages that will be handed out to the homeless



an after - preschool playdate with Alice!

Zoey joined us for our almost daily [long way around] walk to the bus stop




loving our new basketball hoop, thanks Santa!

all ready to watch the NFC championship game at the Houlihans' house

Chloe's taking a gymnastics class this spring at Zenit gymnastics

Alice, Couper, and Chloe - after preschool playdate
 I love how these three adore each other!  Even their preschool teacher, Ms. Tera, comments all the time on their bond




This is the only complete Den One picture I know of!
Den leader Daddy with David [Matthew's dad and a big help]
Jackson, Huck, Thomas, Johnny, Ryan, Matthew, and Nickolas
**I'm not exactly sure when this was taken, not January that's for sure based on clothing and the color of the grass!  I came across lots of random, old scout pictures while preparing for February's banquet.  I had to steal the ones with my scouts in them, and they ended up in January's album!**




Sunday, January 1, 2017

2017 - like it never happened

OOPS!!  Not a single blog post for the year 2017.  My bad.  And actually only one in 2018.  So here I am coming to you from the future once again [October 2019].  It's a little like cheating, but not really, right??  I'm basically just transferring photos that I've kept current all along over into here, so I can print them into pretty blog books and thus we can remember our memories :)

I've so enjoyed getting back into blogging.  I've recently updated the blog cover picture - the last one was from 2011 I believe.  Chloe wasn't even a twinkle in my eye yet in the old photo.  Welcome to the world, Chloe!  I've updated the blog backgrounds and layouts to look prettier and more modern and basically just freshened it all up.  It's a new start!  I've backdated picture posts into 2016, and it felt really awesome to finish up that year.  I've even posted some current posts!  I recently printed a couple of books - everything through 2015 is printed and displayed on the fireplace shelves.  Now that 2016 is done, I'm looking forward to working on 2017 and eventually getting it all caught up and printed out and hopefully staying current.  It really is fun to work on here, and hopefully we will all appreciate these books and memories for many, many years to come!

So without further ado, off I go to start working on a picture post for January 2017!







Saturday, December 24, 2016

Friday, December 23, 2016

Christmas 2016

Friday night dinner and Yahtzee with Rick and Lori too, photo credit to Abby ;)

Maya and Gage meet for the first time



Abby's Christmas Story - wow, love, love, love

Christmas Eve church service at Woodstock City

Chloe with Cooper Allen






A basketball hoop from Santa!!

Henry and Cousin Steve

sweet Kayla got new headphones too!  
right here is totally worth the couple more dollars to get Abby the fancy headphones with the extra headphone jack!



working on the new dome, great job guys!


celebrating Stratton's birthday!!



Christmas in South Carolina!!








Thursday, December 22, 2016

December 2016

Friday, 12.2.16 - Girls' Night Out!!
Abby's first concert! 
the Houlihans
Tara, Alyson, Abby, and I 

For King and Country Christmas concert at First Baptist Woodstock
[and dinner at Atlanta Bread Company on the way!]
**This is where it all began!!  Little did we know, this would be the first of many For King and Country concerts to come!  They have become a family favorite for sure!!!**



Saturday, 12.3.16 - Ryan's first basketball game! [#24]
Macedonia Wildcats!  
Cherokee Youth Basketball [CYB] 



3rd grade gingerbread house night!

Love my Friday mornings with this Girlie!

Amy, Alicia, Christa


Bitty Baby!!  still her favorite!




Abby and Lyla's class Christmas party
Mrs. Lanier's 1st grade 




Ms. Tera and Ms. Patsy

and Ryan and I went to La Parilla!

Loved having Cousin Teri visit!!!
Lunch at Scottsdale Farms

She's a GREAT photographer 






UpStreet Christmas party in this amazing backyard!

my kids are blessed with awesome friends!  these are some great kids!

Chloe and Mari


Thursday - washing cars at Goshen Valley Boys Ranch with the Allen boys too
[Sarah was supposed to go, but the baby had a dr appt, so Coleson came with me instead]
We took this hard-working crew to Moe's afterwards!
Ryan, Jackson, Cooper, Abs, and Chlo