River Maze

Our Bible Skills, Drills and Thrills Classes and my Bible Buddies Class all went to the River Maze. Lindsey and Kylee were here in town, so they were able to go with us. It had rained ALL day the day before, so everything was muddy and yucky. They gave us a great deal and said we could come back for free another time if we wanted to. Most people with our group didn't stay more than about 2 hours, but the sun came out and "dried up all the rain!" and we had a GREAT time. We were able to go through the corn maze, go on the hayride and had hours and HOURS of fun there. Here's some pictures of our fun day!

Kylee and Emy on the Chick-Fil-A cow train


Emy's funny face



Funny face #2

Cute, funny girl

Ashton shooting some corn

Tony and Emy on the cow train

Cousins! (We missed you, Jacob!)

Elliot Lee and Emy - best buddies

After lunch - all the kids, except Kylee and Elliot (these were the only ones who stayed for the corn maze)

Funny faces

In the corn maze... where are we??? (just kidding, but we did lose Brayden for about 10 minutes in here. Sheesh!)

Beav and Me

Kylee and Beav

Emy and her pumpkin

Brayden and his pumpkin with Tony

Ashton and his pumpkin

Disney on Ice

We took the kids to Disney on Ice a couple weeks ago. It was themed Mickey and Minnie's Safari Vacation or something like that. The main feature was Peter Pan - which was so exciting! I'm cheap, so I bought the cheapest tickets possible. Which, were in the total nose bleed sections. We could see the ice, but barely because we were above the lights. We tried to upgrade our tickets, but they told us everything was sold out. So, we stuck it out. The kids were just scared of the heights. Emy was in Heaven, though because she would live in Disneyland if she could. Anyway, at intermission, we noticed all these empty seats down by the ice. Tony asked a guy if we could move b/c we couldn't see and he told us sure, just find empty seats. So praise the Lord! We paid $40 for seats 4 rows away from the ice! It was awesome. We were able to see the best parts of the show right up front. We had a blast.

Watching the show so intensely


Peter Pan and Tinkerbell flying



The finale!

Outside, after the show

Tara and Braxton

Tara, Braxton and a bunch of The Mission students came to stay with us for a couple of days a few weeks ago. They are busy, but doing great and baby Vivian Leigh will be here within a few weeks! We all just can't wait to meet her!

Belly shot!


Tara and baby Vivi



Braxton and Emy - best buddies

Ashton's Last Baseball Game of The Fall Season

Ashton had his last baseball game last night for the fall season. I was able to be there for about 15 minutes because I had to take Brayden to his game last night, too. Anyway, I was there long enough to see Ashton hit his first real HOME RUN! It was awesome and he was so proud! Here's a couple pictures from the game. They won, 13-9.

At bat


SWING!


Touching 2nd and heading for 3rd!

The HOME RUN grin! =)

Pitcher...

Nice scoop, Ashton!

Perfect throw, Ashton and nice catch, Daniel! They made the OUT at first! =)

Brayden's Soccer Pictures

Brayden has done very well this soccer season. His team, however, has not. Poor things, their team was probably the only one that wasn't stacked! We have 3 games left in the season and they haven't won a single game yet, nor come close. Yikes. Brayden did manage to score the only goal scored for our team this season - a couple weeks ago. The team is doing better, but they just can't get it together for some reason. I think it has a lot to do with being aggressive about taking the ball from the other team. They just have no clue about that at all! Our coaches are great, it's just the team can't seem to get with it. It's comical now a days. =)




The Silly Team Lightning

Emy's New Haircut

After Emy got a little gum stuck in her hair last week, I decided to go ahead and chop it short. She loved it and thought it was the funniest thing ever! She told everyone at church to look at her funny hair. It was way too cute. Here's some fun pictures of her from this past week.

Big Cheeeseeee!


One of her favorite things to do with Daphne... Daphne doesn't seem to enjoy it that much...


Princess Emy

CHEESE!

Funny face!

New Play Equipment and Ride 4 Life

Here's a couple pictures in the playroom at church. We just got new play equiptment in there and the kids love playing there!





Today, The Grace Point Riders had ther "Ride 4 Life" ride. We stopped by the church when they got back from their 90 mile ride. Tony Dietz let the kids sit on his bike and make it go, "VROOOOOOOOOOOM!"

New Hope's Walk 4 Life '08

Thanks to all of our sponsors for helping us with the Walk 4 Life! We had such a great time and there was 800 people walking!!! The Walk 4 Life raised over $60,000! PRAISE THE LORD!


A tiny part of the tiny feet print banner


Elliot and Emy living the high life and "riding" for LIFE!


Easton, Ashton and Jacob - so cute!

Chattanooga Zoo

On Saturday we went to the Chattanooga Zoo for a birthday party. The Zoo is a lot smaller than the Knoxville Zoo and definetly the Cincinnati Zoo, but we still had fun!

All the kids at the party

Riding the carousel

Jacob Lee and Ashton

Tony and Brayden rode after everyone else... we had a little incident with Brayden. We left him at one of the exhibits - we thought he was in the front of the line and didn't realize he wasn't with us until I looked for him on the carousel. Tony ran back to the other exhibits and found him... he was devestated and so scared. He had wondered off from the group (playing with monkey sounds) and when he came out, we were gone. He was thrilled to be able to ride the carousel though and he was safe and sound, praise God.

Emy loves animals so much. Here she is loving on this goat.

Interesting... the kids were so excited these turtles were riding piggy-back...

Happy Birthday to Me!

Welp, this is it... my last year of the 20's. Do I feel any different? Nope. My secret? To still look like I'm 14 years old... to get carded at rated R movies...and to get the looks from the people at walmart who see me with my three kids and think "Oh, that poor teenager has all those kids!" Getting older is still okay for me... as long as I'm not 30 yet! =)


Kissing on my favorite girl at yummy Olive Garden!


Linda, Emy and Wayne having some ice cream after lunch at our new favorite pizza place, Dovino's.



Our family at DQ. Happy Birthday to Mommy!