Anna Kate's crawling!!!

crawling at 10 months

I'm a big girl now!

This is my preferred trick!

my "yoga pose" or tepee stance as we like to call it

New Discoveries and Muscadines...

Trace eating muscadine grapes for the first time!


Looks like he takes after his mommy. I love this time of year when muscadines are in season. I used to say when I was a little girl that "God gave me muscadines for my birthday because they are always in season in September!!!" I can make myself sick from eating so many! Trace really loved his first experience tasting them.

He is enjoying learning so much lately. He is so curious about the world around him and it is so fun to teach him new things each day. Today, it was learning how to squeeze open a muscadine by finding the "hole" (where the grape was attached to the vine). Yesterday, it was teaching him at the stop light about red means stop and green means go. Now, when we drive to a stop light he says "mommy you can go" or "mommy stop!!!" I'm really loving these days of feeding his curious mind!

Trace's first day of Preschool!!!

So proud to carry his backpack and lunch box that he helped mommy pack!!!


We've been talking about it for a few weeks now...Trace's first day of his "new school." We didn't want to confuse him with the school he went to last year, so I borrowed this idea from my friend Megan to call it "new school." I'm glad to say the first day was a success! I have to tell you that when I arrived to pick him up, all the other kids were sitting nicely listening to a story. What was my child doing you might ask??? Turning flips across the floor! Hopefully we'll get better throughout the course of the year!!!

End of Summer 2008

Trace helping Daddy lay sod!

Grad school friends...Lisa, Jana, and Megan...we had our annual grad school friend gathering and it was at our house this year. My how we have multiplied!!! 4 adults and 8 kids...whew!

trying to take this picture required patience...

I had to post this picture b/c it was the source of great frustration throughout the morning. Trace's John Deere train is every child's favorite toy that visits our house. It is hard for Trace to share as you can see, but this is good practice for him!!! Here Jack and Trace and deciding who's turn it is to ride!:-)

Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing...

Here are the third and fourth stanzas of this classic hymn:
(Be sure and read the story that follows.)

Come, Thou fount of every blessing,
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;
Streams of mercy, never ceasing,
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,
Mount of Thy redeeming love.

O to grace how great a debtor
Daily I'm constrained to be!
Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to Thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
Prone to leave the God I love;
Here's my heart, Lord take and seal it
Seal it for Thy courts above.


*This song was written by Robert Robinson in 1758. My pastor told the story this morning of how this man, after writing many hymns, fell away from God. One day he heard a lady humming the tune to this song. She was humming the fourth stanza: "Prone to wander, Lord I feel it, Prone to leave the God I love." When she asked him if he had heard the song, Robert Robinson broke into tears in telling her that he had written the words to this hymn.

Our pastor's message was to say that we should never feel that we are exempt from falling into a deep path of sin. We ALL must use the spiritual tools we are given to bind us against Satan's attacks.

Coincidentally, I heard the hymn again this afternoon on WMHK while driving in the car. It was by a contemporary christian artist...now after hearing the story in church, the song takes on a deeper, greater meaning to me.

107.5 "The Show" broadcasting from Taylor's Quality Landscape Supply!

We had so much fun tonight at Gerrick's business! He decided to get "The Show" broadcasted live from Taylor's. We had several friends come by and show their support as well as customers taking advantage of the discounts! Trace absolutely loved having all his friends stop by to play on the playsets!

Our Summer Vacation

Gerrick closed the business for a week for our family to take a much needed vacation! We had a great time at his parents place near Destin, FL. We loved walking the streets in Rosemary Beach, playing in the "big pool", hanging out with Gerrick's Grandma and family, and playing with Trace's cousin, Caroline. A highlight of the week was that Trace can now swim on his own (with a floatie, of course) but we're thrilled that he is no longer hanging on to me waist and terrified. He actually loves jumping in the pool ALL BY HIMSELF and putting his head under...YEAH!!! These are just a few highlights from the week.

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