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Until I can get all my pictures off my camera, these will have to do! :)

Have a wonderful weekend!

{belated} Christmas Gift!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, remembering the true Reason for the Season!



Stay tuned for some exciting news coming up! (There is a hint in this post...can you guess what it is???)

Merry {Belated} Christmas! What did you do for Christmas?? Leave a comment letting me know!

100th post!

Well....seeing that it's been awhile since I've posted, I thought maybe I should do that this morning. :)

We have been busy (though not as busy as Courtney!!) with school, Operation Christmas Child, Christmas concert rehearsals (we're about to leave to go right now, as a matter of fact!), violin teaching....

Anyway, I'll share a few random pictures with you and sign out. :)



Fall 2011 



Fall 2011

this picture was taken several years ago...but, I don't believe I've shared it here...

Have a great weekend!

I'm entering Lulu's Photography Contest!

Hey Y'all!

Hope the first day of October is going wonderful so far!

Lulu over at My {polka dotted} Life is having a photography contest...and the theme is: Black and White

Here's my photo:

Click here to go to the Photography Contest post!

Have a great day!  :)

My Photography Blog...

Just wanted to jump in here and let y'all know of my photography blog, all in a *snap*! I've been working on "building" it for a while...and even though it's not all done, I think it's presentable enough!

I'd love it if you stopped by! Feel free to leave a comment and/or follow! ;)

Have a great weekend!

May, June, July, August....

Are you sure "summer" is 4 months long? I mean, it sure didn't feel like it!!  :)

With school starting back up, I (most likely) won't have much time to post on my blog....I'll try to update on a regular "schedule" (like...once every month or so...and maybe some in between!) but we'll see. :)

Anyway, that wasn't the real reason I am writing this post. :) I plan to give an overview of what we did this summer. Here goes!

In May, Parker and I went to TeenPact's National Convention in TN. (read my post about it here)

In June, we helped out with our church's VBS (Big Apple Adventure!)

....and went to my grandmother's house in NC to visit with family!

While we were there, we had a photo shoot,

(some of us them) took wagon rides,

we visited a farm with some friends,

went to the pool,

celebrated Independence Day,

Home-Made Ice Cream!

(BBQ Brisket, cherries, strawberries, chips, cole slaw = some of the things we had for lunch/dinner (linner? Dunch?) on July 4th!)

and we made a movie.

In August , some people had a birthday! (Namely, Parker and Dad). For Parker's birthday, we had kabobs (chicken, beef and bison), yummy green beans, sweet tea, and homemade cheesecake, compliments of the birthday boy!

For Dad's birthday, we had grilled chicken, green beans, grilled potatoes, sweet tea (you can't go wrong there!), vanilla ice cream and homemade peach cobbler! *yum.* Now, I don't yet have pictures on the computer of Dad's birthday, so you will just have to imagine all the yummy foods etc.  :) You can do that, right?

If you have read all the way down to here(and continue to read until the end of the post), congratulations! You have successfully viewed 21 pictures, and read 319 words.

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! And a fabulous fall! And an lovely Labor Day! :)

Beach 2011

Ahh yes! We are finally here! (after what was supposed to be 7-ish hours, the trip turned out to be NINE HOURS!!! *sigh*) 

In celebration of my grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary, they decided to take everyone (ok...not everyone. Just their offspring and grand-offspring) to the beach! *HUGE SMILE*

Soo. We are here. Twenty-something people in one BIG house on the beach, with a pool, game room and 2 kitchens! And, it's nice and hot. :)

Fun-ness!

the leftovers of my chick-fil-a milkshake. {PEACH!!!}

Lydia is SOOO excited to be here...

...as you can see! :)

Graham!

we took a walk on Saturday night. :) I think this picture is: (L-R) (back)Mom, Aunt Carol, Lydia, Dad. (front): Rachel (or part of her), Aunt Beth, Uncle Brian, Graham and Caleb's feet. :)

Yes, we are having fun!

I might post some more pictures later in the week. Or, I might not. You never know...