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Jada's Spring Performance

Today at my weekly bible study the children performed a sweet Spring melody for all the moms. Jada once again stole the show! Such a sweet flower!

The Finish Line

Sprinting to the end

Miles 7.5, 17, and 26.1

Last Straight away at 26.1



Mile 17




Mile 7.5

ING Marathon, Sarah's First Full (yes, 26.2miles)

Today Sarah started on a journey that ended 26.2 miles later. Sarah ran her first full marathon at the ING marathon in Atlanta. SHE ROCKED IT!! 16,000 runners and only 4,000 ran the full marathon. Sarah placed better than half of all the runners.

Sarah started training for this back in November after coming home one night and saying "I want to run a marathon"

The group she trained with is Team in Training with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Check out their website http://www.teamintraining.org/ what an awesome cause and what an awesome group. As her husband I want to say thank you to all the Coaches and Mentors for all the work and training that you do. YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME !!! I have never seen my wife so excited and motivated.

For all of our friends, family, and businesses that supported us in the fund raising THANK YOU!!!! You truly made a difference and hopefully one day we will find a cure to such a nasty disease.

Thank you all so much for your prayers and support..

Little Bo Peep!

Jada is our Little Bo Peep! Too stinking cute!

Halloween

Dorthy and the little chicken on another adventure! Just thought we would share how cute they were this year!

"Look Mom! No Training Wheels!"

Julia is finally solo... That is without training wheels. She has been contemplating it for sometime, but has finally felt confident to do it... Enjoy!

Lock in

I sent this to Tim in an email this morning but I thought you would find this entertaining... For some reason when we moved in the door lock on Jada's room was switched, we have used this to our advantage in container her... until now, read on...


So this morning after we dropped Julia off at school, Jada was really fussy and whinny so I gave her some motrin and told her we would read a book and take a rest. Well I read to her, and sang, but she just kept playing next to me in the bed, well being that I don't feel well either I fell asleep. I don't know how long later but she began calling for me from behind her door. I get up and she has locked me in. I call to her to unlock it and she says "I can't I have boudroux all over" I keep persuading her to unlock it and she can't and won't. I keep banging on the door but no success. I try to unravel one of the door stopers and stick it in the door handle to try to release it, it doesn't work. I then tell her to go get mommy's cell phone, thinking I could get Tara or Scott (our neighbors) to help me. She leaves for a while seeming to have forgotten about me, so I call her back and she is shoving candy mints under the door asking me to unwrap them. I about pee my pants at this point cause I have to pee now and she is throwing me a bone under the door like "sorry mama, it doesn't matter that you are stuck, can you get me this candy?" I am now checking the window out to see how far a drop it is... "Jada please go get mommy's cell phone" She is gone for a while again... I am getting frantic now and thinking can I break this door down? "Jada please go get mommy's cell phone, it is in my purse" Gone a while longer, finally out of the blue the door unlocks and I am free!!! Only to discover that she has rubbed Boudreox (diaper ointment) all over the carpet! Not to excited about that but glad to be free!!

First Day Of School!

Julia has started Kindergarten and we are all very excited. She will be attending Fideles Christian School, this is a University Model School and you are welcome to click on the link and find out more about it. What we love best is it is a nice blend of parent involved teaching (homeschooling) and private school. She goes 2 days a week and then the other 3 I will upload her assignments off of the computer and teach her. We are in constant communication with her teacher and it is great! She will be wearing uniforms (another bonus) and her class size is only 8. Thank you God for helping us find Fideles!

Amicalola Falls

4th of July

We headed out for our local 4th of July Parade. We live in the city of Alpharetta, but are being rezoned into a new city (suburb) called Milton. It is only a year in the making so their is no post office yet, but we do have our own police and fire department now. It is still in the beginning phases but it makes for a little smaller community feel. Anyway this is their second annual parade so not many showed up, but it was fun. The girls liked dressing their bikes up and Jada couldn't stop talking about the clown (sorry didn't get a picture), anyway hope you enjoy! We are convinced if you ask Jada to smile she does just the opposite, such a stinker!

Swimming Babies!

Here is a fun video of the girls swimming

Watch Out!!!

Who needs a boy when you have Jada!!! Just kidding she is definitely the rambunctious little one but she loves her princess' and teaparties too! Don't worry no one got hurt, but we thought it was fun to watch! Those boys better watch out!

FINALLY!

Hey Every body!
I am so sorry I am just now catching up to the blog! We have been crazy busy, so I thought I better get a little something up to get you all off my back... I will try to get organized and put more pictures up later! We miss you all!

God Is So Good

You are never too old to learn, and believe me no one is too young or old to teach you... I just wanted to share the providence of God and how no one is too young to know the power of prayer. Our little Julia has taught us that. We received a phone call the other night from a friend who was experiencing some trials physically in her life. Julia overheard her daddy's turmoil as he tried to comfort this friend. She proceeded to interrupt and request that they stop and pray. Her daddy asked simply "will you pray Julia?" She lovingly took the phone and prayed such a simple prayer, but one of truth and sincerity that can only come from God above. It is not something you simply learn or copy, it is the miracle of God moving through you. Jesus was right when he said we should have the faith of a child, for I witness it daily and only hope I can grow to have that faith as well. Be blessed!

Some pictures of dinner at Red Robin on her actual birthday! They came out singing and all, she was pretty excited!

More of Jada's Party

Jada Turns Two!!!

Jada turned 2 years old February 11th! We had a small gathering of friends to celebrate with cake (that daddy made especially for her), ice cream, pinata and gifts. A day full of fun and noise as all good 2 year old parties should be!