7/11/11 in pictures

Just realized the date is 7/11/11. I guess that's why there were pictures of everyone getting free slurpies on FB today.

Here is Zach. He woke up before everyone else and decided that he would get some cereal, take it to teh LR and try to watch a movie while eating it. ....ahhhh, I love it, independence!

New toys from Aunt Carinn! and just in the nick of time! These guys were starting to get pretty board.

Me and my Eva girl. Ready to go to a b-daya party!

We were so lucky to get to go to Cindy and Terry's house to help him celebrate his b-day! Too much fun. Great food. Pool, roasting marshmellows, sparklers, and great company. What a good time!

Kids lovin' the pool!

Cindy and Eva boo.

Chloe and her sparkler. And this, my friends, is where my phone ran out of battery. So that was the last picture for the day :)

Sunday, Sunday...

This weekend has been a blessing! So much social stuff to do. It's nice to have all the social stuff when John is gone.

Here's miss Eva, just sitting at church, looking cute (she's really good at that!)

She is so sweet. She just sits there, plays with toys and smiles at people. There's a part of me that wishes she would stay just the same forever.

After church we met M&D at the park for lunch, then it was off to Camerons mom's BBQ!

Where we dined and the kids found a kiddy pool.....ooooo, ahhhhhh!

Here's part of the dinner crew! Fun that Katy's parents were in town.

Fun day! So blessed to have so many good friends!

Brain and Beth Ace's (suprise) birthday party/wedding vowel renewel.

Out of all my shots (with an infant in one hand and trying to keep Zach quite with the other) This was actually the most decent pic I got of the couple.

Tonight my friend Brian hosted a suprise birthday party for his lovely wife Beth. Beth and Brian's 10th wedding anniversary and Beth's birthday are within a couple weeks of one another. Well, the suprise, at first, just seemed to be a suprise birthday, but then came the other suprise that he had set up for them to renew their vowels!

Beth and her Dad, walking her down the isle.

Let me tell ya, Brain has set the bar high (really high), for all the other husbands! He thought of everything! I was pretty impressed! From awesome food, to a place for kids to play, to having people designated to set up/take down chairs and decorations in a flash for the suprise vowel renewel part. Even an outdoor TV set up to watch their wedding video. It was excellently planned and exeucted!

Beth, Chloe and I after the ceremony.....a little teary-eyed ;) 

Second generation kids of the class of '97!  Our class (high school youth group) rocked. What alot of fun we had (I won't mention all the camps, malls, and other places we got kicked out of)! Out of all of us, these kids are only from 4 of us! Yes, I know. Alot of them are mine.

Chloe was the most INCREADIBLE helper there! What a girl!

Cindy, waiting to renew vowels with Brian and Beth.

This kept most my kids busy for hours! I actually gave them showers before they got in bed! Even those that had fallen asleep in the car! They loved that dirt!

Suprise Beth, Happy Birthday!

Cindy, Luke and Chloe

Eva and Hannah Ace. I think they could probably pass as twins. Blue eyes and bald heads :)

Brian and Cindy.

Hope for Clara 5K

One of my good friends in HS has a 2 yr old daughter with Neuroblastomic Cancer.  You can check out her awesome blog at http://www.mommastimeout.blogspot.com/   .  She shares her faith beautifully in her blog. Read it with a box of cleanex. You'll be touched!

My favorite comments about sweet little Clara and the race for her:

After talking about how Chemotherapy makes your hair fall out:

Chloe: Does Papa and Uncle Jerry have cancer?

After talking about why we were running the race:

Luke: Well, if that little girl has cancer, then I'm definetly going to run!.....emphasis on the "Run". We were really walking it due to John being out of town and I having the 5 kids walking it with me. I think he thought running would physically help her somehow, instead of walking. It was really cute.

Carinn and Brady

OK, really the kids were running to the park, where the race started. They didn't really "Run" any of the race. lol.

Aunt Anne and Uncle Jerry met us along the path and walked with us about 3/4 of the race. So we had quite the family crew! It was really fun to do it together! Anne had just had hip replacement and I was pushing the double stroller and the 4 older kids were running around us, so we were all about the same pace. I think we came in very close to last, but well worth it for all the visiting we got to do!

New phones.....we've entered the 21st century!

For some time now, I've been LONGING for a smart phone, and a nice camara, and I was blessed to obtain both in the same week. I'm hoping to get more blogging done becuase of this! (once I actually figure out how to use them!).

Here is Luke with his "Cookie Monster Trap". The boys swear that the monster did sneak some of the PB during the night!

I had another great picture of Chloe and I, but due to my technological inabilities, it will have wait till later.

Wedding Time!

Some of our very fun friends got married the other day. I love it when you can tell that God has brought two people together! Loved going to their wedding and seeing them put Jesus first, even in the ceremony.  Becky, the bride was Chloe and Luke's swim teacher a couple years ago. Becky is a very creative, red-head, who knew just how to deal wtih Chloe! She was perfect! Later, she watched the kids while I worked and John was deployed. She also goes to our church. Ryan, the groom, is originally from TX. He moved to the TC for work and helps with the church HS group, which is where he met John. The wedding was awesome and circus themed. It was just increadible and a great representation of Becky and her families creativitiy! Only someone who has a super crafty mother and a masters in Costume and set design, could pull off a wedding like this in the time they planned it in! So fun to see :)

John and I before the wedding (we don't get dressed up together often)

Becky and Ryan!

Whoever said girls are more creative than boys......

just hadn't given their boys the task of making weapons.....

These ones were so accurate, we had to take them away. They used a block with a hole in it to rubberband a skewer through....creative.