Long time and no blog

I know, I know.  I am a total blogging slacker.  Life just happens that way.  The last 5 months have been crazy busy and so exciting.  We sold our home and moved.  We are in love with our new little town, but that deserves a blog post of its own.  This summer was spent unpacking, getting acquainted in our new community and making our house a home.  I think it is safe to say we have successfully completed all of that, and more!


Chris and I spent 4 nights on a cruise this summer with some really good friends.  It was great to be away together on the sea.

The girls and I took a mini vacation to the beach.  They are such good girls and travel so well.  It was a good trip.

I finally allowed a dog to become part of our family.  We named her Stella Lou and we are all smitten.  

We have a new church home that we love and so excited to be part of. The children's programming is outstanding.  This is a picture from VBS.

Maddie and Ava starting swimming this summer.  We were very excited to have this opportunity.  They both love it.  Maddie moved up to the swim team this fall.  They have both made such great progress.  We are so thankful for this opportunity.

A trip to watch the REDS play with the Best Friends ever.

We had the opportunity to see a few plays at Barter.  We enjoy being so close to such a great theater. 

I found time for a short, but awesome girls weekend with these awesome ladies.

We visited Hungry Mother State Park often, this is our paddle boat adventure.  I pedaled and they laughed.

Ava participated in a kids triathlon.  She rocked it. 

We had some fun with go-carts. 

and family away time

And then school started.  First day of School 2015/16

Sometimes just for kicks we have random dance parties on the back porch :)

Maddie and Ava created these masterpieces, more about this later.

We are busy and happy and in love with life.  We are very blessed and looking forward to many more adventures.