Round two

Made another trip to Dollywood. First thing we did was ride Jonathan's new favorite... the cars. Isaac and James rode too which thrilled Jonathan!

Rachel's favorite.... the Merry-go-Round.

And look what a big girl! This is the first time she had ridden anything by herself!

Lavender

While at the garden this morning, we found blooms on our lavender!

Reader

Just love my iPhone camera...  so handy. Grabbed it today and snapped this photo of Jonathan sitting in the kitchen floor reading his Bible. He really want to learn to read. He will ask to read or will pretend he his reading.  Better plan to start some phonics this fall, huh?

Date Night

We picked Daddy up at work and headed to Knoxville. After Eddie made a return to Best Buy, he got new shoes for Rachel AND treated us to dinner at Jonathan's favorite... Cracker Barrel.

Please...

Our whole little flock went for spring "shearings" this afternoon at Ms. Jean's. Rachel has yet to have a hair cut. But she begged Ms. Jean to allow her to sit in the chair (with sign language "please"). Sure enough Ms. Jean found a hair or two to snip- but not even enough for me to keep. Does this count as her first hair cut?

My Boy

Spur of the moment fishing trip with Poppy
When we stopped at the Dairy Barn, Dad ask if he could take Isaac fishing.
He meant right then. Looks like they had a good day from this photo that he sent via text.

Picnic

What an absolutely

perfect spring day! The little ones (Hey! I can't call them babies anymore.) and I spent the morning running some errands. We bought our Passover supplies, returned a DVD, stopped at Lowes, and went to the awesome new car wash in town to clean the Tahoe.

As we were leaving Lowe's and headed toward home,

Jonathan said, "Hey- where is that burger store? I want a cheeseburger."

I am so glad that he is putting away the food after so many days went by with him unable to keep any food down that I gladly treated my "little ones" to cheeseburgers and fries...

complete with a view!

What a sweet and fun time of fellowship we had tonight with our church family!
Jonathan and Shara Landis were headed to "do chalk walk" together.

Sandra, Allen, Camden, and Trevor Landis

Charleen's friend Dia was here visiting. What a treat to get to finally meet her!