Tate's Trophy

Last night Tate had a party at the park to celebrate the end of his soccer season. The team had pizza and cupcakes and then Tate received his very first trophy! It is a bobble-head, which I think is odd, but of course he loves it.

Thomas Comes to Chattanooga

This afternoon we went over to Chattanooga to see and RIDE Thomas the Train. It was a rainy day, but really fun all the same. The boys were VERY excited and seeing Thomas in person seemed to be all they had hoped it would be, it was a family fun day!




Tate even met Sir Topham Hatt (he looks kind of creepy to me, but obviously Tate didn't think so:)

Tree Climbing

Yesterday afternoon Tate learned a valuable lesson of childhood...how to climb a tree. It took him a couple of tries to determine he could actually do it. Not a bad way to learn to not become discouraged, but to keep trying. Now if he disappears while we are playing in the backyard, we know he is in his new favorite tree.:)

Great day to be outside!

We always seem to spend a lot of time outside, which is even more enjoyable on a gorgeous day like today. We were out after lunch having popsicles and blowing bubbles. Makes you glad to be alive and thankful to our great Creator. Oh, and speaking of which, congrats to my friend Jeanette who gave birth to her son, Keller, this morning. Ayers and Addie Grace will make fabulous big sisters!

Super Sports Saturday

Yesterday we went to Birmingham to see my sister and her family who we had not seen since January! We were able to go to Andrew's t-ball game, Allison's soccer game, and melted down before making it to Mike's baseball game. The cousins had a blast playing all day and everyone was quite worn out by last night. Hopefully it won't be so long before we are all together again!


We also had a mini-birthday celebration for Allison who turns 10 on Wednesday.

Grandma comes to visit!

My mom flew up to visit us over the weekend and was able to cheer on Tate at one of his first soccer games. It is pretty funny to watch a team of 3 and 4 year-olds run after the ball not really knowing what to do with it. We also took my mom to watch the boys swim in the indoor pool at the Y. We had a great time and look forward to another visit from Grandma this summer.



Some coaching from daddy...

Two happy boys after having fun at the pool...
We also went to Kristie Morley's baby shower, my mom teaches with her mom down in Orlando.

Running Rams

This past weekend I flew down to Orlando to run the Winter Park 10K with my high school friends, Jenny and Heather, and my dad. We met our goal of running it in under an hour, although Heather showed Jenny and I up and left us in her dust. My dad improved upon his time also and was questionally jipped with a time of 1:00:01. After the race we went out to New Smyrna beach, just like old times, and even wrapped up our beach day with a trip to Frozen Gold. Maybe it will become a new spring tradition, although we may have to work around babies and pregnancies (not for Dad of course:)