Long Time, No Blog!!!!

Ok, so I haven't blogged in forever- I've been swamped. Take a look below and see lots of posts!!!

Kingdom Crew Party

Troy, Michelle, Mandy, Walter

The Crew!!!!

Wow, Russ, love the hat! LOL!

Mom and her guacamole

Yummy!


More of the crew

Nick, Luke, Jason

Luke & Jason

Me & Nick

Troy & Michelle

A Western BBQ Theme

This past Saturday Mom and Dad hosted the Kingdom Crew Party. We had a blast!!! Troy and Michelle cooked up some GREAT BBQ. It was so tasty. Mom made her first attempt at guacamole- or as Russ thought- refried beans!!! LOL!! We visited and watched the DVD of the Kingdom. I think the whole crew is ready to do it next year- but I guess we'll wait til 2012...it's never far from our minds though!

Toad Suck Daze

Me & the hubby- it's hot and humid!!!

Toad Suck Fair

Stoby's for lunch- it was YUMMY!!!!

Some good cheese dip

Me

The Restaurant

Luke

It's lunchtime!

A very unhealthy snack- but it was good!

A Cinnamon roll and Icee!

Luke has been working MAJOR hours lately, so we decided to do a day trip to Conway. We shopped at several stores and had to stop for nourishment. We stopped at a gas station and had a cinnamon roll and Icee's....it was SOO good. After more shopping we headed to eat yet again at Stoby's. It was so good, we had never eaten there before- YUM!!! After Stoby's we decided we needed a little exercise and went to see what Toad Suck was all about. We just walked around, looked, got a T-shirt and headed home. It was a very fun day with the hubby!

Tutoring.....

This is my last year with my sweet little girl....and the time has flown by for sure. We have had our time bumped up from 30 minutes to an hour. She has soared in reading and FINALLY in Math. I'm so proud of her I think I could just bust. I was able to surprise her for her birthday again this year- a real pair of earrings and a musical jewelry box- she was shocked. I do have to say I was a wee bit jealous over the jewelry box....I SO wish I had one of those when I was her age. She has been such a blessing and joy in my life. It just goes to show that when we give of ourselves to others- the Lord blesses our time and effort beyond our wildest dreams. It will be sad for me to say goodbye to her at the end of this month- but my number one goal was always for her not to need me....which I think we have both succeeded in that!

I've been thinking about whether or not to tutor in the next school year- the Lord has placed it upon my heart to do it again....why not! There is some little person out there that needs me and I will come to need them too!

Scrappers Gone Wild

Our Cabins

Me & Margaret

Ann & Margaret

The Crop Room

Our theme for this Crop- Peace, Love, Scrap

In April, I went to Scrappers Gone Wild at Ferncliff. It was a wonderful weekend. I was able to get about 24 double pages done- what a record. I roomed with Ann and Margaret...they are always fun! It was a great scrapbooking weekend for sure!

A Day at the LIttle Rock Zoo

Mr. Monkey chillin'

Lily and Christylee feeding the fish.

Aww...they are giving each other a kiss

LOVE the baby Prairie Dogs

Another little sweet baby......

Mr. Prairie Dog

Love is in the air......Christylee saw this and said, "Look, it's a turtle on its back," as we looked closer, we both laughed and said, "Yep literally. Think we'll give them some privacy!" LOL!

Ok, LOVE this picture!!!

Mr. Tiger is pretty sweet too, he's gorgeous!

Lily in awe of the animals.

Sweet Birdy

Me & My Lily

Christylee and Lily

Lily pointing at the animals

Love the Bald Eagles....I could have looked at them all day!

Today, Christylee and I went to the zoo with Lily. We had a great time. The weather was perfect- a little warm, but nothing we couldn't handle. Lily loved looking at all the animals...when she saw them, she would gasp and point. She knew how to say Tiger, Zebra, Elephant, etc. She even went on her first train ride. We went to the park and ate lunch in the car...I'm not sure about Lily, but it's nap time for old Aunt Melissa. Thanks Christylee for a wonderful day!

The Kingdom

I updated TONS of things to the Kingdom Blog: www.gsfbckingdom.blogspot.com Enjoy the videos and tons of pictures!!!