Madelynn Rose Teal

Madelynn was born Monday weighing in at 7lbs. 10oz & 20 inches long.








Madelynn was born Monday weighing in at 7lbs. 10oz & 20 inches long.

party & awanas

We had the awana awards day two weeks ago. Brady will be a 2nd year Cubbie next year & Brooke will still be in Sparks. Its really great to hear them learn bible verses each week and to hear Brooke tell us the books of the bible. I enjoyed teaching Puggles this year. We had a great group of 8 kids and I will miss them as they move to Cubbies next year.

We also celebrated Colbys birthday party at the lake weekend before last. The kids had fun swimming in the lake, tubing and fishing. This past weekend Heath took them to another b'day party at Wateree Gymnastics and Bradys sunday school class party. They got to ride 4 wheelers and swim. We had a yard sale Saturday and I told the kids if they sold some of their toys we could use the money to join the pool. Several of our neighbors go there so really wanted to join. Luckily we made enough to join pool and more summer fun money. I spent the weekend getting ready for vacation bible school. We had registration night Sunday night. We are lower in numbers this year but kids are having a great time. We usually run around 80 but we changed the week this year so I think some people didn't realize it was this week and others were on vacation. After this week our summer is not very busy which is what I like. Heath is going to beach this weekend with some guys to golf, I go in two weeks, my neice will be born on the 29th & we will go to the beach again in July as a family for a few nights. Hope everyone has great summer.

The end of the school year

Brooke had a first grade hot dog party last Friday to celebrate the end of the year. I guess Brady thought he was the man dancing with all the girls.

After the hot dog party & Brookes game that night we suprised the kids at went to the beach and stayed with my sister & her family since they were already staying down there. They also had 8 free Myrtle Waves tickets so we enjoy seven hours of Myrtle Waves. We had a really good time because the kids could ride on the double tubes with us so we were all able to enjoy the fun slides instead of the usual kid area. I am not allowed to post pics of Julies kids. I have in the past and can't figure out how to get them off but that is why there are no pics of them. Once all adoption paperwork is clear I can. The picture of Brady crying is when we set the crabs free that we got last year at the beach. He has never paid them a bit of attention or cared about them until we "set them free". Never thought those crabs would live almost a year. Figured at the most a month. They spent the school year in Brookes class. Memorial day we spent the day with friends at the zoo & then ate dinner with my parents.

1st grade play & field trip

Brooke had her first grade play last week and as you can see from the picture she was a tomato. She had to be a vegetable and I wanted her to be cute so we went with Bob from veggie tales. She was one of the few children who had speaking lines as well and did a great job. Thursday we had her field trip to Sesqui park to learn about plants. The weather was perfect since it was overcast and Heath got to join us for a couple hours as well. I can't believe there are only two more weeks of school left. We did found out Thursday as well that Brookes teacher is looping up which means she will take her same class and go up to 2nd grade with them. She & I are both very excited about this.

mothers day

I hope everyone had a great mothers day!

No more training wheels & field day

Brady has been asking Heath for weeks to take the training wheels off his bike. Well last week he finally did it and Brady fell one time got back up and started pedaling and never fell again. I think it helps that his bike is so small. Its definetly time for a bigger bike. Thursday Brooke has field day and ofcourse I had popcorn machine duty so my mom & Heath took pics. Heath got me a great zoom lens for my camera so he had a good time taking the picture of me working the popcorn machine from all the way outside of the cafeteria.

Baseball

Brookes choir sang in church a couple weeks ago and she sang her first duet. Baseball has been going good. I will just say they are having a good time playing. The best thing about her coach is he always has prayer with them before the game & I think that is great. She is playing two nights a week and Heath is playing on a church team and plays two nights a week so we are staying very busy.