Adam, Tonya, & Rachel

June Joys

We had lots of joyous times in June!

Story time with Nana, Cade, & Laura before VBS...

Rachel had fun riding to VBS in Aunt Christy's SUV because she has a DVD player!

Singing at VBS...

Trying out daddy's shoes...

Rachel and Pa had on matching outfits and it wasn't even planned!

Milestone: Rachel's first kid's meal (at Logan's)...

Playdate with cousin Kate...

We've been having so much fun and doing so many things, I have not had a chance to update the website lately. We've taken so many pics of our adventures, it would take all day to put them all on here. So, I've just picked a few to share.

Rachel posing in front of our house for a pic... (while laughing at Nimbus)

Nimbus in the tree...

Waterplay fun...

Storytime with daddy (and Mickey ears)...

Before church one Sunday...

Cool cat Rachel in her hat and sunglasses...

Excited that she figured out how to climb on top of her toy box all by herself...

April Fun!

April and May have been pretty busy months! From playing at home, to playdates with Cade & Laura, to visiting Adam at work to take him to lunch in the park, to the Country Music Marathon...we've been on the run!

Here's Rachel enjoying the water table she got for her birthday...

Cade giving Rachel a ride in the Jeep on a playdate at his house...

Sweetie pie Laura...

Hanging out at the Country Music Marathon...before the rain came...

Enjoying the slide after lunch in the park with Adam...

Fun at home...

Nimbus in the tree...

In her swimsuit on a hot day...

Wearing her Mickey hat from Ms. Stephanie...

Kate Elaine is Here!

Little Kate Elaine is here! She was born on Saturday, May 8 at 2AM, weighing 9 lbs 2oz and 22 inches long. Lauren is a super mom who labored 26 hours! We are so proud of her! We are also a proud uncle, aunt, and cousin!

We were out of town in Gatlinburg for our anniversary so we didn't get to see Kate until we got back. Here are a few pics from our visits with her this week. Adam took Nate & Lauren dinner on Monday night, but Rachel and I didn't get to go b/c she hadn't been feeling too good. We needed to get an o.k. from the doctor that she wasn't contagious before we took her down to visit. Pam watched Rachel on Tuesday night so Adam and I could go visit again without Rachel since she still had a cough and runny nose. Rachel finally got to meet her cousin Kate when she was a week old on this past Saturday.

Adam's first time to see Kate on Monday night...

My first time to see Kate on Tuesday night...

Rachel's first time to see Kate on Saturday...

Rachel playing with Aunt Lalo's sunglasses during our visit while Kate was eating...

Proud Uncle Adam holding Kate on Saturday night...

The Flood

Here are a couple pics from the flood. We are thankful (at least for now) that we only had a little water come into our garage.

Here's a pic of our back yard after the common area filled up and flowed over into our yard creating a big river right through it. You can also see the barricade Adam set up to keep the water out of the lower level of our house. It's worked so far. We were really scared before he got the water diverting this morning. The water was about 4 inches from coming in the door on our lower level. He had just torn down the stairs going to our deck a couple of weeks ago. He is going to build new ones. God works in mysterious ways because he used all that wood to create this barrier which ultimately saved our house from flooding.

This is the drainage ditch next to our house. Water came up within 10 feet of our house on that side during the worst part of the flood.

Rachel's 1 Year Pics

We had Rachel's 1 year pics made tonight. Here are the ones we picked. Enjoy!

Easter

Easter was so much fun this year! Rachel got the hang of hunting the eggs and we ended up with a big bowl full of candy! She practiced hunting eggs at home quite a bit and had four egg hunts over Easter weekend!

Here she is "practicing" at home...

Looking cute in her hat at the egg hunt at Valley View Camp with church...

Eager to get going....

Lovin' her beads that Evelyn shared with her...

Family pic at Valley View Egg Hunt...

Putting stickers on eggs at Nana's...with her "big eye". She cut her eye with one of the plastic eggs on Friday. It was kind of bruised on Friday night and we figured she'd have a black eye for Easter. However, Saturday morning when she woke up, her eye was completely swollen shut! I freaked out! We took her to the dr and he said it actually wasn't due to the small cut at all. She had an eye infection that was leading to an ear infection as well. She had just had her 1 yr well visit on Tuesday so this infection developed after that I guess. Anyways, it is a very rare infection that the dr said he normally only sees less than 4 times per year and most kids get hospitalized over it (to go on IV antibiotics)! Needless to say, God was watching over us when she cut her eye with the plastic egg b/c that's the reason we took her to the dr. We thought it was swelled up due to the cut which wasn't the case at all. We caught it very early so she got an antibiotic shot (which made her 5th shot for last week) and she'll be on antibiotics for 10 days. Her eye was pretty much better by Sunday afternoon and looked completely normal by Monday. God works in mysterious ways sometimes!