New door (color)!

We had painted the front door a coastal island light blue color, but we didn't really like it. I got the wreath at Costco, and used some paint we had gotten years ago to paint the door in Atlanta. I love this color.

Homecoming

Sarah, a friend from work, came to help do make up.


Karis got a new pair of shoes, but was afraid they would make her too tall. No worries, Zach is quite a bit taller than she.














His name is Zach Howard and we knew him and his parents from Four Oaks. They work together at Chick-fil-A, and go to school together. He loves the Lord and respects her commitment to not date seriously until after high school.

Football

This is the third or fourth year we've been involved with flag football, but the first that only Jack is playing, and Robin is his coach.






















Jack gets to hike the ball.










he's an awesome flag puller. all the opposing coaches so far have commented on his flag-pulling talent.













it must have to do with his focused concentration....











here he prevented a touchdown (check out his air-born-ness!)


we love watching you, Jack

more Destin, and an experiment

i'm trying a different size picture to see what happens.

pete didn't care that the tube was pink. he was loving just floating around









karis at 17. what else can be said? she's beautiful













and this is so typical of nick at 14. always with food in his mouth/hand, asking where the food is, thinking about food, hungry for food.....








so is the dad worn out from working hard to provide all that food? or just enjoying a day away from suits/ties and the office? we appreciate you, honey.












olivia worked hard in the sand. and didn't want to get too close to this jellyfish that we caught (and karis got stung by one too---not fun).

Cake and favorite gift

we found some sparklers left over from 4th of July that added some excitement to his cake
in this picture you can see his box of football guys that is his absolute favorite
he plays on the kitchen floor while I cook (and think about that....there's not much foot room to begin with).
he plays on the coffee table anytime anyone is watching television
this is not a hug. it's a "mmmoooommmmm, juliet is on my football field, get her OFF"

Pete is 3!

It's been hard enough for him to have "his kids" at school all day, he hated to wait until they got home from school to open his presents (especially since a big brother had football practice, which meant he couldn't celebrate until after 8 pm). so he waited until mom was busy with laundry/dinner and snuck into mom and dad's room where the presents were wrapped and had a fine time unwrapping them by himself.
this was his expression for opening the presents from Grandma and Grandpa
doing the Happy Birthday dance after finding candy in his package.....
He got a bunch of "practical life activities" stuff which is Montessori slang for kitchen stuff from the dollar section at Target. He didn't like the chef's hat, but big bro Mike did
so, since he's 3 now and has all this kitchen stuff, he decided to make his own cake. fun!