Time with Mommy and Daddy

Abigail doesn't look like she's having much fun right here,
but she actually loves riding the 4-wheeler with Daddy.
You can hear her around the neighborhood yelling,
"Go faster Daddy, Go faster!"
However, she does not like for you to take her picture most of the time.
This was one of those times.

OUR NEW RIDES

Daddy's new ride. Daddy finally found a 4-wheeler for a price he liked.
It was a 1986 Honda TRX250...
the exact same one he wanted when he was a kid.
He was 11 then.
The LORD gave it to him...he just had to wait a little while. :)
He did some work to it to make it better and then put it back up for sale.
I think he sold it this weekend.

Abigail's new bike!! She has surely outgrown her tricycle,
so Daddy thought it was time she had a bicycle.
She loved it!
She's still getting the hang of it, but has rode around the neighborhood a couple of times.

Grant's new ride...his walker...actually it's not new...it's Abigail's old walker.
It's not even new to him because he's been using for a while.
But it was the first time he got to use it outside.
He loved it!
He kept trying to make his way to the mailbox.
Silly Boy!

What's this...no picture of Mommy and her new ride?
Yeah, Mommy didn't get a new ride this summer. :)

Summer Fun

What's wrong with this picture?

The 3 year old is in the pack and play...and the pack and play is only for dolls...not people!! :) Silly girl!

Well...that wasn't right...so let's put Grant in there. Is that right?
Noooooo, but he thought it was fun!!

We can't dress the same very often...but here's one of our same outfits.
Since Abigail loves the movie Cars so much...it was perfect for both of them!

Just Some Summer Pictures

MY FIRST CRACKER
Today (7/17) was the first time I held my own food and ate it. I LOVED it!
I have eaten LOTS of crackers since this day too!!

Abigail decided to dress up like a cowgirl this night. She even had a rope!
(This was right before bedtime)

ROAD TRIP TO VIRGINIA

We usually love taking our annual sometimes bi-annual road trips to Virginia. Though our visit in VA was fun as always, our trip...well, it's another story. Traveling with a 5 month old is hard enough alone, but with all the "road blocks" we encountered along the way AND way back, it was not as much fun as usual.

Many of you have heard the story...we left after our afternoon service on Sunday. As we were walking out the door (already packed with kids in the van) the weather radio goes off calling for severe weather. We decide to go on. We get out of Alabama, clear of the severe weather and only running into some rain along the way. The kids are sleeping. :) Sounds great. Here's the rest of the story...in Chatanooga, Eric gets a speeding ticket for going 66 on the interstate. (We were in a short 3-4 mile 55 zone, but didn't know it.) We were almost in Knoxville where we were going to stay the night when we had to slow down for a wreck that was being cleaned up at this point. Only the two officer's cars were still there. As we passed by the first officer very slowly, we ran over some debris from the wreck and it slit our tire. Eric changed the tire on the side of the interstate in the rain. We made it to our hotel room, but had to stay later on Monday than we planned so that Eric could buy a new tire. We were back on the road again and made it on in to Suffolk, VA.

On the way home we stopped for lunch in Ashville, NC. After lunch and only a few miles back on the interstate, something went wrong with the van. The water pump broke. Eric called 911. A state trooper came to help and called a tow truck. Eric road with the tow truck guy and the kids and I road with the state trooper as they took us by the auto parts store and then to a hotel. Eric changed out the water pump in the parking lot. We got back on the road the next morning and made it home.

In case you were wondering...God did answer our prayers. We prayed and asked God to keep us safe as we traveled and He did. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Here are a few pictures from our trip...

More from VA

Abigail has fun feeding Owen.

Grant with Great-Grandpa
They were actually sharing, but Abigail pouts while Andrew (my cousin's son) get's his turn.

COUSINS

Second cousins...Abigail (3), Andrew (4), Mac (3), Grant (5 mo.) and Owen (20 mo).

First cousins...JUST THE BOYS...Grant's already trying to keep up with Mac and Owen (my sister's two boys).
Andrew stands back as Abigail makes a funny face for the camera...this picture will probably show up around the time of her high school graduation again.