girls' weekend.......

Well, not really. It was actually a MOPS Steering Team retreat, but it sure felt like a girls' weekend. After months of pestering, I mean, politely asking, I finally gave in to Rhonda and agreed to be part of the team. There was a planning weekend scheduled for mid-July and to be perfectly honest, I was kinda dreading it. I didn't know anyone going besides Rhonda and really didn't know what to expect. The day before we left I found out that my cautiously social friend was going with us which made me feel better, but still nervous. As it turns out, I had no need to be. All the girls there were AMAZING. We all just clicked so well. It felt like we had been friends for years instead of just meeting that weekend.



To top off the great time of fellowship and fun, we were able to plan out what I think is going to be a great year of MOPS. I joined mops for the 06-07 year, but was not wildly impressed so I ditched last year. This year however, after praying for God to bring some activites into my world to become involved, the doors to MOPS swung right open. *Apparently I forgot to put the "I'm not crazy about MOPS" stipulation into the prayers. But then again, God is pretty hilarious about that stuff.* So after (reluctantly) joining in, I am super jazzed about the coming year. I'd love for those of you in town to join us! If you're interested, let me know and I would gladly give you the info...........

such the fashion plate.....

Let's hope these skills improve with age.

so long, Smoke....

It was a sad day for the NASCAR fans in our family as we learned that Josh's driver Tony Stewart will be leaving Joe Gibbs Racing to co-own a smaller team. We're bummed because now we are left with tons of black and orange stuff that we won't need as well as our drivers will no longer be teammates. Now, as Josh says, we will have to be enemies. Oh well, the stable of drivers left at Gibbs isn't looking too bad.

We still have my driver........

this guy.....who is currently first in points for the series.....

and all signs point to this guy taking over Tony's spot....he's only 18 but is supposedly some kind of genius at racing....

Oh well, we'll see. For now, I guess it's just a good luck wish for Tony!!

fun with TeeTee.....

Kids are funny sometimes. First, she named my aunt Beach. Then, she decided that my cousin Candice should be known as TeeTee (not sure how it would be spelled, but that's how it sounds). Anyways, these two are awfully fond of each other. While camping over Memorial Day they decided to have some fun with the camera.....

She thought she was pretty cool with her foot on the fire ring.
There were like 10 of these shots, check out the dirty kid!
This was just to show her super-cool butterfly.