Charlie's birthday!

Saturday was Charlie's FIRST birthday!!!! We had breakfast on the porch-



Then we all went to the Children's Theater to see "The Frog Prince"! After the show the kids met the cast to get their programs signed-



Then we went out to lunch and Charlie had a lemon- :)



Then it was off to BB and Poppy's for a day at the farm. While Charlie took a nap the kids all swam and swam.

Then we had a big birthday steak dinner!

Happy Birthday dear Charlie!



His fan club-

Time for presents!!!



He loved chewing on his new "Pluto" doll from Landin!

Then Marc took all the big kids on a 4-wheeler ride-

Then a sundown canoe ride!


Another wonderful day with our wonderful family-

Friday

Since I posted last we had Dennis, Amber and Landin come in town, we went to Marky's latin camp final presentation, Julia's dance camp finale, celebrated Charlie's first birthday, and I've been to Mobile and back to go to my maid-of-honor/college roomate Shelley's mom's funeral. What a whirlwind. I'll start with Friday.

People keep asking me how Dennis, Amber and Landin are doing. And as you can expect they are devastated and grieving terribly. But I have to say they have the most amazing God-given strength and perserverence, and I am amazed at how they came up here and celebrated the little celebrations we were having and laughed with us, watched movies with us and just had good family time. They are my heroes. Really. Friday Marky and Julia went to their camps and Tucker and Landin played in the morning with a new Cars racetrack Amber brought Tuck Tuck. Then we went to watch Marky's Latin Camp finale. We got there early and walked around the campus and enjoyed looking at the Beason Divinity Chapel. It is so beautiful and sweet, inquisitive Landin wanted to know what each picture showed so we did a walking tour-



Then it was onto the camp-



While they were doing group photos Landinbug was saying "Heeeey Marky!!!!"

Amber took more pictures than I did- Landin calls her "Mommarazzi" and said "now you are 'auntarazzi'". :)



Patiently and joyfully watching the final skits-



Receiving his certificate-



Congratulations Marky!



Then we all went to Wing's for lunch and onto BOWLING!! (we had a sitter for the babies) :)



Daddy giving tips-



Aunt Amber giving tips-



This was Landin's first time to EVER bowl! She loved it!!!





After bowling we went to Julia's Irish Dance camp and watched the final performance. What a treat- they learned five group dances-



Landin LOVED it and cheered for Julia-



Also- when they got here Amber brought Marky a Lego R2D2 to put together over the weekend- HE LOVE, LOVE, LOVES it!