Celebrating Elijah joining our family- Sept. 15, 2020

My youngest baby boy has been home for 11 years! I can not imagine our family without him! He loves deep and his emotions are always out there. He is so analytical and has a great attention to detail. These past few months, he has started to grow. He is almost as tall as I am! We love this young man, and are all so glad that God gave him to us!

Abbey's 14th Birthday

This lovely young lady turned 14 Sept. 6, 2020. Her birthday was on Labor Day weekend. We celebrated at the beach with Beth, Greg, Evie and Jude. The next week, she had 3 of her swim friend come to the beach for a weekend celebration. 

For a birthday presents, Beth and Greg paid for us all to watch the real person Mulan.

Breakfast of champions

There was a storm which made the ocean really rough. 

String Art

The ocean was so rough, they opted for a tide pool.

Tide pool big enough to swim in.

Grandkids visit-August, 2020

Silas's kisses

and when he's done kissing, he makes it apparent by a slap to the face!

Waverly's personal unicorn

Family Vacation - August 2020

Family Vacation....this year can be summed up, "It was the best of times...It was the worst of times". We had some wonderful family times of togetherness, along with some painful family confrontations. Adding stress, my washer decided to give up the ghost. Another first for us, we rode out hurricane Isaias. 

It takes a lot of stuff to feed my crew for a week!

The moon over the ocean is always mesmerizing.

family game night

fishing with Papa

John, Jr's 33rd birthday.

The ocean before the Cat 1 hurricane, made landfall a few miles away.

We all were safe and only without power for about 11 hours.