Jump Rope Team - UCA

Nat's First Jump Rope Team Performance

Enjoy! If you listen closely in the first 15 or so seconds, you can hear a proud little sister.

Wiggles!

K and I took A to the Wiggles concert!! She was not necessarily a fan before the show, but we watch it daily now!

This was the first time we've taken any of the kiddos to a show like this, and I'll have to say that it was not bad! K's work gave us the tickets, our seats were great, very energetic show, it was fun watching little bit. :)

We'll definately go again! A's ready for sure!

Here we go again!

A new school year has begun! N has been excited, but I think she got a little nervous once we got there. I'll be thinking of her all day... E was excited as well, daddy took her to school. I can't wait to hear all about their first day this afternoon!

Space Camp

We decided to take one last little vacation before school starts!

We left on a Friday morning, drove to Memphis for lunch at Rendezvous - GREAT BBQ! We walked around Memphis a little, but it was pretty hot so we decided to move on and plan to visit Memphis again when it gets a little cooler.

We then drove on to Huntsville, Alabama. Our hotel was awesome! I think this was the highlight of the trip for the girls! It was a two room suite with two flat screen TVs, inside pool, glass elevators, and lots of fountains indoors. I definitely recommend Embassy Suites for family vacations! Our first night we ordered pizza to be delivered to our hotel room and swam. The beds were awesome! We all slept so well!

Saturday we visited the Space Museum in Huntsville. We ended up spending most of the day there and learned so much! After this we drove by some Antebellum homes in Huntsville, then went out to eat at Landry's, then back to the hotel to swim some more!

On our way home Sunday, we stopped by the birthplace of Helen Keller in Tuscumbia. We found this very interesting as well. E's been learning about Helen Keller so it was fun for her to see where she lived as a child.

We love family vacations! They can be exhausting at times, and we did have to pull over a few times to calm some little ones down, but overall we had a great time together!

Happy Father's Day, Daddy!!

At the age of 35, Daddy finally flew his first airplane! We surprised him with his first flight lesson on Tuesday. We all amazingly kept this a secret from him for almost a week, then we told him we wanted to drive over by the airport to watch planes but instead dropped him off at the lobby of the airport.

He got to fly the plane when they took off; then the flight instructor landed the plane. They were in the air for about an hour. The instructor said they covered more on the first lesson than he normally does and said in his 6 years of flight training, Daddy was one of the best he's taught. I'm pretty sure he's hooked now...

We love you, Daddy! :)

Back in Conway

Finally, everything seemed to fall into place last week. We actually closed on our house in Clarksville and purchased the new house in Conway, all in the same week. Movers actually held our stuff on a truck from Friday to Monday, and we are now trying to open all of the boxes and discover all of our stuff. Most everything survived the move just fine, although I'm not so sure that our nerves are quite the same as before. Hopefully things will begin to get back to normal, and without the travelling up and down the interstate each weekend, maybe we will be able to spend a little more time together as a family. I think that everyone is adjusting to the move, and after playing in the sprinklers today, I think the girls most definitely think that this new house is just a little bit 'cooler' than the last one.... although I'm pretty sure we all miss it.