On first:


And just because he's a cute goofball...and you can see his new teeth coming in, finally!



The baseball season is almost over already. Matthew has 5 more games. He's been having a great time and has been learning and improving a lot. Emaleigh got to practice softball with Taylor's team on Saturday and loved it. She wants to play next year. And Joshua says he wants to play t-ball next year. Not sure how we'll deal with 3 kids in baseball/softball at once, but it should be fun :-)

We're getting our trip to Michigan planned. We'll be there June 12-19. I may be doing some pictures in Grand Rapids (or maybe at Lake Michigan) one of those days, which I'm very excited about. Then we're going to Chicago the 19-21st to see Jeannine, Tony, Nathan and Aaron. Nathan is Matthew's best friend and they moved to Iowa last August. We've really been missing them and are very excited to see them again.

Week 14

April 23, 2009


Argh! Wish I could post full sized photos without making them tiny. {Sigh}

Zoo

We went to the zoo on Saturday with Linda and her gorgeous girls. A great time was had by everyone :-)



Miss Brooklyn. She's a big sweetie with beautiful eyes.


Miss Madison. She turns 12 tomorrow. She and Em went to preschool together when they were 3 and are exactly one week apart in age.


Madison caught this lizard and named him Soldier. He has a new home at her house :-)


Me and Linda.

12

Emaleigh is 12 today. Hard to believe my baby is 12 already. One more year until she's a teen....although she acts like one already. Week 13/52


I got to take pictures of the awesome Burkett family this weekend. So much fun seeing Jason, Talyse and the twins.


I also got to take pics of sweet Miss A for her 4th birthday.

I don't get good pictures of Joshua very often so I was thrilled to get this one. Joe's mom asked for 5x7s of the kids recently and I think this one will work. Just need to get one of Matthew now....

We've been having a good spring break. Joshua and his friend Jeric got to play a couple times this week. Matthew's been playing with his friends too. It's finally gotten warm enough to play outside.

Looking forward to the Good Friday service this evening at church. Hope everyone has a great Easter!

Almost 12

Emaleigh's birthday is next Tuesday, the 14th.

week 12. April 4, 2009

Cooper River Bridge Run

We went to Charleston Friday evening so Joe could run in the CRBR Saturday morning. It's a 10K (6.2 miles) and he finished in one hour, 6 minutes. There were over 30,000 people running/walking in it. So cool. He did great and he's now considering doing the Kiawah Island 1/2 marathon in December.

Watching for Dad along the last part of the route.

There he is!

And still smiling too.
After checking out of the hotel, the kids wanted to go to Charles Towne Landing.

He looks like he's been up to something, doesn't he?

They have a couple ponds/lakes there with signs warning about Alligators.

We actually saw one this time.

I used the telephoto lens to get this, although Matthew so helpfully suggested that I go through the wedding garden, through the bushes right behind the Alligator and I'd be able to see it so much better. No thanks, Matthew.
Next, we headed to the beach.

Can't wait to go again when it's warmer. Joshua was very disappointed that we couldn't swim.

Baseball

Matthew had a baseball game last night. His team won 8-3.

Playing left field.

On third, getting ready to head home.
These next 3 are through the fence and a bit blurry but it was hard to keep up with him. Running home.