It's My Birthday!

Yesterday I had the most fabulous Birthday Party at work! Here is my cake with bats or maybe dragonflies on it! Ha! Me and the girls posed for our traditional pic.

 Then for some reason and I don't know why, we broke out some of our mad cheer leading skills! I have never laughed so hard in my entire life!

 Then it was time for some gift opening! They hooked me up with some awesomeness. I got a special necklace that Stephanie lost and then miraculously found the night before! Whew! All of the gifts were really just perfect and so me!

After lunch it was time for cake cutting! In case you haven't noticed, Susie was neglected as a child. She likes to be the center of attention! Love her!

Let me just say that I was extremely spoiled! Work friends are the best and they know how to party! My special day couldn't have been more perfect thanks to them! Today I have the day off and I slept as long as I could (until 7:00)! Then I opened some other special gifts and the sweetest cards from my two best guys! My mom also got me a Daily Devotional for the work place, will need that for sure! Thank you friends and family for the gifts, cards, emails! You are all very special to me and made me feel like a princess! I kind of like having birthdays, if only I could stay "25" forever!

July 4th Decorating

I just love decorating for the 4th. I have added a few touches around the house so far and I think it is finished now. It just gets us in the mood to celebrate!

 Check out this pretty gourd that my Mom painted. So talented!

 Can't wait to celebrate July 4th with family back home!

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day!

Daddy, Camden and I hope you enjoyed your gift and cards, your afternoon race watching and your movie time! (When is Mother's Day again??) We love you!

Saving Grace

Why do we foster children? Meet "Baby E", that's why. She is my saving grace at this particular moment in life. We may only have her for a short time or it may be a long time, either way we are fine with that. God only allows me to hold and care for another person's child periodically and indefinitely. That is what heals my heart.

Last Day Of School

Camden's last day of school was this past Friday! Yippee!!! He is so excited to be going to the Fourth grade. Mommy and Daddy are just extremely excited that this year is over! It was so hard going thru the Third grade again! We had a great year though. Camden learned a lot about the Titanic and took a field trip to learn more. We read many library books on the subject as well. He started writing in cursive and learned multiplication tables too (which we will be going over during the summer! Ha!).  To celebrate the end of school we took a little weekend trip to the lake. Camden loved every minute of it and we even had to drag him out of the water!

Little Horses

There was this one time that Tim and I ran off for the afternoon. We went to play with some little horses called Clydesdales. They came to the base for Military Appreciation. 

It was so nice to get so close to them.

  They took the horses out one at a time and sprayed something on their legs and shined them up. They brought out the wagon and shined the brass on it for like an hour. Then they hooked all the bridles on the horse and led it over to hitch to the wagon (one at a time). Mind you this took forever and it was 92 degrees that day. We were about to die and I can just imagine what those poor horses felt like.

 All of this to parade around a whole block. It was a great show and they are truly beautiful creatures! Thank you Clydesdales for showing the Military some love!