Staycation

With family visiting from out-of-state, we decided to show them what Georgia has to offer (as well as the surrounding areas). We took them to some of our favorite places.
To start things off, we went tubing down the river in Helen. We do this every summer and this year we did it twice!

Our first trip down the river ended up with a HUGE rainstorm, which caused us to get out a little early. It hit us at the end of our trip down so it wasn't too bad.

Next we made our way over to Rock City in Chattanooga, TN.

It also down poured (probably worse than it did in Helen) at the end of our tour of Rock City. They handed us some ponchos, which made us look like little yellow ducks!

From there we went to our favorite Children's Discovery Museum

The rest of our family headed back home, but we decided to stay the night at a hotel and go swimming. Then we did some sight seeing at the art district in Chattanooga.

We walked on the longest pedestrian bridge in the USA, as well as a glass bridge that crossed a busy road. It was really cool!



Glad we saved our ponchos from the day before as it was raining the entire day.

We didn't let the rain spoil our fun.....before we left to head home, we had to try the Ice Cream Show ice cream shop of over 1,000 flavors! Who would pass that up!? Plus they had play horses for kids to sit on.

And of coarse we had to take everyone to our favorite rock climbing gala!

On our way to Medieval Times! This was a real treat, and so much fun!

Our team was the red and yellow knight, who happen to be the champion of the night! It was a very exciting show to see, plus we had more food than we could eat. But the best part was being able to eat it all with our hands!

Bryson and McKenna got to talk with our winning knight and get his autograph, which they loved.

It's been a fantastic week!

Bryson's Baptism

I loved how much Bryson smiled on his baptism day, completely glowing!

This day was perfect, filled with the spirit, and surrounded by friends and family that

want the best for Bryson.  He is so loved and I hope that he will always remember this wonderful event in his life!

Thank you to those of you who came and who were there in thought. And a huge thank you for all of you who helped make it the blessed day that it was!

I can't begin to express the touching feeling I had as I watched my son get baptised by his father. It was a beautiful moment.

Summer Fun in Utah

Kindergarten & 2nd Grade Grads

Forgot I had these.....

 Bryson with his teacher, Mrs Hainline. He loved her! She was such a fantastic teacher. Bryson came home on the last day of school with a frown on his face. When I asked him what was wrong he told me he would really miss his teacher.

 Here is McKenna's class. Mrs Jackson is her main teacher(on the right) and Mrs Meyers is the assistant teacher(on the left). It was a bit of a challenging year for McKenna as she had to learn to listen and do and respond, which she didn't seem to appreciate; especially if she wasn't interested in doing it.  I hope she will be ready for 1st grade. She is excited about it, but I hope she realizes that she will have much more work and expectation.

 These were some pictures that McKenna's teacher took on field day, last week of school.

And here is some of McKenna's favorite art works from the year. 

Space Derby

Bryson's first scout project/activity is a space derby and he was so thrilled! He made and designed his own rocket by himself. We were worried it would be too heavy, but after giving a test drive on the cords, it proved us wrong! Check out the video at the bottom.