AWANA Superhero Night

 Every Wednesday night at AWANA there is a theme. I misplaced my calendar and so I wasn't sure what this week's theme was going to be until this afternoon. It was Superhero Night because Jesus is our superhero!
 So down to the craft tote in the basement we went. Thank goodness for some leftover red foam sheets from a past Valentine's Day and some cardstock! We ended up with some cute Supergirls!

 This picture was taken just as Bethany finished yelling "Supergirl"

 Here are the big girls together and with some of their AWANA friends!

 The smallest Supergirl got to try on her sister's super gear this evening and she was pretty happy about it!

Thankful for our AWANA leaders and friends! We are thankful for Jesus and all our girls are learning  and growing to love Him more through this ministry!

Dance Days with Mrs. Suzi

 With our recent move to be closer to Brent's family and his dad now, we were about an hour from the girl's dance studio that they started at here in NC earlier this fall. We tried commuting back and forth for dance since the girls all had dance in one day there, but it was a fairly long trip. A family friend of ours, Mrs. Suzi, has a dance studio here in the town we are living in now and let me know a few days ago that she could get all 3 of our big girls in for dance on Tuesdays. So this past Tuesday, we headed down to The Performing Arts School for their first classes.

Miss Bethany has the first class of our girls on Tuesdays and she is in preschool ballet with Mrs. Suzi as her teacher. She loved her first class and has made a new friend already so I heard!

Bekah has the next class and she tried out an acrobatics and tumbling class. She really liked the class and couldn't wait to show me new things she had learned during her first class! She also has Mrs. Suzi as her teacher.

Our biggest ballerina rounds out our Tuesday ballet schedule with a combination ballet, jazz and tap class. She met several new friends and really liked the jazz steps she learned with Mrs. Suzi in her first class too!

The smallest ballerina, who will be dancing too before we know it, was good moral support and full of smiles for her big sisters as they tried their new dance classes!

Here is Bethany with Mrs. Suzi, the director of the studio and her new teacher! She made a fast friend in Mrs. Suzi on her first day. Her ballet shoe had come untied and she wanted help to fix it. Once Mrs. Suzi helped her fix it, she was thrilled and all smiles again!

Here are all our ballerinas with Mrs. Suzi! It was a very happy day at dance and they are all very excited about their new classes, teacher and studio (and now we only have a 1 mile drive)!

Thanks to Mrs. Suzi for all your help! We are excited for a great year of dance and looking forward to watching them learn and grow in their love of dance this year!

A Waynesboro Weekend

This past weekend brought us to Waynesboro for the Fall Foliage Art Show. Saturday morning found us on the Blue Ridge Parkway for sunrise before the show.

Brent enjoyed meeting up with fellow photographer and friend Jamie to shoot the sunrise.

This little lady enjoyed her first fall sunrise on the BRP while her big sisters were spending the day with friends!

 We had a good show and for the first time in 4 years, we had sunshine both Saturday and Sunday instead of rain!

Thank you Alyssa, Kevin and Little One for making the drive to come to see us! We are thankful for you all and enjoyed our time with you all! 

Charlie and Family, the wagon girls had a great time catching up with you all as well!

 The big girls had a great day Saturday with the Doreys also. They took them to the Mountain Farm Day and the pumpkin patch while we were at the show.  They even let them paint pumpkins  (yes, that is Ariel on Rachel's pumpkin and the stem is even the crown) and had a campfire for them that evening.

 We didn't get very long to visit with the show keeping us busy  but we did get a little time to visit with the Doreys late Saturday evening. Thanks so much Tom and Debbie for your hospitality and for loving on the girls and us

Sunday evening brought the end of the show and a quick trip up 340 to Grottoes as Brent was preaching the evening service at First Baptist Grottoes. He did the great job in teaching on the Reformation and the importance of only trusting Jesus, and nothing else, for our salvation. 

 Thanks to Pastor Mark for inviting Brent to preach the Sunday evening service. It was so good to be back with our FBC Grottoes church family!
While their Daddy preached, these girls were definitely glad to be back at AWANA at Grottoes!

 Bethany was very glad to see her AWANA leaders there including Mrs. Valorie and Mrs. Melanie.

 Allie got a chance to spend little more time with and meet more of the church family too. Here is our happy girl with Mrs. Connie.

 The last day of our trip sent us north to Shenandoah for a business trip. We did make an educational stop at the Green Valley Book Fair for the girls. It was time for a few more early readers for Bekah and chapter books for Rachel. I am so glad that they all love books and reading!

We were able to get all the fall canvases added at Shenandoah while we were there.

 This picture was from a few weeks ago in Shenandoah but I couldn't resist posting it too. She was a happy girl to be in Shenandoah!

 It was a breezy day and definitely felt like fall had arrived in Shenandoah but these girls were all smiles to be back in the Park for a little while!

It was a fun and very busy fall weekend for sure!

Bekah's Birthday Trip

It was a few days past her birthday, but we still had a great time celebrating Bekah on her birthday trip!

Since the big girls have gotten older in the past couple of years,we have let them decide if they would rather have a party or take a short special trip. She decided this year that she would rather have a birthday trip. We found a coupon for Great Wolf Lodge and she was thrilled! We had to be in Williamsburg for another event so we planned to take her for an overnight trip to Great Wolf Lodge while we were there.

The birthday girl was given a token for ice cream when we arrived. She got her favorite kind...chocolate, of course!

We had to get a picture of them in all their wolf ears!

The littlest one seemed pretty excited about her first trip to Great Wolf Lodge and celebrating her sister's birthday.

They had face painting in the Lodge on Friday morning. Bekah got her face painted like Violet the Wolf. Isn't that the cutest face!

Rachel was Rachel the Raccoon, Bekah was Violet and Bethany had a little pink flower on the side of her face. Love these sisters!

Then it was Waterpark time!

This girl took on the orange and green slides again and again and had fun every single time!

Allie spent a little quality time with her Daddy

So the big sisters and I could spend some time on the lazy river

The two big sisters are now old enough to go down the yellow and blue slides in a double tube together! They had lots of fun with this!

This is the first time we have been to Great Wolf Lodge when the outdoor water area was open too. They really enjoyed that as well.

Here is our big 6 year old in Colonial Williamsburg over the weekend.

Bekah, we love you and we had fun celebrating you and celebrating with you on your birthday trip!

First Foods

One of the milestones that 5 months has brought is starting first solid foods for this little lady. We start with oatmeal usually. Allie was all smiles before we started her first oatmeal.

She was a little unsure about it the first few bites, but then warmed up to the idea and ate all of the cereal she had.

Look at that cute little cereal covered chin ♡

Her two biggest sisters enjoyed feeding Allie some of her first food too!

Cereal Success! This happy girl was all smiles after her first cereal. On to vegetables and fruits in the next few weeks as this big girl is going to be 6 months old in just a couple of weeks!