We Are Blessed

We are so blessed at this church with wonderful families and also with friends who pastor a local church that have taken an interest in Lauren, they say it's because they have sons who are grown and now away at college and Lauren gives them a chance to buy " girl things". They sent a package for Lauren with some Christmas items with one of our church members and today when we got there they said " We have some things for Lauren in the car and we'll put them in your van after service. Well, what they had for her was this. A Dora Talking Kitchen

Pink Fuzzy Crocs

How blessed our girls are with people that love them that aren't even related to them :) Thanks Ron, Faye, Don, Dianne. We appreciate the gifts.

Birthdays, Cousins and Christmas oh my !!!

We went to Florida for

Lauren's birthday and for

Christmas with the families.

As usual she racked in the stuff

and was happy with it all.

Florida is wonderful at Christmas,

where else can you sit outside

on Christmas eve and eat ice cream. :) We also went back to Busch Gardens and she loved it there. We all had a great trip and loved seeing family again. Her bounty of gifts this year, we need a bigger house
Her party with family
A Dora cake of course

Lauren, Heather and Kim
At Busch Gardens with her "Dudley" cousins

She's 3

Lauren turned 3 today

and we celebrated at

Stone Mountain. Her

"regular" party will be in

Florida Saturday since we

are headed down there

to see family. Our family at the top of the mountain, Atlanta is in the background

This pic is a little dark but lauren was catching bubbles
Lauren and the Snow Angel
Stone mountain at night is really beautiful :)

Pre Birthday Fun Has Begun

Lauren turns 3 tomorrow

and she has already gotten some

fun gifts, the first one is

this ladybug tent from a church member, it's so big it takes up a good part of our living room, she loves this thing. thank you Chyrl.

she also got a card in the mail from her friend

Jiali. Thank you Jiali. And then she got a gift from us, I wanted to get her a puppy but she said

"no puppy mama, pish" ( fish) so she got a 20 gallon fish tank from mama and dada. Tomorrow we are taking her to Stone Mountain Christmas so i'll post pics from that also.

Her fish names are 1,2,3,5,6,7,9,10 : ) more birthday fun tomorrow, stay tuned.

Lauren and Noah

We had our weekly playdate
today with Lauren's best bud Noah.
These 2 have the neatest and sweetest
relationship, they are such great friends already. Soon there will be another playmate when Noah's new brother Jeremiah comes home from Taiwan next month :)

Here comes Noah
The Best of Friends
Wheee

Christmas Parade

These pictures are a

week old but we took Lauren to

our City parade and she had a blast.

I think the last picture says it all.

They said we had approx 6000 people attend this year and it was great. Waiting for the parade to start
They are throwing candy at me, too cool
Floats, marching bands, and more
She fell asleep holding this sucker and would not let it go :)

3 Year Portraits

We took Lauren for her 3 year

old portraits today and I was

surprised when I saw how much she had changed

from her pictures last year. I

guess because I see her every day

I don't always notice the changes

but she is growing up and changing a little too

quickly :) December 2006
December 2007