This whole blogging thing is seeming more like a chore lately. However, I really wanna start doing better. It's hard...and time consuming. I guess it just takes forever to get my pics from camera to computer to smaller resolution to blog. It's just so many steps...excuses excuses...I know....I have so many. So, as you all know I'm WAY behind. I thought about just leaving what's in the past alone, but I would regret it. So this blog is a smorgasbord of events and pics from last year. It will probably be split up into two blogs since I don't have my Christmas pics uploaded yet. Anyway, beginning...
Of course y'all know that we moved. We didn't officially decide until late May and we were packed and Tennessee bound July 22. The following week I decided to take the kids down to the World's Fair Park where they have these awesome fountains for the kids to play in. We went with my Frousin, Emily, and her kids and met up with my friend Lindsay too. The kids loved it, but I learned my lesson that it was way too hot to not wear my swimsuit too and play.
Brielle and her best Frousin, Rachel
Chandler
Brielle
Rachel and Brielle
Chandler awaiting the fountain to splash up
Stetson
Rachel and Brielle
Lindsay and Joshy
View from atop the Sunsphere...you can see the fountains below...
Brielle and Chandler in the Sunsphere
Henley Street Bridge on the Tennessee River
My Love...Neyland Stadium...Home of Tennessee Volunteers Football!!! <3
Billy and I in the Sunsphere...this was on our 10th Anniversary...Yes, 10 Years...I failed to blog about that...and we failed to take the big cruise we have been talking about for years...we moved instead...home for me...but we did go out to eat at the Butcher Shop (Steak Restaurant) and walk around the World's Fair Park and Volunteer Landing (by the Tennessee River). Our longtime friends Tim and Maria joined us for the walk. We had fun and it's been 10 wonderful years! Nevermind the lame shirt I chose to wear that makes me look preggo...I'm NOT...I guess that's what I get for buying a Walmart $1 shirt....It was $1...
Tim and Maria
Tim behind one of the waterfalls
Gay Street Bridge over the Tennessee River
Chandler's first day of Third Grade
Stetson
My sister, Becky, came into town the first week of September. Hadn't seen her in almost 2 years. It was a fun trip that included Ziplining in the Great Smoky Mountains! Good Times! Here is John-Michael, Becky, and I
Brielle was invited by her Frousin Rachel to go to Build-A-Bear for a Birthday Party! She had a BLAST! Here she is with her pony all decked out!
We spent the night at my parent's cabin (where Billy and I lived for a year and a half when we were first married). It was filled with roastin' hot dogs and marshmallows over the fire and just hangin' out.
Chandler played soccer again....ugh...torturous...probably his last year if it's up to me. Even though I toted my camera a couple of different times these are the only pictures I took. Pretty lame I know, but at least I have a couple.
Brielle playing "Ring Around the Rosy" with her newfound friends at the soccer game...she meets friends easily...everywhere we go...she's our Social Butterfly.
Stetson was a handful, but we figured out that as long as he had a slushy that he'd sit for most of the game slurping it down...or spilling it everywhere....or sticking his hands in it...but it kept him preoccupied.
So, that only brings us to October or something. Maybe just maybe I'll get on top of things and get the rest of last year done today...or tomorrow...or this week for sure...yeah, that's my goal...
