Grand Lake...

Chris and I got to spend the weekend together without any kids or pets. What a treat! We dropped off Tucker at doggy camp, Lillie at Aunt Gum's, and Draven at Papa's. They all seemed very happy to go their separate ways. Chris and I headed to Grove for a wedding. We went to Grand Lake last weekend to look at a boat and ended up looking at lake houses. We made some time to look at a few homes this trip too. It was just so nice to get away and have some alone time. We enjoyed the wedding and our friends, but really enjoyed some time to ourselves.

Dropping the kids off.

Chris and Terri.
Steve, Ginger, Terri, and Chris


Chris and I toasting. Weddings are beautiful, especially when you can tell the people truly love each other. It was a beautiful ceremony.
Not a bad self portrait.
Feeding the Koi.


Reception photos.


Chris loved the Cook's stove.
Tucker was glad to come home!
Lillie was glad to see us.
Draven begged to stay one more night at papa's house and ended up with strep throat. Now Lillie is sick too! She doesn't have strep, but has had a 102+ fever for 24 hours.

Bridging...

Thank God it is over! Draven survived Middle School and is on his way to High School. It was tough, but he did it. We through him a party on Thursday. We gave him the option of eating out anywhere in town. He choose to have Chris cook him something at home. Draven thinks Chris' food is better than any restaurant. I agree. So his dinner of choice was brats, cabbage, and potatoes.
Draven got a Ukulele from his god family. He took it to the park on Friday and played. Weird thing is, he wasn't the only one to take their Ukulele to school on friday. Got to love Classen!

Friday was the actual bridging ceremony. It started out a little rough. Something happened earlier that day that Draven refused to talk about. He was very depressed. Luckily, by the end of the night he was doing cartwheels.

Yay for summer break!

This is where the after party was. Pretty cool! Lots of music and glow sticks.

Draven and his god father and his jose.

1, 2, 5, 7!

Counting by Lillie Marie....

One "Hail" of a day...

First, let me just tell you that I am so mad I didn't have my camera when the hail storm hit. I knew it was coming and I thought about running inside to get it out of the house before I left then talked myself out of it.
Anyway... I did have my camera for the rest of the day.
We started off with a trip to the zoo. We were all tired, but wanted the girls (Kate, Lillie, Brooke, Me, and Aunt Gum) to hang out. We spent most of our time at the children's zoo and eating our lunch. It turned out to be a perfect trip! I took way too many photos! So many photo ops when you have a 2 year old and a dozen goats.















After the zoo we went to our favorite spot... Fro Yo and Fruti's. Or as Lillie calls it "the ice cream place".




After that we took Lillie home for a nap so I could head out to VZD's for the blood drive. We knew a storm was heading our way, but we had no idea it would be so bad. I can honestly say I have never seen anything like it in my life. We saw the wind and rain pick up. We watched the weatherman on the tv... Then all Hail broke loose! It was tennis ball sized hail tearing up everything. We moved away from the windows at VZ's then had to move away from the sky light because it was cracking the glass and rain was coming through there. Luckily I wasn't out in the blood drive van when it hit. I think those people were freaked the hail out. It was loud, it was scary, it cracked Chris' windshield in 6 spots! And that is why I am kicking myself for not having my camera. Of course most of you in OKC lived through it and know how crazy it was. I did decide to go home and pick up the kids and drive around and take after pictures. Not the same. We drove around and lost count of car and home windows broken out. We couldn't even go to the grocery store because they closed it down because of the damage. The hail did enough damaged to their roof that it flooded the store. Crazy I tell you!