Fun times at the park

We headed to the park one afternoon this week since the weather has been so cool.  As you can tell, Hannah had lots of fun!  The last time we took her to the playground, she couldn't walk yet, so she only got to crawl through a few tunnels.  She had a blast running all over the place this time!

carrying her bag

Hannah loves to carry her lunch box when she goes to school.  Whenever she sees it, she reaches for it and wants to carry it on her arm like a purse.  As you can see she kinda has to hold her arm high up in the arm to keep it on, but she insists on doing it.  Here she and Robbie are leaving one day this week.  She's always ready to "Go!" She will stand by the front door and say "go" while she looks out the window.  

catching up

I've got some random pictures from last weekend, so I thought I'd catch up.  All in all, it was a good weekend, and I think that Robbie had a good Father's Day.

One of Hannah's new things is to sit in her chair and "rock, rock." Well, okay, that's what we say.  She says something more like "Rah, rah." 

 

Last Saturday we went to see some girls play softball.  It was really hot that day, but Hannah had fun anyway.  She really liked to sit on the bleachers, and figured out a way to do it all by herself.  She also had fun when Harrison read her a book.  I know it doesn't look like she's having fun, but she was getting sleepy at this point I think!

She loves brushing her teeth all by herself too.  We brush them first, then we give her the toothbrush to chew on.  In this picture, she decided to try and brush Daddy's teeth too.  

This is just an evening playing in the backyard.  She really is having fun despite the look on her face.  That's her look of concentration.  We see that face a lot.

glad to be back home

This is from Friday afternoon.  I think she was glad everyone was back home, what do you think?

Powerplant

This past week Robbie was speaking at Powerplant in Nashville. He left Saturday, and on Sunday after church, Hannah and I headed over to spend a few days with him.  He spoke each morning, and didn't have any responsibilities after that, so we got to spend lots of time as a family!  We went swimming, took naps, went shopping, etc.  

We also got to see some friends from seminary that we hadn't seen in a while, which was really great.  We drove to Franklin to see Matt & Elaine & Anna Claire Tipton.  The girls had fun playing in Anna Claire's kiddie pool.  But I forgot our camera, so no cute pics, sorry!  

We also met up with Michael & Anne Albritton, who were in Nashville for a few days.  We went to the Rainforest Cafe with them, and Hannah got so excited every time the animals would come to life and make noises.  By the end of the night she was making noise with them!  I stole this pic from Anne's blog because I forgot my camera that night too! (thanks Anne!)  It was so good to visit with both of these couples!

Just a few more pics... Hannah in her carseat reading a book.  

And Wednesday night after Hannah & I got back, we took the youth bowling.  That was a new experience for Hannah.  She would clap and cheer when everyone else did.  But wouldn't stand still for a good picture, sorry this is the best I could get!

VBS week

VBS week went really well.  It was good for us to get to know the 5th & 6th graders.  Before we know it, they'll be in the youth group!  As if VBS wasn't enough to keep us busy that week, we had a cookout at our house on Monday night with the youth, and a pool party with the college students on Wednesday night.  

Then Friday afternoon after VBS, we did a 100 foot slip'n'slide down a big hill covered in baby oil and baby wash with our group from VBS.  They loved it!  And, of course, so did Hannah!  She wasn't afraid at all.  In fact, she started wanting to do it on her own.  She wouldn't sit in Robbie's lap anymore, so he would hold her next to him as they went down.  Here's a few pics from that day...

Block Party

On June 1st our church started a new schedule, which was exciting, and it all went great.  That afternoon we had this huge block party at the park near our house, and Robbie had a lot of responsibility in making it happen.  Everything went off without a glitch, and we had the opportunity to talk to lots of families about our church.  They had lots of inflatables and a rock climbing wall. 

Hannah's favorite thing was the 20 ft inflatable slide.  She has no fear at all!  She would go down with someone, then go back and stand in line until someone picked her up and took her again.  She loved it!  

I don't know if you can tell or not, but in this picture she's clapping her hands as we're sitting at the top!

She also got to experience her first snow cone.  And the wonderful cool air coming from one of those little fans that sprays water on your face!

We love our students!  They are so great to watch out for Hannah at events like this so that we can talk to people.  This is Hannah with Patrick, she was his little buddy for the day!

She's reaching out for the slide again.  Sitting here in Neil's arms watching other people slide is just torture!

Sometimes Daddy would slide a little crazy!  But she loved every minute of it, as you can see from her BIG smile!

Week of Project Acts

On Memorial Day, we started the week of Project Acts, which was a great missions camp experience right here in Jackson.  It was really great for our students to have the opportunity to get out and serve right here where we live, instead of heading off to some distant location to do it.  

Hannah and I had fun that week because we were able to come and hang out some since they were here in Jackson.  We met them everyday for lunch and supper, plus some days we went and played with Rob in the afternoons for an hour or so before supper.  I also got to help out with Rob's teams two of the days with some painting, so that was fun!  Hannah got into the spirit of serving this week and decided to help Mama clean the house some.  She was pushing the swiffer thingy all over the house!  Too cute!

Project Acts was over late Friday night, and the next day we got up and headed to the church.  We had to decorate for VBS, and this year we had the 5th & 6th graders, so it actually had to look cool.  It took us all day, but I think we accomplished what we were trying to do!  That evening our friends kids - Landon, Nelson, and Caiden, all came over to play, so here are some pictures of that evening.  They liked the playhouse!

We survived!!!

Well... I guess I should apologize for the lack of blogging the past 3 weeks.  It's been crazy, folks.  Crazy.  But we survived.  And actually have had a great past 3 weeks.  We just didn't have time for blogging, that's for sure!

So, tonight is my attempt at catching up. I'll probably have to break it up into several different posts, but I'll do my best to get caught up.

First off, we had a good Memorial Day weekend with Robbie's parents.  Here are some pictures from that weekend.  Oh, and 2 pictures of the cute outfit that Rhonda/Gran found for Hannah.