Baptisim

Before we left for our summer trip, Taylor was baptised at our church. Our parents came up for the service and then stayed for lunch at our house afterward. We are so grateful for our family and the church family who competed to helping us raise Taylor to know and seve the Lord.

Pete made a delicious meal

The rest of our summer trip

This is going to end up out of order, but after returning from WY we went to Gainesville to see my sweet friend Blair and her family, Amelia Island to see our wonderful Rowe friends, camping at Davidson River Campground in Brevard, NC, and then to the Gonzalez's cabin in Fraklin, NC. The rest of the summer was absolutely wonderful, we could not have asked for anything more.

Taylor at nine months in the raincoat that her Uncle Clay brought her back from Paris!!!
Nine months old, 4 teeth

Taylor and Blair's youngest son Will. They are two months apart.

She is so pretty!

Amelia and Jackson

These two have so much fun when the are together

Good buddies

Precious Jack-Jack

Bath time

Taylor meeting her Great Uncle Tony for the first time

Taylor meeting her GG for the first time

Our tent at Davidson River

By the campfire

Story time in the tent

Breakfast, camping style

Elizabeth Haley at the Cabin

While we were at the cabin, Melissa, her three sweet children, and Mary Anne came to visit for a couple of days. We had so much fun playing with the kids during the day and then playing "Thing" at night around the HUGE table.

Precious Allie

Andrew and Jacob watching the bobcat do work outside

We had such a good time being with Tray, Melinda and Elizabeth. One day we drove into the mountains to see an old town and these amazing elk.

Wyoming

Our good friends Paul, Megan and their three little girls, moved to Powell, WY several years ago. Pete and I have gone to visit them twice before on our summer trip out west and this year decided to fly out with Taylor. This was a huge trip for Tay filled will all kinds of "firsts". She took her first plane trip, took her first trip out of Florida, started crawling for the first time, saw a cow, horse, alpaca, and kittens for the first time, took her first trip to Yellowstone and Jackson Hole, played in snow for the first time, took a bath with a friend for the first time, saw mountains for the first time, spent the night in a hotel for the first time, celebrated her first father's day, and I am sure there are more that I am leaving out. It was a fabulous trip not only because the area is BEAUTIFUL but because we got to spend time with our friends. Pete was even able to do a ride along with Officer Sapp one night on the dangerous streets of Powell. If you know Pete at all, you know he has lots of good stories from that night!

We drove to the Mountains one day so that we could do a little sledding. Paul, Pete, Philip and Timmy took the three little girls up the mountain to sled. Megan, Jackie and I stayed back in the car with the three babies. After a while I decided that I didn't want to miss all of the fun so we bundled up the babies and set out to meet the rest of the group at the sledding hill. We got to the snow and proceeded to sink down to our knees carrying the three babies. It took all off our energy to make it back to the road and I was sure I had frostbite on my toes.
Grace and Emma loved having a baby for each of them.

Taylor started crawling on the night of her 8 month birthday.

Pete made the mistake of buying a pool for the girls before asking if they had a pump!

Pete's first Father's Day

Emma, Taylor, Grace and Lily

Crawling

Outside the Sapp's house

This was on one of our many excursions

On top of a mountain where we stopped to watch snowboarders

The Sapp family

This little guy was proudly trotting down the side of the road with his freshly stolen meal

One of the 12 bears we saw in Yellowstone

Paint Pots

Elk arches in Jackson Hole Wyoming

We got two hotel rooms and stayed the night in Jackson Hole. Paul and Megan put the girls down to bed and then came over to our room to hang out for the night. We ate some carry- out and laughed for most of the night.

FINALLY!!!!!

I know that it as been waaaaaaaay too long since I last blogged. As soon as school was out, we hopped a plane to Wyoming for two weeks, flew back for two days then drove to Georgia and North Carolina to camp for a couple of more weeks. Unfortunately (I now have an entire summer to catch up on) I was not able to spend a lot of time on a computer. We had a wonderful summer and was sad to go back to work this morning. The summer trips will soon follow.