Seventeen Years Together

We spent our anniversary at church this morning thanking our Heavenly Father for 17 years together .

Our sweet blessings from the Lord for our 17 years. Laura Joan wanted to bring the doll that matched her pretty white dress this morning so Carson helped her put the doll on the little seat between them. I was so happy I had my camera with me for our special day.

Boating at The Lake

We've gotten the boat moved to Tellico Lake and as you can see we are already enjoying it. Chris and I thought the water was a little chilly to go in. But Aunt Leslie and the kids loved it.

Carson's Graduation

Carson has successfully completed Kindergarten and we are so proud of him. He not only got his Kindergarten Diploma he also received a Certificate of Achievement Award for exemplifying the character trait of Decisiveness.

Chris and Laura Joan

Chris and Laura Joan enjoying being together, just sitting on the front steps. Laura Joan is bundled up in her blanket, after a nice warm day the evening is windy and getting cold.

Our Litttle Puggle and Sparky

Our little Puggle is so full of joy. She loves learning about God and all the wonderful things He made. The big girl in the picture is one of my Sparkies and she must have been helping out with the Puggles that night.


Carson and Laura Joan with Mr. Sparky from our Wednesday night Awana's program. Carson memorized a lot of bible verses and completed the Sparky workbook, which earned him a very large ribbon and a lot of Awana's bucks. He used his Awana dollars (at the Awana's store) to buy something for Mommy and Laura Joan in addition to himself. This was extremely sweet and generous as the Awana's bucks require a great deal of work to earn. We are so proud of him.

Carson with some of the kids from his Sparky class. They are truly all a delight to spend time with every Wednesday night and we will miss them during the summer months.

Carson and Laura Joan Jan-March 2008

Making a snowangel

Carson doing his chore of taking out the trash.

Carson in Awana's the contest was to see who could wear the most shirts. Carson came in 2nd Place. He considered this serious competition as you can see from his expression.


Carson and Laura Joan can be very sweet together sometimes and here is the proof.

Laura Joan is playing doctor with a doll or her blankie.

Our beautiful little girl is so happy and joyful. She sings, claps her hands for herself and us. This is her with her Puggle's group at church. She is busy all the time and is definitely going to keep Chris and I young.

Christmas Events of 2007

Chris turns 49!

The kids loved helping Daddy open his presents.

Carson is the little shepherd boy with the cape around his shoulders. He was so precious.
Laura Joan is the smallest child in this picture. We are blessed to have two other Asian children in her little class. Mrs. Jessica was Laura Joan's teacher. She is truly a gift from our Lord Jesus.


Carson won this Christmas cake in a cake walk game. He is such a lucky boy, he has one two or maybe even three cake walks.

Chris's brother Joe and sister Leslie helping out in the kitchen.
We are truly blessed to be in our new house enjoying Christmas together. Chris's family got to come over Christmas Eve for dinner. I unfortunately didn't take pictures like I should have but we had a very good time.

Christmas morning with our full stockings.

We had a wonderful Christmas with my Mom and Step-dad visiting from Texas. We all adore Granny and Papaw.

Christmas night around 3:00 A.M. Carson decided to come downstairs to Mom and Dad's room. Unbeknown to Carson my Mom and I had moved our chest from the foot of the bed to the bedroom window. Carson ran into the room, jumped up on the missing chest and slammed his chin into the foot-board. 6 stitches later this is how it looked. Needless to say it was quite a traumatic Christmas night and one we will never forget.

Moving into the New House

Our new neighbors unexpectedly helped us move the stuff from the apartment into the new house late Saturday evening.

Open House and Prayer Dedication

Saturday evening before moving in Mike (our builder) had an open house and prayer dedication of the house. We praised God together for completing the house and for the money raised to build churches and pastoral leadership in Africa. It was such an honor to be a part of such great work God is doing.




This is Mike Roach our builder and his brother. They laid our wood floor together and did a lot of the work themselves. A lot of people that worked on the house donated their time so that Mike's organization could donate the profit from the house to a mission in Africa to build churches.