Mud volleyball at the fair

Before and after

Braces be gone!

Before & after. Paige had a good day!

Peyton & Paige Last day at North

Paige and Ben 8th grade graduation

Paige Tennis 8th grade

Christmas

What a fun day of celebrating with my crazy family!  So blessed they could all be here. 

Benjamin has grown so much this year. He towers over everyone else. Caden read the Christmas story to us and Mary and Joseph would have been proud of how he narrated their journey.  Amanda came with Ben and she is always a welcome addition. Christmas is always better when Tara comes “home” from Austria for her school vacation.  Wesley rode his motorcycle from Cape Girardeau to be here and he gifted me with my first ever 2,000 piece puzzle. Yikes! Mallory was here for her first time and she jumped right into the madness. 

It was a wonderful day filled with fun, family and food.  And laughter. So much laughter.

Polar Pops

Peyton, Paige and their friend, Gracie were the cutest Polar Pips ever for Halloween. 

Hike at Clifty Falls

Today included a little afternoon hike with my beautiful granddaughters.

Paige - tennis year 2

Paige - Solo and Ensemble

She got a gold!

Big Splash

Peyton and Paige are on fall break this week .  They cashed in their Christmas gift today and we spent the day at the water park in French Lick  

Paige’s Brace Day

Paige's vacation with Mamaw

Although Paige had a different type of vacation than the other kids, we still had a great time.  Due to breaking my back, I was not going to be able to do all of the active things like I did with everyone else on our vacations.  So, Paige took a friend along on hers, rather than wait another year to go.  I don't blame her, but I would have rather been doing the things with her, rather than just watching from the sidelines and taking pictures. 

We rented a condo in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and spent 5 nights in the mountains, enjoying all the tourist attractions we could fit into our schedule.  We went to a magic show, Wonderworks, bumper boats, go carts, zip lining, a lumberjack show, snow tubing and the pirate dinner show.