Summer,Friends,and Fun

 CATCHING UP.............

    June 19th Olivia was given the opportunity to be in a wedding!  She was the  flower girl.  Our friend Dawn loves Olivia so much.  Olivia loves her too and was excited that she was going to be in the wedding.  We drove up to Knoxville for the wedding and stayed a night because the rehearsal was Friday and the wedding was on Saturday.  Olivia did great!  She looked so pretty in her dress.  We are VERY happy for our friends Dawn and Scott.  Their wedding was so nice and I could tell that they wanted to honor God with their ceremony.

June 20th was Father's Day!!  We celebrated my Dad!!!  For starters I want to say that I love my Dad soooooo much.  He is a hard working man that loves Jesus, loves his family and loves trains!!  We cooked one of his favorite breakfasts and gave him exactly what he had been asking for, an ESV Bible!

  He picked it out so since my Mom likes surprises she also made him a huge goodie basket with all his favorite treats!  He really liked this!

Last week we  traveled up to Knoxville again to see some of our friends.  Dad had to go out of town for a week on a business trip so our friends asked us to come up and stay a couple of days while he was gone.  We had 2 huge sleepovers that were a blast!!!  The first night we stayed with the Anders' grandparents!!  There were 6 Anders kids and 5 Moran kids and 2 moms!!!  Mr and Mrs Anders were such great hosts.  We stayed up until 1:30a.m. watching movies in their theatre!  The next morning we had a huge breakfast before leaving for Dollywood.  We had a ton of fun together.  You will soon see a picture of us with grandmother.  She looks great,  and this is the morning after having 13 house guests!

 

The second night we stayed with the Ropers. 

We also had a great time with the Ropers.  They were wonderful hosts also. 

Mrs Tracey is an amazing cook!!  When we got there she had spaghetti and meatballs ready for us and it was DELICIOUS!!  We laughed and played and stayed up late and my mom and Mrs Tracey got to talk, A LOT!!  It was so much fun for us and Olivia even got her nails done. 

  

We loved our time at their house.  We had a great time playing together! 

I am so thankful for our friends in Knoxville. 

This next picture is for the Ropers.  No one else will get it.

 

 

Fun with the GORDONS.......

The Gordon family came to Chattanooga this past weekend and we had fun with them too.  We are so thankful that God has made it possible for us to spend so much time with our Knoxville friends.  Our family and the Gordon family visited Rock City and the Tennessee Aquarium.  Rock City was beautiful.  It was breathtaking.  My pictures hardly show how amazing it is.  You have to see for yourself!

 

Thanks be to God for our friends that are our FAMILY!