No Place Like Birmingham

We have had the privilege of living in several places since we've been married.  Each place holds a special place in our hearts.  Not because of where it is located or what is there, but because of WHO is there.  Every time we have had to leave a place, there have been tears, lots or tears, because we've had to leave people that we had grown to love like family.  Thankfully, all of these places are day's drive away, and we take comfort in the fact that visits to our old homes are possible.

As a matter of fact, one of those visits did become possible when two of our former students asked Cory and me to be a part of their wedding.  What an honor for Cory to perform the ceremony and me to sing!!  To say we were ecstatic would be downplaying it....A TON!  We were literally counting down the days till we'd get to see the many loved ones we had left behind in Birmingham.

We reconnected with friends over yogurt.  Lan got to meet JB who is just a couple of weeks younger than her.  They hit it off pretty quickly

Then we reunited with several of our former students and friends at one of our favorite restaurants.  We have MANY memories at Frontera!

OH, how we love and miss these people!

Then the blessed event took place.  The union between Matt and Samantha.  What a gorgeous ceremony.  Everything was picture perfect and centered on God.  It's definitely a day Cory and I will keep in our hearts forever.

Thank you again, Matt and Samantha, for letting us be a part of your wedding day.... AND giving us a perfectly good reason to visit Birmingham again :)  We hope to visit again very soon!

It's Been WAY too long!!!!

I have gotten behind on my blog before, but I don't think I have ever gotten this far behind.  Makes me sad, really.  I love faithfully blogging about every event that goes on with our little family.  But, sometimes when you are busy living life, you don't always have time to record it right away.  As most of you know, we have had lots of changes in our home.  Cory took a new job causing him to travel a lot.  I am trying my best to hold down the fort while he is gone as well as continue with photography.  I am not complaining though.  Life is good.  We are blessed beyond measure!

So here I go playing the catch-up game once again.....

A few days before I took these pictures, I was laughing to my dad about how he had planned to turn my little girl into a tomboy and hide frogs in her pockets to scare me.  I said "Ha!  She's such a little princess, she'd never fathom the thought of touching a frog"  Kids sure do have a way of proving us wrong don't they???

She's definitely a princess, but one with a FROG!!!

Here are a few random moments of the kids doing their normal day to day thing....

This day we went on a rock hunt.  First we decorated wrappers for our empty water bottles.  

Then Eli put on a crazy had (completely random, I know)

 Then we went out and searched for some tiny little rocks that would fit inside our bottles

After that, our bottles were turned into shakers and we had a dance party!  It was a blast!

And now on to Easter...

We spend Good Friday evening at my brother's house.  My dad fried fish that was Deeeliscious!  We also managed to get a few good pictures of all the grandkids.  Not without a few out takes, of course.  This one is my favorite. LOL

We also had an Easter Egg Hunt

Our biggest treat, however, is when we found out Cory was coming home and we'd get to celebrate Easter with him!!

Eli actually woke up with a fever, so instead of cooking, we shared a very non-traditional Easter lunch.... take-out Mexican!

And we also took advantage of Cory being home and took a few family photos.

Did I mention Ben was here too????  Could our day be any better?!?! 

 Landry and one of her VERY favorite people!

 To top it all off, my best friend Libby popped in for a quick visit.

Me and my Love :)

Enough catching up for one post.  More posts to come....

Some Surprise News!!!

It's been ENTIRELY too long since I posted!!  I will catch back up, I promise.  Let's start with a fun announcement!!!