The best part?

We didn't have to share!

Take me out with the crowd.

Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,

I don't care if I never get back,

Let me root, root, root for the home team,

If they don't win it's a shame.

For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,

At the old ball game."

My firecrackers dressed in their red, white, and blue!

"Summer afternoon - summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language."  Henry James

Oh how we love the days the Chief says, "Hey, everybody!  I have a surprise!"

Waterpark exhaustion. 

P.S.  I wanted to take tons of pics but a little delinquent child kept trying to drown me spray me with a water nuclear bomb cannon.  Not good for cameras.  No pics of the Chief. 

How did we

get a teen

in the tribe?

P.S.  She's the coolest young lady I know. 

 Telling the Chief:

Left on his pillow (by me, of course).

Telling the kids:

A couple weeks before we told the kids, the girls came to me and said, "Mom, you need to have a baby!"  Feeling a little sheepish because I already knew we were going to, I asked them why?  Their reply, "We have baby fever!"  lol 

We sat down a few days ago and told them the big news. 

You need to watch the video once for each kid to see their individual reactions. 

I have been sick.  Morning sickness all day and especially in the evenings.  I am now 12 weeks and my symptoms seem to be lessening.  Praying they will disappear altogether.  We are so excited that God has blessed us with this little bean. 

I'm sure y'all have heard the scripture -

"Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them."  Ps 127:4

Did you know that a quiver is used to hold an archer's arrows?  Quivers hold 5 arrows.

So Chief, I guess your quiver is full.  Happy Father's Day!  We love you!

Sprinkler +

Swing Set =

A very HAPPY combination!

Hunting Island Beach has a very unique landscape. 

So beautiful.

The only requirements for our tribe?

Sand

and waves.

The Tribe squeezed into the crowded and stuffy sitting area...

to cheer on our little gymnast...

and she LOVED it! 

(She's quite good at the bars and even learned a floor routine 

but the lighting wasn't good for pics.  Too blurry.)

P.S.  Typing this on my NEW keyboard!