Farewell Mr Watkins...

Last weekend, we celebrated the retirement of my band director and incredible teacher, Mr Alfred Watkins. My friends and I had been looking forward to this reunion for awhile. It was so fun to see so many high school band friends and their families. It brought back so many good memories and was nice to celebrate such an important part of all of our lives, thanks to Mr Watkins. There are no words to describe the impact he made on all of us! I filmed part of his speech and the final "closeout" which was how we ended each band practice and event. All the previous drum majors took the stage to lead the audience in the close out. It was very emotional!!

 

 

 

Summer Recap

Father's Day weekend in June. We had all had the stomach bug but made an outing to a farmer's market that sells allergy free cupcakes and played on the playground. Later that day, cupcakes were thrown up by several of us. We thought we were clear but this lasted about 2 weeks!!

Since we just got back from out first football game, I decided to post more random photos from the summer that I have not been able to get online.

We took Wes' dad to play putt putt on Father's day

OUr boys adore putt putt

Lots of summer wagon rides!

We met up with Ashton's K3 friends for a fountain day in Norcross!

Margaret and Truman came for a visit so we got all the kiddos together!! I LOVE this photo of all our boys...and then Anna!!

Robot fun one summer day

Embry moved up to sitting at the picnic table this summer and loves being a big boy!

We celebrated Wes' dad's 70th bday with a trip to see the Gwinnett Braves

My parents also came to celebrate!

playing in the back of papa's truck

showing off church artwork one Sunday

July 4th

This started out like any other day but unfortunately ended up in the ER when Ashton accidentally drank a sip of Collin's milk and we ended up giving him Epi again. It was such a horrible event yet God took care of every last detail and we are so thankful! Now we are almost completely dairy free at our house and do not buy any cow's milk to prevent any further accidents

These last photos are of the zoo with more of Ashton's K3 buddies and teacher, Mrs Wood! Here she is catching a bird on her feeding stick in the bird room. Due to my fear, I have actually never been into this area  so this was a major feat to take the boys!

I tried to remain very calm while Ashton had this bird on his stick. i was glad that Mrs Wood and her daughter were helping my boys with this instead of me!

Collin's so sweet and protective of Embry!

Look mommy! Pandas!!