Sunday, July 10, 2011

Happy Birthday to my Granny

We spent our Saturday up in Lancaster throwing a surprise birthday party for my granny! She turned 80 years old this past Friday. She amazes me with her strength and her determination to keep on going. She's an awesome lady with a huge God-story!! Her faithfulness to the Lord and total reliance on Him is inspiring. I love her with my whole heart!!
Uncle Mike (momma's oldest brother) fixing up some yummy food!! He deep-fried fish, hushpuppies, and french fries. He made catfish stew and grilled hamburgers and hotdogs for everybody. It was some yummy yummy eating!!! :)
Granny gets her water from a well and her pump went out so I had the job of carting whoever needed to go potty up to my Uncle's house.. LOL.. :)
Granny, Momma, Uncle Alan, Uncle Mike and Uncle Donnie!! My good-looking family! :)


That's what I'm talking about!! YUMMY Hushpuppies!

My Uncles fixing granny's well pump.. luckily they had it all fixed before the end of the day.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

AWESOME NEWS

I've been interviewing for a new position at the SC Baptist Convention for the past couple of months and I'm SOOOO HAPPY to say that I've been offered the position and have accepted!!! I will now be working for the Executive Director of our Convention as his Executive Assistant. I will be beginning in the next week or so and really can't wait. This type of work will be similiar - but different - from my work in Dean of Theology's office at Southwestern Seminary. I have missed this type of work so much and although I'm going in knowing that there will be challenges I am still extrememely excited and thankful that God has provided this position for me.

4th of July Weekend

We headed out to Dreher Island at Lake Murray last night to watch the fireworks show and spend the day playing at the lake. We had a blast hanging out with friends and spending the day relaxing. The kids played so hard and swam all day long until it was time to get cleaned up and watch the fireworks show.

Here's the kiddo's all cleaned up, eating some watermelon and playing before the show started.The kiddos playing in the lake. One lady there had her dog and the boys LOVED playing with her dog in the lake. Joshua enjoyed throwing his tennis ball and watching the dog swim to get it.The kids found a dragonfly. It was HILARIOUS!!! The only one willing to pick it up was the little girl and when she went to pick it up the boys screamed and jumped back.Rodney waiting for the show... Me enjoying the time to just sit and watch the kids play!FIREWORKS!!! It really was an awesome show and Dreher Island is the place to see them at the lake. They shot them off right in front of us. You could see the sparks on the ground from where they shot them and when they went off they were right over us. It was GREAT!!!

Beach Vacation

We just got back from an awesome family vacation with my side of the family. There were 16 of us which included my uncles, cousins, granny, momma, me, Rodney and Joshua. We had a BLAST hanging out with everybody and enjoying some time on the beach. This is the first time ever that we've all been able to go on a big family vacation and it's the start of many more. And, hopefully next time even more of the family can come.

My Uncle put up a volleyball net ouside the house we stayed in and we enjoyed a bunch of "friendly" volleyball games... LOL.. My poor team had a blast playing but we didn't do so well on the winning part... It was so much fun though.

Here's where I'm doing exactly what I LOVE to do at the beach... We would lay out for an hour or so and then go play in the waves and come back and lay down more and do it all over again. A few cute family shots! I can't pass up photo opportunities. :)
Me and the love of my life!
Me and the other love of my life!
My Momma!Playing Just Dance on the Wii with my uncles girlfriend. This was A LOT of fun with everybody sitting around watching. We had a group of us rotating in and out and playing the winner of each round.
My cousin Chris and his dad's girlfriend competing.
Martina, Granny, Uncle Alan and Joshua
Me, Amy, Martina, Granny
Joshua and Uncle Alan
Granny, Amy, Chris
Uncle Donnie soaking up some sun... a little too much I might add because he was quite sunburnt and hurting after this day. :)