BAPTISM IN OUR BACKYARD
We usually have our small group Bible study every Monday night, and we switch around who's house we are meeting. On May 31, 2011 we had small group at our house and our close friends, Brandon & Erin Mims, asked, "who wants to dunk some Methodists?" :) So, we had our first baptism in our backyard in Lake Allatoona. It was amazing. Especially since our group has been together for a year and we've all grown so close to each other, so it was so incredible to witness them making a public statement to live their lives for Jesus Christ. I love our group!
Josh baptizing Brandon (he's huge, in case you hadn't noticed!)
Brandon baptizing his wife, Erin
SEWING PROJECTS
I've made a few blankets this year, but this was my favorite girl blanket for my cousin Jacqueline. She's having baby Avery in September, so I made this for her and gave it to her when we saw everyone in Seattle for her sister Leslie's wedding. It was so fun to sew pink things!
SEATTLE FOR LESLIE & BRETT'S WEDDING! 6-18-11
This was our second out of town wedding this summer (our first was for Angela & Andrew Marino in Charleston, SC...but we forgot our camera and didn't take any pictures!). It was SO much fun to have another family reunion and celebrate the marriage of Leslie and Brett.
Walking around downtown Seattle. It's beautiful there! It'd be perfect if it didn't rain all the time :)
Bethany is really cool...
We did the Underground Tour with Grandma Lucy & most of the cousins. It was really cool. They really have a real underground downtown where the original city of Seattle was founded on. They ended up building it up, but this is a picture of the "sky lights" that gave light to the underground.
This is the "sky lights" on the sidewalk where the city now it located.
We HAD to take a picture of Josh next to the original underground toilets! I mean come on...he's a plumber :)
Me and Grandma Lucy...she's incredible
Tommy, me, Josh, G. Lucy, Bethany, Kelli, Kyle & Shelley in Pioneer Square
Pike's Place Market has beautiful flowers
The boys while we were shopping at Pike's
Fresh fruit. I wish we had something like this close to our house in GA!
Tommy bought dark chocolate linguine for Marisa :) We bought some too and it's disgusting...haha
Of course...lots of fish
Fish throwing!
We all went out to dinner for Sara's 30th Birthday!!
Kelly, her boyfriend Josh, my Josh and me :)
The soon-to-be Mr. & Mrs. Simpson
Sara! She's so cute :)
Happy Birthday Sara!
The space needle at night...this was from Sara's rooftop. She was an awesome host :)
View from the top of the space needle
We all had lunch at the top of the space needle, which was really neat!
Mom & Dad at Leslie & Brett's Rehersal Dinner. It was at Anthony's Restaurant right on the bay. Beautiful!
Mother of the Bride and Mother of the Groom
Leslie & her mom (my Aunt Liz)
Grandma & Sara
They are so cute!
Sisters!
All the siblings
Grandma with her 4 kids :)
Our table was pretty awesome :)
My love...it's hard to imagine we had our rehersal dinner almost 5 years ago!
Me and Jacqueline! She's glowing...due in September and looking great!
Haha, I like this picture because I think it's funny to look at how we're standing! :)
Jac & Clay
The parents of the Bride
Wedding day! The Roger Family
Aunt Sharon in her stunning gown and Richard
Uncle Jim & Aunt Jill
Tom, Josh & Daddy
They're so cute :)
My fam :)
Twins
I love Seesha!
FATHER'S DAY COOKOUT AT THE DUPREE'S
Since this summer has been crazy, we never celebrated Father's Day. So, we had a little late Father's Day celebration...actually it was mainly just to get everyone together for fun...at our house on June 25, 2011.
Table #1
Table #2
Kyle made my Dad Oregon Duck cornhole boards...and he was so excited!
The boys liked them :)
Aidan, Roman, Pappy & Nana
The parents' playing against each other...moms v. dads
The mean game faces of the "Cathys"
The "Dads" beat the "Cathys"...and they look pretty happy about it :)
Haha, I think he was happy!
Okay, so after the parents left that night we all stayed up late playing Mafia (the best game ever!), and then when we grew bored with that we resorted to braids! This was Bethany's work...corn rows look good on Josh :)
Gangsta
JOSH'S SURPRISE 30TH BIRTHDAY PARTY!!
I threw Josh a great suprise birthday party this year for his 30th birthday! I was pretty impressed with myself to be able to organize AND keep a secret for that long! Josh is impossible to surprise, but I finally pulled one over on him! This was on Saturday, July 2, 2011.
Front of the invitation. It was a 4th of July theme since his birthday is July 3rd.
Back of the invitation :)
I had his party at The Old Mill Restaurant in Acworth, Georgia and it was the perfect place. We had the whole outdoor patio to ourselves and the way it was setup was perfect. It was a screened in porch, but you could lift the screens to open them up. Everyone got there before we did (I still cannot believe that every single person was there early! We have awesome friends!), so it was a good 30 people to surprise him!
As we walked up to the restaurant, Josh was just casually talking to me when everyone jumped up from the screened porch (it faces the parking lot area on one side) and yelled, "SURPRISE!!"
So proud that I finally got him!
Birthday boy!
His birthday cake! It was chocolate with chocolate fudge icing on the bottom, and strawberry with cream cheese icing on the top :) Delicious!
Blowing out the candles
Me and Sarah...she's awesome!
Christina, Bethany & Cynthia (Bethany was my party coordinator...without her it wouldn't have been such a success!)
I love her!
I am now married to a 30 year old :)
Courtney & Brandon
The whole group!! Thanks everyone for coming and making Josh's birthday so special :)
Our small group :)
My awesome high school girlfriends...Bethany, it feels like you were there with us! :)
Erin, Sarah and me
I love them!!
JOSH'S BIRTHDAY AT GRANDMAMA'S
We celebrated Josh's actual birthday at Grandmama's on Sunday, July 3, 2011.
Aidan is pretty excited about birthday parties :)
FOURTH OF JULY & OUR BIRTHDAYS
We celebrated the 4th of July at Josh's parent's lake house with my parents. It was a lot of fun!
Aidan
Romy
Blowing out our birthday cake (my mom made a hummingbird cake...it was so good!). Happy Birthday to us!
