Up, Up and Away in a BEAUTIFUL Balloon

This BEAUTIFUL hot air balloon

flew right over our house.

There is something so soothing

and quaint about a community

where hot air balloons fly.

I LOVE IT!!

Stone Mountain with Wendy from Hong Kong

Wendy, from Hong Kong Kids II, 

came to work in Atlanta for a week.

We took her to see Stone Mountain.

Ammon, Wendy and Haleigh 

Stone Mountain Historic Village

 Ammon stuffed a penguin for Wendy's son.

 A walk in the stream.

 Wendy had never eaten BBQ before.

I wish the pulled pork, bbq sauce, 

mac and cheese, coleslaw and baked beans

and been a better sampling of Southern BBQ.

It was pretty bad actually.  What a disappointment. 

Ammon cooled off in the Geyser Tower.

Ammon's First Scout Campout

2012 First Day of School

THE HIGH SCHOOLERS

 Haleigh - SENIOR

Caleb - JUNIOR

 Haleigh drove to school, Caleb rode 'shotgun'

and I had to HIDE in the backseat.

THE MIDDLE SCHOOLER

 Ammon - 6th grade

Armed with schedule in hand.

 The GANG waiting for the bus

when I returned from 'taking'

the high schoolers.

After 45 minutes of waiting the bus came.

Have a GREAT day guys!!

The LAST DAY of SUMMER

Middle School Open House

On the same day my little girl turned 17

my BABY had open house at

Lakeside MIDDLE School!

The school

THE LOCKER!

The P.E. UNIFORM!

17 Looks SO BEAUTIFUL!!

Our LITTLE BUG is all grown up.

She's 17 and she's BEAUTIFUL!!

HOLY COW - I LOVE THIS GIRL!!!!

Her and I spent the morning test driving cars.

We started at the Toyota dealership.

 Her car of choice - the Prius

From Toyota we drove across the street

to the HONDA dealership.

There she found her DREAM car.

The Honda Civic!!  Now we need to get Dad

home from Hong Kong to pay for it :).

We had lunch at her favorite restaurant.

We came home to a decorated front yard and

these BEAUTIFUL girls.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CUTE GIRL!

I LOVE YOU Sweet Tines!!!

HIATT Wedding!

Our friends, like family, had a wedding!

CUTE, AMAZING Cheri Hiatt

married the love of her life -

Derek Pinnell -

in the Atlanta Temple

CUTE sister Laurel

HUGS from Mom - Linda

HUGS from Dad - Joel

I had the HONOR of helping with

the reception set-up.

It was SO FUN working

with some of my FAVORITE ladies.

 Haleigh and Samantha Michon  

The LOVELY couple.

What a BEAUTIFUL day!!

New DRIVERS

We arrived at DDS - Georgia driving dept.

at 8:20am.  Caleb's process for his permit

was fairly quick.  He was done by 9:30am.

The girl at check-in warned us that because

Haleigh did not have an appointment

it would be a long wait.  She was right!

 Our view of the course for 

FIVE and a HALF hours :) -

because they take appointments first.

 WORRIED Haleigh -

I don't see this face very often

 FINALLY - time for the driving test.

 SUCCESS! - Caleb got the permit

Haleigh got the license

TWO EXCITED TEENS!!

ONE PROUD MAMA.

(I LOVE this HILARIOUS BOY!)