30th March 2009
(Once again, I cannot figure out how to center photos in the post. Arg.)
A couple Fridays ago, I noticed on Katy’s Facebook page that she was thinking of taking her boys, Eli and Walker on a field trip to Krispy Kreme. Of course, Josiah and I needed to meet them for the fun, only because KK is ust 5 minutes from our house. Nothing to do with the fact that there would be donuts involved, and I had a coupon for free coffee, but purely for the educational benefit of seeing how donuts are made 
Mesmerized by the process... or more likely, the rows and rows of donuts going under the waterfall of glaze.
Donuts with sprinkles, free coffee for moms, and complimentary hats complete the fun.
Eli obliging me for a photo before he digs in.
Walker was pleased with the chocolate and sprinkles.
My happy little guy. Believe me, the hat didn't stay on more than a few seconds after the photo.
Donut making is a complicated process, you know. I’m sure we’ll do this highly educational field trip often!
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23rd March 2009
From last weekend’s bike race in Guntersville. Both kids rode and rode and rode while we cheered Brian on to his 2nd place finish.
My little speed princess!
Josiah likes to say "speed!" when he's riding. He's so funny to watch!
So concentrated!
Look at that serious face!
One of my all-time favorite photos...
Brian attacking the break ahead of the field early in the race.
Wonder where Josiah gets his concentrated look from?
Brian leading the break as it's been trimmed down to just three.
The rest of the field, a couple minutes behind Brian's lead breakaway.
Brian's teammate, Sammy, winning the field sprint for 3rd place.
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23rd March 2009
I regularly read a site called Holy Experience, and it continually shines a beautiful God-centered light on life, faith and parenting. Today’s post is a wonderful model for parenting… Click on over and enjoy it for yourself!
Epic parenting is storytelling around our togetherness – about what God wrote during this morning’s errands, during our vacation last year, from our own childhoods. No curriculum, classes or other paraphernalia necessary. Just a willingness to listen to our lives and tell the whole of God’s epic — parchment and personal.
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23rd March 2009
So we’ve finally made some space on my computer so I can work on photos, and the kids are happily riding circles in th driveway, so I’m going to try to get caught up Three weeks ago we had 70+ degrees on Thursday, tornados and severe weather on Friday, flash floods on Saturday, and a beautiful 3 inches of snow on Sunday. It was so pretty! We went to early church and came home to play in it. Good thing we made the most of it because after our lunch break, we looked back outside at 1pm to find the snow nearly gone. We threw snowballs, made a snow woman and snow angels, splashed in the snowy puddles from the rain of the day before, and brought a big bowl of snow inside and had snow ice cream. Gotta make the most of snow here because it might be a few years before we get enough snow to play!
Bundling up to play a bit before church.
All Josiah wanted to do was eat snow!
After lunch the snow day was nearly over!
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22nd March 2009
What a great trip this was! Brian rode up to Gadsden, while the kids and I picked up donuts for our hour-long drive to meet him at Noccalula Falls Park. It was a wonderful family adventure!
At dry points during the summer, there might not actually be a falls. But we've had TONS of rain, and the water was impressive!
This tree was from the bottom of the gorge, growing all the way up to tower above the high viewing area.
Not the best picture of us, but it was fun to be under the waterfall!
We hiked down a steep set of stairs and a short trail to see the view under the falls.
Brian's cool photo of the water coming over the cliff.
This was a rocky area where you could climb down in and climb between the rocks. Some tight squeezes...
Rocks to climb on, trains to ride, animals to see... what more could the kids want?
Josiah waving to the train going by us.
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