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| This just might be a foul, but at least that shot did NOT go in! |
The girls had a great time playing PTO basketball at Wheeler Elementary.
(I guess that was technically winter, but I hadn't mentioned it yet so it's going on this post.)
They had really good teams, great coaches (especially Ellie here to the left!), and super brothers cheering them on from the sidelines!
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| Sugared up on concession stand loot |
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| It's lo-ong way up there! |
As soon as the PTO season was over, Marian decided that wasn't enough basketball. She seems to have been bitten by the bug. So Dwayne found a rec league for her to play in, the Crossville Thunder, and we enjoyed an exciting season with them.
Later in the spring, Drew had his network television debut! He appeared on the morning edition of the news show on the Chattanooga NBC station. He and another boy , were interviewed about Lego camp (which he attended last summer). Very exciting!
We made a kaleidoscope!
Soccer season started out with Ellie trying her hands at some goal keeping. It was a tough job, but she did great and we enjoyed watching her.
Andrew, in the older age level, also ruled the field.
Speaking of soccer, Reagan has turned into quite a soccer "hooligan" this year so I thought it only fitting that it be the theme of his FIFTH birthday
What a boy. 
We celebrated the end of the school year with a trip to Lake Winnie. We had a beautiful day there! (It really could have been a post all by itself.)
And these beautiful girls finished their second year of ballet.
Some friends had a Hawaiian theme party. Ellie and her friend Sunshine provided some of the entertainment, doing the hukilau dance. It was such a sweet performance!
And the summer birthdays!
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| Marian turned 14! |
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| Cecil turned 78. |
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| And Ellie turned 9! |
And threading through and around all of this, work on the farm must go on...
growing, weeding, harvesting, preserving God's bountiful provision.
And it doesn't hurt if the farmers are this
good lookin'!
good lookin'!
All these things along with the day-to-day must-do's of life, our spring and summer were very full, but we always want to take time to appreciate the beauty all around us, like this awesome (if somewhat eerie) foggy night earlier this summer.
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| A foggy night on the farm |
On to fall! ... and more work, play, and celebration!
