Thank you mom!

Mom, for father's day, sent me a box of cookies from a company called Dancing Deer Baking Company.

Great idea and fun presentation, but the cookies were a little dry.  The brownies were good, especially after heated!  Unfortunately, I was gone on delivery day so they sat on the door step all weekend while we were in the mountains before we could eat them!  

Mom is in China right now, working hard, and I am sure looking forward to coming home as fast as possible!  Mom, you are doing a great job!  We love you!

Get on skype if you can so the girls can talk with you!

Brownie & Cookie Medley

Father's Day Card

Lani does a great job with her cards...I always save cards, but now I can scan them and put them on the blog too!

Thank you Lani for my beautiful Father's Day Card!!!  I love you sweet girl!

Poppa Daddy

Inside of the card

Outside of the card

Father's Day Weekend!

Great weekend...We went with the Allens  to their mountain house in Blue Ridge, GA.  It is an easy drive...about 3.5 hours from Montgomery if you do not encounter any traffic in Atlanta or if you do not have to stop!  The house had caught on fire last October so this was the first time we had been back in over 7 months!

Lindsays parents (mimi and grandpa), grandparents (GG and Grandy) went with us and Beau and Ashley along with their kids, Cole, Judah and Zoe were there.

Great time to play the Wii,  grill out,  watch a few movies, relax...we even went tubing.  

 I hope we will use the Mountain house more this year, but without all of the following:

man with a swastika tattoo with something german written underneath (bit scary), a black widow spider, and a scorpion.  

Tons of wild blackberries growing around the house, but unfortunately they were not ready to be picked...Sorry Lindsay!

No trip to Blue Ridge with the kids is complete without a trip to Huck's General Store!  The store is great!  Has a great selection of old and new candies, Great cold bottle drink selection, and other fun toys from the past.  They even opened up a small indoor putt putt course for kids downstairs and a gem mining thing (will have to be a separate post) for kids to look for "gems" by using a sifting box and running water to...Check out the pictures below!

Hucks General Store:

 

  

Rafting:

 

Picnic where they had the olympics in 1996: