A song to describe your forever Indy Girl.
Speaking of wine...if I could buy the memory back for any price! ANY price...I would spend it to get the memory back of what we thought was so darn funny back in my New Palestine apartment when I fell down in tears laughing in my closet over the wine and a Young's double chocolate beer! I guess we will never know. Still...what a great memory, ahh...and there are so many!
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
More of the graduates...
Friday night we went to see Taylor graduate. Luckily we got to see her before the ceremony, because we never found her in the massive crowd after.
It truly does not seem like that much time has passed. I remember meeting Taylor as a little girl, and now she has grown up into a very BEAUTIFUL young lady. I got choked up a couple of times and said to Paul…”well you look at this?” pointing at my tears “and she is not even mine!”
I am thankful that Gavin didn’t have something that I had to attend which would ultimately lead to this pang that I have been feeling inside over the moving on of our three children.
Why is this I ask myself? The same thing I felt when I watched my sisters graduate, or my sister Kelly get married. I always thought my emotion was tied to the excitement of such events. But it hit me when I was listening to the graduating seniors give their speeches. They think they have it all figured out, standing at the finish line, with diploma in hand. In reality all the things we have been teaching them and preparing them for is finally laid out before them. And we as parents or older siblings have to let them learn on their own, make their own choices, guiding them less and less into the uncertainties that we each face as adults.
They start out as babies, needing us for everything. Next thing you know they are eating, talking, walking, brushing their own teeth, dressing themselves, helping around the house, reading, writing, expressing interest in hobbies and friends.
(a kiss for Taylor from Paul and Mammo, since we couldn't find her!)
We are there the entire time supervising, teaching, cheering, supporting only to wake up one day to the bittersweet certainty that our baby doesn’t need to be taken care of anymore and worse yet that we can no longer protect them from themselves and the world at large the way we once did. Once we were at the heart of their universe taking center stage, next we find ourselves sitting on the sidelines in bleachers of a crowed gym or auditorium.
(Gavin's grad party)
Maybe the pang is brought on by the nostalgia for each of their younger stages in life, and special moments we have shared with each of them. Or it could be just the pride that makes us want to brag to our friends. Paul ran into a co-worker at Taylor’s graduation. The guy asked who Paul was there to see and he didn’t just say my daughter, but found her name in the program and pointed her out. Heck yes, we are proud!
I am glad that for right now things will pretty much stay the same. Taylor will be going to college in town. Macey will be going to her same school, but as a 1st grader. And Gavin ….poor Gavin will be starting dreaded middle school. Life is good!
It truly does not seem like that much time has passed. I remember meeting Taylor as a little girl, and now she has grown up into a very BEAUTIFUL young lady. I got choked up a couple of times and said to Paul…”well you look at this?” pointing at my tears “and she is not even mine!”
I am thankful that Gavin didn’t have something that I had to attend which would ultimately lead to this pang that I have been feeling inside over the moving on of our three children.
Why is this I ask myself? The same thing I felt when I watched my sisters graduate, or my sister Kelly get married. I always thought my emotion was tied to the excitement of such events. But it hit me when I was listening to the graduating seniors give their speeches. They think they have it all figured out, standing at the finish line, with diploma in hand. In reality all the things we have been teaching them and preparing them for is finally laid out before them. And we as parents or older siblings have to let them learn on their own, make their own choices, guiding them less and less into the uncertainties that we each face as adults.
They start out as babies, needing us for everything. Next thing you know they are eating, talking, walking, brushing their own teeth, dressing themselves, helping around the house, reading, writing, expressing interest in hobbies and friends.
(a kiss for Taylor from Paul and Mammo, since we couldn't find her!)
We are there the entire time supervising, teaching, cheering, supporting only to wake up one day to the bittersweet certainty that our baby doesn’t need to be taken care of anymore and worse yet that we can no longer protect them from themselves and the world at large the way we once did. Once we were at the heart of their universe taking center stage, next we find ourselves sitting on the sidelines in bleachers of a crowed gym or auditorium.
(Gavin's grad party)
Maybe the pang is brought on by the nostalgia for each of their younger stages in life, and special moments we have shared with each of them. Or it could be just the pride that makes us want to brag to our friends. Paul ran into a co-worker at Taylor’s graduation. The guy asked who Paul was there to see and he didn’t just say my daughter, but found her name in the program and pointed her out. Heck yes, we are proud!
I am glad that for right now things will pretty much stay the same. Taylor will be going to college in town. Macey will be going to her same school, but as a 1st grader. And Gavin ….poor Gavin will be starting dreaded middle school. Life is good!
Monday, June 6, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Cornerstone's Grads
Here are a few pics from Thursday's nights graduation for the Kindergarten and 5th grade classes at Cornerstone Christian Academy. I have dreaded this night since last year when I watched Macey accept her preschool certificate. It dawned on me that this year we would watch three of our children reach big milestones. Macey to first grade, Gavin to middle school, and Taylor to college.
This was the first year that Gavin was not in Cornerstone...and he was sad to watch his friends go through the ceremony without him. Maybe he was just sad that his school still has a week and a half to go before they are out for the summer. Either way Gavin made it too!
All of our kids have done a great job and we are so proud of their accomplishments!
This was the first year that Gavin was not in Cornerstone...and he was sad to watch his friends go through the ceremony without him. Maybe he was just sad that his school still has a week and a half to go before they are out for the summer. Either way Gavin made it too!
All of our kids have done a great job and we are so proud of their accomplishments!
Sunday, May 29, 2011
A Day Trip
The Sun was shining in Kentucky...so we went!
We stopped first for breakfast at Lynn's Paradise Cafe in Louisville KY.
Click here to see her website...
The entire place reminded me of Broad Ripple in Indianapolis. Paul had a hot brown, and I had biscuits and gravy with my Bloody Mary.
A horse toaster...for real!
Then we went to this cool antique store that was more like a museum than a store. It was called Joe Ley's Antiques. Next stop...
Churchill Downs
Jockey Calvin Borel
I bet on this horse, but didn't win!
Jockey Jon Court
After that we stopped in Edinburgh on the way home...where I drugged myself up on nausea medication from riding in Paul's cheese stick all afternoon. Of couse it could have been all the food I ate at Zaxby's in Jeffersonville Indiana. Food was yum.
Thanks mom for keeping my kids! We're having a great time without them...even if we miss them and talk about how much they would have loved everything the entire time.
We stopped first for breakfast at Lynn's Paradise Cafe in Louisville KY.
Click here to see her website...
The entire place reminded me of Broad Ripple in Indianapolis. Paul had a hot brown, and I had biscuits and gravy with my Bloody Mary.
A horse toaster...for real!
Then we went to this cool antique store that was more like a museum than a store. It was called Joe Ley's Antiques. Next stop...
Churchill Downs
Jockey Calvin Borel
I bet on this horse, but didn't win!
Jockey Jon Court
After that we stopped in Edinburgh on the way home...where I drugged myself up on nausea medication from riding in Paul's cheese stick all afternoon. Of couse it could have been all the food I ate at Zaxby's in Jeffersonville Indiana. Food was yum.
Thanks mom for keeping my kids! We're having a great time without them...even if we miss them and talk about how much they would have loved everything the entire time.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Just a few pics from our evening..
A Moody Macey.
Two crazy kids.
A tickling Papsy.
A Silly Mamoo.
A somewhat bad a#& Gavin.
A beautiful Macey.
A mean Macey....can you believe that face?
Two crazy kids.
A tickling Papsy.
A Silly Mamoo.
A somewhat bad a#& Gavin.
A beautiful Macey.
A mean Macey....can you believe that face?
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Save the Date
Christin and Austin's Engagement Session
the big day is only 30 days away...
already they are looking forward to the honeymoon!
They get their new house on the 5th!
Congrats to you both.
All of us in the family are wishing you the best!
Engaged August 7th, 2010
High School sweethearts!
Don't these make you say Aww out loud?
the big day is only 30 days away...
already they are looking forward to the honeymoon!
They get their new house on the 5th!
Congrats to you both.
All of us in the family are wishing you the best!
Engaged August 7th, 2010
High School sweethearts!
Don't these make you say Aww out loud?
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