June 2014 in pictures

June was filled with a trip to Texas, 2 birthday parties, VBS, story time, hand foot mouth disease for Noah, packing, moving and unpacking.

light saber fight with uncle Steve and Kaylee

love being this girl's aunt

saying our good-byes to uncle steve

sandbox at papaw and gammie's

this car was a hit at papaw and gammie's

sweet story time with papaw

I love seeing them play on my old swing set

kaylee swimming with the cousins

kaylee loved pushing Noah around in the car

papaw with his grandkids (minus Krista)

Kaylee just loves Noah

filling the pool

pool time with cousins

story time before nap

pop and gran come to the lake

this plane was a hit

gran climbed the tree!

we sure miss this tire swing at our old rental house

a lesson in taking turns with the plane

story time/craft time at a local church

library time (he desperately needed a haircut)

Noah's first real haircut complete with lollipop



he was so good

Noah's reaction was completely different than seth's (who cried)

so handsome

first catch of the summer off of  Dr. Bruce's dock

At his friend Ronan's bday party

can't go wrong with a bounce house

Seth's fav part of any party

Seth busted the piñata!

water fun at the party

Happy Father's Day!

VBS at Riverview

Seth loved watching daddy in action

Noah was excited about VBS

lunch break at the pool

lunch break at the pool

poor baby caught hand, foot, mouth from the other kids at church

seth did the kickboard all by himself!

getting ready for moving day!

cake, best friend, and swimming= the perfect day for Seth

its closing day on our house!!! Finally!

hanging out while mommy unpacks

the front and back of our house complete with trampoline outside of the fence and our very first walk out basement

May 2014 in Pictures

May was a good month, we celebrated Spring's arrival and the warm weather after a really rough winter!  There were birthday parties, swimming, final days of school, pink eye and a trip to Texas

Seth and preschool/church buddy Jaxon at Jaxon's party

Noah loving the swing at Jaxon's party

Noah and made a friend at the party

the most incredible backyard playground EVER

Seth busted the pinata

Seth pretending to be a tourist

got in lots of swim time with friends at our pool

proudly graduated to the big boy booster seat

Finally the weather is warm and we are outside as much as possible

loving the walking trail by our house

It was a great Mother's Day

Seth participated in the Olympics at his school (right after this we had to hurry and sign papers to get our house before someone else got it!)

Independence can be messy!

we sure do miss this tire swing that was outside our rental house (mornings were still chilly here in may!)

Seth did swimming lessons again this summer

some little boy got pink eye

getting over a respiratory infection and feeling pumy

Seth's last day of preschool with Mrs Peggy and Mrs Pam

Seth and his good friend at school Blaine

headed to TEXAS

August Already?!

I'll be the first to admit that I have dropped the ball on blogging since Easter.  Our family has been on the go in some form or another since May.  This has been our schedule
May-The boys and I drove to Texas with my parents and stayed for 10 days

June-The boys and I got back to Missouri and we had one full day with Spencer before he left for the Southern Baptist Convention in Baltimore.  Pop and Gran came to stay with us until Spencer came back.  (started packing up our rent house to move)
3 days after Spencer got back from Baltimore we had VBS at our church and still packing up boxes
A week after VBS we closed on our house and moved June 30th

July 7-11 Spencer and 3 other adult volunteers took the youth to M-Fuge youth/mission camp; I also put Seth a VBS at the church where he does preschool (win-win).  Somewhere in here I work like a mad woman during naps and I unpack the entire house!

July 20-Aug 1- Spencer and 2 other guys from church went to Thailand in search of a church and missionary that we could partner with in the future.  (they found one).  There was a 12 hour difference in time.  My (Shelley's) parents were supposed to stay with us the entire time Spencer was gone.  They had to leave 3 days early and head back to Texas because my sister in law went into labor early (36 weeks).  We still had a great time! Welcome to the world Krista Arilyn Swofford!
6lbs 3oz and 18in. 

Aug 1- Spencer got back to our house around 11pm. 
Aug 2- The prospective youth pastor and his wife arrive at the lake.  We take them to dinner and they stay with us.  (Spencer still has jet lag)
Aug 3- The big day! Our prospective youth pastor preaches in both services (He and his wife and Spencer all leave the house for church 7am, Spencer had been awake since 2am!)
There was a meet and greet lunch immediately after the 2nd service and a parent and youth Q &A from 2pm-4pm.  (Spencer still has jet lag and is by this time a complete zombie)
6pm- Spencer is in bed asleep!

This brings me to right now .... here's what's to come...

Aug 8-9 (Fri-Sat.)- the prospective Next Generation pastor and his family arrive at the lake to stay with us (hopefully Spencer's jet lag is somewhat gone by now). 

Aug 10-14- We travel to Tennessee family

Aug 22- Meet the teacher at Seth's preschool (is next year really Kindergarten?!?!)

Aug 25- Seth's first day of preschool (he will go 3 days a week this year)

And that in a nutshell has been and will be our summer!! Next summer will not be as busy as we will have more staff members to help carry the load of ministry.  We have kept busy by going to the pool or the park several days a week with friends, hitting the library and just playing outside on the trampoline. Maybe we will be to go on vacation somewhere!!

I will post pictures in a separate post in a few days to show you what we've been up to since Easter!