Pop, Nana, Adam, and Angela joined us for Thanksgiving this year. Cherish made an awesome meal, Megan and Samantha made napkin rings, and we all had a great time!

The kids went trick-or-treating with Seaton, Connor, and Kaitlyn Dasher.

Sam is 7 now!

The kids designed their own jack-o-lantern faces this year, and Megan actually carved her own!

Mommy and Daddy enjoyed a few days away in the Smoky Mountains over Fall Break. (Thanks to Nana and Pop for keeping the kids!) We played mini-golf, and Cherish won a free game by getting a hole-in-one on hole 18!

More bars in more places...

What a wonderful father-daughter field trip to the pumpkin farm! We had a great time, and got to bring home two pumpkins.

We had a great time at the game this Friday night. The girls got to cheer at the game after participating in a cheerleading clinic last Saturday.

Grandma Fern came for a visit over the Labor Day weekend.

The kids have all begun a new school year. This year, even Alex is in school. He's attending the First Baptist Preschool. Megan is in 4th grade, and Sam is in 1st grade.

After Megan's party, we went bowling. Everyone had a great time, and even Alex bowled!

On July 13th, Megan celebrated her 9th birthday! She had a wonderful party and a sleep-over that night.

The 4th of July was celebrated with patriotic cupcakes, painted fingers, and toes. There were some fireworks, too, but I have no pictures of those!

The second season of gardening is going well. Megan brought a cabbage plant home from school, and it made a very nice head. There's nothing like fresh vegetables from the backyard!

We hiked to the top of Table Rock Mountain, which was 3.6 miles one way and a rise of about 1,000 feet. (I left out the pictures of us gasping for air and limping around afterward.)

Adam and I went camping for a couple of days in Table Rock State Park near Greenville, SC. Beautiful!

Samantha has officially completed her first year of school. Congrats to the graduate!

Alex turned 4 on May 16! He's now old enough to move from a toddler car seat to a camouflage big-boy seat!