Frank Almond Smalley

The cutest Grandad ever, went to meet Jesus tonight.
It was a little sudden, he's had heart problems for a long time, but this morning he had a heart attack and after a long day of trying, he went to be with his wife, my Grandma Smalley.

He loved to laugh and he loved to cry. He had strong opinions on right and wrong. He prayed a lot and he loved hymns. He will be very much missed, but I know my Grandma has been missing him for two years. So they are together again tonight.

Please pray for my mom and her three siblings. It's never easy to loose a parent. But we can rejoice that he with our Lord Jesus.

"Oh those summer...nigh-hights!"

To this post will be three fold...

Boys playing Ball.
A few weeks ago we had Emerson over for some play time with Drew. The boys had some fun outside as the sun went down playing tag football.







(Jackson always has to carry at least two or three toys at once, i think it's the way he shows possession.)

Brother helping Brother.
Drew being sweet to his brother, making sure that he has his shoes on before going out side.




Drumin in the street!
The boys have a drum set given to them by aunt debbie hutton who lives next door. The drum set lives next door with aunt debbie. So when Drew feels a jam session coming on it's in the front yard. Jonas Brothers, watch out!



"doo, my toon?"

Rock out boys, Rock out!

My birthday is over!

I turned 31 yesterday. So far it's been great. Wednesday night my husband planned a dinner with family at BJ's pizza. I was honored by gift cards and some great clothes. And mike surprised us all with some Charmed Cupcakes! My birthday morning began with breakfast in bed by my husband and both boys slept until 8:30! After a nomal work day, I got greeted by my cousin jessica with some more cupcakes and off we went to a night together. We landed at downtown disney at Tortilla Joes, had margarita! It was a fun girls night.

I got tons of love from all my friends and family! Thank you to all for the texts calls and my space love.

I love you all and 31 is going to be the best year ever!

Extended family celebration!

My cousin is adopting this cute girl and it's offical as of yesterday.
See her story here.

Unexpected great family night!

So life group got canceled, and all day I was dying to go to the opening of Toy Story Mania!
Off we went to DCA to fight the crowds and long line to be one of the first to ride it.
As we begin our long 3 hour wait, Mike goes to get us some snacks. He comes back 15 min later with two cold Red Trolley's! Now that's not a snack for the kids, so I sent him right back out for some popcorn, seconds later a women walks up to me, as she sees me struggling with two little ones and says, "here is a ticket to get you right into the line, you look like it's gonna be hard for your boys." So I called Michael to come back as he hurries to down the two drinks and we are on the ride with no wait!!!!! That's right, thank you to our guardian angel.

Jackson is not quite sure about this...

Yeah we are so excited...who needs 3 hours!

Oh yeah, we like it.

Toy Story Mania, it was really fun, I'm glad I didn't wait 3 hours because the ride had a few glitches, but it's a blast and my score was higher than Mike's.

Of course the boys had to have some "suvenearoos"

After we walked out the Main Street Parade was going...drew loves this...he's actually hasn't seen it live in years, but we have the commemorative video and he watches it all the time. So it was a big highlight.

The end of the evening was icing on the cake by watching the firework show from the ground between the two parks. Firework photo credit given to my son...Drew...who said, "mommy I want to take a picture of the fireworks." Great job Drew.

So what a great night thanks to no Life Group...

This is the best!

Dancing Machines! from Angelo Alberico on Vimeo.

Thanks to Angelo's blog...we can experience this love of the dance!

Jamie and Chris

So few weeks ago one of our favorite bloggers and my BFF got hitched to Chris. It was amazing, everywhere these two went they had perfect lighting. It was an honor to visit Stockton for their destination wedding. May these images bring you years and years of happiness and joy.

To see all of the Stavenger wedding go here.