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Hannah's House Fundraiser
On August 20th, we had a Hannah's House fundraiser for The Brown's at Casey's house. I took examples of my sewing stuff and then our friends gave generously for the Baby Brown Fund. I'm giving 100% of the profit back . . .now all I have to do is start sewing! I was not expecting people to be so generous-so I will be busy for a while! If you want to follow the adoption process they have a great blog: http://bringinghomebabybrown.blogspot.com/

Sew Much More


On Saturday August 29th, we had our 3rd annual Sew Much More project where we sew 250reversible dresses in 1 day! We donate the dresses to our mission trips to Brazil, Mexico & West Africa. This year we finished by 3:00pm (a record!) and we ended with 374 dresses-thanks to some women who are sewing year round. It is such a testimony to God, you can't even imagine the stories we hear! The pictures are from Mexico last year.

1st day of school

Hannah's 1st day of school, her (last) first day of preschool-next year will be kindergarten-yikes!! She was so excited and happy to be with Katie again & Nathan, and very sad to NOT be with Hannah B. When I took her to school, Joshua walked in her room like he belonged there, sat down and started playing at a table full of kids. He cried when we left cause he wanted to stay-he thinks he's 4 too!

Allie's 3rd Birthday

Our niece Allie turned 3 in Louisiana so me & the kids headed down there, without Aaron since he just started his big new job. Her birthday is July 31st and Aaron's birthday is August 1st, so it was a bummer we weren't even around to celebrate Aaron's birthday. It was suppose to be a swimming party but it poured down rain so we just stayed inside and had fun. As a last minute activity (because of the rain) my sister in law had lots of tattoos for the kiddos. All the kids had tons of them (it was a huge hit) but Hannah would not hear of it-she refused to do it-oh how I hope she feels that way when she's 18! The next day was sunny and my brother Doug took all of us out on the pontoon and we had a great time-we just wish we lived closer so we could stay longer.

Library Skating Party

We participated in the LaVergne Summer Reading Program again this year and we had to read 100 books and then each week the kids got a prize plus at the end a skating party. Obviously, Joshua was too little to skate but he loved the arcade and Hannah did good skating (and by good I mean could walk in the skates!)

Fashion Show & Zoo

It was a big day for us, as we took the last Saturday before Aaron starts his new job and went to the "Ice Age" at the zoo. Plus the kids were in the fashion show at our church hosted by Stitcher's playhouse to show off the fun stuff you've made throughout the year. It was a great day just busy. The zoo had ice sculptures in with some animals and it really was pretty neat. They liked the petting zoo area-Joshua was adorable chasing the goats around. The kids loved it all, especially the free ice cream!

Visiting Amish Country

The Horne's (friends from Louisiana-possibly the nicest couple on earth!) were visiting family in Lawrenceburg, TN so we went there to hang out for the day. Paul & Aaron played golf and the girls (plus Joshua) were suppose to lounge at the pool. But it rained, so we went and checked out Amish country. When we got there, we had no idea that only an hour away from our house was the true Amish life complete with horse & buggy on the roads! So we bought some fresh bread and jam (we would have bought more but since we didn't plan on going me nor Jan had much cash and since they don't believe in electricity-no debit cards accepted!). It was so interesting especially after recently finishing a book in Friday morning Bible study regarding the Amish. Paul, Jan & Janie's family took us in as there own and we stayed through one of the best southern cooked meals we've had! It was a blast!

Hailey's Birthday Party

We had lots of fun at Hailey's birthday party. All of Hannah's friends were there to celebrate as well as a fun inflatable slide, pool and slip-n-slide. The kids had an absolute ball!