H.I.T.T.

Yesterday was HITT, Houston International Taekwondo Tournament. Jon Micheal competed in sparring, patterns, and breaking (plastic boards). Here's some pictures from the tournament...you know me, I'm to busy to actually get them all in order so just read the captions and you'll get it!!! Some of the pictures are very dark, it was very strange lighting and I tried using and not using the flash but they still are weird, sorry!

Second round of sparring.

Gold Medal in sparring! Can you tell the other kids are kinda disappointed?!?! So sad!

The winner....first round of sparring.

Silver medal in patterns.

Getting ready to perform his pattern, second round, competing for first place.

Jalyn doing his thing to keep busy. We usually find an out of the way corner and plop down the backpack and toys and try to stay busy. Its a very long day for him (me too), we got there at 8:30am and left at 2:30pm.

This was this afternoon (Sunday), the boys swim while I work in the yard and mow. Its the first real swim day they've had this year.

Samson was worried about Jon Michael. When he dives and swims from one end to the other, Samson runs along the side of the pool and whines until he comes up...sometimes he even nips at him when he grabs the side of the pool.

Ok, that was our busy weekend! Hope everyone else's was good, even if it was busy like ours.

My Manly Men!

Here's just a few pictures I had filed away of my "manly men"...enjoy!

Jonathan benchpressing Jalyn...(can you tell he dressed himself?)

Of course you can't do one and not the other!


Jon Michael trying to benchpress Jalyn. Jalyn's so trusting....I'm sure that'll get him in trouble later as they get older!

Now trying to lift Daddy.

Poor Samson...he's not as trusting but he has no choice!

The boys love learning to work on things and build. He was so proud that Daddy let him do all the work installing his new kickstand. He found the right socket all by himself and everything.

See that man right there? The handsome one... That's a good daddy...

Busy Weekend

It was a crazy busy time for us this past weekend. I left Friday morning and headed to Carthage to pick up Court and the kids. Then we headed to Durant for Tab's baby shower on Saturday morning. Then we headed right back to Carthage after the shower and then I headed home to Houston after dropping them off!!! Then we got home and had a busy Easter Sunday but it was all great. Here's a few pictures from the weekend.

Jonathan says its so sad that I'm the tallest one in the picture!!




Easter egg hunt at our Baptism and Party Sunday night.


This is Karen, such a wonderful example of God moving...what a blessing she is to me.

We had a great Easter. There was some HARD rain but by the afternoon it was sunny and great. That morning we had so many at church we had to add chairs in the back. God is bringing visitors to our new building, its an exciting time. We had 5 people baptized that night, just another example of Him moving in people's lives.

We hope your weekend was great and you got to celebrate Easter in a wonderful way!!!