Another Saturday

Saturday the boys helped out one of our Pastors by filling their crawl space with sand. So up at 7:00 am all three boys loaded the van with the wheelbarrow, shovels and rakes. Off to Trevor Haynes to spread the sand. Pictues will be coming as Danny has his camera with him so I can't up load them at this time.


Katie and I cleaned the house until around 11:00 then went to the YMCA. It was a lot of fun spending a few hours together. It's not very often that we have that opportunity. Katy Van came for a short time too. It's always good to talk to her. She is so good at drawing people out about what the Lord is doing in her life. Thanks Kit!


Lyle he has been working so hard to support our family so here is another Saturday he sacrifices for us and heads off to work - Thanks honey we really do appreciate what you do to care for our family!

Mall Time!

After work, Mag, Mel and I went to MacArthur to find outfits for Beks wedding this weekend. Mag had some luck, but Mel and I had NONE! Out of the 3 of us, none of us really ever drive on the interstate, Mag drives to school, but thats about it, so we knew it might be interesting getting to the mall (even though it is very simple for anyone else!)...anyway, the way there was fine, we got there great...and we had planned before we left that we had to leave the mall by a certain time to make it to Josh, Sean and Joeys B-ball game that we really wanted to see. Well, we left the mall way later than planned, we tried to rush back and didn't quite know where we were going. We got a little turned around, and time kept ticking...we knew we were missing lots of the game! Anyway, finally we turned back around and found our way to the game in time to see the 2nd half! It was a blast! The boys won there game by a TON! It is so fun now that Josh, Sean and Joey are on the same team...GO COUGARS!! I'll have to wait for Danny's camera to get home to post some pics from the game!

WOW! Those are some pretty stylish manicans!

Mel shopping away...

CHAMPS!

Sunday night, a group of people went to the chruch to play volleyball. Mag and I were on the same team and we WON every game! It was probably all because of us too. . .we're both pretty experienced in volleyball ;)! Anyway, after we were done with volley ball we decided to have a little race. One person would hold themselves up on 2 other peoples shoulders and then have to race to the other end of the gym! We won at that too...so we were the sunday night champs!

Jacko's going away

Brain Crabb had a going away party for our friend Jacko who is in the Navy and moving to California. As always, Brian has some crazy ideas of fun...which always do end up being a great time! We had a cook out, watermelon seed spitting contest, and then we went down by the "lake" (I don't know really what you would call it) where Brian jumped in! I don't know if anyone really knows why he did it, but it was some nasty water thats for sure! After that we all went to starbucks and then back to Brians to watch a movie....OUTSIDE! He put up a sheet on the side of his house, brought all his furniture outside, and we watched Batman. It was alot of fun. It's been so fun to have someone here who plans such out of the ordinary events!

National Flip Flop Day

Yesterday, Tropical Smoothie had their National Flip Flop Day. . . They were giving away free smoothies, so we called Unlce Joe to see if Mag and I could take a quick run while Jord was here to hold down the fort . . . and of course he let us because he's a softy! They were SOOO good!!!! Then, because Wes and I didn't have a ton to do that day, Uncle Joe let us have off half the day to go to the Y....Thanks Uncle Joe---You're the Best boss EVER!

Beach Day

Today was our family's first offical beach day with SGC. Sean had a Doctor appt to get a planters wart burned off his foot. We went right to the beach from the Dr's Office, and ended up being the first ones there...we drove down the strip and found a Tropical Smoothie - they were giving out free smoothies to the first 500 people that wore flip flops in the store. Once we got our free smoothies we headed back to 4th street and began the fun day of soaking up sun and visiting with many friends from SGC.

BUG EYES!

Thought you might get a kick out of these pictures. We found these glasses at the thrift store, and laugh so hard everytime we try them on! Sean wore them into Wendy's one time and got a heck of a reaction from the cashier..."woah!!!!"

Ray, Rob, me, Wes, Preston and Josh

Summer Basketball & Wes' Birthday

Josh and Sean had their first summer basketball game tonight. I took some pictures but they didn't turn out. They play on the same team so it makes it extra fun to watch. They won their game by eight points. They had a pretty good crowd between family and church family singles and fellow 316 friends.
We all sang Happy BIrthday to Wes as he turned 23 today. Can you tell he's a little embarrased? Just a little pink in the checks. We came home after the game and grilled porkchops had cheesy potatoes toss salad and brocholli for his birthday dinner. Preston joined us as well. Ray and Rob were over but didn't eat with us.

5th Annual Father Son Whiffleball Tournament

The church had their annual whiffleball tournament last weekend. Unfortunately Lyle was unable to make it due to the fact he had to work. However, Wes, Danny, Josh, and Sean were on a team and won all their preliminary games. The first game was played against the Smiths, Clay and Beau I wont' say to much other than the Dowlings won - BAM!! So they boys ended up going to the "World Series" with the Gable family. The Gables were ahead in the bottom of the last inning... .the Dowlings were down by 3 runs, with 2 outs. Sean starts the 2 run ralley with a home run, Wes follows with another, and Josh ties up the game with a 3rd homerun. Danny is up to bat, (No pressure though HAHA) and slams the 4th home run to win the final game which made them Chamions of the whiffle ball tournament in their age bracket. It was a SWEET game to watch with such a come back. Sorry Gables....maybe next year will be your year...

Cutest Brothers in the World!

Aren't they the most handsome boys ever? I think so! I am so grateful for my dear "little" brothers. As we all grow older, and our lives get busier, I realize how precious the time we get to spend together is. I LOVE it when we are all together at home! There nothing like quality family time. Thank you lord for blessing me so abundantly with this precious family and calling each of them to be your children!

We had fun on our date night, however we didn't end up going to Red Lobster as it was graduation weekend and there was a huge waiting line....So we drove around the parking lot and found a Panara Bread, and guess what we just happened to have a gift card for that resturant as well....God is so faithful!!

Date Night

Aren't they so cute!! Mom and dad are going on a date night tonight to Red Lobster. Dad has been winning all these gift cards at work, so he has a stash of like 10 or more different gift cards to a bunch of nice restaraunts. So off they go. The boys are in Williamsburg at the outlet mall, they should be home soon and will probably then go play tennis! I am just trying to figure out what I'm going to eat for dinner. Its pretty rare that I am home alone, probably mostly because I'll just leave if no one is home..especially at night! So I will sign off for now to get something to eat and then be off to Wes and Rays...they (Ray) invited a bunch of people over! Goodbye for now.

Handiwork by Sean

As you know my mom and dad were here for about 10 days. While they were here the boys got a lesson from my dad on how to use a table saw safely, along with some other helpful things from my dad. Now that they are gone Sean decided to put into practice what he learned from Grandpa. He built a mini table to hold our computer mouse and paper. This was taken in the shed where the table saw is ...Sean is intently working on the table which he designed himself!