Baptism

What a blessed day to celebrate! Over the summer at Bible School with a friend, Eden approached the pastor and a teacher about wanting to be saved and baptized. I am very proud of Eden for taking this first step, but it was a long process for us as parents to have our children baptized/christened. As a Christian, this is definitely something we have thought about since our children were born...but being raised a Baptist, I had different views than my now Methodist church. After talking with the children and meeting with our pastor, we decided to have the children baptized with Kelly and I making the commitment for them. Nevertheless, we are so proud of them and honored to have our new Pastor Chris (above) perform the ceremony for us.

Apple Pickin' and Helen Hoppin'

Mercier's Orchards, Blue Ridge GA

Downtown Blue Ridge

Watching daddy referee at Fannin Co.

Helen, GA

Pumpkin Pickin' in Elijay

What a great weekend for Fall Break. The kids and I took off early Friday morning and headed over to Blue Ridge, where Kelly was to referee that evening, and went to Mercier's and Downtown for some shopping and eating. The kids loved picking their own apples and learned a lot about the planting and picking process. They had a blast at daddy's game catching touchdown footballs and running around cheering own dad! After a restful night we headed over to Helen through a trip in the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains. We enjoyed Helen with lunch and lots of shopping. Our trip wouldn't have been complete without stopping for some pumpkins. It was so much fun to spend these days with the family just relaxing and enjoying the beautiful North Georgia mountains!

Kids of Fall

Magic feet

Eagles Cheering Squad

Mighty number 8

NWHS Youth Night

My sweet athletes! 

And we enjoyed hanging out watching our Dawgs play

What a busy Fall we are having! Our kids are so active and love being involved in something. Of course Eden loves cheering, she just comes by it naturally. She is in her fourth year of cheering as a PGE Eagle and is loving every minute of it! Hank decided that soccer would be his sport again this year and proving to be such a little sport with a magic foot while playing with his cousin Asa, and myself as Coach. Upon football signups, he ultimately decided he would like to do both soccer and football...so here we are trying to run both kids four different directions (Eden is dancing too) while we both work, Kelly is refereeing, and myself in school three nights a week. We are one busy little crew-but wouldn't change it for anything.