The Best Chocolate Cake

So because I will be gone for Father's Day to mark the occasion we had cake and ice cream tonight. This is a picture of the best Chocolate Fudge Cake and it was definitely a cake that required milk. I love and appreciate the fact that I have such a talented wife to constantly keep me fed with some of the best cakes ever on the different special days of the year. (birthday, father's day, and anniversaries)

Memorial Day Parade

Dacula has a annual Memorial Day Parade every year this is our third year in attendance. These are a couple of the pictures taken, one of Maryn and Kate Harkness and the other of McKay and the Harkness boys. The Harkness family is one of our good friends here in good ol' Georgia. We spend a lot of time shuttling our kids back and forth to each others houses and activities. Dacula is one of the only places in America that does a Memorial Day Parade we are lucky to be able to remember those that have served and protected our freedoms by making the ultimate sacrifice. Also, to all the other Veterans out there. A side note Gretchen ran in the 5k before the parade again preparing for the run across Florida mentioned in the other post.

We attempt to Garden in the Red Clay of Georgia

So Gretchen has been itching to have garden space ever since we settled in Dacula. Well finally after a second year some good soil, dung and a roto tiller what you see in the pictures is the end result. She has beans, carrots, potato's, corn, onions, zucchini, pea's, cucumbers, herbs, lettuce and spinach. Between this backyard space and the small section in the front. We are all excited, we even used some of the lettuce for our dinner tonight.

More of Mckay and Will

McKay and his buddy Will graduated from Pre-K and will be going to Kindergarten next year. Here is a picture of McKay and Will with their teacher Ms. Brenda. They were the Frogs this year and had a lot of fun learning and playing.

Gretchen the Runner

So recently, Gretchen's friends have been encourage a new habit, running!!! She and some of her girlfriends are going to run across Florida in a 24 hour relay and so they have been training by doing several of the local 5K runs. Gretchen is building to do a 10K we just need to find one that she wants to run in or works out with our current schedule. But we will, this is a picture from the Susan G. Komen run for the Cure in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness.

The Piano Women

Maddie was able to share here piano talent by playing prelude music before the start of graduation. She and two other girls were asked to do this, she did an excellent job.

McKay and Will

This is the story of two buddies that went to school and played together all year. Here are some pictures of them getting their Play Ball medals. Play Ball is a program they offer to help teach sporting skills and sportsmanship. They had a great time they both worked hard. Will and Mckay have been in the same Pre School and Pre Kindergarten for the past two years they will be attending different elementary schools next year but I am sure will remain close friends as they still will play and attend church together.

Goodbye 5th Grade, Hello Middle School

Here is our daughter Maddie graduating from the 5th Grade. It seems that in the south it is a big deal to move from elementary to middle school. She had her graduation at the local huge Baptist Church, she graduated with 250+ other 5th graders in 12 classes. She was excited it was a special time for her. She also was awarded the Presidential Award for Academic Excellence. Next year she will be attending the newest Middle School in the district they just built it, and it has all the new stuff it will be called Twin Rivers Middle School the mascot is the Bears.

I think I can still count this as fall pictures since they were taken in October. This is McKay at a field trip to an apple farm in North Georgia. The kids each got to pick 5 apples off the tree and bring them home. We went on a hayride and these pumpkins were so neat looking. Sorry the photography isn't better. They were huge pumpkins and so fun to see. I was asking my kids what food they would like for Thanksgiving just to see if they had any favorites. Madalyn said turkey and potatoes and apple pie (she loves Aunt Sherrie's apple pie), Maryn said nice turkey and pumpkin pie and McKay said pumpkin pie, pumpkin butter, pumpkin bread, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin dessert, hmmmmm......think McKay likes pumpkin?!