One Last Visit

This past weekend we had Dad and Mom Waibel here for one last weekend of fun. Just think...they won't have to make that trip any longer to see their grandkids. We had a wonderful time. Thankfully mom took pictures as I did not!! On Saturday we spent most of the day on the lake.

Nick and I got in some SMOOTH water saturday morning as noone was on the lake, so we had fun wakeboarding.

Elijah is now skiing outside of the wake!! He does such a great job and loves it so much.

Caden is all about tubing with his mommy. Im glad he likes to go slow cause Im not much of a tuber. It just hurts! But he loves to go over other boat's wake's and go bouncing around. This is a picture after he just got bounced a good amount. Look at that face!!

This is Grandpa's hat that the boys loved to wear:)

Saturday night we had a belated birthday party for Caden.

Elijah, Caden and Grandpa made party hats so that is what is on Caden's head:)

Mom W. bought him a Bruster's Ice Cream Cake and boy was that yummy, but what was so funny is I put those "relighting" candle's on his cake and he just thought it was so funny that they kept coming back after he blew them out!!

Liam wearing his party hat as well:) I think he likes it?

Toothless Grin

He lost both of his top two teeth this week...and both are already coming in!!

Wonderful News

We are excited to announce that we are.....













MOVING!!!


Im sure some of you have already heard the news as my dear mother is very excited and telling people, so I thought I better get the news out myself before everyone knows:)
We will be moving to Francesville actually!! Nick got transfered to lafayette and will still be working for the same company. When we found out we were expecting Liam we asked for a transfer to Indiana. We had hoped we could have moved before Liam arrived, but it was not possible. Nick will be working at the South plant so it will be quite a drive, but we felt called to attend the Francesville church and have our kidos grow up around there. It will be a lengthy drive for nick each day, but we know that God will bless that time he has in the car and that nick can make the most of those times. We are currently working on finalizing the plans to buy our Indiana house, and hope to move sometime late July, early August before school starts.
As you can imagine both of our families are super excited to have us so close by. Its been a long time coming and we look forward to not having to make that LONG drive.
As we look back at our lives here in TN, we have realized how wonderful of a move it was for us. We have not only grown closer to each other, but we have most definitely grown closer to the Lord and that is the most important thing. This move is somewhat bittersweet for us and we thought we would NEVER say that, but we have been here 3.5 years and have put down roots. We will miss many friends, our great neighborhood, the mountains, the church we attended here and the church in Atlanta that we visited often, and of course the LAKES!!! But we know that God will go before us and we will love our new home!!

Happy Father's Day!

This post is dedicated to my wonderful husband and an awesome father to my three boys.

Thanks nick for being such a loving, caring, gentle, and compassionate husband to me. The boys are blessed to have a daddy like you who takes them to the park, who plays games with them, who teaches them how to play soccer and ride their bikes, who shows them love and showers them with kisses and hugs and who teaches them the importance of prayer and living for Christ.

We hope you have a wonderful day and we ALL love you very much.

Little Liam

Here is our little guy. Even though he looks so small and tiny he really is getting big!! He is our biggest boy at this age. He even has these tiny little rolls on his upper thighs. Its just so cute. None of our other boys had rolls to squeeze so Im loving it. We took a little video last night of Liam "talking" to us and thought some aunts and uncles and grandparents might enjoy:)

Liam is full of smiles now too!

Happy 4th Birthday!!

Can it be?? My little "ham" is a big 4 years old today!!!

Caden sweet Caden, I love you oh so much. You have been such a blessing to your mommy and daddy in more ways than one. We love your tender heart and your sweet spirit! That is as long as your big brother Elijah isn't pestering you, otherwise you can bring out the claws!! LITERALLY. You have to defend yourself with your nails and your fist sometimes. We are trying to break that habit of beating up your brother:) Caden you are super sweet and there isn't a day that goes by that you are not giving me a compliment. It usually is something like "mom, you are beautiful, or mom, your shirt is pretty, or mom, you look pretty." I don't know what I'd do without you. If you are in trouble and I simply raise my voice, usually that will be all that needs to be done for you to realize you are in trouble. So tenderhearted. I love your dare devil side....willing to try anything your big brother does. I mean not many (at the time) 3 year olds ride a bike without training wheels or ride his brother's razor scooter with such balance and ease. I love you buddy and I pray someday you will grow up to be a Godly man and have a wonderful Godly wife and beautiful children. Happy 4th Birthday Caden!!

Memorial Day Weekend

I know, that Memorial Day weekend was nearly a week ago, but sometimes I just don't feel like blogging and I wait until I don't mind blogging. So now I will get to what a wonderful fun filled weekend we had.

Briana and Troy and Kylin came to visit us and we had so much fun. We went boating on Friday afternoon when they got here,becuase Elijah was dying to try out his new birthday gift his ski's and guess what he got up:). We went boating Saturday afternoon till evening, we ate at brusters (ice cream place) and we even found out about a restraunt here we didn't know we had. Troy was telling us about Pizza Palace which was on TV on the show Dinners, Drive-Ins and Dives. This place is totally a Dive and in a terrible location downtown Knoxville, but the food is fabulous. In fact we went there again last night for dinner taking our neighbors with us. Anyway, Troy and Briana left Sunday morning and then our little family continued our fun weekend.

Sunday we ate out at Palancho's for lunch after church then enjoyed the rest of the day outside and around the house relaxing. Monday we went out on the boat again for 6 hours. Got a bit of sun, but nothing that I was hurting over:) So much fun and we really enjoyed having Briana and Troy and Kylin here. Thank you guys for making such a long trip. I know how it is!!!