Gus Gus

Another new addition to the family!

Hawaii

We took Anni to Kauai for her graduation present. My Naji was not able to go but he made sure his family had a good trip. We headed to catch our plane in Atlanta on July 4th and celebrated there. Then caught our plane on the 5th.

Party!!

Graduation pool party for my girl. She was happy to get her money lei from my buddies, Sue, Martha, Tricia,Belinda, and Jodi, thanks my sweet friends! And thanks to all of our other family and friends who celebrated with us!

My Baby Graduates Class of 2012

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Snow Boarding

Last year Josh mastered snow skiing, and this year we went to Beech Mountain and he learned how to snow board and was up on the black diamond trails within an hour. To be young and learn things so quickly!!

Our new addition to the family in 2012...This is Jacks.

Our little girl is growing up

Anni is a senior...hard to believe. We are so proud of her, she is growing up to be a nice young lady. She was accepted to Montevallo which is where she wants to go. She loves photography and so far is planning to study that. She is also interested in psychology. Please pray for her as she begins her journey as, uuhhh, hard to even type...a woman.

Wrestling-Josh's new found love.

Josh has always loved watching the wrestling on TV, this year he has decided to get in on the action and he is really enjoying it.

Holiday Concert

Merry Christmas from Josh, his holiday concert at his school.

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UAB Honor Band

Josh made the UAB Honor band. Out of 600 that tried out, 300 made it. Of those he made gold band, 1st chair. So proud of our boy!

Class of 2012

Can you believe she is a senior, I'm so proud of my little girl who is not so little to anyone but me anymore. Anni is still loving photography. She has a Facebook page where she posts some of her work, she definitely has a good eye for pictures. If you have jobs for her, let her know!!  :)  She wants to go to Montevallo and study photography and something else?? Maybe education or psychology. The jury is still out. Help me pray for her that she has nothing but happiness on her venture into the world.

Mid life crises!

Nough said...

Sax

Josh is still loving the saxophone, he made the jazz band again this year, is sitting 1st chair, and won awards at the end of last school year for football and jazz band. He also made the UAB Honor band. He's growing up into a nice young man! I'm so proud of him!

We're a 2 link chain! :)

My hard working husband opened our 2nd restaurant this year, I'm so proud of him! family and friends celebrated with us before the doors officially opened.

Fishin

With the help of his Uncle Kirk and lots of patience, Josh finally catches his first Bass at Lay Lake, we spent most of the summer at the lake this year and loved every minute of it!

Spring Break 2011

I went on what's become an annual trip with my best girlfriends and two of my brothers to Fort Walton. The main event was Andy winning the grand prize at the Pub Crawl! Life is definitely good spending time with people I love!

Anni Prom

Anni went with a boy named Brendon to her 2011 Prom. They had a wonderful time and she looked beautiful. We went to Morris Avenue in Birmingham to take pictures before the big night!

Frosty the Snowman

Merry Christmas everyone!! Josh plays Frosty in the Bumpus jazz band Christmas Concert.

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Anni

Anni has been getting into photography this year, she wanted me to post a couple of her pictures. One is of a band named Black River Wine. She has switched from taking violin lessons to guitar and is really enjoying it. She is very creative!!

Mother Ocean!

"The girls" have started a tradition of going to the beach in the fall for a last summer fling before the cold weather sets in!!  Let's just say "43" is a good number!

Sax

Josh enjoys football, but his love is the tenor sax. He plays for the Bumpus band, pep band for the 8th grade football games, he made jazz band 1st chair, and he's trying our for honor band. I venture to say, the music is in his soul!

Football

Josh playing football for Bumpus Middle School. Bumpus is in the white jerseys and this game is against Oak Mountain. 

New York

Naji and I went to New York again this summer for the food show and a little fun. We had a great time. This year we saw Rock of Ages. I think one of our favorite places to eat is Stages Deli, yum!

Josh went to camp

This summer Josh went to two camps, Winnataska and BoyScout. He had a great time at both of them and earned 4 new patches at boy scout camp.