My BFF's...........

Cathy, Amanda and Angie (or Angela)...aka CaManGela! hahaha We have been best friends for the last 18 years. WOW! You now the old saying..."You will always be my best friend...you know too much!" that is true in this case. It's great though. I LOVE my BFF's! We have been there for each other through: getting 3 drivers licenses, 6 - 8 cars, 5 weddings, 3 divorces, 6 kids, 101 birthdays, millions of tears and tons & tons more laughs. I am so thankful that God brought me these girls.....WAY back when!!! There is not a day that goes by that I don't think of them and wish we lived in the same town so we could see each other all the time. I will truly cherish them for the rest of my life!

I love you girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let me explain the birthdays!

18 (the number of years we've known each other)

x 3 (me, Ang and Am)

= 54

+

16 (Dylan)

9 (Krystin)

8 (Victoria)

7 (Garrett)

4 (Averie)

3 (Cole)

= 101 hahaha that's wild!

I plan on posting old pics soon.

Sweet, sweet girl!!!!

June 14~BAC Church Annual Picnic

Averie discovered you can swing and look like a plane.

Garrett and Dylan see-sawing
They are looking at some planes.
The remote control kind.

That's the "I can get away with anything" look she gives daddy!

Not my fav but I love trying to capture her character!

Garrett couldn't get a serious look! He was crackin' up!!!

This is def. a fav though!

Garrett and Averie tried their hand at balloon toss.

She hated it!

Shhhh...I'm listening to the instructions!!

AND THEY'RE OFF!!!!

We did make an honest effort!

We DID NOT win...needless to say!

You better watch out boy!

Chad got it! WAY TO GO DYL!

Dylan and Chad won 1st place in the balloon toss contest.

Garrett and Averie Hoola-Hooping

JUMP! JUMP! JUMP!

Back

Front

THIS was the backyard of a house we saw on the way!

I'm soooo jealous!

My Family!!!

Chad, Cathy, Dylan, Garrett and Averie
This was taken at Gram and Aunt Mary's church picnic in PA. We had a lot of fun! I will post some others from this day, too. I just thought I'd get a family picture while we were all still decent looking. ha

I'm praying for Marli!

Cancer free she will be!....that is what is on the other side of this braclet. Marli is Chad's cousin that lives in Miami. She just found out a few months ago that she has Ovarian AND Colon cancer. She is a wife and mother of 3. She is such a sweet lady! We don't get to see much of them because they live so far away but with God we will be able to see her soon (I believe we are scheduling a family reunion next year). Since beginning chemo her CA125 (a blood test that determines how much cancer is in her body) has gone from over 1700 down to 26.9 (last I heard). She has since shaved her head and bought a wig. One of her friends told her that it would be easier that way instead of watching it fall out anyway! She has her own blog if you want to see a picture of her and her family and get up-to-date information. Please just keep her and her family in your prayers! It looks like the prayers are working so far....a few more wouldn't hurt though. This just goes to show how important it is to stay in touch with family...you never know when you might lose someone. Thank God that hasn't happened in this case.
Love to all~ Cathy
http://www.mmmmmwolff.com/ is the website. Yes...that's 5 M's (for Mark, Marli, Mimi, Mason and Mia)!!!

Women of Faith

Mom and me at Women of Faith. WOW...we sure do look a lot alike!!!

James and Rachelle's new house...

Movin' on up....to the East Side....to a de-lux appartment in the sky-y-y!

The new pad!
Boxes, boxes everywhere!!!

Our gift to them!

Izzie and Earl

My Cool Cakes......

Ok so I didn't "invent" them. I got the idea from a friend but aren't they precious!? I love making them. You can make it for any occasion!

A few pics from Averie's 4th

So here I am again!

Tucker--he looks so sweet and precious, huh?!?! Well.....he is but he's also very mischievous. He chews up stuff, sneaks in and gets the kids toys and chews them. He passes gas like crazy and gets water everywhere when he drinks. He'll get up in your lap if you like it or not and yet will give you the sweet, sweet puppy eyes to get whatever he wants. He's 9 months old as of July 4th and weighs right at 60 lbs. I am not sure how much more growing he has to do but I hope it's not much. I can't wait to see what the future holds for this big guy! It cracks me up to think that Averie used to carry him around everywhere when we first got him. Now he comes up to her chest when he's on all fours! haha

Sorry it's been so long...

I have been super busy lately. I have so much to post and update you on. I will do my best to get some new pics on here. We have been painting and I am eager to show you those pictures. I will try to post tonight.

My latest creation!

This is one of my favorite invitations I've made yet! I really had a hard time "cutting" Averie out but it was fun once I got the hard part out of the way. This turned out to be a really cute card. It's so much better looking on paper. I used this new company that I heard about from my SLU BUDDY and my mentor! It's exclusive to photographers! They do awesome work! So long MILLERS! I wasn't impressed with my Christmas card print from them. Anyway, I just had to share the card! I love how it turned out.

Life just keeps getting better!

These beautiful portraits were taken by a good friend of mine, Robin Cooley. She has a studio right next door to my dad and has taught me so much over the last several months. She is so talented. She's been a photographer for 15 or more years but stopped to focus on family. Since my interest in learning from her, she's re-found her love of photography and has started back up. She's such a great friend and I LOVE these pics!!!!!