Girl's Day

Dree planned a surprise birthday party for Nikki.  Here we are waiting for the birthday girl to get home.

The surprise was a success!

Volleyball was the popular game of the day.

Alyssa

I'm so thankful for the wonderful friends God has brought into my life.

Team #1 

Team #2 

Alexis & Cindy on the path.

Nikki & Dree

Family

Uncle Jack teaching Em how to play the piano - - with her hands and with her feet.

It's so fun to be a part of a family with siblings who are your companions and best friends.

More Flowers

Friends

Sweet Baby Emily 

Apple Blossoms

by Emily

Army Field Band & Chorus

Last week our family got to go see the army field band perform.  It was a fun evening together. 

Emmy's 17th Birthday

Emily, you are a blessing to our family in so many ways.  Glad to have a sister like you!

Rick is engaged!

We are delighted that Bethany will soon be a part of our family!   To see more pictures, visit Rick's blog.

Mom's Birthday

The kids designed balloons for Mom, and we thought this one looked nice with her reading glasses on it.

We decided to send Mom on a shopping spree.

You are an incredible Mom! We love you SO much!!! :)

*photo taken by Emily

Recording/Frisbee Outing

Savos Strings had a recording day to put together a few songs for an event preview CD.  While the quartet was recording, the rest of our group walked over to the local park and took some pictures then played some ultimate frisbee.  Good memories!

We quickly found out that they don't make merry-go-rounds like they used to when we were little kids.  This one had speed resistant brakes on it!  Where does all that excitement go of holding on for dear life while someone spins it at top speed?  Kids are being deprived of that terror these days.  So sad. :o)

*Thanks to Alyssa for shooting photos while we were playing UF.

Reid wings a long one...

Lots of action!

For the record, this team smoked the competition!

Emily says "No way you are going to get that frisbee past me!"

Later on, we went over to the office to play a few table games before wrapping up for the evening.

Take 2!

The Results Are In!

The winner of our blogiversary comment page has been picked randomly by a computer generated "name picker".  Now, for the person that won, here are your instructions to receive your gift card:

1. Send $15.00 processing and shipping charges to us. Just Kidding! :o)  Just send your mailing address to jack.a.mcdonnell@gmail.com and we will reply to confirm that we got your address and have shipped out the card. 
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Thank you everyone for joining in the fun!