Spring Break Photos Part 1

Yum Fudruckers

Judi, Miranda and James on the left.  Rebekah, Nichole and Mike on the right.

 Girls in Judi's car following us bumper to bumper (the norm) in Pigeon Forge.

Our view Sunday evening.

Our view Tuesday morning after 2 days of snow.

Making snow balls.

4 inches of snow on the cars.

Which ball is smaller?

I think this one is.

Our snow person.

Our tongues keep popping out to catch snowflakes.. 

Mountain at the end of our road.

Friendly horses in Cade's Cove

Cheese!

The church choir.

It was a little muddy..

James was computing while climbing the mud slide and slid himself.. ipad survived the mud.   Judi said, "I have a towel you can use in my trunk."  James asked, "Where is that?"  Judi, "Attached to the back of my car."  James wouldn't budge.. do involved in making sure his ipad was okay.  Judi was so great that she marched down, got the towel and gave it to him... while the girls and I laughed at James for falling in the mud and took pictures.

We are church goers.

Maybe my favorite snow picture.

Or this one.

The barn.

Girls in the hay loft.

both sides.

Jumping down.

I got mud on my rear.. is that from James?

Best cabin yet.

The road behind.

The road ahead.

Did I share enough of these?

Love this one.

James' Birthday

James turned

A few of his good friends helped us celebrate after church.

We only make this awesome cake when we have friends to help us eat it..

Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Cake

1 chocolate cake mix

Heat oven to directions on box. 

Prepare 2 layer cake as directed. 

Cool completely.

Cream Cheese Peanut Butter Frosting

12 ounces cream cheese, room temp.

1/4 cup butter, room temp.

1 teaspoon vanilla

6 cups powdered sugar

1/2 cup peanut butter

In a large mixing bowl, blend the cream cheese, butter 

and vanilla with an electric mixer until smooth. 

Add the powdered sugar and peanut butter and mix until smooth.

To frost the cake, place one layer on a serving plate. 

Spread 1/4 of the frosting over the top. Place the second layer on top. 

Spread the remaining frosting over top and sides of the cake.

Do you keep calling your kids "kids" when they become adults?

Should I be calling them our young adults?

James loves to serve

@ church

@ his job

and sometimes.. 

@ home, too.

We are so blessed!

Jenny

Judi and Chloe

Judi and Chloe asked me to go with them for a photo shoot at the play ground ( a first).

Chloe is Judi's best friend from Spain.  She is actually from here but has lived

in Spain as a missionary kid for 14 years.

 Saved the best for last.  A double backhand spring in the field.

Clarkson Bridge Park

This week has just been beautiful.  

Weather in the high 60's and yesterday it got up around 70.  

We couldn't stand spending all week inside so we got out and met some good friends 

that we met originally in FL in Cullman at a covered bridge there.  

The bridge was built in 1904.

Just beautiful.

Houston, Holden, Abbey, Judi, Joel and Zoë

Kids had a grand time hiking and playing hide and seek.  

And we moms enjoyed just sitting and talking in the fresh air.

Labor Day Weekend

My poor sad tree thinks it's fall.  What should I do?

Saturday evening we got to go visit our missionary friends from Spain.

They recently bought a house here so they'd have one when they're old.

Hal and their friend Jesso fly back to Spain today.  

So they had a going away party for them.

Judi just loves Cloe.

Jesso doesn't speak very much English.. He spent a couple of days with Joel and Josh to see how Americans live.  They took him bowling and hiking and played video games with him.

Here are the guys hanging out.

The girls had their own table.

Jane made us this wonderful Spanish dish in a paella.. witch is a super large pan.

In Spain the usually include squid in their paella.. but Jane was nice and just used

chicken and bacon.  She even went to the store for some sea salt .. 

so it'd be corn free and I could eat it, too.