Happy Birthday Alexis.. you get your cast off, have a great dinner(and lunch), and go to the Macon mall with Allison!

This was a GREAT birthday for Alexis, we have done parties in the past BUT this year she could choose to have a party or go someplace with one of her friends!.. kinda glad she chose the latter because she had been SOOOO gracious to my mother in law who goes to church with a family in need and Alexis cleaned out her closet and she really needed some shoes and thankfully she has that giving heart!!!!!!!!!..  we went to Macon with her BEST friend Allison and that girl is a TROOPER (Allison)... she is NOT a shopper BUT she did want Alexis to feel special since it was her special day... We also went to a Japanese restaurant when G & G were here.. that is always fun!... then we went a couple of days later with my dad and Alexis chose Ryan's! it is always nice to see dad!...  BUT I think the thing she thought was fun as well is getting her boot off!...yay not broken foot!

Sweet Girls

charming Charlies!... they DO NOT want us back in their store!!!!!!!!!!

mean faces!...  they have NEVER been mad!

Dad and Alexis

10.....where has the time gone?

love this picture of me and her!

fun all the time!

are you gonna catch the chicken ... NO!!  missed

LOOK NO CAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Bithday Andrew!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a SWEET boy the Lord has in trusted to us to raise in the ways of the Lord!.. He is easy going, smiley (if that is a word) and just a JOY to be around!...  we had his birthday with some of our sweetest family and friends...  some could not be there and we missed them so much BUT we still had a GREAT time celebrating!... hope you enjoy his smiles like we do!

Stone Mountain! what a fun trip...

One of the our favorite things to do is go to Stone Mountain at least 2 time a year.... we have done this ever since Alexis was 3 and it is something that we look FORWARD to every year!... so this year is NO different!... we got an email from Trish Cobb wanting to know if we like to go so of course if we are open Doug and I LOVE to get together with friends!...  YES!!!!!  as the day got closer Doug and I started talking about our prior trips, we came to the fact that there has not been ONE time we have climb the mountain without holding someone! well this is going on 6 years sooooooooo   again we carried Andrew in the hiking backpack!.. we really have become professionals at this! :)  we had a great climb and then we headed over to the BIG lawn and waited for the laser show~!......  the Bresindines and the Davies joined us and we had a BLAST!!!!! memories memories memories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!... what a great day that the Lord provided for us!... 

~we will miss the Cobb's but these memories will last a LIFETIME!!!!~

I've got a FEVER..... FOX FEVER that is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well it is that time again, we are in the CRUNCH time of the Fox fever Race...  It is October 22,2011....  TIME IS APPROACHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! well if you don't know what this FEVER is about let me explain:

Team Impact is excited to announce the 2^nd Annual Fox Fever Run for World Impact, scheduled for October 22, 2011.  Because of your generous support last year we were able to raise in excess of $11000 for our mission… MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS CHRIST!

A few of the ways the money was used include:  (1) deploying a team of 3 missionaries to Guyana for 9 days where dozens of Guyanese Hindis renounced Hinduism forever and embraced the Gospel of Jesus Christ!; (2) sending a missionary to Ukraine for 9 days where literally thousands heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ, hundreds of whom made decisions for Christ and were welcomed into the family of God!; (3) funding several local missionaries to attend a conference on disciple-making in an effort to overtake our local community with world-impacting, world-changing disciples; and (4) providing curriculum for several visionary disciple-makers right here in Griffin employing them to partner with our Lord in creating the next generation of disciple-making disciples!

WOW......  AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!......  we hope that God will allow this race to raise more money for sending people OUT.....  we should have a GLOBEL vision!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!..........

I HOPE YOU GET THE FEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you Lord for MANY blessings...this is just one!

I had often thought about Lane and her free spirit which I LOVE, but as we approached Kindergarten I begain to realize that she had so much that she needed to learn and she really preffered to play and "take breaks" rather than look at school work.... well God truely has blessed me and given me a peace of who she is and her desire to learn..... she has done GREAT in school and has that DESIRE to learn and grow!...  let me never forget HE is the one who gives us the willing spirit....
Restore in me the JOY of your salvation and give me a willing spirit! Psalm 51:12

Just because you are older you can learn something new!

as most of you know the Lawrences have JUST really become cat lovers.  I have written a blog introducing you to Sharona welll...............................

...It took Faith Williams Hendrix to "show" us it is a boy...

so my first question was why is it so hard to tell on a cat??? well from what I am hearing it is kinda hard, so I guess some things are meant to not be answered :) 

second question was what will HIS name be???

It is official that "she"rona is "he"rona..sooooooo HIS new name is Stottlemyer!

welcome again to the family!

Frog and Friends or Friends and Frogs

This was back in June... Lane had 2 of her friends spend the night so at dark we decided to go hunt for frogs, well really I didn't go but everytime that they caught a frog I would here "we got another one" of course I was excited so about 30 minutes later I go out and look at the frogs, I could not help but get the camera!... these girls had a blast.....  you can find FUN things to do CHEAP!!!!!   it was a great time that night!

Rachel, Lane, Maelee

Caleb helping

the girls did this!

SWIMMING!!!! one of our favorite things... grandmothers pool!

This has been something that the kiddos look foward to EVERY year... moms pool opening up and swimming!.. we had a blast everytime... we didn't get up there as much this year because of Andrew and his age and we have just been so busy here in Griffin... here are some GREAT pictures!
Enjoy!

These will be memories for a lifetime!