My Parents Are The Bomb!

In their 60's (sorry guys, it's true), married over 40 wonderful years and these guys still know how to live life to the fullest! This picture was just taken this past Feb. I'm so lucky to have them as my parents. Bill & Dotti, YOU ROCK! Love you!

Lovelace Family Reunion!

Harlan, Shirley, Gail, Nancy
Jessica, Fern (2 mommies to be :), Ashley, Nancy, baby Anna, Ann, Christi

Ashley, Christi, Ann w/ baby Anna

Ashley, Megan, Kathy

Scott, Ryan, Bahnson, Cortney, Paul (aka..the storytellers..lol)

Skot & Ryan, look at the resembelance in these cuzs!

Nancy opening baby gifts with lots of help :)

Joyce & Fern

Harlan playing around with the kiddos

Kathy & Paul- married over 20 years, awesome!

Ann & Megan

Ashley & baby Anna

Mylie eating some fried seafood

busy little Maddy loves her electronics

Arielle & Gracie

Sarah, Mylie & Erin

Skot & Bahnson

Ashley & Joyce

Fern, Ann & Jessica

Crystal & Nancy

Skot, Crystal & girls

When I was a kid my dad's side of the family would have really fun family reunions. We would usually camp in North Carolina or Florida and I would have a blast with all my cousins. It's hard to believe that I am the next generation of reunion planners! My cousin Nancy just had an adorable baby girl (Anna Claire) and us girl cousins decided this was a great opportunity to get everyone together to celebrate. I got to see some family I hadn't seen in 15 years! Jessica flew in from Virginia, Fern, Cortney, Gail & Harlan came from GA, Ryan came from LA, Aunt Shirley & Uncle Bahnson came from FL, my brother Skot & fam came from UT and my sister Ashley came from CA. Then the NC gang was all there as well (Ann's family, Paul's family, Aunt Nancy). Bahnson & Joyce were awesome hosts. We all met up in Asheville at Bahnson & Joyce's and enjoyed the beautiful weather, sitting on the patio, eating bbq pork and tofu. Arielle loved running around with her cousins, especially Gracie who is so close to her in age. We made plans to camp as a group next summer and hope to make this a more regular occurrence.

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Toby & his friend were a bit bored on the bus ride home and decorated Toby's face. Seriously, this kid is so funny. On another note, Arielle had the 4th grade "Animal Safari" where the whole grade decorated their rooms with stuffed animals and presented info on animals for the parents. Arielle chose to report on elephants. She had a "button" sitting in front of her on her desk and parents walked around pushing it, she repeated her little report over & over again!

Spring Soccer Wrap Up- GO MOB!

Toby joined a new soccer club this spring, Optimist. He had a really fun time playing left wing and forward. He scored almost every game, this was his highest scoring season every played. Jim & I appreciated that this league more laid back than the competitive teams he was on the last few years, but a step up from county/city league. The pace was perfect for him (and us!). 1 weekly practice, 1 weekly game (no Sundays) and no traveling! Love it. Toby had a couple friends from school on his team & played against some other friends within the league. They were a brand new team , "The Mob", just formed this spring and came out with only 1 loss. They celebrated with a big pool party. Great season!

The Running 'Fro

Toby just wrapped up his first middle school track season, 7th & 8th grade track. The girls team practiced at the same time as the boys and they had all their meets together. I think that was a perk as far as Tobes was concerned. He had weekly meets where he ran the 250 yd dash and 4x100 relay. The competition was fierce, and he gave it great effort. I love this pic of him running with his huge fro (that I have been begging him to cut). I almost didn't recognize him coming down the track :)