Radio Flyer Girl

It is difficult to belive that on June 3 Tennyson will be two years of age.  She is full of life.  I had three people last week ask me "Is she always this happy?"  Yes she is.  We are so proud and thankful for our little girl. 
We had been trying to get pregnant for a while before we had her.  A few weeks before my Grandpa Thompson passed away, I was visiting him in the hospital and he told me, "When I get to heaven I am going to ask God to give you a little girl".   A week after he passed away she was conceived.  The other day we were looking through some pictures and without me saying anything she pointed and said "grand-pa" and gave the picture a kiss. It may seem strange but I believe with all my heart that he had something to do with God blessing us with her.
Here are a few pictures I took of our wild and tough as nails little girl. 

Here is one of her favorite people...her brother Asher.

McDuffee Family Reunion

We celebrated our family reunion at Rickwood Caverns Saturday May 29, 2010.  I can just imagine my paternal grandmother's smile (Christine Latham McDuffee) to see the images below.  My Uncle Tracy is diligent about all the effort it takes to organize this event.  I am so thankful for our family!!!
Jack & Christine Latham's great-grandchildren

Bill & Annette Latham's grandchildren

Tracy & Joan Latham's grandchildren

Tennyson likes to tease

Tennyson likes to tease everybody when it comes to trying to get a sweet, little kiss.  Sometimes, when Mark is leaving for work she will holler out "bye-bye daddy, kiss daddy" and then as he leans over she turns her head giggling and running away.

Rock Graffiti

Well it went like this....Tennyson was taking a long afternoon nap so I let the boys paint some tiny rocks on the porch (controlled setting supposedly), while I was preparing supper.  Well, they painted the tiny rocks and moved on to bigger and better rocks along our pathway.  One thing we love about our homefront is its natural setting.  Well, when Mark came home from work we walked out to see some new plants I had planted in the garden to find rock graffiti. It reminded Mark of growing up in the city in California and seeing graffiti all over building etc...Well I went on active blog duty (taking the images below), Mark begrudgedly helped the kids scrubbed rocks.  Thankfully, it was Crayola's wonderful washable paint bu tit took some elbow grease to get it off the thirsty, pourous rocks. 

The look says it all (above)!

Below: It is amazing how a bucket of water is SO much FUN!

They have now said it was a lot of work to get the rocks clean and they would paint on paper...only time will tell.  Here is a picture of Braxton painting a picture, on paper, for his Kindergarten teacher that he really misses.