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FAMILY GOING ONS
Last I blogged the kiddos were still playing basketball through Florence Parks & Rec. They both had a great time. PJ's team placed second in his age group and earned a massive trophy and bragging rights for the year. Avy's team didn't place in the tournament but we learned so much and plan on kicking some tail next year!!
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| 2nd Place--Forest Hills Royal! |
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| Thats My Girl! |
We have had many get-togethers with family. My moms birthday was February 19th. She was and forever will be 29....ageless to all of us! We surprised her with a party at my brothers home in Pleasant View Tennessee where I grew up. It was awesome! She was truly surprised. She's a blessing to all of us and this was one way that we could show her how precious she is to us.
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| Our precious Mom, Nana |
That morning on our way up we stopped by and picked up Baby Erik at my sister Tiffanys house and we had the pleasure of spoiling him for the entire day! We also had the pleasure of giving him squash for the first time ever! Excellent picture opportunity : )
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| Diggin' some squash for the first time in his whole life : ) |
I was responsible for the cake and Zoe helped me with the baking. She was an excellent assistant.
Everyone had an excellent time. Some of us even got a little crazy.....my daddy!
I dont think I have ever had that much fun ....the whole family played Wii Just Dance. Video will not be included on this blog because I don't want to die and I dont want my sister to go to jail for my murder! Let's just say we would win the $10,000 on America's Funniest Video if I were to send it in. She is just that hilarious! She rocks my world, she's so funny.
That night we crashed my sisters house and stayed with them. The boys worked at my uncles house the next day rebuilding after the Nashville flood and the gals and Baby Erik went to the Factory in Franklin to shop! We had a great time. I enjoy watching my sister be a mom. She's amazing! I also did Baby Erik's 6 months photos. He just keeps growing too fast.
Avy and her daddy have an Annual Daddy/Daughter Date Night. It has really become a family institution. Avy and I shop for the perfect outfit with all the accessories. Her daddy picks her up and takes her out to dinner and a movie. I provide 'professional' photographs for a fee of Junior Mints. Its really a great memory maker and a good time for Avy and her daddy to spend some one-on-one time. I don't think Philip was prepared for what he saw this year though. Avy is 8 years old. She takes after her daddy in height. She about 5 feet tall and looks like shes about 12. Well her outfit made her look every bit of 12 years old this year and her daddy was not happy about it at all.
Report cards came out and in consistent fashion both PJ and Avy received all As. Awards Day was on March 18th and they both cleaned house award-wise!
PJ and I had a date night to go see the Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie. He refused to dress up in 'all-boy' fashion and was less than excited about taking pictures. Being the horrible mother that I am, I made him take pictures because one day I'll be old and he may actually want a picture of me when I was younger and cuter and not old and wrinkly : )
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| Yes, he is taller than me by a good three to four inches! |
Avy and I went to Nashville to mom and dads on March 26th for the day. We spent time with Tiffany and Baby Erik and mom. Avy wasn't feeling well the entire time. Turns out she had the FLU : ( She was out of school for three days. Even worse she had exposed Baby Erik to the Flu. Thankfully he didnt come down with it.
We traveled to my brothers house again on the 2nd of April for our nephews birthday party. Huge kudos to my brother for renting a massive blow-up jumping castle. Happy Birthday to the happiest little man, Caleb. What a blessing you are to this family! We love you.
We have been counting down the days for this week for a while. Spring Break was finally here. It began with me recovering from a procedure that I will cover in the health update. Anyway plans were shortened. Monday was a rest day! We played Wii and watched movies all day. Tuesday was the day....a zoo day to be exact!!!! We traveled to Birmingham to the zoo and to the Botanical Gardens. This day was shortened too due to less than adequate energy.
Wednesday was another recover day. Thursday I spent the whole day with Avy doing whatever she wanted.....shopping. Friday I spent the whole day doing whatever PJ wanted.....playing Wii and watching movies. Saturday we, as a family, got to go to the movies FOR FREE! Thanks to the Fraternal Order of the Police we were treated to two movies. Megamind and Gulliver's Travels.....Hilarious with really good music! That Sunday we celebrated the April Birthdays on the Gambrell family side at Ed and Dru's house. Philip and I worked in the garden in the evening. Best part of the day!
For Easter we traveled to my sister's house in Franklin Tn for a massive Easter Egg Hunt and lunch. We had a great time. I enjoy spending time with both my sisters and my brother and wish that we could get together more often.
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| The Tabor family ready for their first ever Easter Egg Hunt. I see many Easter Egg hunts in there future! Love you guys! |
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| The eggs....all 437 of them! Good grief, what were we thinking? |
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| Ready for the hunt! |
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| Is this what Im supposed to be doing, Mommy? |
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| Zoe doing some egg-cellent hunting! |
Easter morning the fabled bunny had visited our home and I ran to the Doughnut Shoppe. It was sweets for breakfast!!!!! Philip had given up several things for Lent and I think it was harder on me than it was on him. I love getting him lemon filled doughnuts and I hadnt been able to for 40 days and 40 nights. On Easter morning I got him 3 lemon filled doughnuts!!!! After church the children wanted to go to the park by the Marriott and play, so thats what we did. Our budding photographers also took some pictures of me and Philip.
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| Easter family picture |
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| Our budding photog, PJ too this one |
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| And our other budding photog, Avy took this one. |
We had massive, killer storms on April 27th that I still have nightmares about. Thats a whole other blog.
My Philips went to Montgomery with the 4th grade class of Forest Hills on the 5th and 6th of May. Avy and I were left to our own devices. We had a great time with each other. But we were ready for the boys to get back. We missed them immensely! Friday was International Day for the 3rd Graders and we had to make Shepherds Pie. It was disgusting. It had about 3 pounds of grease on it and I even followed the recipe exactly. I just prayed that it wouldnt make anyone sick. Shepherds Pie will never be made in this house again.
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