Landing On Your Feet After A Bad Church Experience

Here's a link to an article I wrote for SBCToday back in May:

http://sbctoday.com/landing-on-your-feet-after-a-bad-church-experience/

-Kara

Happy 9th Birthday Anna!

 Anna LOVES fruit.  In fact, her brothers often call her a "fruit-itarian" because she eats so much of it.  So this year, I made her a fruit cake (not the Christmas kind).  It was a white cake filled with a mixed berry compote, with a cream cheese icing, decorated with berries.  I have to admit...that was probably the tastiest birthday cake I've ever made!

 Anna got to take her friend Lilly to Bounce City, a big building filled with inflatable jumping and sliding things and games.  They had a blast!

 And then it was off to Chik-Fil-A!

-Kara

Happy 12th Birthday, John!

 Happy 12th Birthday, John!!!

 When we gave John the choice of doing whatever he wanted on his birthday, he wanted to hike to the peak of Crowder's Mountain... because John is ALL BOY! On this crazy-hot day in the middle of sumer in the South, we got lots of water and headed-up the mountain.  It was in fact SO hot that when we arrived at Crowder's Mountain, there was a news story being shot about the heat.  We were interviewed for the story and made the 6:00 news!

With John being John, he found several critters on his way up and back down the mountain.  

 A boy and his snake...

After we came back down off the mountain, we enjoyed John's birthday dinner at his favorite Mexican Restaurant called On the Border.  I cannot tell you how many times we had our soft drinks refilled!!!

-Kara

Camp Caswell

My boys are headed to Camp Caswell at Oak Island, North Carolina!  :D