Summer has started!

On May 23rd, My Mom celebrated her 69th Birthday!!  Happy Birthday to my sweet, Beautiful Mother!

Sharon Lonas

Also on May 23, was Emily's first softball game!  She played a great game.  For part of the game she played 2nd base, and for the rest she was catcher..

                             She looks so tiny!

                                         
           Other than myself, here are her loyal fans...

      The highlight of her summer vacation so far was when Uncle Tom and Aunt Becky came to visit and brought her a huge jar of pickles!!

She's a child after my own heart!  

We were running errands in Galesburg, and when I asked Emily where she wanted to eat lunch, she said "Can we please go to McDonald's cause they have those scrumptious little cheeseburgers!" haha  So, here she is eating one of those cheeseburgers!!

             Of course, Derek and I liked it too!  

Big Mac attack

We stopped at the Knox County humane society to volunteer.  We chose an older chocolate lab to take outside and walk.  He was such a sweet dog!!

  Poor guy!  How could you not love this face???  I hope he finds a really good forever home!

Each one of them also found a favorite cat to play with!  Very lovable cats!

We really did have a great day!

Family Day

It's nice when we can take time out of our busy schedules to spend some time with each other.  It seems like everyone gets so busy that it's hard to have family time. Oh, how nice it is to spend time with my kids and grand kids.  Yesterday, we met at Pizza Hut for lunch and then went shopping together. 

Lyndie

Blaize

Emily, Blaize, Ieshia

Derek and I

Ieshia and Sharayah

Lyndie and Emily

                                        
What beautiful smile they all have!  We had fun spending the day together.  Later on......I took Emily to softball practice and she practiced batting....

   The rest of us were sitting and eating ice cream!  yummy!   Later on in the evening, we went and watched my other daughter, Ieshia, play in her softball game.

      Above is Emily, Kirk, (a family friend) and Derek watching the game!  Final score was 15-13  We Won!


      A few days ago, Emily and I were out checking my flowers and she took a few pics.  She caught a butterfly on the lilac bush!  Here are a few of her pictures she took!    

    Earlier that day, Derek and Emily helped me plant some of my canna bulbs.....

                   I have a lot of them to plant!    
Our wonderful pets were hanging around......

Mocha

Purdy

Brady    

Have a great weekend!!