93 Years and 8 Months!

We went to Mobile this past Sunday to celebrate Papa Beasley's 93rd birthday! 93 years young! My sweet grandfather is still teaching Sunday school, cooking, gardening and enjoying his great-grandchildren! He always makes sure we are well fed and loves to boil shrimp for William. We probably increase the length of his naps after we visit, but we enjoy seeing him so much! Happy Birthday Papa!

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count.

It's the life in your years."

~ Abraham Lincoln

And this sweet girl is 8 months old now! Lauren now has 2 pearly whites that she seems pretty proud of and she LOVES cheerios. She sports a "beta carotene" nose from eating lots of orange veggies. She's learning to hold her own (toys) with William, almost sitting up on her own and almost crawling. She mostly does 360's on her belly to scoot where she needs to go. William is guarding his toys closely and almost always says, "No Larn. This would probly hurt you. You don't need to play with that." We are getting lots of practice with sharing! Lauren smiles all of the time and is still very easy going. The only disappointment is that she is growing too fast!!!

Mike's Kids Club

"Mike's Kids Club" has some new members! William and Lauren were so excited to get their packages in the mail and William put his shirt on lightning fast. He likes to wear it backwards so that he can see Mike the Tiger!!! Thank you for their memberships Meme' and Poppie!

Auburn Friends & Fans: Mute your speakers and close your eyes!!! :~)

Oh, no!!! Say it ain't so...

...our Poppa is turning the big 6-0 !!!

Happy Birthday Poppa! We love you!!!

Lake Martin 2009

Poppa & Mr. Larry
Chad, Bro. Dave, Grammie & Poppa

Hot Air!

The Louisiana Balloon Championship was this past weekend at Pennington. It was absolutely amazing. The hot air balloons were gorgeous and there were so many family oriented activities to enjoy. Linda & Randy (Meme' and Poppie) went with us and we enjoyed seeing Jessica and her family, too!

At night, the balloons are inflated on the field and as the announcer counts down, they all flash their burners at the same time. The announcer would say, "Twinkle burn" or "All Burn" and the balloons would light up. It looked like Christmas when the balloons were glowing! (This is one of Jessica's pictures...)

Our favorite part of the weekend was watching the Black Daggers. They are the parachute demonstration team for the US Army. They were incredible and breathtaking! This picture is from their website.

A cricket in line, passes the time!

Boutin's

Evans and Charlene (PawPaw & MawMaw) visited us on Saturday night and took us to Boutin's. They have great Cajun food and live Cajun bands on Saturday nights. Eric & I went last week with the kids, but we didn't brave the dance floor by ourselves! This time, Evans convinced me to dance with him. (I have alot of learning to do!) Lauren enjoyed the dancing, too!
The food was great. William's favorite food is shrimp, so he cleared his plate. I had shrimp & oysters wrapped in bacon. And if the bacon wasn't enough...they were deep fried, too! I need to be cajun dancing if I'm going to eat like that! We "passed a good time" at Boutin's!