Grant and his drum recital

Here is a clip of grant and his drum recital.

Planting hope in the 'Boro 5 K Run

Ran a 5 K on Saturday. This was a fund raiser for the local ministry called the Greenhouse. The Greenhouse is a great outreach ministry to the community. They minister and equip people to make positive changes in their lives and give them the tools to ensure that it can become a reality for them. Great people doing a great work! Thanks for putting on this event-Cliff and Jane! You all did a great job!

Ellen Ryan and I ran the race (uh.... she ran better than I did as I have not been as diligent in my training as she has been). We had a great time and the kids went and helped volunteer. I don't think that they
realized that getting up at 5:30 a.m. on a Saturday was part of the deal! They were troopers and they both want to run in the next 5K!


Me and Ellen


Christy Sanford and Jane Sharp (Greenhouse director)

More beach pictures and more pics of Baby Joy

Here are a few more pictures of our beach adventures. That's Abbey with baby Sadie (distant cousin).










I had a great visit with Dionne and baby Joy today. We lunched on some Famous Dave's and went ga ga over Joy. She is beautiful.

As you can see below, Ron is teaching Grant the inns and outs of how to play chess. Such a sweet thing for a Mom to see this. I love it when they do things like this together.
Hope this finds you all doing well. Will blog more later!

So far this summer.....

Just wanted to give you a run down of our events from this summer...Me and the kids headed down to Crystal Beach, Texas to meet their Nana Elaine for a week of surf and sand ala Texas beach style (Texas beaches, not so pretty) . We had a great time and caught up with some cousins that were hilarious to say the least. We also stopped through Baton Rouge on our way there and back and were treated with some great Crawfish!!Yum! Thanks so much to the Nichols clan for their hospitality! This picture is of Grant and Abbey and their Nana on the ferry to Galveston Island.



Upon our return, it was back to work and getting ready for the various events with church. Our ladies ministry hosted our annual ladies tea in June and it was a great success. We had over 90 ladies in attendance and it was a lot of fun as usual. The ladies ministry team leaders (shout out to Darla, Laura, Angie and Kristen) did an excellent job. Yours truly was the guest speaker and it was truly a nerve wracking experience. I got through it and didn't faint.

Back at the hospital, we coworkers were anxiously awaiting the arrival of Dionne's baby, Joy.
She made her appearance into this world on Thursday, June 19th at 1:10 a.m. with both of her surrogate aunts, me and Leslie, at her birth. Dionne was such a pro and did great. As you can see she is just about the cutest baby ever. Mom and baby are doing great. Leslie will have her turn to welcome baby number #2--No Name Baby Maupin will be here in September. Looking forward to that as well! Here is Joy, Joy and Leslie and Joy and Me!

This past weekend, our worship team hosted a Worship Conference for our community and we had Klaus and Pure Worship come and hold a night of worship and a conference all day on Saturday. It was an awesome experience. I was so proud of the worship team and how they all rallied and came together to pull this thing off. I think that they all received an awesome blessing from this weekend. Worship was amazing!

Kerri, Klaus, and Ron

Well I think that is the best update I can give for now. Summer should be slowing down and maybe, hopefully, we will have some relaxing time. Oh I almost forgot---Abbey got her learner's permit!!!! HELP!!

Welcome to my blog

Welcome to my new blog!
Everyone seems to be doing the blogging thing so therefore I thought I would join the bandwagon. Just a quick note here so I can figure out what I am doing. Check back soon for pics and some exciting adventures!