Sailing into Summer!

We headed to Wilmington Friday night to visit Tyler & the fam & hit the beach on Saturday. It was a beautiful day! We cleaned up, enjoyed some dinner together, then headed home Saturday night. Short trip, but a good one!

Check out the rest of the family fun.

We all know I didn't inherit any of the tanning genes in my family. I am a ghost, I like to call it healthy, but the rest of you just call me pasty or pale!! Sunscreen is my best friend! I only wore 15 & hate to say I didn't get much sun even though we were out there for 6 hours. I like the "healthy" look much better than the "lobster" look & it is less painful! Funny though- we went into town to grab dinner before we headed home. Ty (my sweet little brother/nephew!) was commenting on the lack of sun....he comes up with this..... "Aunt Ashley, you are sour cream & Seth is a taco.... Hey, at least they go good together!" Every seat in the Tahoe was filled & we were all laughing.....Sour cream! He said he was going to start calling me "Daisy"....gotta love middle schoolers!

It's Official!

The sign was updated today when we got home. This house has been so good to Ashley and a great purchase. It's just so beautiful and quiet here...its hard to say were leaving. We're so happy the new owners saw the same features and put in an offer.

...here we come Garner!!!!

We close on our new house July 7th & here on July 10th. Busy week- seeking volunteers!!

I (Ashley) have to add in all the details! God is good! The house we bought was one we saw the 1st day we went out. We fell in love with it & compared every house since to it. We finally decided it was time to make an offer. We went to VA for Mother's Day & most of the way home we talked about houses & tried to make a plan. Seth says, " I think we should put an offer in tomorrow." Great I thought! Then, reality hit me- but what about our house? What if it takes a while longer to sell? The questions set in & I started to worry, most of you know I love to over analyze & worry!! Seth's response- "Where's your faith?" We had prayed about this move since the beginning & felt that God was in control of it all & had a peace He would work it all out. He had a point- God would provide & we had to trust Him. We prayed about it, went in on Monday afternoon & wrote up an offer. Monday night the listing agency called to say they were showing our house on Tuesday night. Excited!!! Tuesday night they called to extend the showing time....even more excited! We heard great things from their visit & anxiously awaited... On Wednesday we finalized our contract on our new house & 1st thing Thursday morning my phone rang! It was our agent & she had an offer on our house! We worked it out that day & it was all settled! 1 bought, 1 sold, dates set, get the boxes ready! God is good! It will be hard to say goodbye here, but we're excited at all that is to come!

Empty Nest

I am having empty nest syndrome! No, I haven't completely lost my mind!! Our baby birds flew away today. They have gotten so big over the last week & hardly fit in the nest. This morning they were on the edge of the nest & just looked at me when I left for work- guess that was their "good bye". I got home tonight & looked up to check on my little birdies.......empty nest & I was really sad. Guess there comes a time when we all have to spread our wings & fly. I just wish I could have seen them take that big jump! It has been a neat experience & hopefully we'll see them flying around the yard!

These pics were from a day or so ago- SO much bigger than the 1st ones we posted.

Happy Birthday Carter!

Happy 5th Birthday to our nephew Carter!

When I talked to him tonight I asked him if he could be 4 again- "no", how about 3?- "no, I am already 5!"......how does time fly by so fast?! We celebrated at his party on Saturday- lots of fun! Hope you had a great birthday!

Well, that rounds up the birthday marathon! We have 4 nephews & 1 niece. They are ALL born from late March-early May- Happy Birthday!!