But I am also a person who believes that those of us who are against abortion should walk the walk. I think we should support women who are lost and confused and not sure what they are going to do. I think we should offer them a REAL choice, not just a choice to end a life and have them carry that scar around with them for the rest of their lives. I think that teen girls should be taught that they are valuable and worthy and it’s really okay if you wait! I think that we should support our local crisis pregnancy centers and encourage people to adopt babies. I think we should LOVE women no matter how they got pregnant.

All of that to say I am Thankful that once again my family and I took part in the Walk For Life last weekend. Our sponsors gave us $810 this year to support real options for women.

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Nadia was triking in the middle of the parking lot while I walked.

Amelie made two loops with me before joining Mike and Nadia in the middle.

Amelie’s favorite part? Her and Nadia got snacks at the end.

THANK YOU to all of our sponsors this year! God Bless you for your faithfulness and putting your money where your beliefs are.

Here is what we started with – corn starch, water, big brushes, tablespoons and food coloring.

Amelie decided to paint her hands instead of the driveway. So that night she was rocking the Smurf hands even after washing her hands with 3 different kinds of soap. The problem? I didn’t have regular food coloring so I “thought” it would be okay to use my Wilton icing gel food coloring. So I am going to buy some regular food coloring for next time because the girls loved this activity.

Music class ended for the semester before museum school this year. So this week we dropped Nadia off and Amelie asked her daily question, “Ride train? Choo choo?” I was expecting it so I said, “Do you want to go RIGHT NOW?” She said, “Yes! Ride train.” Then all the way up the road to the mini train she was saying, “Fun! Ride Choo Choo! Fun! Ride Choo Choo!” Then she would sort of laugh. Once we got to the depot she started asking for popcorn and “Train go faster? Now?” We got our tickets and I let her pick the seat.

“Go now? Faster now?”

Happy to have her popcorn now. Amelie must have said, “Fun!” about 50 times on the ride. We also looked for birds, squirrels and turtles. Every time the conductor made the train whistle she would laugh and smile.

After the train ride, we had a little more time so I swung by the Botanical Gardens to show Amelie this little frog statue. She said, “Hi frog!” I snapped a couple of photos and then she started to cry saying, “Frog, fall in.” It was weird and irrational, but also a little sad, so we left to go and pick up Nadia. Amelie promptly fell asleep on the way home.

Amelie

LOVES

to bounce!

Nadia won the the stuffed animal walk again this year and wanted a photo by the kidapillar bouncy maze. We were able to get several gift cards for places we usually go and some others for things we would like to try like the Grapevine Railroad. We are happy to support the school and give the girls a chance to have a fun night!

My cousin Clay is getting married this summer to a wonderful woman named Eileen. My aunt Paula’s friends were the hostesses for a beautiful bridal shower.

Lunch was delicious.

Eileen and her sweet mom.

Louanne, Grammie, Eileen and Paula.

Click the photo above to see the whole album. We are missing Tricia and Jude because he was sick, but it was such a nice semester with friends.

We had the last day of music class for the semester this week. Amelie has loved music class and being with her friends. Miss Janis and Miss Mandy were the teachers again like last semester.

Jonathan, Amelie and Reagan

These girls are so sweet together.

This was Amelie’s idea and it just cracked us up.

Amelie and Miss Janis.

Looking at Roly Poly’s after class.

Jonathan was just picking up the bugs and the girls made a run for it!

Do you love books?

After a good amount of play they came inside for dinner. After dinner Grandma Brooke read Amelie a book about Lemurs 872 times and this was the end result.

Cute!

Thanks for coming by to visit and for inviting Mike and I to the fundraiser the following night.