Atlanta Zoo

Monday, I took the girls to the Atlanta Zoo. We went with Mandy, David, and Hampton and Kelli and the girls. We were able to get discount tickets through Hampton's playschool. We had so much fun seeing all of the animals. Josie would just stand and stare at them for as long as she could. She kept asking to see the kangaroos and thank goodness they had some! They just laid around though and she was a little disappointed that she did not get to see them jumping. We had a blast! Thank you Hampton for inviting us to go with you!

The beginning of our day at the zoo...

The Weathers with Hampton looking out the map planning where to go first...

The Kaylor Girls...

First stop...Flamingos!

Best Friends :)

All the kiddies enjoying the flamingos...

Josie feeding the birds (she is the only one brave enough to do it!)

With the elephant...(Do you know how hard it is to get 6 kids to look at the camera at the same time??)

Watching Tara, the elephant, get a bath. Josie still talks about the elephant Tara! :)

The Benson Girls on the carousel...

Cousins :)

After a long, hot, fun day at the zoo!


We had a great day at the zoo!!

Riverbend Fun

This morning I did my first 5K Race, the Riverbend Run in the scenic downtown Chattanooga. For those of you that know me, you know that I do not have an athletic bone in my body! But, I agreed to do this with some friends. It has been great exercise for me. I was doing pretty good at practicing until I sprained my ankle a few of weeks ago and I kind of "fell off the wagon". I started practicing again last week and I still did the Riverbend Run and I am so happy I did. We were excited to finish our first 5K! Hopefully, now that I know what to expect, I can keep training and we can try another one in the next couple of months. Maybe I can get Clint in on the action too...

Me, Randi, Kelli, and Jeremy...after the race, all nice and sweaty!


With Randi, my coach and encourager :)


With Kelli and Jeremy...great friends!



Thursday night, we went to Riverbend with our friends Kelli and Jeremy Kaylor to see the B52's. Clint was able to get VIP passes from a guy at his work. We got to enjoy free food and sit up front at the concert. The music was okay, but being there with good friends and FREE VIP passes made it a pretty fun evening!

Love shack, baby, love shack...

Clint and I with our VIP passes...


Kelli and Tara...


Kelli and Jeremy...

Stanley Family Reunion

Here are some pictures from the Stanley Family Reunion we went to last week in Blue Ridge. It is always nice to get together and see family that we haven't seen in a while.

This is a picture of 7 of the 9 kids in my dad's family with their kids that showed up. As you can imagine, our family is MUCH bigger than this, but everyone was not able to make it.


The Stanley Men (three brothers and a nephew)...


A picture of my first cousins that were there...


Having fun...









The girls right before we left...what you can't see is that they have mud from head to toe...

Chattanooga Lookouts Game

A couple of weeks ago we took the girls to the Chattanooga Lookouts game with some friends. I didn't take my camera, but my friend Kelli sent me these pictures. Being a family of girls, we were a little bored at the game so we only stayed until the fourth inning. It was still a nice little family outing.



The Benson Girls


Josie and her bff McKenzie


Daddies...

Anna Grace's Third Grade Award's Day

Anna Grace had her Award's Day on Wednesday afternoon. MiMi and PaPaw were there and Aunt Kim was in town so she got to come too! Anna Grace's certificate had 11 seals on it. She is a smart girl. She loves to read and learn. She is a teacher's dream in the classroom, always on task and never in trouble. We are so proud of her! Mom and dad love you Gracie!! Clint had to leave so I was unable to get a picture of him, but he was there!

Checking out her certificate...


With her class on stage...


With the family...


With mom...

Brinlee's First Grade Award's Day

Brinlee celebrated her Award's Day on Tuesday afternoon. MiMi and PaPaw were able to come celebrate with us. We are so proud of everything that she has done this year. Mrs. Lowery calls Brinlee her "parapro" in the classroom. Brinlee doesn't mind to take control at any time. She is also the life of the party keeping her class laughing. I cannot believe that she will be starting second grade next year! We love you Brinlee Boo!!

Walking in...

Getting her certificate...

With Mrs. Lowery and Mrs. Susan...

With MiMi and PaPaw...

With Daddy...

With Mommy...

DGE Field Day

couple of weeks ago we had field day at school. Here are a couple of pictures that I got of the girls. Unfortunately, I had a little fall and had to leave to go to the doctor to be checked out so I did not get any pictures of them in action.

Here is a picture of Brinlee in the opening ceremonies parade...


A picture of Anna Grace with her class...


Here is a picture of my class, Kindergarten Tug-of-War Champions for the second year in a row!!
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Happy 2nd Birthday Griffin!

Griffin turned 2 years old! Here are some pictures from his birthday party.

 

Raider Bowl

Tanner had his spring scrimmage game a couple of weeks ago. He did a great job! I missed the second half of the game because the girls wanted to play on the inflatables. They had so much fun!!

We cannot wait until football season! We have so much fun cheering for our quaterback! Go #11!!

Brinlee and Hampton were in the paper after the Raider Bowl. I will try to post a pic on here soon.

Happy Mother's Day

Here are some pictures from Mother's Day at MiMi's house.

Visit with Nana and PawPaw

We visited Montgomery this past weekend. The girls have so much fun playing in Nana and PawPaw's yard. We grilled out hamburgers with everyone and watched the girls have fun.