Walk Worthy Day At The Capitol

Our first annual Walk Worthy Day at the capitol was a huge success! The event was organized by our very own American Heritage Girls Vice Coordinator Beth Nafziger, our Trail Life/AHG charter rep Marvin Burr, and Representative John Carson. I went as an AHG leader with all my kiddos in tow. I took a bunch of pictures, but am limiting this post to ones of mostly my kids (with exception for the big group picture and people I've asked permission from before). 

We *barely* made it to the bus stop to catch a Gwinnett Transit bus downtown. We did make it though and enjoyed not having to deal with traffic!

Representative John Carson

A lady from American Heritage Girls (I can't remember her name!) and Marvin Burr. 

I absolutely love the details of the capitol building! There are so many interesting architectural designs, I ended up taking quite a few pictures of just them.

The entire group that showed up! People from many different troops across Georgia. My kids and I are all hiding in this picture somewhere!

One of the doorknobs.

Shelby freaking me out with about the height and her ability to get through the columns. She thought it was quite amusing!

The wood around the door frames.

Outside eating lunch, I noticed the reflection of the capitol on the glass building and thought it looked cool. 

Our troops!

A lovely flower!

Over the windows on the outside of the capitol. 

A fun part of the day was watching this police dog in action. Nobody bothered to let me know that they had hidden something for him to find right behind where I chose to sit! Thankfully I wasn't too much in his way though...

Shelby enjoying her conversation with Sarah. 

Even the vents were pretty!

A picture with the AHG lady. My girls of course had to be silly!

With the Klinect girls, again my girls had to be the goofy ones!

Under the rotunda. 

Emily and Paige across the rotunda.

Sarah with Shelby and Cheyenne.

My goofy girls!

All my kiddos on the steps before leaving. 

Clayton with his best friend Buddy.

The gold dome of the capitol. 

Shelby watching out the window of the bus...

...until she and Paige both crashed.

Tennessee Aquarium Part 3: Random

A few extra random pictures from the aquarium.

This was on the brick wall near the parking lot. I thought it looked neat!

While eating lunch in the parking lot, we watched these people climbing the wall across the street. It was so cool to see them climbing on the outside of the building! 

One of the pretty flowers outside the butterfly house.

Another pretty flower (sorry, I've got no clue what they are actually called).

These glass "jellyfish" were on display near the jellies. I thought they were beautiful!

When leaving the aquarium for the day, I noticed a tree casting a shadow on this wall. 

A puddle in the parking lot. 

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365 in 2015 - End of Week 45

While I have been (relatively) keeping up with my 365 posts, I'm dreadfully behind with my other posts! It's so daunting to think about catching up at this point, that I'm not sure I ever will. Anyway, hopefully one day I'll get around to those as well. For the month of November though, I thought I'd go with the traditional idea of things I'm thankful for. 

Bible Study: The new month started a new little Bible study that gets delivered to my email every day. This month we are studying Romans 8 and it's so encouraging to know that there is now NO condemnation to those who are in Christ! 

Sewing: My sister pulled me back into sewing during the father/son campout, when she helped me put together the back for this quilt that has sat in my closet for the last five years or so. It really renewed an excitement for the hobby and I look forward to working on more projects too!

Dress-up: I love how much they love to dress up and play together. For Halloween they wanted to all be Avengers, but I didn't want to purchase four new costumes (at new prices). After Halloween though, we stumbled on a very large sale at Walmart and all their costume were $3.75! I went ahead and got these and the kids have enjoyed playing together often.

Church: I'm so incredibly thankful for our church and the faithful preaching we hear there every week! It's been a joy to belong to such a family as this! 

God's beautiful creation: We stopped at this little lake on the way home from our ladies retreat. The reflection on the water was just crisp and clear, so we just had to stop!

Sweet notes: This was hanging on the wall in the living room when I got home from the retreat. My sweet Chey wanted to leave a little note for me when I returned! 

Jon: I'm thankful for this kind and loving man that God brought into my life. He's a great husband and father and seeks the Lord's help in being what God called him to be! (This picture is actually from October, but one I haven't posted yet and one of the best pictures I have of Jon.)

Trail Life Fire Station Visit

Clayton's Trail Life troop planned an outing to Fire Station 18 on Mineral Springs Road for May 28th. Jon got home late from work, so I took all the kiddos with me. They all enjoyed the trip and it was the most thorough we've had (having been to two other stations before)!

Cheyenne climbing up on the brick columns outside the fire station.

Paige had to climb up it too! 

And of course Shelby couldn't be left out!

Clayton attentively watching the fire men. 

One of the trucks.

Explaining the different parts of the truck.

More explanations of things on the truck and how they work.

I played around with trying to get Shelby's reflection in the side of the fire truck.

Trail Life Spring Family Camping - Part 2

I took so many pictures while camping that I decided to split it into two posts.

My sweet girls ready to go exploring. 

Cheyenne

Paige

Shelby

All the kiddos humoring me trying to take their picture.

A pretty spot on the far side of our campground. I love the reflection! 

Saturday morning we took a hike to Nancytown Falls. The sunlight was just lovely coming through the trees! 

Clayton ready to go hiking!

The sun through the leaves. 

Nancytown Falls up ahead! 

The falls.

Jon

Cheyenne playing with the lantern.

The kiddos (plus an extra or two) playing with glow sticks. I had fun playing with different settings on my camera trying to get the glowing movement!