Beta Nationals, Richmond VA {in pictures}

First day of Junior Beta Convention...

Pottsville is very proud of these Apaches!



 



Getting nervous - about to have Kyle's speech

and their Kick it with Kyle skit.

 

 

Holocaust Museum

 

Hanging out in the garden of the

Edgar Allan Poe Museum

 

 

Dinner at Quaker Steak and Lube

 

 

Thomas Jefferson Building

 

 

Too bad Adrianna couldn't go inside

and have me some money made!

Iwo Jima Memorial

 

 You knew there would be some

stunting involved with these girls...

Brady & Anna in front of the

Lincoln Memorial

Washington Monument

 

 

Jeremy and I love to travel and keep life in a constant flux of adventure. We have wanderlust. we are gypsy at heart.

So happy my daughter is the same way.

 

XOXO

Destin Florida

I won my first trip as inside sales rep - keep buying
Hewlett-Packard AMD servers and Microsoft!
Microsoft definitely spoiled us, everything was amazing.

Our resort

 Andrew loved the bunk beds & I think

Adrianna secretly did too!

Our View

I could wake up to the turquoise

water and white sand every day.
Most nights we slept with our balcony door

open so we could hear the waves

Our happy place

My little surfer dude

We would wake up before sunrise so we could be the first ones on the beach. Our days consisted of Starbucks coffee, swimming in the ocean, playing football on the beach & searching for seashells. Afterwards, we went to the pool and played. We ordered pizza & ice cream poolside. Nap and repeat…

She could totally be a beach bum.
Adrianna is the only person I know that always has perfect hair - even at the beach!

My favorite man kept the 

Miami Vice drinks coming!

We were out on the beach with flashlights crab hunting and all of a sudden fireworks starting going off... The resort next to us had a firework show... talk about perfect timing!

Harbor Docks restaurant has amazing seafood & great atmosphere right on the bay. Andrew loved watching the boats. No seafood for him, he ate McDonalds

happy meals everyday.

 

I LOVE these two babies!
They love to travel and never complain. They kept us entertained the whole drive. They only slept 2 hours home and were awake the rest of the time. When they woke up Jeremy and I were rocking out to 90s music... at first they wanted us to change it but then they started enjoying it! 

I hope these are the memories they carry in their hearts forever!

Love you Destin - hope to see you again!

XOXO

Nautical Style Birthday Party

Adrianna celebrated her fifteenth birthday nautical style.

We had the party at Paint with Lane's 

Adrianna & her friends are creative, fun and talented.

They are all about style and trends so this was the perfect party. They were in their element & you will be surprised what you learn painting with a group of teens. I am 

up-to-date on all the latest gossip!

Adrianna is the perfect party planner, she did all the party decorations. I love how she spray painted the ends of the forks with glittery gold paint. They looked very elegant.

She even painted her canvas

 to match the party & asked me to take a

 picture before we started cutting cake!

She and I designed the cake, the gold wasn't exactly the color we wanted but it was delicious - red velvet and chocolate! 

I purchased the topper from Etsy

 

We found these chevron pink favor bags at my favorite store, Target. Adrianna HAD to add some gold details! We filled them with gum, mints wrapped in gold paper and lip gloss.

beautiful birthday girl ♥

 

The finished masterpieces! So fun to see everyone's different style and artistic flair on the same project piece.

XOXO

Easter Gratitude

Andrew loved dying & decorating Easter eggs with his grandpa George and big sister.

I found this awesome Alien Easter egg kit @ Target

and I love how they turned out. Andrew didn't want anyone to eat them. He just wanted to play with them.

He lives! I know this with every fiber of my soul. Today I am filled with an overwhelming gratitude for my beloved Savior Jesus Christ, and what He did for me. For you. For each of us. Everything that means anything to me is because of him. How blessed we are to know of his simple, yet profound life, spent entirely in our service. His mission, to set an example for us to follow. I am infinitely grateful for His atoning sacrifice. I am grateful for His victory over death, that I may have eternal life. I am grateful for his gospel... His good news! That God our Father, lives and loves us. That he has a plan by which we can be made perfect and live with Him, and those we love, again someday. Through his beloved son, Jesus Christ, we will rise again and inherit all that He has to share. Most of all, I am grateful for His unfailing, perfect love, which sustains me in all things. I pray that I might be an instrument in His hands. A voice of reason. A force for good. Oh how very, very grateful I am.

XOXO