Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to Our Dads! We love both of you.

Let me take a quick minute to catch everyone up on our lives.

Here's what's happened in the last few weeks. We joined a new church - First Baptist Church in Alamo, TN. Check out the link to the left.

I have a new co-worker in my office at Union. Leland and his wife Nancy have become great friends of ours. They have 2 great girls, Madison (6) and Tori (2). They are fun to be with.

We bought a new riding lawn mower at Home Depot 2 weeks ago. It makes mowing much easier. Now, to only get it paid off!

We spent yesterday (Saturday the 17th) with my Mom's family. We had a family reunion in North Alabama. It was a great day at the lake. It rained a little but we enjoyed the day.

We took my dad out for dinner last night for Father's Day and we ate lunch with Bob and Joy at Cynthia's Gradparent's house today.

I hope everyone is doing well and we hope that we can see you soon.

JOSH

Headin' to the Lake

We'll I'm pretty excited. We are heading up to the lake for the first time this year. Cynthia's family has a couple of lake houses at KY Lake and we are going to spend Memorial Day Weekend with them. We're leaving after church on Sunday and will be back on Monday afternoon. I'm looking forward to getting away for a few hours. I wish I could say a few days but it won't really be more than 30 hours or so. Anyway, I hope everyone has a great Memorial Day and remembers to hug a veteran for their service to our country.

God Bless

Josh

Cynthia has "Beautified" the yard. (I'm not sure if that's a word... yet)

We got some of our mulching done... there's a little more left
















More shots of the Mulch.















We even put a little mulch around the trees.




















Here's one of the plants on the front porch.
















One of the other plants.



















I'm glad I have such a wonderful wife who knows about this planting stuff... I'm lost in the yard (Not that it's that big). If I'm not cutting something down with a lawn mower or weed eater, I'm pretty useless. Thanks Cynthia for making it look great! I love you!

Lisa & Zac were home from Germany... YEA!

Lisa and Zac pose for a quick pic. This is in
Granny Janet's back yard. The yard is beautiful.
Lisa and Zac looked good too. We're very glad to
see them. It's been since our wedding in July.
That's a long time!
















Lisa and Zac with Cynthia's (and Lisa's) Grandparents.















Lisa and her dad.















All of us outside of First Baptist Church in
Covington, just before Lisa and Zac made their
way to Nashville to fly home to Germany.

Egg Hunt 06

Kaylee, my cousin's oldest daughter, hunting easter eggs.
Looks like she found a shrub... but not much egg.





















She said the "sun was hot" and then gave
the impression that a few plastic eggs just
weren't worth it.
















I was tired of hiding eggs... there's only so many
places you can hide those things.















Grandaddy also enjoyed "The Great Egg Hunt"

Granny Mildred's Birthday

Bob & Joy (Cynthia's Parents) enjoying Lunch





















Granny Mildred enjoying a little birthday pie!
I on the otherhand enjoyed a lot of birthday pie!




















Cynthia with her Granny.

Pics of the Grilling Couples

Jen and Jeremy were in from Indiana.

















Adam and April















Us

This was the night of the great cook out at Muse Park in Jackson. We had a great time grilling Bratwurst and Burgers... even though us guys, didn't quite know what we were doing. (What can I say... I cook on Gas not Charcoal) All in all, the food wasn't bad at all. We had a great time!

The last 3 burgers

Here are the last 3 burgers of the night. Mine is the one with Cheese.

Grilling Kings"

Cynthia, Jeff & I went bowling in Chattanooga.





























































Here's Jimmy, Danielle, Cynthia and me at
Toccoa Falls, GA.





















The View from our Hotel room. That's downtown
Atlanta. It's a great view from the Hyatt in Marietta, GA.

SPRING TIME FUN!

We'll it is officially warm in West Tennessee. Spring is here. We had a cook out tonight with April & Adam, 2 of our friends from college. Jen and Jeremy Parker were there as well. Jen was Cynthia's roommate for a while. We grilled out hamburgers and bratwurst at Muse Park in Jackson. It was fun. We were going to play football a little, but it turned dark to soon. We also got to see some other friends last week on a short vacation. We went to Atlanta for a few days. While there, we spent some time with Jimmy & Danielle Sorrells. They are some of Cynthia's friends from Greenville, SC. I got to meet them for the first time. They are super nice folks. We also saw one of our good friends from college... JEFF! He was a broadcasting major with me at Union. We spent many days together studying and hanging out after class.

Cynthia has been working on painting our kitchen cabinets this week. She took a couple of days off and got a lot of work done. She's doing a little work on them now. I mowed the grass for the first time at our new house. Boy was it a challenge. I guess we let it get a little tall. It's nice to have our own house. I love thinking about what to do next. Is it just me or does a house give a never ending possiblity for improvement? It will be fun to see what happens next.

Happy Spring everyone!


Josh

Union's Women's Basketball Team Wins National championship

Just a quick note to our friends... Union University, our Alma Mater and my place of employment, took home the NAIA Ladies Division One National Championship last night at OMAN Arena here in Jackson. We were there and enjoyed the game.

Let it Snow, Let it Snow!

WOW! It's snowed twice within 8 days in West TN. We had 3 inches last Saturday and less than an inch today... but we had ICE today. FUN! The good news is that the roads were cleared pretty soon. Things are going great. We are still loving our jobs and our new home. We are still settling in our community (Bells, TN) We are just 15 minutes out of Jackson, so we have all the comforts of a big city within just a few minutes, yet we live the country life... kinda. I guess that's all for now. ~Josh

Newish Car

So I bought a Honda Accord Thursday night. A man we go to church with was selling it. It gets a lot better gas milage than my truck. By the way if you know of anyone who wants a 94 dodge dakota, let me know...

Life in general

Things have been pretty crazy around here (as if you couldn't tell from the lack of posts). Work started back for both of us. We closed on our house on Saturday Jan. 21, by signing a pile of paperwork... basically I think it means we will now officially owe money forever! I'm buying a car this weekend. It's a nice Honda Accord. A man at our church is selling it... speaking of Church, we did one of the hardest things ever... we told our Pastor and Music Minister in Savannah (70 miles away) that we needed to find a church in or around Jackson. That's tough because we love the church so much. But God will give us direction on where to go and lead us to another church that we will love as well. We went bowling a couple of nights ago with some friends and did pretty well.... well compared to everyone else. I'm not signing up for the PBA anytime, but I was pleasantly supprised.

This weekend is another big one for me. I will be the technical supervisor for a 9 hour broadcast live from the studio at Union. It's the West TN Cerebral Palsy Assn. Telethon.... lots of fun, Seriously. I enjoy it every year. This will be my 5th. I'm not sure what Cynthia will do... hopefully, she'll be able to enjoy the weekend even though I'm not there.

Well I must go for now... a mutual friend, Beth, from college is coming over to hang out for a while. May God bless each of you... We hope to talk to you soon.

Josh

Cynthia's Grandparents House

Random Pics from Cynthia's Grandparents house. Most of that side of the family was there at some point. However, we don't have pictures of all of them. It was great to see everyone. Some family we don't see but once or twice a year. Spending time with them is what makes Christmas special!

Christmas in Covington

Random Pictures of Christmas Morning at Cynthia's Mom & Dad's House.
Look at some of the great gifts we all got.

Christmas at Granny & Papa John's (No, he doesn't own the Pizza Chain... anymore)



Granny takes time to pose!





Papa John is making his famous Tomato Gravy. It's much better than it sounds!

Opening presents with Josh's parents on Wednesday before Christmas.

House at Christmas

Candles on a table in the Living Room.
These were a wedding gift... so if you gave them to us... we're using them!

This is garland and lights, plus little snowmen above our kitchen cabinets.

The Christmas tree right after it was decorated.

Here's the tree with gifts around it. No we did not buy that much... my mom and dad came up to our house on Wednesday before Christmas to open gifts with us.

I wish you all could have seen the house. It was beautiful!

Cynthia did a great job decorating... I wish I could do as good of a job as she does.