From Sugar Hill to The Chesapeake

My brave Grandparent's after they said goodbye to their home of 40 or so years. A home that my Grandpa built. A home in an area rich with family history. In the picture below - they are waiting at my sister, Amanda's home while their daugheter's and son get their new apartment moved in. (I brought some good ole peanuts for comfort food:))

picture of Grandad sitting in one of his spots at sugar hill house

The Sugar Hill front The Chesapeake

Momma Nancy dropped her parents off at Amanda's and went to drop the first loads at their new home

Aunt Cindy arriving later - she caught a ride in elevator with some of the movers

view from their balcony

Their new family area and kitchen

Aunt Cindy arriving

Uncle Bob bringing a load

Uncle Rich and Aunt Carol trying to figure out where to put some stuff

Momma Nancy unpacking

Pops doing his part:)

The lovely Mathew kids (such sweet big sisters!!) :)

taking a break with the ladies before we pick up and bring over the new home owners

Back at Amanda's house....Grandma and pa are having a delicious meal!! Tuna melts for lunch and then beef tips and rice for dinner!! Amanda was definitely the hostest with the mostest!!

Grandpa and I

Aunt Carol and mom stopping by to check on things..and take more stuff over

Sometime around dinner....Amanda gets the green light to bring the Grandparents over to their new home....From the van we are pulling up....

Walking......walking.....

taking a breather...

Taking the elevator up....

knock knock....

Welcome to your new home (work in progress still..)

yay! what a blessing to share in this experience with family...:) I had a babysitter ALL DAY LONG so it was a nice break too!

Momma Nancy bought some new dishes for the new home

Grandma looking at her new office

Grandpa found his chair (good thing!) couldn't find the remote (bad thing!) :) ...the fellows doing what they do best while the ladies continue to work non stop ....haha j/k

putting bathroom stuff away

Home sweet home...made it in time for Jeapardy

Grandma's new spot to wave good-bye...

Though it was a sad day, it was also a blessed day spending time with family and comforting to know my Grandparents are in a place they will be better taken care of.

Praying that Grandma and Grandpa's time at the Chesapeake will be filled with the presence of God. They know this is their last home until God takes them to their real HOME in Heaven. Each day is a gift and there is purpose in it no matter how young or old. Don't waste your life chasing after the wind, but surrender to the God who formed and loves you.

Jeremiah 29:11-13

"May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord's face shine upon you and be gracious to you. My the Lord lift His countenance on you and give you peace." Numbers 6:24-25

Summer Fun

Solomon enjoying some dinner in Va beach

love this picture of Soli chillin and Izzie huggin her brother watchin some DoraAmanda and Josh (miss them!:() after celebrating Father's day with our dad at Bubba's Seaford on water in Va Beach Happy Father's day Pops! we'll have to go fishing some day!!My dear friend - Nikita - Niki - Nicole - she helped me so much as we prepared to move and actually came down to Savannah, Ga too to help get settled! One of my little angles.

have I mentioned we LOVE the beach! the biggest thing that we miss is the fact that we are no longer 1.1 miles from a beach. thankfully, we are still under an hour:)

Solomon staring at something? We are at lil d's swim lessons.

Lil d getting comfortable in the water...

big 4 year old taking first swim class

one of our old favorite parks - soli mad his brother is pushing him. its just not the same as mom i guess!

lil izzie g and me at the beach

kiddo's enjoying life and the beauty of creation... david isaac on a mom date - we went to beach and ice cream

the beach part :)

The kids at Vacation bible School - their friend Hannah joined them on the last day! :) My friend Julie from northern Va came down with her daughter Hannah for a sweet visit.

Solomon having fun

Grandma's famous wave from Sugar Hill. In this picture, waving good-bye to cousin Jane's family and ours. Their home will be Auctioned on Sept 25th ;(

Cousin Jane saying farewell one last time at this particular location. She has fond memories of trips to visit Aunt Carolyn and Uncle John on Sugar Hill.

Peter drove to northern Virgina with me to help with the kids. It was great - instead of me saying "David ISAAC!!!! please stop talking!!!" Peter was back their..."David Isaac!!!!!!" :) cousins are great!!!

Father's day spending time with my dad at their home in Stafford.

Ventures with Vivian

My cousin is visiting from Ohio and has been in "military wife" boot camp. She's been such a gift and blessing from God. It's so nice to have some extra hands around the house and with the kids. We've had some fun adventures together too...

She is quite the gardner and gave me some good tips with my potted plants and we also planted a couple together. Here are the beautiful gerber daisies

We ran a 8k at First Landing National Park at Va Beach.
Speaking of the beach......I could go there everday!

So Vivian has learned what military wives know - it seems everything breaks when your spouse is deployed. We have had a broken washing machine (in which I got my first traffic ticket driving to meet the repair man at the gate). Currently we have a broken computer, camera, drill, truck, and lawn mower..among other things... Pictured is Ms. Vivian modeling the lovely little over a year and yet broken lawn mower.

We took turns with the weed eater...exciting stuff!

Thankfully, David had a back up drill...it was hard work mounting the flag mount :)

But we did it! It was in a rather awkward spot and pretty hilarious to watch us do this together.

David Isaac came out to help

plants and veggies are blooming

my first tomato (David wanted you to see this! :))

Izzie-Bella-Grace with her pink wings

David Isaac in his element

Solomon James catching a wave

that was tough work...he is ready for a little snoozer

Get that energy out!!!

Bella Grace thanking God for the ocean

She loves her cousin Vivian

Soli getting ready to dig up some lunch

A beautiful day at the beach

And love will hold us together make us a shelter to weather the storm

And I will be my brother's keeper so the whole world will know that we are not alone

lyrics from Matt Maher's "Hold Us Together"

Great song that Vivian and I have been singing this week. :)

I'm thankful that God's love holds us together and that He created family and sisterhood so that we are not alone as we venture through life on earth.

Looking forward to David's return back home! We miss him very much and Lil d pray all the time "Thank you Jesus that you will bring daddy home soon, thank you Jesus for daddy's truck" :) Isabella sang "Amazing Grace" to David on the phone this morning.

Praying for our soldiers, our leaders, and for the follwer's of Christ to shine His Light/Love for the world to see.