Father-Daughter Dance

Our church has put on a Father-Daughter dance the past couple of years. It is probably Zoe's favorite night of the year. A few weeks leading up to the dance they take dance classes to get familiar with some the dances. The event is only offered through 6th grade so this was her last one. Thankfully I have been the photographed and get to be there to see all of the fun they have!  

 These keys were the girls gift for the evening.

The photo above is all of the 6th grade girls with their dads.

These girls are all great friends! 

Zoe's smile makes my heart happy! 

These dads are part of our village and I know they would be there for any of my kids if they needed them.

Super busy Saturday

Saturday was a super busy day! The campground had a few planned father/kid activities that we didn’t want to miss. We also had things we wanted to do since this was our last full day. We started the day with the kids and Corey fishing.

Then they competed in the dad*kids events. They had to try and knock ping pong balls of bottles using a water gun, see who could get a ringer playing horseshoes (there were only 2 dads that got it and Corey was one of them), and then see who could sweep up the most balloons in 10 seconds.In the end Corey placed 2nd in the Dads and Noah 2nd in the kids. They walked away with $30.00 in store credit (which the kids already used).

After the games we headed back to the river for one last time. They have spent hours building dams. The kids were able to make Corey key chains and cards during the craft time.Later that evening we went to the ice cream social and played a few games of bingo.

Since I have cooked/fixed 3 meals a day since Saturday .We decided to go out for dinner. We found a yummy BBQ place in Black Mountain and right beside it was a great putt-putt place.

Boy, am I tired from our fun filled day! I’m sad that we head home tomorrow,but we leave again in 2 weeks for another 9 day vacation!!This time Corey will be with us the WHOLE time:)

Birthday Fiesta

After soccer on Saturday we all went to eat at Bronco’s (which is a Mexican restaurant) to celebrate Corey’s birthday. It is one of our favorite places to eat. My kids can go through some chips and dip! You all know how hard it is to get your kids to take a picture. Well as you can see below my kids get it honest! Every time I tried to get a picture of Corey he would act up. We had some good food, a few laughs and of course cake!

He got me!

There has not been one time in 12 years that Corey has been able to truly surprise me. Most of the time it’s my fault because I really don’t like surprises. I like knowing what's going on and being in control of it. Yeah, one of my many issues. Well Corey finally got me yesterday! We were talking on the phone while he was driving home from work when he said he would call me back. When he called back he said they needed him back at work so he would see me after church.This happens a lot at his work so I didn’t think anything about it. While I was at church I was telling my friends “I hope Corey has made it home from work because he is tired.” They were like “Poor Corey.” Fast forward to me coming in the door from church. I start walking over to the living room and Corey tells me “Since you surprised me with the camera for my birthday. I am going to give you your Mother’s Day gift early.” I still had no idea until I looked on the arm of the couch and this is what I found……

A RED MINIATURE DACHSHUND!!!!!! I had a weenie dog for 10 years named Frannie and loved her so much! I had been talking about wanting another one,but never thought I would really get her. Come to find out a few people were in on this. Remember the friends from church that said “poor Corey”? Well they had known for 4 days and Jamie even rode with Corey to pick her up! Zoe insisted on naming her so her name is Rosie Frannie Cotheran! She is so tiny and she blends into the couch:) I just want to say thanks to everyone that helped Corey pull this off and to my wonderful hubby that is listening even when I think he's not:)

Happy Birthday Honey!

Today is my sweeties birthday! I am so thankful and honored to be married to such a wonderful man.

“Thank you for all the stuff you do for me. You are a loving daddy! I hope you have a nice birthday! I love you daddy!”

- Zoe

“Happy Birthday Dad! Today is going to be the best birthday ever.You’re a cool loving daddy. I am thankful for you!”

- Noah

“Happy Birthday Dad!You are a awesome dad!”

- Kain

We all love you very much!!!

Happy Birthday Corey:)

We gave him his gift this past Friday so he could us it at Look Up Lodge.

Look Up Lodge

Friday afternoon Corey and Noah headed out on the 3rd/4th grade spring retreat with our church. This was Noah’s first trip anywhere and he was so excited! I had went with Kain when he was in 3rd grade and we had so much fun. I am so happy that Corey was able to go with Noah and have this time together. Noah went down the zip line and did the big swing! Noah is still talking about all the fun they had.

My Valentine

Corey was off on Monday for President's Day so he took me to work that day. Little did I know he had a wonderful day planned.He picked me up from work and we went to Olive Garden for a delicious lunch.

After lunch we went to see Dear John. Let me just say I was sooo disappointment in this movie! The book is one of my all time favs and the movie just didn't do it for me.They changed things all around,added some stuff and it was just too drawn out! But oh well, at least I was spending time with my hubby!

Then we went and did some shopping before getting my car worked on.On the way home we stopped at Carrabba's for dessert!

This is the Chocolate Dream and it is so YUMMY!!!

I had a wonderful day with my sweetheart, thank you honey!

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