Brooklynn's First Trip to the Zoo

Our family went to the zoo over Spring Break. This was Brooklynn's first visit there. I thought she might be a little scared of the all the animals, but I was wrong. She loved seeing them all and would ask "What's That" when she saw something she liked. We went to feed the birds and she practically pushed everybody out of the way to get in. She even told one little boy that was trying to feed the same bird as her that it was her bird. Well, the little boy cried so I had to find him another bird. The kids rode the camel, which was so funny because our little Miss Brooklynn is not at all patient and there was a line. She kept saying "I go now". Braxton was nice enough to ride in the place of me, because I simple am not a zoo person at all. As you can see she and the boys had a great time. By the end of the day though she was very tired and ready to go home.

Our Friend Kennedy

Some may know and some may not know Kennedy Pepper. She is a 10 year old young lady who has recently been diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma, this is a type of cancer. We have known this young lady since she was a baby. Kennedy attends school with Davis and is in the same grade as he is. I encourage all to visit her care page to read what her mother is keeping in a journal. It is absoutley beautiful what she puts down in words everyday about her beautiful daughter. The faith she has in our Lord is just plain awesome. You can click on Kennedy's name here or go to the following website: www.caringbridge.org/visit/kennedypepper. Please join us in prayer for this precious young lady.

Love,
Diane

More Pics of Brooklynn

Catching Up with the Barley's

Davis' Birthday Cake!!! Happy 10th Birthday Davis

Waiting to blow out candles!

Davis cracking up at his birthday card. It played music!

Roll Tide!!!

We have been a busy family the past two months. Brooklynn had her 2nd surgery to repair her cleft palate on Feb. 6th. What a trooper she was. She even managed to smile when she saw us come into recovery. Let me tell you it was a long 6 weeks of recovery for Brooklynn. She was on a soft diet, but was lucky enough to get off that before Easter. Anyway, she is all healed and looks like we are done with surgeries until she is about 7 years old. That is a break we will definetly enjoy.

Davis celebrated his 10th birthday on Feb. 21st. This bundle of energy was 3 1/2 weeks early and came to no surprise by me. What an active little fellow he was and still is. Davis had a spend the night party with a couple of his friends. He enjoyed the attention being on him for a little bit. It has been a hard transition for him going from the baby to the middle child, but I think he is starting to get the hang of it.

Then we moved into the month of March. We started off with baseball tryouts for Davis and welcoming home Baby Noah. Believe it or not we even had what we Alabamians call a "snow storm". Brooklynn decided she did not care for the snow at all. It just messed up her gloves and boots, well her whole outfit. I celebrated another birthday on the 13th of March. We also got to go to an Easter Egg Hunt that our AFCC group. This was Brooklynn's first time to hunt for eggs. I watched her pick up the eggs, open them up to see if they had anything in, and throw them down if they were empty. Boy they catch on quick!!! We celebrated Easter with our families, which was nice because I got to see my baby brother and my grandparents who came from IL and St.Louis. This was my grandparents first time to see Brooklynn and they were so happy to get to see her. I think that brings us up to date. The month of April I am sure will bring more activities and parties and of course Baseball!!