This was the first year I have participated in our church’s annual summer outreach camp: I loved it!! Our outreach/missions pastor is a runner himself, so he began this 15ish years ago as a unique summer ministry for kids around here. It has grown steadily ever since Rob started it, and this year was the…

This year for Father’s Day the boys and I took care of Daddy’s car! He worked some extra hours the day before, so we took that opportunity to get some new car mats, car air freshener, and some of his favorite treats from the store. We cleaned out the trash from the car, gave it…

Continued from Part 1… MONDAY MORNING pretty cool tunnel set up for Charlie  Henry is really proud of himself when he sits like a big boy on the sofa MONDAY MORNING AT THE BEACH Daniel testing the water; we all agreed (like usual) that it was a little too chilly to stay in for long…

On the morning of Saturday the 8th, the Byrds packed up almost everything we own and headed for the beach at Nags Head! Before arriving at the beach, we planned to stop a few miles short of our destination, the NC Aquarium on Roanoke Island. The boys had a BLAST running around like madmen and…

We finally had a date night…a late date night, thanks to Rebecca’s co-worker, Ryan, and his wife, Alyssa. Rebecca tried to make it a surprise, and it worked for the most part. 😉 It was nice to spontaneously pick a place to go at 11pm after she got off work. We went to the White…

We had a fun Saturday outdoors again. After a great breakfast at the Chi-ful-AAA! (how Charlie says Chick-fil-A), we chose Durant Nature Park for outdoor time. Charlie was SO excited to go to breakfast that he was hollering Chi-ful-AAA, Chi-ful-AAA and skipped/hopped from the front door to the van.We discussed that we haven’t taken the…