Celebrating Chinese New Year on February17th with Bateman and Sewell families in Birmingham
Happy "Year of the Dog" Chinese New Year....Enjoyed yummy food and festivities at Alice and KC's house
Celebrating 11th year Gotcha Day in Cincinnati, Ohio - 3/18
Ella and her friend Katelyn attending the cotillion spring ball - 3/18
Celebrating Ella's 12th birthday with friends ice skating and rolled ice-cream 😋
Ella made 100 peanut butter dog biscuits to sell at school fair
Early May 2018, surprise visit from Dawn (Ella's Godmother)! We had fun weekend shopping, eating, attending Ella's end of year band concert at middle school and lots of laughs 😊
June 9th, Happy 4th birthday Oreo...you are loved!!!
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Photos below were taken while in Minnesota and South Dakota visiting family and friends for a week in June! We enjoyed short visit with my cousin Teresa Athey in Willmar MN. Watched horse races at Canterbury Park and visited the largest candy store in Minnesota with the Morton Family 💜 We picked up my sister and niece in Milbank, SD and drove to Aberdeen, SD to visit my Uncle Roger, Aunt Dolly, cousins Brent and Barry. While in Aberdeen, we enjoyed swimming, playing at local parks, eating and fishing (unfortunately the fish we not biting..ugh)......lots of memories were made 😍
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Early July, Ella went to Aviation camp in Huntsville, Alabama with Abby Sewell. This was Ella's 1st sleep away camp...she had such a wonderful time with Abby that they want to do it again next year!
Sibling snuggle time ....love them!
At the end of July, we enjoyed a "moms/kids' only 4 day get away trip in Gatlinburg, Tennessee with McFee's and McMulligan's. We rented a cabin with a pool table and hot tub. Everyone had so much fun relaxing, cooking, baking and playing games!! We will definitely be doing this every summer woo hoo!!!
Aug. 6th - 1st day of 7th grade.....
Biscuit and Oreo....so precious 💚
November Middle School Symphonic Band Concert at Reinhardt College
Before Thanksgiving was spent with the Sewell family in Blue Ridge, Georgia. We rented a beautiful 5 bedroom cabin with spectacular mountain views for 4 days and 3 nights!! We went horse back riding, rode an open train car tour and played lots of pingpong! This was a wonderful get away with precious friends that are like family 💛
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Christmas was spent at mom and dad's new beautiful house in Lake Worth, FL. We went to a Manatee exhibit, walked through a nature reserve, went out to eat and played cards - exploding kittens. They let us bring the dogs (thanks !!) and their favorite place was in the screen room so we relaxed out their quite a bit which was sooo nice!
See you all in 2019 😏
