Catching up...

Elijah's 3rd birthday:

Grandma Kathi arrived on Elijah's birthday. We decided to do a little something for his actual day and then go to my dad's on Saturday and celebrate there as well. I can't believe my baby boy is 3 - it just seems like time goes faster and faster...






















































Happy Graduation Ben!

Ben finished college around last November. It was not until June 28th that he was able to walk with hat and robe just like a true college grad. It took place in Atlanta, GA. Chris and Aimee were able to come as well and I know Ben really appreciated their support. My brother Chris is getting close to finishing college as well. We look forward to attending his when the time comes.













Afterwards we were all starving and the kids of course had enough of being made to sit for 3 hours. For the most part they did pretty good. Poor Aimee had the honor of holding Adyson when she exploded her diaper. I knew that was going to happen. Isn't that just how it is. We
went to CPK which Ben and I miss and had a great time enjoying our old favs. The kids also enjoyed their ice creams.

















More visitors!

Kelsi, John, Jacob, and Georgia came to visit a week after Kathi arrived. It was soo fun to see the kids and have all of them play together. Georgia was adorable and such a happy baby. The boys had lots of fun running and screaming with Jacob.
















4th of July:

We had a blast on the 4th. An excuse for a party! Chris and Aimee came out with Brien an old friend from Lancaster. Our neighbors Michelle, Greg, and their two kids Emma and Morgan. Of course our favorite visitors Kathi, Kelsi, John, and the kids. We bbq'd, hung out, and blew up some fireworks! We all had a lot of fun.

From left to right top to bottom: (Aimee and Adyson) (Kathi), (Kelsi and Georgia), (Emma, Caleb, Loryn, and Elijah), (Morgan, Greg, Michelle, and Adyson on lap), (Aimee, Chris, and Brien), (Cute boy Jakie)




































Adyson's Blessing:

July 6, 2008 Adyson Mae Doolittle was given her blessing in Ooltewah TN at the Harrison Bay Ward Sacrament meeting. It was nice to have family here to share in this special day.














































Trip to Grandma's House:

has been ill and we really wanted to go see them. So we took the 8 hour drive with four kids. ItMy mom came for a visit about a week after Kathi and Kelsi left. My mom and I decided that we would love to go visit Grandma and Grandpa Johnston in NC. Grandpa actually wasn't that bad. The kids did pretty good and Adyson slept a lot of the way. The kids had a blast running around the house, fishing, and going to the Botanical Gardens. Loryn caught a fish within the first 30 minutes of fishing, her first fish! Caleb caught one a few days later. He almost caught a huge one as he says but the line snaped. Overall we had a great time visiting with family. Thanks Grandpa and Grandma for having us over and putting up with four young children! We already miss you!

Catching up: Kathi's visit, Ben's birthday, and our Anniversary - Oh Yea and 4 of July!

I am going to try to catch you all up on what has been happening in The Life of The Doolittle's.... Oh, so exciting. I know... you have all missed my exciting entries of my exciting life. (That was an attempt at sarcasm) Truthfullly though a lot has been going on but the exciting part is all relative. We have had a good time having Kathi coe to visit us. The kids looooovvveed grandma being here to spoil them rotten with lots of love! We honestly didn't do very much as there usually isn't much motivation to go many places when you have 3 children under the age of 5 and its hot and sticky outside! We did visit Gattlenburg which is like a Solvang (I probably spelled both of those places wrong, sorry) and walked around and stuff. Caleb was sick the whole time, poor guy, so we couldn't really do to much there. When Kathi originally arrived we met Ben for dinner and went to (drum roll) ... CPK. If you couldn't guess, you probably don't know Ben as well as you thought.(JK) For the most part we hung out at the house. Had a great BBQ for Ben on his birthday.

Ben has finally reached the big 30! How time flys. It seems to be speeding up the older we get. Ben got a set of golf clubs and all the gear to golf his little heart out. Kathi left on Wednesday after Ben's birthday. We were sad to have her go. It never is enough time with our mommy's. Thanks Kathi for comming out! We miss you already!


Ben and I had our 7 year anniversary on the 29th of July. Ben never has an excuse for not knowing how many years we have been married because we were married in 2000, so if he can't get that then... well ... we have a problem. We really didn't do much. Our friend watched the kids and we went out to lunch and a movie (we watched Harry Potter). It was nice to get with each other but I was sick which by that night started getting a fever which turned out to be step throat. Lovely way to spend our anniversary. We still had a good time though.

Oh Yea! Almost forgot about 4th of July. We had a great time with my dad, Lisa and Aimee coming out for lunch. We set off the sound firworks while they were here. They had to leave before it got dark so missed the exciting big fireworks. Our neighbors were having tooo much fun whith theirs. We had one incident were they tried to set off 7 or more big fireworks all together and placed them together. One fell over which in turn knocked over all the others and the started flying across the lawns at us and the houses. It was scary! We all survived and we did not have to call the fire department so all was well. We ate watermellon and just hung out with neighbors and watched the show. We had a great time. Poor Emma (see picture little girl in dads lap) had fallen asleep but her dad didn't want her to miss the show so he brought her out. Only about five minutes later did that incident with all the fireworks shooting at us happen. He had to take her in - she was terrified!