First comes love...then comes marriage...then comes

Doug and Dessi with a baby carriage!


Frank's niece (mine too!: )) is having a baby! She's "due" October 8th. And has been told she's having a girl! I saw the ultrasound pictures...it's pretty convincing! : ) ♥~ Makayla Rae~ ♥

Her mom, my sis-in-law, Kelly, and a couple of Dessi's friends threw the shower for her. It was a luau theme! I have to admit, it was the first luau baby shower I've been to. Very cute!

Kaity and Annie were filling in their cards for baby bingo. We had fun playing that. Mandy kept winning!!!!

Alliyah enjoyed the balloons! : )

Jeannie and Dessarae all decked out in their luau attire : )

The cookies were in the shapes of baby things and the baby's name.

There were even fun straws and umbrellas for our drinks!

They got lots of cute little girl clothes and baby necessities. This little outfit says "Mommy's little angel"

It's hard to see from this angle, but I found her the cutest little tankini for next summer! : )

Liah spent some time with "Aunt Jeannie" during the present opening.

The happy couple...soon to be threesome!

Kaity with her leis : )

Visions of the future???

Justus loved trying to pull Doug's hair! : )


On a more serious note...Dessarae's been having problems with elevated blood pressure and swelling in her legs since before she was 28weeks. It's still too early to deliver the baby. So, I'm asking for prayer for the safety of Dessarae and little Makayla as those symptoms can have adverse effects on both of them!

The Fourth of July

Here's our (almost) annual 4th of July picture!
The kids are looking quite patriotic, aren't they?
We enjoyed a brunch picnic at the Leo's (which I've attended many times since I was in high school!) with a dip in the pool as well! It was a fun time except Frank had to work so he couldn't join us for the fun. Thankfully, Grandma and Papa Corbett were there to help watch the kids once again! It was a little cool for swimming (low 70's) but the water was WARM! It was great! You could just walk right in...no adjustment needed! Of course the kids didn't want to get out! I was surprised, though, that Alliyah didn't like being in the pool because she LOVES the bathtub!!!

That night Frank set off a few little fireworks on the front sidewalk...one of which was going full force when the police drove by...guess it wasn't big enough to bother with!

Then we did sparklers! Alliyah wasn't very sure of them. She was just fine watching!

This was a major accomplishment! Zach overcame his fear of the sparklers. I didn't know why he wouldn't do any the last couple years. He would just run the other way and hide. He revealed that one of his siblings had dropped a hot sparkler on his foot a few years ago and that is why he was afraid to have anything to do with them!

Love Elli's outfit? This is the "sweatshirt" she picked when we told her to go put on something warm over her dress! I'm not sure what made her pick the hat!

All in all it was a fun day and we enjoyed watching the great display of fireworks Grove City put on this year (22 min.!) from our 3rd floor windows once again.

Just had to...

post this cute picture of little Liah!

Check it out!

I added a video to the last post...check it out!

Father's Day

MY DAD!

The reason for celebrating the day!
I definitely dropped the ball in planning ahead for this day. When I asked my Mom if she had anything planned for the day, she said "He's not my dad." Fair enough. That's true! So, we planned, in very short notice, a picnic at the park. (Thanks to my Mom!) For some reason, my Dad reminds me of Pa Grape in this hat. (Have to watch Veggie Tales to understand!)




Alliyah was ready to play! She's wearing an outfit that my Grandma Corbett made for me when I was little!



Monkey Annie! She can climb!



Elli swinging! And learning how to keep herself going!



Liah cuddling with Grandma ♥



Me trying to get a picture of Justus while holding him!

Annie and Kaity...best cousins!

Sam and Elli...best cousins too! Trying to convince them they can't get married when they're older is difficult!

Jeffrey and Justus...waiting to eat!

After the meal, came the part I think the kids loved the best! We all walked to the pond and the kids tried to feed the fish and the geese. These are very well fed fish and geese...I'm not sure the kids even saw any fish and the geese were totally uninterested!

Still trying to feed the fish!

More studying the water for fish!

Zach posing with the fountain in the background.

Nathaniel and Austin found shells, stinky snail shells. (Some of the other kids found them too!) We tried to convince them to leave the shells there or the snails would be homeless...I think we actually succeeded! But not without them trying! (again and again!)

Sam and Nathaniel throwing rocks in the pond.

Papa and Caeden
(I think Caeden was voted 'most likely to fall in the water'...he just loved being close to it! Thank goodness he didn't fall in though!)

Liah posing...a future dancer?

We ended the evening taking a few pictures of the Dad's and their kids (or grandkids!)

Here's Jeff with his brood.
Annie, Austin, Samuel, Caeden and Justus

And Frank with his...
Kaitlyn, Zachariah, Nathaniel, Elliana, and Alliyah

And Papa with all but one of his grandchildren!
(Miss you Asher!)

Happy Father's Day!
Thanks for being such a great Dad!♥

We Can-Can Dance!

Dotty McGill Dance Studio had their recital on June 20th this year (once again falling on the wedding day of one of my cousins!). Kaity and Elli along with my niece, Annie, all were in it.

This was rehearsal for the finale, "Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog." You can see Ann on the far left of the picture giving the girls instruction.

Elli, Annie and Kaity all ready for their first dances!

Kaitlyn with her stage makeup and tap outfit on!

Elli "getting all made up"

Elli with her stage makeup on. She did a ballet dance this year.

My camera does not zoom nearly well enough! Elli is the 4th one in from the left with her toe pointed in front of her. She danced to "My Magic Tutu."

Mandy's camera zooms MUCH better (thank you Mandy!). Here's Kaity during her tap number. (Gotta work on that smile!) Her dance was to "Pink Cadillac."

Alliyah got a backstage trip the day of the recital! This is Kaity in her ballet costume. She danced to "Yellow Bird."

Here's Kaity stretching out before acro...to do her back walkover. (That's something I never could do with any consistancy! So glad she can!)



Kaity and Annie...stretching and posing! : )
(The one dance they got to be in together! )
"Do You Believe in Magic?" was their song for acro.

The beautiful dancers after the recital with all the flowers they got! (Thanks Grandma and Papa and Uncle Jeff and Aunt Mandy!) (Also, notice Austin in the background scowling because he got caught making faces while we were trying to get "nice" pictures of the girls! LOL!)

Posing with Grandma and Papa Corbett

~Elliana~

~Annie~



~Kaitlyn~



Frank with Liah...this was actually her SECOND dance recital! What a culturally enriched girl! : )

Our attempt at a family shot...Nathaniel hurt his eye and would not look up!

The girls outside Pew Fine Arts building at GCC.
The recital was good! Wish you all could have been there!