She's 12!!!

Today is Shelby's 12th birthday, so to celebrate today, we took her out for dinner. We went to El Tapatio, which is one of her favorite places to eat. We said that it was her birthday and all the waiters and waitresses came and sang Happy Birthday to her (in spanish)!!! It was so funny watching Shelby!!! As you can see, I was able to get a picture of her with the birthday sombrero. After dinner, we had Ice Cream at the Marble Slab!!!

Happy Birthday Shelby, We Love You VERY Much!!

King Sisters

Savanna was a little nervous, but she did great.

Abby was so excited she waved with both hands!! =)

Abby and Savanna were in the overton county fair over the weekend. The didn't win, but they both looked beautiful!

Happy 4th of July!!!

Here are just a couple pictures from the fireworks in town tonight. Everybody seemed to enjoy them!! Today was the July 4th celebration in town and the kids decided to be in the bicycle parade. Savanna and Shelby decorated their bikes and we helped Abby decorate her tricycle. Everyone who participated was a winner of $10....I tried to get Wayne to enter, but no luck!!

Here is Savanna!

Here is Shelby before the parade.

Here is Abby on her decorated tricycle before the parade.

Hope everyone has a Safe and Happy 4th of July weekend! =)

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday (March 2007)

Happy Mother's Day!!

Wordless Wednesday

Where the Eagles Roam

Dad has been tellling me about seeing an eagle's nest down on the lake. He said he had been seeing an eagle close by too. I told him that sometime when we could get together, I wanted to go out on the lake with him and try to get some pictures. Today was the day! He called, I got the cameras and headed to the lake! We went up the lake about a mile and stopped to look at the nest. We couldn't see it good enough to get a picture, but I could see the eagle moving. We had been there maybe two minutes and in flies another eagle. It flies right over us so I start snapping pictures. It lands in a tree nearby and then we hear the two eagles start "talking" to each other. We sat and watched them. The one that was on the nest leaves and the other one flies in and lands next to the nest. It landed a couple branches over from the nest and I was able to get a good picture. I had never saw an eagle "up close and personal" like that before, so this was an awesome experience for me! Take a look at this beautiful bird!

Savanna is 13!!

Savanna's birthday was April 16th, but her party was tonight. She turned 13 this year. She celebrated with her family and some of her friends from school.

Happy Birthday Savanna!!

It's Easter!!

Easter at Wayne's Uncle Glen & Aunt Emily's house!

Ms. Abby Rabbit!!

Egg hunt at Peanut & Delilah's

Abby LOVES to steal kisses!!

Shelby Lynn

We have had a really busy Easter weekend, but we have thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!! We have been able to spend some great time with all our family and some friends. Life is GOOD!!

Oink, Oink!

Tomorrow is the Easter Egg Contest at school so Shelby decided to make her egg into a PIG!!! Fun, Fun, Fun!!

Fruit Pizza Recipe

What you will need:

1 roll sugar cookie dough

1- 8oz cream cheese

1 to 1 1/2 c. powdered sugar

Your Favorite Fresh Fruit (kiwi, strawberries, pineapple, grapes, peaches, etc)

Instructions:

Bake sugar cookies as directed.

Mix cream cheese & powdered sugar (begin by adding 1 cup powdered sugar, taste to see if want to add more sugar) mix until smooth.

After cookies are completely cooled, spread cream cheese mixture over top of cookies.

Add Fruit (cut fruit into bite size pieces)

ENJOY!! These are very simple, yet very tasty!!

Yummy, Yummy!!

This month our church is hosting "The Factory" (youth center). We are supposed to bring food and have a time of devotion with all the kids. I decided that I would make everyone their own mini fruit pizza!! Yum Yum!

Way To Go SHELBY!

Shelby is playing jr. pro basketball again this year and she had a game tonight. Shelby scored 4 points!!! Way to go Shelby! We are very proud of you!!

Spring Is Finally Here

I have been waiting for these to bloom and they finally did today!

HAPPY SPRING!!

Shelby's Baptism

Today was a special day for the Clayborn Family. Shelby got saved last Sunday

and today was her baptism. We are very proud of Shelby and her decision.

simple life with the clayborns----love it, love it, love it =)

Meet Emma Grace Robinson

Emma Grace is finally here! We have patiently been waiting for her arrival. She was delivered this morning at 4:28. She weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces, 18 inches long. Her big brother, Evan, could hardly wait to get to the hospital to see her! She is doing really good and Angie is doing good. She came a few weeks early but the doctor said everything looks okay. Congratulations Angie, Brandon & Big Brother Evan!

What did you do?

Ever wonder what other people do on Valentine's Day? Is it just another day? Is it a special day? Here's what we did for Valentine's Day......

Wayne started Valentine's Day out by cooking breakfast. We had country ham, eggs, and biscuits. YUMMY! Shelby went to see her Granny O and had lunch with her. Later in the afternoon, we (me and Wayne) took Shelby to the movies for Valentine's Day. We watched Hotel for Dogs. (good movie) After the movie, we had pizza for supper. My Valentine for Wayne and Shelby were a pan of heart shaped brownies! We decided to just keep it simple this year!

So, what did you do for Valentine's Day? C'mon, tell me!

Happy Valentine's Day!

A LOT OF FIRSTS

Well, as most of you know, a year ago this month, I went on a medical mission trip to Africa. I experienced several things for the first time like: flying-my first time flight was almost ten hours...I guess if I am gonna do it, do it right the first time! mission trip- This was my first mission trip I had ever gone on. Leaving the Country--this was definately a first!

We spent a couple months getting prepared for this trip. We had to take special shots, special medicine, have meetings with other team members who were going, and most of all get mentally

prepared.

Me, personally, I probably prayed more in those 2 months than I had prayed in a long time! Not knowing what to expect, flying, leaving my family, all of this was scary for me. The experience was worth every second of nervousness that I had! I thank God for letting me have this amazing experience!

This is the team that went. There were 9 team members that went from Tennessee. The guy in the very back was the missionary that was there waiting on us to arrive. The team members are: Me, Angie,Roger, Leda & Tom Riley, Dave, Alvin, Jim, Mike. (These last 4 guys were from Cleveland, Tn)

This is us after having about 3-4 hours of sleep after our plane ride to Africa!

This is what I could see from my window seat! It looks soooo soft!! I would fly anywhere in the world now! I loved it!

This was people waiting outside the wall of the compound to get in to the medical clinic.

This was our meals!! We ate around what we called the "community bowl". They would bring the food out in a big bowl and everybody was supposed to DIG IN!! with your hand, and all eat out of the same bowl. This was definately different! Our meals would consit of some kind of meat, chicken or goat or fish, with rice or potatoes. Nothing like we had ever tasted. You might see a chicken running around this morning and it might be supper tonight!

I have many more pictures I could share, but this is just a few. If you ever get the opportunity to experience something like this, do it! It was so amazing to see and experience a different way of life for a few days. As we were leaving, it was a bitter sweet feeling....glad to go back to our family, but really hated to leave because there were so many people there that needed our help. I hope in a couple years that I will be able to go back. Maybe, I can get Wayne to go with me! (yeah right)

Although, it was a wonderful experience and I will never forget it, I really enjoy simple life with the clayborns.

Brought to you by the letter "W"

Thanks goes to Keyton! I have the letter "W". It was a little tough, but here goes!

10 Things I LOVE that begin with the letter "W"

1. WAYNE- Well, this is my husband, so of course I LOVE him!
2. Wal-mart- I love to go shop at Wal-mart, especially the clearance aisle. =]
3. Watermelon- I love to eat watermelon. It is so refreshing to me. Yum Yum!!:9
4. Water- There's nothing like a nice cold bottle of water on a good hot day!
5. Weekends- That's my favorite time of the week. I usually have 3 day weekends...It's GREAT!!
6. Wrapping Gifts- This is something I used to do at Christmas when I worked at Peebles. I love it, but they had to be perfect. I still enjoy wrapping gifts and making pretty bows to put on them.
7. Word Search- I love doing word search puzzles. I like to take a word search book on all trips, even camping trips!
8. Winter- This is probably my favorite time of the year! I love snow! and the cold weather! BRR!
9. Waterfalls- I love waterfalls because they are so calming!
10. Winning- Everyone loves to be a winner. I especially love winning if it is against Wayne.

Take Time to Laugh....at YOURSELF!

Isn't it funny how we do things, then look back and it is so funny?

This morning, I went to the eye doctor and I got contacts. (had them before, but went back to glasses) When I got home I was online checking email and stuff, I caught myself trying to push my glasses up! :o)

Also, while on the computer, keep in mind it is a laptop, I had my cell phone right beside the computer. I put my had on the cell phone and started moving it like it was the mouse to my computer. NOTHING HAPPENED! I just looked at the computer like something was wrong and started to panic......oh no, my computer is not working right! Then, I realized what I was doing! Well, at least nobody SAW me do this!

See, it's the simple life with the Clayborns, that make me laugh!

What a BEAUTIFUL day!!

This is a picture Wayne took this morning while it was snowing. I think SNOW makes everything so beautiful. This is probably my favorite time of the year. I love cold weather, and of course, I love the SNOW!! I just wish it had snowed more!

***New Found Fun!!***

I received a new card/board game for Christmas. It is called Sequence. WE LOVE IT! We play it almost every night! I took it to the Gibson's New Years Day gathering, it was a HIT! Everybody is hooked! :) Looks like I may need to invest in some of these to pass out to some of my family! Anytime anybody is up for a challenge, just give me and Wayne and Shelby a call!!!!!

Hi Aimee
I finally got on. I may not still have the right location--I hope I do.
I like your blog.
Mom

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back

and realize they were the big things.

-Robert Brault

Don't Forget to DANCE!!

I have been working on my "blog" all afternoon. This is how i feel now that I have finally figured out what was wrong!

I am new @ this!

Well, everybody, I have finally decided to try to start my own blog spot!! Since I missed the class that was offered at school, it is taking some time to get this started! I am gonna try to start blogging at least weekly, if not more. I may be calling on some of you all to help me get it all together, so be ready!:0) Well, if you don't hear from me before the next week is over, Everybody have a GREAT week!!

QUOTE FOR THE DAY!

DON'T CRY BECAUSE IT'S OVER, SMILE BECAUSE IT HAPPENED!! :)