Friday, July 30, 2010

New blog design...

So I am trying out this new blog design. I can't decide if I like it or not...don't be surprised if it changes again tomorrow:) If you like it...you gotta let me know!

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Fun in the 100 degree sun...

My parents came up from MI to visit their kids this week. I new the week would fly by but had no idea how truly fast it would go:( We kicked off their week in SC by introducing them to the HOT HOT SC sun. We went to this beautiful park in Westminster called the Chau Ram County Park. It was almost an hour away but well worth the drive! Also, it felt like it was a thousand degrees outside...but we all had a blast anyway! The reason we chose this park so far away was for the beautiful waterfalls and the cool river to swim in. Being that we are all from MI, we are all used to having a good lake or river to swim in within 15 minutes any direction you go in the good old Northern country. It's a little different here in the South, however, so we had to go searching for the comforts of 'home':)

Here is the only half way decent shot I got of Miracle. She doesn't stay in the same place for long!
This is my niece Meredith enjoying the little stream near where we ate our lunch.

Jack and JJ enjoyed the stream as well...It was SO SO hot and the water was so COOL!


JJ taking a rest with daddy in the gazebo.

A self portrait of me and my favorite husband:)
The kids loved the juice boxes.
The two youngest cousins in their matching swim trunks.
This is my mom and dad in front of the waterfall.

Me and the kids with my mom


My husband being a kid again and enjoying the waterfall up close and personal:)



Last but not least, my favorite shot of the day....my two favorite munchkins!


































Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Is it really almost over?


Well friends, its been a long while since a good update from the Splan Clan. We have just been so busy with enjoying summer and working. Miracle spent two weeks in Michigan during which we painted her room as a birthday surprise. It turned out super cute!





She absolutely loves it! JJ and I spent our two weeks off with sissy gone just havin' fun! We played at the park, played with the cousins, celebrated fourth of July, and JJ even helped do some painting. We also spent a lot of our time missing sissy....she has never been away from home that long so it was really hard.
Summer is just flying by. Only 3 more weeks of summer fun before school actually starts back up again. CRAZY! I spent a lot of time today looking for Christmas gift ideas online. After wasting way too much time doing this...I realized just how fast Christmas will be here already! I'm not wishing any time away though so onto more 'summer' talk:)
The kids are spending their days at Ms Dana's house. They love her and have a lot of fun over there most days. They do prefer Aunt Christy's house though...and JJ has been very adamantly reminding me of that on a daily basis. The other day, Miracle was crying because she had just gotten scolded for feeding her dinner to the dog. JJ pointed at her and said, "ha ha you trouble!" He got scolded for this comment of course....but it was so funny! His little sense of humor is really starting to come out!
Miracle has grown about 3 inches this summer. Her shoes are too small and her pants are too short....she is going to shoot way past me before she even reaches high school! We are preparing to buy lots of new jeans throughout the year if she keeps growing at this pace! We are also preparing to ward the boys off pretty soon...as she grows, she gets more and more beautiful!
Overall, we have much to be thankful for this year. It's going by WAY to fast...but its been a good one!
I forgot to mention that we got a new little addition at our house. His name is Patrick Murphy and he an adorable little tabby cat! He is a perfect little friend for JJ and Miracle (he has managed all of the 'loving' very well), and he is turning out to be a good little kitty! He plays a lot, cuddles a lot, and has mastered the litter box quite nicely! I let him sleep with me most nights and have really enjoyed him!
Hope you all have a wonderful end of summer!


Friday, July 16, 2010

My Beautiful Sister

Kelly at kellyscorner is doing a fun matchmaking attempt. It is really hard these days to meet good fellow Christians so I had to enter my little sister. She will probably kill me later, but she deserves a good man and this could be a chance for her...so here goes nothing!
Meet Melanie Kay Cuddie (on the right) my beautiful little sister. She is 24 and is a Christian school teacher. She earned her BS in elementary education with a minor in Spanish from Pensacola Christian College. She will be starting her second year of teaching first grade this coming fall. As you can tell from the picture below...she loves to have fun with her friends! She enjoys reading, playing with her nieces and nephews, and spending lots of time with family. She was raised in a great Christian home and has a wonderful relationship with Jesus Christ.
She is originally from a small town in Michigan but is currently residing in the Upstate of South Carolina. She considers her job a ministry and works wonders in the lives of the small children she teaches. She is kind of shy but as soon as you get to know her....FUN! In the picture below she is with our mom whom she is very close with.

She would never do something like this for herself. She is just waiting on God's timing. She is a ton of fun, and I really can't say enough good things about her!


I don't want to give out her email address so please just leave a note in the comments below and we can go from there! Thanks for taking to the time to read a big sisters matchmaking attempt:)