Weekend with Melanie

John let Mom tag along with him to Columbia, SC. Mel is a grad student at USC. She sang in an opera this weekend and did a fabulous job. I'll see about posting a video of some of it.

Love & Respect

For the last 10 Wednesday nights we have had a small group (7 couples) meeting at our house going through the study, "Love & Respect" by Dr. Emerson E. Eggerichs - powerful things! We ended it with a Dinner together. (The 7th couple didn't make the last week - they were on their honeymoon!)

Gossett boys and their ties!

David was in a wedding last weekend. Emily had the boys all dressed up in their ties!

Our sweet Hudson

He is taking steps! The next pic/video you see on the blog will be him walking. He turns 1 this week! John David is just talking so much and so sweet. It is hard to catch a picture of him. He is so busy!

We enjoyed Jimmy's visit

WHBC Fall Festival

Of course, you have Spider Man and Spider Web! Spider Mommy is quite creative!

Hudson and Gigi snuck off to the nursery. It was quite overwhelming for all Spider Webs!

Spider Man was a little overwhelmed with this slide, as you can see, he buried his head at the end and was starting to cry until he was rescued!

Uncle Jimmy is in town

I love my husband!

Roll Tide!

Some dear friends, the Sandersons, made this for the boys! Isn't it precious?

Church Softball

Our church's softball team won first place!

Veggie Tales - "God Made You Special"

We took the boys to see Veggie Tales. Emily's parents were in town so they were able to join us. What a treat! That is Grandma and Grandpa Luttrell.

I turn away and try to get the boys expressions, but you can't see it!

More Washington pics

Before I move on, I wanted to show you some more pictures of our trip. Washington was so beautiful. The weather was perfect. Scott and I just spent the day (Saturday), so we tried to see as much as we could.

This at the Changing of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. This was awesome!

Look who I "ran" into!

Sunday - Receiving the Flag back in Huntsville, AL

Everyone was there in our family, except John. He was in Charlotte visiting Mel and her family. They recognized us (Scott, Sandra, Seth, David, Emily, John David, Hudson, Mama and Papa Ward) and we all walked up to receive the flag. I didn't get any pictures of that, but afterwards I asked for this picture. Truly it was a weekend, Scott and I will never forget - it was such an honor! James Gossett truly was a HERO!

Saturday - Presenting it at the WWII Memorial in Washington, DC

This is Scott and I actually walking with the Honor Guard and presenting the flag to the Memorial.
A local television reporter interviewed Scott.

Dave R., the man (WHBC youth pastor) that led Scott to the Lord pastors a church in Alexandria, VA. He was kind to pick us up at the airport Friday night and we stayed with him and his wife, Linda, and then he went with us on Saturday morning. Thank you, Dave!