Fun Pre-Wedding Weekend

"Flying" trip to Florida

Mom and dad's former pastor, Dr. Pyle, passed away and we attended the funeral on Friday. They were there in Panama City, FL for about 5 years(1958-196 , before moving to Charlotte) and so much of our (Ward Family) Christian heritage foundation is because of this godly man and his wife, Queen Esther.

No oil spotted yet!

Papa drew up and supervised this construction of these first 4 school rooms at Central in 1959 - the beginning of our Christian education. Susan went to 5K - 2nd grade here.

We left Huntsville on Thursday morning, attended the funeral and then left Panama City Friday at 12:30 pm and drove - "flew" to Tampa to surprise Sharon on her opening night of her play - "Fiddler on the Roof". We arrived at 7:30 pm, just missing a little. It was fabulous. Sharon is amazing! She was the director and this as one of her assistant's said, "This is the pinnacle of Sharon's productions." She had live orchestra for the first time! Truly it was amazing! We drove back all day on Saturday and arrived home around 7:00 pm - Well worth the trip!!! Thank you, Lord, for safety! My Mother's Day gift to Mama Ward!!!

Melanie's Senior Voice Recital and Bridal Shower

John David is 4!

John David and his mom made this snake cake, complete with a forked (chewing gum) tongue! He wanted to invite some of his friends to play/eat pizza at KIDS KINGDOM (you can see in background) tonight for his party!

We enjoyed celebrating with David's family John David's fourth birthday at lunch yesterday. The big boys wanted to teach Graham how to lick the candles! Happy Birthday, to our precious gift - John David Paul Gossett.

Graham's walking....well...almost!

Yesterday after Sunday lunch we all were watching as Graham was "walking". David said by next Sunday, he will be walking on his own - those sweet little hands looking for mommy! (Nat, I found his little walking toy at the thrift store for $1.00!)

A Special Day at Botanical Garden

As you can see, we had a ball! John David, Hudson and Gigi spent 4 hours at the garden yesterday. It had rained that morning and we had the garden to ourselves. We just played and played. The boys enjoyed feeding the fish our picnic lunch. JDP got a rough skinned up knee (look for it in the pics) right after we arrived, but he was tough! We played in sand, climbed treehouses, watched turtles, threw rocks in the creek, saw beautiful flowers.......!

Last time we went, JDP kept talking about looking for a panda. He knew pandas ate bamboo!

"Bow the Knee" - Church Easter Program

John David helped Gigi. He was part of the program and did well (notice my basket - it had goodies!) Some of the pics were dress rehearsal, but you can see things. Mama Ward helped out alot with sewing the costumes.

Jesus performing miracles!

John was a disciple and David was the angel that rolled the stone away!

Hallelujah, We serve a RISEN Savior!

Getting Ready for Easter at Gigi's

This is Graham's new spring crawl. Those knees take a beating so let's try something different.

I love the intense look of JDP and Hud's grin!

Ready to hide them!