Piano Man

Charlie has started taking piano lessons. He has taken for about a month...and loves it. He definitely has a gift...same as his dad and sweet aunt Jennie, well really, all the McClains. It was incredible to watch him with his teacher...she says, "Wow...does he come from a family that plays?" Yes, on his DAD's side. "I can tell" she says...Charlie beams with pride.

He LOVES it and is learning so much so fast. This week he learned to play Mary Had a Little Lamb. He learned it with 4 other songs. He learned 2 more than he was supposed to because he really wanted to learn "Old MacDonald" for this next week.

It is exciting to see your kid in something that he was meant to do. We have done soccer, kindermusic, gymnastics...he has does them, even likes them. But had not yet excelled. But this...THIS he loves, THIS he craves, THIS he keeps coming back to so he can play again and again....

Wow.



His wonderful loyal brother spends hours listening to him play, sings along with him, AND counts all the notes. It is precious to hear Zach tap out and say "quarter quarter half-note, whole-note-hold-it."

Little Rock (1/4) marathon

OKOK...another post from MARCH.

The McClains and the Stanfields ran the Little Rock marathon together. We each ran 1/4 of it...and it was a blast.

Here we are at the beginning...


Wendy ran into Mike Huckabee...he used to be her pastor.




Bright eyed at the beginning of the race...


Running hard, going strong...



We ran as fast as we could. You could take a bus from each point to the other, but we thought it would be MUCH more fun if we drove the truck to each point and cheered for each other...and took pics. Each of us has the post-run "I think I am REALLY gonna DIE right now" look.




The finish line. Our time is WAY off because our plan to drive to each check point was blown when they blocked the roads (so we thought) to the 3rd point. Chuck had to run 2 extra miles to reach Brian to tag...Brian had to wait 30 + minutes. It was a mess. NEXT YEAR, we will do it.

Amazing pics...

No, I DIDN'T take them.

We actually had a photo shoot...with Lisa Felts. She is the photographer who did Jennie's wedding. Check out her website

www.lisafeltsphotography.com

and look at "recent sessions." She captured the essence of my two boys. She caught their "spunk", appreciated their "all boy" and made me remember how precious they are. She is so talented...and my gosh, I could EAT THEM UP!!

The finished road...

TERRIBLE TERRIBLE BLOGGER!!

This is an entry from MAY that I never sent. We finished the road about a month after it started...it looks much different that when we started.
The plans are coming along to start building in the late fall/winter. scary...





Here are a couple of fun pics that I edited and tried to make interesting...


This one is my favorite.