Our Photo Shoot by Lissa

These are the awesome pictures taken by Lissa. We met her and Emmi in Murfreesboro where we had our photo shoot. These are just a few, and it was hard to choose which ones but i tried to get a variety of different ones. She did an awesome if I do say so myself...ENJOY!!!

Happy Birthday Pappy!

Happy Birthday Pappy! We love you :)

Jessica trying to burp Makyna while Aunt Becky is laughing at us.

Before the puke, a nice red shirt...

The birthday boy!

Drew thought he needed to run right towards the camera. He was over the pictures.

Her hair is starting to look like pappy's used to :)

After the throw up...a nice grey shirt from Uncle David

The Kids and their Daddy

Only some of his grandkids and great grandkids

The Bates fam

Drew sleeping...Not!

Happy Birthday Aunt Becky!

Happy Birthday! We love you!

And thank you for always feeding us...you are the best cook in the world ;) really. We hope you have a great birthday!

Jessica's Spanish Lesson

Jessica, the adjective always comes after the noun in spanish. It is the opposite of english. So I am a...hermana dulce...(literally sister sweet but is read as sweet sister in spanish)
So now you know ;)

JESSICA ANNE BATES...

...IS COMING HOME WEDNESDAY!!!!! and mark too :)

These are our finger staches. This was not too long before Jess left for Miami in May, 2008.

Jess, Mag, Mom, and me

at Jess' party in October.

William, me, and Jess

Mark, Jess, Mag, and Drew with his curly hair!

Thanksgiving 2008

Jess and Mag looking so excited :)

Sweet little Jessie, what an angel.

Jess and Drew listening to Maggie play guitar Christmas Eve.

William, Mark, and Jessica in Miami

Sister shopping in Miami.

Me and Jess
At the Ft. Lauderdale airport my last day.

Can't wait till you're here hermana!

Happy 4th! a little late... :)

Last minute edition at William and Maggie's request :)

On the 4th of July, Maggie, Mom, me, William, Tiffany, Darryl, Drew, Makyna, Sissy, Erika, Emily and Jessie all went to Buddy and Becky's to swim and cookout. We planned to go to Providence to watch fireworks after but as you all know, it stormed. So that didn't work out. Instead, we went to Smoothie King :)

Maggie and JoJo watching fireworks, playing with our new bouncy ball!

William's karate kick

Hi-Yah!

Maggie's karate kick

Yah!




And me jumping in.

Flip!

Sweet Kyna in her new bathing suit!

This is the video of the squats I've been trying to post and it finally did. This is how William REALLY works out.