Slowing down?

I think we might actually be slowing down a little. Just in time for school to start in a couple of weeks.
Bible School was wonderful.  There were 8 precious soul saved! Praise the Lord! We had a really good crowd. Of course this was our first time working/attending Bible School at Brushy and they do an awesome job! The Lord is truly blessing!

That would be my crazy son with the guitar ;)

We left for San Antonio, TX the day after Bible School. It was a wonderful trip. What a beautiful city.  It was VERY HOT! The day we went to Sea World it was 107!!! Crazy, I know! The kids did really well even as hot as it was.

                                                                    On the airplane.

           The first night we were there Grant got to ride in a "gerbil ball". He loved it! I think I would   smother.

Payton loved the kiddie water slide!!

                                                                On a ride at Sea World.

On the River Walk boat tour.

This was the before the meltdown...it was a 40 minute boat ride, mostly on history of San Antonio and almost 100 degrees. Not fun for a 4 year old!

This was after ;)

Beautiful!! I could have stayed there all day!!

For the next couple of weeks we are going to enjoy the rest of summer vacation at home!!

 

Summer full of birthdays!!!

Yesterday was Payton's birthday...Happy Birthday Payton! We had two parties for her this past weekend. One Saturday night at my parents house and one Sunday after church at our house with Toby's family. I felt bad not having a "real" party with her friends but it was such a busy time that I didn't think I could pull it off. I don't really think she minded.

At mom and dad's with her Olivia cake!

Opening presents!!!

2nd party at our house...yes I got 2 of the same Olivia cakes. :)

Singing Happy Birthday!

My title says a summer full of birthdays because Grant's birthday was in June. I hadn't started this blog yet but I wanted to post some pics from his birthday when we were at the beach...

Eating a foot long on his birthday at Sam's Corner!!

Can't believe my kids are 9 and 4!! Wow, where does the time go!!

We are having Bible School this week and last night was the first night. I am teaching the 2,3, and 4 year olds. We had 20 in our class!!!!! Please pray! ;)

Fourth of July weekend...

We celebrated Fourth of July all weekend with 4 different cookouts and lots of family time. Friday night we took the kids to Price Park and had a picnic supper with KFC. The kids got to wade in the creek.

Saturday we took the kids to a parade then had a block party on our road. I didn't even take my camara to the block party :(

Sunday we went to church then had a cookout/singing that afternoon at church. So thankful for a wonderful church family! And... I forgot my camera again :(

Yesterday Toby was off so we went to Tweetsie. It started raining about 3 hours after we got there so we didn't get to do as much as we wanted but it was fun.

I have to tell a story about Grant at Tweetsie. Last year we went to Tweetsie and watched the clogging show. They asked all the kids to come on stage and dance. Well Grant was soooo embarrased (to say the least). So this year he said he was absolutely NOT going on stage. I told him that was fine he didn't have to. Well when the clogger asked all the kids to come up Grant and a few other boys were still sitting in the audience. The clogger came around and gave them all "shakers" and asked them to stand up and take so many steps forward. That landed all of them right on stage! Grant was not happy. I had to get some pictures...

Last night we went to eat with Toby's family then just came home and shot off fireworks. I think we were exhausted from a weekend of go, go, go!

No Time...

So this blogging thing is a little more difficult then I thought it would be. Difficult to find time! And it is summer...supposedly the time to relax, no running, carpooling, ect. I still can't find time during the day!

Well the Day in the Life of... didn't go so well. Maybe I will try to do it sporadically. We did have a good week last week. It felt like a really restful week even if I couldn't find time to blog.

Tomorrow I plan on blogging about our Fourth of July weekend. It was a lot of fun and very busy!!! Off to bed now, I have a baby-sitter coming tomorrow to watch the kids. I have a drs appt then I am off to find Payton a birthday present!!!

A little behind...

Yes, it is Thursday and I am just now blogging our daily schedule for Tuesday. Just a little behind :)and this week hasn't even been that busy.

Okay so Tuesday morning we woke up around 8, ate breakfast and went outside to play. It has been very nice and warm this week so we have spent a lot of time outside. Grant and I set up stations in the garage with different exercises and went around in a circle doing each station for 1 minute. It was fun and a good workout. No, I don't make my 9 year old workout, he usually makes me. He loves it because he wants to be either a NFL or NBA player one day. And he's a little small (just skinny) so he thinks if he works out he will have huge muscles. :)


After lunch I got a shower and we decided to go to the movies to see Cars 2. It was starting to storm as we were going in to the movies so I knew we had picked a good day. Payton didn't last through the whole movie. It ended up starting late so towards the end she was getting tired. It was a good movie though.

We came home and got ready for another night of Bible School. After Bible School Toby had to drive to Raleigh for a meeting on Wednesday morning. We thought about going with him but it was just going to be such a quick trip we decided to just stay home. I worried about him driving so late (he didn't leave until 8:30) but he made it okay. The kids and I stayed up way too late playing the Wii. Definitely another fun summer day!

A Day In the Life Of...

So my plan was to start this yesterday but time got away from me and I never got it finished. I got this idea from another blog that I read and I thought it sounded fun. At the end of each day I am going to blog what our schedule was for the whole day and everything that we did. Sounds exciting right? ;) I do think it will be neat to look back at what we did this summer.

For today I am going to re-live yesterday (Monday)...

I got up around 7:15 and walked for about 30 minutes then I did a 30 minute video. I am really trying hard to keep up with some kind of workout routine this summer. It takes effort because all I really want to do is sleep late and lay by the pool. :)

The kids finally got up around 8:30 and ate breakfast/played while I caught up on some laundry.

I wanted to take them to Wildcat Lake and let them play and have a picnic lunch there. They didn't seem too thrilled but we did go and had a good time. We only stayed for a couple of hours. I was so proud of Payton for getting in the lake even with all the fish swimming around her feet. I don't think I could have done it.

We got home and Payton laid down for a couple of hours while Grant played basketball outside. I admit that I layed down for about 25 minutes. That doesn't happen very often and it really felt good.

At 6:00 we went to Bible School at Poplar Grove. Toby is teaching the adult class so the whole family is going. I have really enjoyed it. It has been so nice not to worry about supper (my dream come true). Toby had a meeting at 8:00 so I got the kids home and ready for bed. Payton of course was not ready for bed after taking a 2 hour nap but she finally went to sleep around 11:15. By then I was past ready... more on our exciting week tomorrow. :)

New Territory

Okay, this is totally new (and exciting for me). I have been addicted to reading blogs for a while now, never having the desire to start my own. Lately I have seen how fast time is going by and I would love some documentation of what our lives are like right now with a nine year old and (almost) four year old. When Toby and I are old and lonely we can look back to see how crazy busy (and fun) our lives once were!