Cabarrus County Fair

This Weekend

This weekend has been such a great weekend. The weather this week is what I believe Heaven's weather will be like. It is so great! We have been outside most of the weekend and it has been so nice. The kids had their soccer game on Saturday. If you saw the last video I posted, you would have noticed how hard it was for Luke to concentrate during the game. The last two weeks, we have bribed him and he is doing much better. I know I won't win any parenting awards with that strategy but I think that I have been out of the running since I gave birth to Susanna. But, it works with Luke so we will stick with it. Today, we were able to visit another church. It is so hard to be visiting around. I hate not belonging anywhere. It is a tough transition. We just hope that we find one soon. It will be so nice to have a church home. We are really taking this seriously and praying that God will help us to have an open heart and discernment as we choose a church.

T-r-o-u-b-l-e

Meet Elijah... This child is into everything. He has destroyed more things than anyone I know. This week, Elijah has blessed us with bleach stains on the carpet, drawings on the wall, ruined his clothes with my lipstick (also ruining my lipstick),toilet paper all over the bathroom, bite marks on Sam, and bubble bath poured all over the bathroom floor. This is all I can think of at the moment, but I am sure there is more. Oh yeah, he poured out all of the salt on the floor. I am still picking it up. The salt one makes me laugh because when Sam's therapist came over to the house, she kept looking at the kitchen table and floor. I had not yet discovered what Eli had done. Now, I'm wondering if she thought that I had a little business on the side. I'm just kidding, but it did look kind of funny. That's our Elijah... But, he is so cuddly and he wrinkles his nose when he laughs, and he loves to rub your arm when he's sleepy. He also yells, "Mommy" in the middle of the night. When I come in there, he just grunts until I pick him up. It's kind of cute. :) He's a little stinker, but he makes life lots of fun.

Bend It Like Luke

I know this may not be as amusing to you as it was to us, but Luke just cracks us up. We got quite a few laughs today. He did score a goal....for the other team. :) We had told him that if he ever scores a goal we would celebrate with ice cream. So guess what we did today? We went out for ice cream. We couldn't break it to him that it was for the wrong team. Notice that Luke has way more important things to do such as untuck his arm from his shirt. Susanna chose to stay down in Greenville with her friends so she is not in this one.

Susanna's First Day Of Kindergarten

Boys only weekend +Me

Well, Susanna is not here tonight and with her friends. This is her first sleepover apart from family. I know it is only one night but I miss her already. There's just something about having all of the kids under one roof. But, I will survive... Luke has his first soccer game tomorrow morning. He is so funny out there on the field during practice. I think that he is going to drive his coach crazy but it just cracks me up. The coach will set up cones for them to dribble around with the ball but he will just go straight and avoid the cones altogether. I am just hoping that Luke does not score any goals for the other team if the goal is closer. I'll try and get a little video of it to put on here for Papa and Grandma. He is the smallest one out there but he is so cute in those way too big shorts and soccer shirt!

I Married My Dad

Today, Susanna was invited to go with some friends to Greenville for tomorrow night. Susanna was so excited to go. All day she has been talking about it. Well, tonight she realized that she will be missing her first soccer game. She was crying saying that she wanted to go with her friends but she didn't want to miss her game. She kept saying that she didn't want to hurt any one's feelings.(Her soccer team or her friends that will be going to Greenville for the night) So, what does Jeff do? He told her that he would drive down there and pick her up Saturday morning so that she could do both. Greenville is about a 2 hour drive and Susanna's game starts at 9am. Jeff will be leaving at about 4:30am so that Susanna will make it to her game. I know, I know... Susanna will probably grow up thinking that her Dad will always bail her out. MMMM...this reminds me of the crazy things my Dad would do for his girls. What is it about a Daddy and their little girls?

First Try Video

Tough Decisions

This year seems to be filled with tough decisions for Jeff and I. We have had to decide on where to send Susanna to school. Would you believe that we had her enrolled in 3 different schools up until the week before school? This does not include the very distant thought of homeschooling her. We struggled with this for so long. We did decide to send her to a Christian school and she loves it. I am glad that we chose this option. I don't know what we'll do next year when Luke goes but we'll see. Secondly, we had to make the decision to start Sam on growth hormone treatment. This was extremely scary for me personally. I hate to give the kids any kind of drug unless they are very sick. I am just a tad bit afraid of the unknown. I even get a little nervous about getting their vaccines. I delay them a little just to make myself feel better. So, making the decision to give him this new treatment was extremely hard. Jeff is much better about this. He is the calm,cool, and collected one. Well, we weighed our options and prayed about this and felt that this was the best course of treatment for him. So far, we've seen pretty good results with them. Then, Jeff and I have had to make a very tough but private decision this past week. This was a tough, tough decision. Why do we have to make these decisions in our lives? Why doesn't God just tell us what to do? I think that I am learning why. Sometimes these decisions make us learn and realize how much we need Him. I am glad to know that He is with us and will gently guide us. Well, most of the time He gently guide us, sometimes it's more like a kick in the rear. Nevertheless, I am thankful that He teaches me to rely on Him.