Figured I better write before it's been a whole month again! Again, we've been busy. We all started summer camp. We go 3 days a week and after I was off 2 weeks it was super hard to get back in the swing of things. We had Mark's graduation dinner for the seniors early June. It was nice to dress up and get out and even better that he earned an award! The following weekend we had dinner with friends before they all move this week and go separate ways. It's hard to say good-bye. Although I know we'll keep in touch, but I don't know if I'll ever see them again. AND reality is here that this will be us next year. By this time, hopefully our house will be sold, truck will be loaded, and we'll be off to a new place for a year. Oh and that's with a 5, 4, and 9 month old. If Mark had his way I'd be pregnant again by next summer! But no, that's a little much on my plate.
But as for now, the boys are nearing 4 and 5. I just can't seem to believe it. Some of my favorite things about this age and sayings that I don't want to forget are happening right before my eyes.
Bently: loves to shower by himself. If he even sweats a bit, he thinks he needs one.
very independent
loves going to school
best friends are Lilly, Lacy, Liam, Randall, and Bennet
God our fadder, God our fadder, we thank you. Should be God our Father.
Great eater. Eats whatever I make.
Anderson: Still a mommy's boy at heart even though he has lost the look.
Insists on me going downstairs with him the minute he wakes.
Combertible for convertible
Junk eater
loves his dad and misses him terribly when he's gone.
I scream and holler and am not the patient parent I wish I was, but these are fun days. I love this age and the love that these 2 have for each other. They are into pretend play with each other and are excited about have a new baby brother. Not sure if they will ever call him by his name.
They/we are excited about the Bankses coming to visit this weekend. The boys are actually going back to Louisiana with them for a week. They are dying to make a trip there and I had no plans of going that way anytime soon, so this will work out nicely. Then I'll meet Mom at the beach with them the following Saturday. Mark has an interview in Durham, NC so we'll actually get a night away together. I really can't remember the last time we've done this. Or had the opportunity rather without having to pay for a sitter.
I know a lot are going through rough times and others such joyous times, but I want to share a point our pastor shared this past Sunday. His sermon was about the life of Ruth. She was a constant, dependable woman that no matter the circumstance, she was there with her mother in law. Their husbands had passed and Naomi felt that she was no longer needed and nothing good would come out of her life. However, it did and just goes to show that God takes ordinary people and allows them to do extraordinary things with their life. He used the illustration of a gps map where only you see the blue dot. You can't see the beginning and the end and know what will happen along the way, but he does. We know the journey we have been through this far, but haven't a clue what will happen next or tomorrow even. It's just a thought that I really related to and hold close that he is still working in us all and has plans to bless us. No matter what, he is the same and is there through whatever the season, but will you choose life?!
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