A Little Catching Up....

WOW.....I can't begin to tell you how busy we have been the past few weeks.  And I can't begin to tell you how Good GOD is and how He worked out every detail of those weeks.  I was under a bit of stress, but I couldn't blog about it, since my adoring husband reads my blog.  You see, I was planning a surprise 40th Birthday for him.  Tomorrow is is real birthday, but we had a surprise party for him on 7-10!  It was wonderful, he was truly surprised and I even surprised him with a visit from our dear friends that just moved to Indiana.  Over the next few days I will be posting collages of some of the things we have been up to the past few weeks to catch you up!

I don't have pictures of this, but I do have a bit of news as far as our church goes.  We have been looking for a new pastor since our pastor of 14 years left to go into the mission field December of 09.  He and his family have since moved to Ecuador and we stay in touch via Skype!  After 6 long months, our Pulpit Search Committee has found someone!  I have had the privelege of meeting him and his family and they are wonderful!  We are looking forward to seeing what the Lord has in store for our church.  Needless to say, this is one of the things I've been busy with these past few weeks.  We had lots of meetings taking place, we had the family over for dinner a couple times, and enjoyed lunch with them after worship one Sunday.  They are a true delight and I look forward to getting to know them much better.

My husbands youngest sister and her family came to town a few weeks ago.  We always enjoy being with them, but this time I felt so preoccupied.  SORRY YOU GUYS!  We had our new Pastor and his family in town, BackYard Bible Clubs going on every morning and regular church events keeping us so busy.  The time we did have together was alot of fun.  I truly enjoy spending our summers with my niece and nephew!  They were alot of help with BYBC and to me!  We did enjoy some pool days, dinners at our home and game nights!  I think that "Mad Gab" was our game of choice that week.  Love that game!  The adults played against the kids and we stomped them!!!  : )  But it was all in fun.

Well, I hope this gets you caught up just a little bit.  Until next time!

Pool Happenings...

Today we went to Grandma's pool.  It was HOT and the perfect thing to do on a Hot day, did I mention it was hot?  The kids hadn't played in the pool this year, so it was fun to see what they remembered from last year.  Little Man remember he could jump in the pool and he did it over a hundred times!!  The oldest arrow did what teenagers do best, spent most of her time above water, tanning more than anything.  The youngest girl arrow spent alot of her day trying out her flippers.  This was her first year in the pool with no swimming gear to help her.  I thought it best to see how she handled herself.  She did pretty well considering.  Now the middle arrow was alllll about under water!  It is so hard to keep an eye on her because I never know where she is...she's all over the pool and under water.  She is like me when I was a child, a FISH!  Last, but not least the 2nd to oldest arrow was busy helping her little brother, swimming him around the pool and helping this sweet little girl that took to her like glue.  She was very helpful and the little girl wanted to go home with us.  : ) 

I love to watch my kids interact with other children at the pool.  The kids at the pool today were very polite, asking if they could use toys, etc.  I was really impressed!  Most of the time a community pool everyone assumes the toys are community too.  LOL  Anyway, all in all it was a wonderful day with the kids.  Hope you all are having a blessed and wonderful day too!