The Faithful Servant...

Still looking for a good book to read... let me suggest Crazy Love by Francis Chan- It is a remarkable book that will lighten your load, and bless you tremendously! M will rarely pose for me... not sure why, but in very exciting news.. she will probably be taller than me by Christmas which apparently is a really big deal for her! I don't know why, because I have always told her she will be taller than me! Every year, by the end of the year, my students are taller than me! The test would be to try and be taller than her dad!

Miles of smiles... time to start thinking about Christmas cards.....

Academics, football, girls, homework.. they are wearing the big J out! I will be glad when football is over and we start playing some basketball!

Look at my hair.... B did it all by herself!

M before she became ill :-)

The M is home with strep today! We actually left school about 12:15 and headed over to the doctor, by then her temp was almost 103! YIKES! They gave her a mask, which made her cry (or I would have taken a picture!) and for a quick minute thought she might have the flu... but that came back NEGATIVE so we were both very happy about that. While we aren't exactly thrilled about the strep.. we are thrilled that it was not the flu! Still, the whole ordeal really upset M because the news has talked about the H1N1 virus so much! Now... let's just see if we can keep everyone else healthy... she should not be contagious after her meds, but we will see. We are going to take it easy tomorrow, (well M is, I am going to get a lot of cleaning and laundry out of the way!)

In other exciting news, we did replace our air conditioner this week! What a difference a Trane makes! I just wish it came with a whistle! HAHA. Our neighbor has his own business so that was a nice added plus for us! I am hoping my power bill is now cut in half!!!!!

The whole family is excited about Fall. I bought a really cool table cloth full of pumpkins at Kohls for nothing, and it has excited the little J tremendously! He just loves it, and then to top it off, he picked out 2 small pumpkins at the grocery store, and he LOVES them!We are just waiting on the cool leaves, but we are pulling out pumpkins in anticipation for Halloween. The little J is getting very excited about all the decorations we are seeing around town. It seems like this year there are a lot of outdoor decorations for Halloween! We only put out a bale of hay and some decorative pumpkins and squash but WOW some people go all out! I am waiting to see how the little J does when he gets to trick-or-treat... he is a candy monster!

B & M are dancing this weekend (Sat and Sun mornings!). They will be showcasing some of their dances Saturday night. We are hoping that M is feeling 100% better by Saturday.

The big J has a by this week, so no Friday night lights for us. He does have a big "Sweet 16" party Saturday night, but other than that we will just be hanging around the house! We are still in the process of decluttering... a never ending process around here! It helps that we have purged a lot of "stuff" already, so that makes getting rid of the rest of the "stuff" much easier, and it must be a divine plan because the VVA called today and they will be by Monday :-)

I'm going to close by saying that God is so very good to us. He is a provider, and will give us all that we need! We are blessed. We are employed, we are able to pay our bills, and we have a growing family. We simply could not want for more! As we enter the holidays this year we have so many reasons to be thankful... and we count those blessing EVERYDAY!