We're Moving!!

Today after much prayer, prayer, prayer and quiet conversations between Paul and I he finally said it officially....

"We're moving to Houston."

I know this is the first time some of you are hearing about this, but it has been in the works for many months.  Paul's job slowed down to a snails pace, nothing was coming in.  We put the house on the market in July.  The first of August a couple looked at the house (the week we went to Houston for the home school conf.).  The Lord had sent a cash buyer and they liked our house.  After negotiations, another looong walk through, an appraisal, a signed contract, inspections, money in escrow, it really looks like we have sold our house.  We are closing around October 24th.  ((((Yikes)))))


We are totally, and completely walking in faith.  There is not a job we're moving to.  There is not a location that we know we'll be living in.  We only know that family is there and that we're going to mooch off of each one of them until they give us the boot.  NOOOO, not really!  I wanted to see if you were paying attention ~ and I see that you are : )


I'll keep you posted on what's next for us, until then, please remember us in your prayers. 

Boys

We had a BIG rain today ~ such a blessing, and so thankful.  However, before the rains came down, the fortress went up...

...See anything?

...Ready, Aim, 

FIRE!!!

Mom was not the target, an older child snapped these for me.

The dark, looming clouds finally gave way to a heavy rain, for our part of the country that is.  It was even blowing up onto the patio.

Look, even my chiminea was full (you know the kids were dropping army men 

in that the first chance they got).

A Lil Sewing Project

My mother is an excellent seamstress and she has made some beautiful things for myself & her grandchildren throughout the years.


My mom tried teaching me to sew when I was a teenager, but I was not interested.  Turns out a perfectionist sewer and a teenager in a hurry, don't work well together (go figure).  When I was in 7th grade I took a half semester of sewing, and the 2nd semester was spent learning cooking (that is another post all together tho).  I made a pillow out of 8 squares, I made a pair of elastic pull on pants and a groovy white jumper


Having a 10yr old daughter has been an incredible joy for me, and now this daughter wants to learn to sew, because she thinks it's way cool.  Her Honey (my mom) has spent many patient hours with Cadie teaching her sewing basics, and they've enjoyed sweet fellowship and made several lil things.


Yesterday Megan came over after school to teach Cadie something she had just learned in her sewing class.  It was a super easy project, just 3 pieces of material to stitch together, so the girls finished it pretty quickly.

Cadie and her new "bone pillow"

Wordless Wednesday...Konked out on the stool

C H E E S E!

Riley just lost his 2nd front tooth ~ too cute!!

Numbers

What do the numbers

4,029 and 734 have in common?

These 2 Faces......

My oldest and my youngest (days of life)

....Here are all the other days in between

....I know, I know, I should be grading a 

school paper or something.

The Rain

I think our temperature reading has been 100 & higher since May. Our summer has been sweltering and DRY!  We finally got a much needed rain (as did most of you I'm sure).  

It was a fun day to be a kid around here.

Can You Guess What Happened?

A picture is worth a thousand words, or in this case just two.....

OH NOOOOOO!

The night before, we were heading to bed, Paul looked at the cake, covered in it's pretty hand painted dome lid, and had a thought.  "What if Becca were to climb out of her bed in the middle of the night knowing that the cake was sitting in the dark kitchen all alone and help herself to it?  I will hide it in the oven where she will not think to look for it." Let me answer that question for you, no, she has not been known to be a middle of the night kitchen roamer. 

Not even I thought to check the oven for a pink birthday cake as I turned it on to start cooking dinner.  What IS that smell?  It's familiar, kinda sweet, but wait, that smells like a plastic spoon that has melted on the bottom of the dishwasher.  I thought the dishwasher was already emptied.  It has been.  Did someone light a candle and blow it out?  And if you did you're in trouble because you know you never do that.

Alas, I discovered the smoke filled oven and ran the melting mess outside.  No more birthday cake, and no more pretty cake cover.

...More Birthday Fun

My sweet friend Nicole invited us to her 4 yr olds party at our new McDonald's for lunch.  I told her it was Cadie's birthday too.  Well, after getting permission from her bday girl, she shared her cake and added Cadie's name.  Isn't that sweet.

This is the 4yr old Birthday Girl, Sarah...she's sweet!

Becca ENOJYED that yellow icing

Cadie and Rebecca

Of course Megan met us there after her 1/2 day of school was finished

Happy Birthday

Happy 10th Birthday Cadie!

About a year ago we began celebrating 
"Birthdays for Breakfast"

We didn't want to wait for Daddy to get home at 7pm, before we began celebrating, so we have the party 1st thing in the morning before he goes to work.

The night before, after the kids are in bed, I get everything set for the 7am party.  We begin the morning by singing Happy Birthday to that child, this of course wakes everyone up.  The other kids quickly run into the kitchen to see things all set in place. Let the party begin!  First the BD child opens cards, gifts, we sing, blow out candles, and have cake, punch and ice cream for breakfast.

...we have been known to slip an egg or bowl of cereal to a 

party goer, if they ask.

This has been alot of fun for all of us.  I know it is something that my children will fondly remember as they look back over their birthdays.

Her oldest brother gave her "10 Free Shots" from his BB gun...

Isn't she cute?

Hugs and Kisses for their big sister

Cole was anxious for Cadie to claim her birthday gift.

Baking

Ok, so this morning as I was brushing my teeth I noticed the dental floss in the drawer and it reminded me of something I've wanted to do for years.

That's right, make cinnamon rolls from scratch!  

You use the floss to gently cut the rolls with out squishing them all together.

Beautiful, whole wheat cinnamon rolls...mmmm

UH-OH!  What happened here?

...This is what happens when "someone" gets in a hurry and grabs the pastry cutter to get the show on the road (love you Megan ; )

Finally!

This was exciting news around the house this morning.  Riley (6) lost his front tooth.  You can't imagine how special this was for him.  Now he is just like his 2 older brothers...yeah, it is a big deal.

Look at how big that hole is!  It won't be long until the other front tooth is out...What a fun Christmas card picture it will be this year.

Wordless Wednesday...I really did!