Summer Fun

Well we have been super busy but when it come time to recount the things we have been doing seems the specifics escape me! Life just keeps us moving...I am ready for a slow down. We are trying to make an effort to be home more just "being" together...so we shall see. So lets start with kiddo info:
Hannah: Well Hannah is very excited about home school and when we got all her stuff in she wanted to start right away. She has enjoyed lots of swimming this summer and has learned to swim. We are very proud and so is she. She jumps off the diving board and swims to the ladder and she swims underwater really well. She has been having fun with day trips to the zoo, spending the nights with cousins, and playing at church. She has been going through her workbook "I am A Christian Now" and she is loving it. She has learned a lot and is enjoying growing in God.She has a real heart for service and has been helping clean the children's area at church and she is serving the homeless as Shawnee Rescue Mission. She has the sweetest soul and she loves her family! I am just not sure I could have hand picked a kinder kiddo!

Ethan: He is great growing like a week. He has lost all his baby rolls and is tall and skinny. Still the family comedian and he is always into something. He has really become a great big brother to Noah and doesn't even mind sharing his transformers, which is big!! He too is excited about home school and he wants to start now...I hope the excitement lasts:)! He has enjoyed this summer too the fireworks from the fourth were a big hit and the family reunion in Kansas sparked a fire in Ethan we hadn't seen! We had a dance there and he is normally so shy with strangers we didn't assume he would participate....boy were we wrong he was break dancing, doing the robot, and some Ethan originals that I am not sure have been named yet!! He is really coming out of his shell and turning into quite the talker(wonder where he gets that). He is our little prayer warrior many times a day we stop what we are doing and pray for well....you name it boo-boos, ants we killed, people, and weather. He loves to pray and I am so thankful for that!

Noah: Well Mr. Noah is now 8mth and moving all around. I would say sort of crawling and rolling and scooting combined. He loves to stand-up! He is enjoying getting to try new foods and has loved everything we have given him. He, of course, said "da da" first! Sammy is very excited and I let him have that...since we really know I am still the favorite lol!! He is still sleeping very well and down to just two naps a day a morning and his long three hour afternoon nap. He goes to the doctor next month for his 9 month check up-YAY! At six months he weighed 18.8 lbs and was 26 and 1/4 inches so I am excited to see how big he is now! He made his first road trip to Kansas wonderfully! He slept and played most of it! He liked dancing too!

Sammy and I: Well we are just great! I so enjoyed having Sammy home for vacation last week and just being with him everyday...I could get used to that! He went back to work this week, and I am so thankful he has a wonderful job, but I sure do miss him! We are excited about a class we are leading at church in the fall over the book "Crazy Love". We love this book and it has helped us become crazy in love with Jesus! It has been wonderful these past few months to see him take our lives closer to Him. We have enjoyed reading the Word together and its brought us even closer. We feel like God is really moving us to a more service and ministry focused life and I am really excited about that path!
Sammy also learned to swim this summer and I am so proud of him. This is something he has always wanted to do...but pride kept putting it off. He went with his sister and they both are little fish now!! He too jumps off the diving board, swims above, under, and every which way!!

That is really about all we have going on just focused on God and family. Trying to slow down and not get caught in the hectic undertow of life! We are just simply loving and living!