A Summer in Review

I think my summer fun really started with the Beach trip. Taylor still had like three weeks of school left, but I was ready for vacation!! The pool took forever to open for the summer. I am pleased to say that for the month of June (even on the few rainy days there was) my kids were either in the water out back or at the pool or at the Fiesta Texas water park. I was pretty proud of that goal achievement. I wanted to do that last summer, but for some reason it wasn't attain able. (probably too hot). The boys had VBS at Oak Hills and Taylor and I had girl time which was alot of fun. We were also very excited to go see Toy Story 3. It was the best movie!! Great Ending for the movies.



Taylor also got to see one of her favorite book characters this summer....Junie B!!

Another highlight was someone at church had tickets to the Missions Baseball game for $1.75!!! So we got to enjoy a night out at the Baseball field!! It was HOT but oh so much fun!!

Then we went to Dallas and had a fun time at TJ and Vanessa's reception. It was TJ's grandmother's house (father's side) and she had a pool so the kids spent the majority of the afternoon there.

I forgot to pack the boys arm floaties...some one had some extra pink ones...the boys didn't mind one bit....


And they also had a pinata!!! And Taylor was the one that broke it!!



Then we had some fun at the lake with the cousins.



More fun at Granddaddy and Grandmommy's with the cousins. Jeremy even made an obstacle course for the kids. I didn't take pictures of the obstacle course just video. I put Drake's up on here!!


Granddaddy made this marble drop. The boys wanted to take it home so bad!!




Then we went to Six Flags Over Texas with Paul and Shawna. It was so awesome. It was much busier than I anticipated. But I should have known it was the middle of July. The kids had a blast. It was hot. And the park was much bigger than I remembered. We did most of everything we wanted to do but still only went to less than half of the rides in the park. It just makes me want to go back even more!!

Then we had Championship Village VBS at Oak Hills. It was so much fun...(I think I like it better than Bibletimes Marketplace... shhhh...) Ha! It's an olympic themed and a lot more action packed. That's why I liked it so much. Taylor wanted it to be longer than three days...I was pooped so I was glad it was only three days!! Oh Well...

The kids are really enjoying VBS at NorthWest CofC this week. All of them got to go this year. Drake didn't want to but now he's gotten the hang of it and loved it. Drop off was hard every morning but he endured!!

School starts in about 19 days. I'm not the one counting down. Will is. He is so excited to be a big boy and go to school like Taylor. If I get the job at the Mother's Day Out, Drake will get to go with me. I have kinda mentioned to him that he may go to school this year and he of course seems excited (a little anyway) but I know that drop off is not going to be easy...even with me in the other room. I think that is going to make it a bit more difficult. But I figure he will adjust well....I know he will just have to keep praying....=)

I'm very excited about the potential of this job but very sad about not getting to do my Tuesday morning class (and I still haven't heard that I have it yet)

We are going for one more trip to the coast before school starts. I can't wait. It can't get here soon enough!! I think it's just the boast I need.

Here are some more random pictures from the summer.

Taylor was Baptized!!

I was driving today and remembered that I totalled didn't post anything about Taylor being baptized.

She started talking about it in late March. She had questioned it before and I just answered her questions and went on. But then they started talking about the river baptism and that's when she really started questioning and saying she wanted to do it and really wanted to do it at the river.

When we asked her why she wanted to do it at the river her answer was "because Jesus was baptized in a river and I want to be just like him" I thought that was a pretty good answer.
Pawpaw was able to do her baptism. I was kinda surprised that he held it together so well...and me to actually...We are both big babies when it comes to things like this...

Beach Baby

Working Girl- A Vent Blog...

I am between a rock and hard place right now. I know I should go back to work, but I don't want to put the boys in daycare. Will starts kindergarden in the fall, so it will just be me and Drake. Then I will be free when Drake starts school, but then I really want something in the district, so that I can have the same days off...what to do...what to do...
I am open for ideas. I would love to have something that I can do from home--I'm just not sure what that could be. I also enjoy subbing, except the past two years the jobs having been much, but maybe that would change if I had more time to do it....and less kids to worry about daycare for.
I also just think it's unfair that other people in my life (going to try and be vague here, but if you know me well you will know who I speak of...) don't have to work. Somehow they manage to get things done. We can manage, but it drains us all the time, and I'm tired of being drained, and we are trying to get debt free, everytime we get extra we take care of what we can.
There is a Kids r Kids daycare just down the road that seems to always be hiring. I actually applied and did an interview. And would be kinda perfect since it's soo close but it's so hard to give up some of the liberties I have come to love!! Especially Ladies Bible Class. I love my time with those ladies!!! =)

American Girl

Just a little update and some picture....for Taylor's birthday this year we got her an American girl doll and a trip to the store with lunch at the bistro. I'm glad that there's not one in San Antonio, but sad too. I thought it was really cool. But I think it's best it's in Dallas because that store is crazy expensive!! =)

She named her doll Madeline Summer. And my mom thought Cabbage Patch dolls were expensive....

Birthday Party at the Park

Desert at the American Girl Bistro. We had so much fun with Shawna and Rheannan.

We had fun at Granddaddy and Grandmommy's house too...
I know we don't go visit as much as we should. The boys talk about how they miss their Granddaddy every night. We get to see Nanna and PawPaw all the time, but I know it's not the same. I consider myself pretty close to both sides of my grandparents even though I didn't really see them all that much when I was little, well until we moved in with my mom parents for a little and I saw them pretty much everyday after that even after we moved out. I don't spend as much time with them as I should but I try...anyway I digress...I know I need to get them to the grandparents as much as possible!! ;)

Approval of Men

I've been doing the Beth Moore Breaking Free bible this semester at my church and it's really gotten my brain going this time, and I don't always get to share some of my thoughts with my group and I want to share them with someone! So I'm going to try to blog about them, so I can share them!
I seem to always have these great thoughts on the drive home from class! And then I get all teary and it's hard to drive! hehe
I'm a little behind on my homework, but I always get something out of the videos we watch. Today one of the points that really hit me was seeking the approval of man and how that can become a bond of slavery for us, because we are seeking that persons approval and all we can focus on is doing what that person wants from us.
Galatians 1:10 says "Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ"
We were asked the question "Who is it you are trying to please?"
My answer was my grandparents. I was quite caught off guard at that answer, why my grandparents? But it's true--God showed me this on the drive home!! I thought about it in class and came up with trying to be approved by them because they always want me to come see them and help with the church in Floresville, and I feel so bad always saying no, but I just can't always say yes when I teach class on Sunday morning, and three kids with school, practices, soccer...And that's just from my mom's side. On the other side I have my grandparents who are in their 80s and not doing well, so I feel guilty for not spending more time with them.
Then on the drive home, I thought of some other ways I have attempted to seek the approval of my grandparents. My dad's parents have always worked with many churches in England, and the setting up of many of the churches there (Church of Christ) So he's always been of the mind that I should move over there to be a missionary. And I think it would be cool, but the point of the lesson today is saying would I be doing that to please and seek the approval of Grandpa? Or am I actually wanting to seek that on my own?
Another way I was shown I was seeking approval of them was when Oak Hills Church of Christ decided to go to Oak Hills Church. I wasn't too keen on the idea, but I knew that they were just trying to be more outreach in their walk with God and trying to reach more people. So I was sooo worried what my grandparents would think of me to be involved in a church that wasn't offically called Church of Christ. We even moved our family to a Church that was closer because I felt it was the right thing to do. But I just never felt at home there like I do at Oak Hills even though there are so many people there!! I sometimes dislike that, but I feel like Oak Hills is where we need to be right now. And I know that my grandparents are still proud of me and love me no matter what.
So there. There are my thoughts!! I promise there will still be some fun posts and pictures of the kids! I just need an outlet and this seemed like a good place for it!! So Thanks for reading !!