Weekend at Grandmas!

Johnston was up, showered, and ready to go this morning.  Today was the start of his weekend with Grandma.  (Tim's mom, Jean. ♥)  She loves having the kids over and they LOVE spending time with her as well.  Birthday's are a great time to celebrate each of them one on one.  :)

Johnston will always hold a special place in this grandma's heart.  Johnston happens to be the first grandchild she had. (He was #7 for my parents.)  After to many years of believing she would never hold the honored title of Grandma he came into our lives.  Many grandchildren came after him.  Two special ones via Tim's sister, Kristin and 11 more amazing grandchildren that God blessed us with via the blessing called adoption. 

 

He called us to tell us goodnight and to fill us in on the fun they had gotten into.  He spent his birthday money on some Lego sets he had been wanting, ate at Cracker Barrel, and settled down with Grandma to build his new Hobbit Lego set while watching The Hobbit with her.  

He informed me that they are going to an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast at Jean's church in the morning.  Those are words that excite my kids.  All.  You.  Can.  Eat.  Besides Legos and No School Today...All-You-Can-Eat might just be their favorite words to ever hear!  ;) 

I am so blessed to have great grandparents involved in my children's lives.  As an adult I have no memories of my mom's parents and barely any of my dad's.  I love that my kid's will have amazing stories and memories of their time with Tim's and my parents to pass on to their children some day.  ♥

All in a day!

Finally fell asleep at 5:30 am this morning (thank you insomnia...NOT!) only to be awake at 8am to rally the kids for the very busy day we had ahead of us.  Thursdays have become that day of the week for us that has us running non-stop all day long.

We were out of the house by 8:30am to get Max, Becca, and Johnston to their piano lessons.  Becca had her violin lesson at 10am. I was very thankful that the piano lessons are in store a and violin are in store b....located right beside each other.  What a blessing that is!

Had enough time to run home again to drop of the three kids and pick up Justice for work.  Ran him to work while all the kids ate lunch.

Got home to eat a quick lunch myself.  (Morgan had made a wonderful batch of homemade bread and egg salad for us all! ♥ )  It was much needed as I had forgotten to grab breakfast in my mad dash to get to music lessons this morning.

We did some school that we can only do at home and before long we loaded up again to go to the YMCA.  We met up with some homeschool friends to swim and play for a few hours.  (We call this PE!)  The kids brought their remaining school work to finish in the car during our driving time which worked out perfectly!

The kids worked it out that we would end up at Wendy's for free Frosty's.  They are quite persuasive!  ;)  After Frosty's we headed over to Tim's mom's house to walk her very active dog, Sugar, since she is unable to.  This is a huge help to her and I love that her grandchildren love to bless her in this way.  Somehow in the midst of this all I was talked into having Becca's BFF over for the night.  Yes, I'm a push over for these kids.

We grabbed groceries and made it home by 7:30pm.  Dinner, filing away school stuff from the day, ran back out one last time to pick Justice up from work, and home at 9pm to put the car keys to bed!  

Morgan, Becca, Katie and I settled in to watch A Walk To Remember after everyone had gone to bed.  It was a nice way to end this very, very long day.

After reading everything we got accomplished today I realize how very blessed we are to be able to have music lessons, jobs, time swimming and playing with our friends, buying groceries and so much more.  We are so blessed and for that I am truly thankful.  :) 

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Jinja, Uganda 2014!

My daughter Morgan (17) and son Max (15) are raising money for their trip to Jinja, Uganda. They are very excited about this opportunity!   Please hop over to Morgan's blog and check out what's going on!   Uganda 2014!!!!

Have a blessed day!

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Simply Saturday!

Last night Morgan said "We should have a do nothing day tomorrow."  I thought it sounded glorious myself.  So this morning I told the youngest four who always get up at 7am...every morning....like clock work...that they could watch cartoons.  They excitedly got their comforters as Tim got an animated movie they had chosen loaded up to watch.  Sleeping in was sweetness, wrapped up in a warm blanket!  :)

The day hasn't progressed farther then that today really.  The kids all went swimming for a couple hours. They say the pool is warming up daily, so their swimming sessions are lasting longer and longer.  Lego's were played with, naps were taken, reading was done, computer games were played, talks happened and relaxing...lots of relaxing.

Max asked us if he could buy the family dinner tonight.  Why yes you may! :)  He received his first ever real paycheck and Tim said his eyes about popped out of his head.  He wanted to take us out for all-you-can eat Chinese, but we talked him into take-out Chinese (1/2 the price) with a movie at home.  The kids were extremely thankful!  We love us some good Chinese food!!!!  :)  I asked Max what he was planning on buying with his money or did he have plans to save up for something.  He said he wants to go white water rafting and possibly go to Uganda with Morgan this coming January, but that's all he's thought of so far!  :)

Becca and Johnston are our Lo Mein kids!

We watched a few episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise while eating dinner.  The kids are enjoying this series immensely.  After dinner the little munchkins headed to bed while the older ones headed to the pool.  Hoping they don't find any snakes or other unfriendliness on their travels down there in the dark.  Tomorrow we plan on purchasing pool lights and once we get the crushed rock done next week we will be starting on the deck.  I can't wait to get the torches and lights put out so we can see where we are going!  Until then they brave the darkness to enjoy thrashing each other in the pool!  :)

 Max and Johnston ~ Goof Balls

Always laughing, always wresting, always goofing off!

 Best Friends!

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