Even My Mom Noticed....

With my computer out of commission and lots of company in the house, the blog has been neglected!! But it has been next to impossible to work on the computer with all the busy-ness happening around the house.

Finally on Tuesday night, Brian (my genius husband) got my computer sorta working.... so maybe you'll start to hear from us again!! But this "break" was soo long that even my mom, who works for weeks at a time with no blog access noticed.... LOL!!

Unfortunately when the computer went down so did my interest in taking pictures, but with my sweet friend Erica who visited whipped our her new awesome DSLR, it inspired me to pull out the camera again too:) So I hope to share some pics of our AWESOME almost-full week with our sweet seminary friends soon:)

Here was our parting kid-group shot:)


Man, we're going to miss them!!!

Some Bugs

We have been dealing with a couple of bugs ...

All of us have the sniffles, coughs, etc!! Yuck! But the good thing is that all of us have it together, so maybe we'll all be over it more quickly... LOL!! Even little Nate has it :( He's been doing ok... no fevers, etc! Just a little more fussy and wanting to be held and nursed more frequently.

The other BUG that's hit has attacked my computer.... grrr! Anyway, I'm not sure what it is! Everything works fine except the Internet... the one thing I use the most:)

So I've been using the pockets of hands-free time trying to get it working and now trying to backup my photos so I don't loosing anything if my computer totally crashes. Gotta save all those precious treasures and memories!!

I finally got some "decent" all 4 kid pictures that I wanted to share. And some pics of Nate trying to sit alone... he's soo close! But he looks WAY too GROWN!! Where did my newborn baby boy go???

But it's actually happened at "kind of" a good time!! We have two sets of company coming back-to-back at the end of this week and into next week!! We are super excited to have our friends and family visiting!! So there is plenty to do in preparation for all our guests:)

And get this... one set is a family of 7 staying with us.... we'll have a great time... looking forward to visiting with these precious friends from seminary! And taking part on our church's fall revival meals and services!

Busy, Busy Week

Looking at my calendar for this week, I am trying NOT to get overwhelmed... just take one day at a time:) WHAT do we have going on???

MOnday:

• BIG, BIG project (for us) to be revealed by mid-week... hopefully... LOL
• Clean up BIG, BIG project
• Start to get together the "homeschool room"
• T-ball game in neighboring town

Tuesday

• Reading time at the library, turn in old books, get new ones
• Possibly help Andrea with some babywearing pics
• Groceries
• Continue to prep house for company
• Go to a HS baseball game- watch one of our friends playing

Wednesday

• Clean sheets and make beds for company
• Grandma and Grandaddy come:)
• Church service at night

Thursday

• Possibly strawberry picking and making jam with Grandma
• Work on SIMPLE post for Sat.
• Brian has graduation practice!!!

Friday

• Brian's Graduation @ SEBTS.... early morning for all of us!!!
• Lunch
• Small party with Grandma and Grandaddy for Brian and Anna

Saturday

• BIG breakfast
• Help Grandma and Grandaddy pack and leave (if we can't convince them to STAY)
• Laundry and clean up house
• REST!!!!

So if we are a little "quiet" this week you'll know why!! And I'm hoping to have our BIG, BIG project finished with pictures... we'll see how it goes... LOL

A Visit with Uncle Scott and Miss Beatrice

The kids have been excited for days now that their Uncle Scott and Miss Beatrice were coming to see them!! So last night we went into the city to have dinner with them at a Mexican restaurant and they spent the night at our house!!!

We got home from dinner at 9pm, but the kids were sooo excited to have Uncle Scott and Miss Beatrice to play with... so we let them!!! It was a good opportunity for us to finish tidying up and getting beds ready:) We had tons of squeals, laughter and running around!!!

Daddy woke up this morning and fixed everyone a big 'ole breakfast....I know he was hoping Mommy would help but I got stuck in bed with a sleeping baby and she was sleeping on my LEGS. I did eventually sneak out but we were constantly checking on her. Anyway, Daddy did a GREAT job with breakfast!!!!

Anna just wanted to tell Uncle Scott that she likes Miss Beatrice. And she was very glad they could come to stay with us for the night!