Wooooooooooo Hooooooooooooo! We are now living in our house as normal people. I have learned through this project that I could NEVER build my house and live in it at the same time. I was almost giddy last night as we were moving our furniture back into the house. I kept telling Steven, “I’m just soooooo excited!” Read the rest of this entry »
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WE MOVED BACK IN!!!!!!
Great Fourth!!
Hope you guys had a great fourth!!! Ours was very special. My brother Heath was able to take leave last week. We got to spend a very patriotic fourth of July with my soldier brother!!! Dry-rub ribs, potato salad, homemade guacamole, momma-made pies, and tons more AMAZING gourmet food was what we dined on. The kids had a blast swimming, fishing, riding go-carts, watching the cows, and of course shooting off fireworks. Overall it was such a blessed weekend. Eli and Monica fell asleep on the way home and Steven and I were able to spend some “quiet” moments together listening to worship music. My heart was full of praise for the special time God gave us this weekend.
I had my fingers crossed that our floors would be done when got home but alas they are still not finished. Hopefully tomorrow we will be able to wrap things up. So for now our T.V. remains in front of our oven…
I have some things on my heart that it will take time to put into words. Hopefully this week our lives will be able take on some sort of shape again and I will able to blog regularly.
Love You Guys! Thanks for taking time to check up on us.
Home Now
So we’re home. It’s not quite as I wanted to be, but I have accomplished alot this week. The two days our floors were supposed to be going in and I had child helpers lined up I painted Monica’s room, repainted the trim in the majority of the house, and refinished 4 pieces of furniture. We’ve survived a week of “Camp Smithson” and my children are not cranky or out of sorts. We’ve played with friends and gone swimming several times. I think they’ve had a blast!! I’m exhausted and feel a little bit as though I’ve lived in a comedy movie this week that might have been called… hmmmmmmmmm…… I don’t know, but something crazy!!!
Anyway, the local carpet company has been so gracious and kind. They came to move furniture back and even brought us a carpet square to let the kids crawl around on until they come back to put the floors down next week.
I wish I had some incredibly inspiring truth that I have learned from the past month but as of right now I’ve got nothing. Just one tired Mommy….
Looking forward to seeing Daddy tonight!
VBS/ Peak Week
Life is happening like crazy around here… I ‘ll post more later. One of those BIGS occurred today! Here’s some pics from the week- my kids weren’t too excited about smiling for the camera.
just to let you know-
We are approaching VBS and our parallel youth event called Peak Week. We would so appreciate your prayers for God to do a great work. It all begins next Monday. Sooooooooo with planning and prep the blogging may be a bit sporadic for a little while. Summer’s at our house are BUSY!! BUSY!!! BUSY!!!!
nothing–
Nothing of interest today. However maybe this will give you a laugh–
yesterday I mistook our pump antibacterial soap for our pump toothpaste. Took me back about 20 years to the wonderful days of Dawn dish soap and mouth washings. YUCK!!!!!!
yep that’s about it!
Baby Hope-
To be honest with you, my mind is a bit cluttered today. I’ve got some things I’m trying not to worry about. The biggest is Steven’s upcoming absence. He’ll be leaving this Friday for four days. If you read my post several weeks ago you know I don’t handle that well especially when I have things on my mind. “Be anxious for nothing!!”
However, today I got to meet the most beautiful baby girl born yesterday!! Miss Hope Caroline Yorgey was born to our dear friends yesterday at St. Edwards. The innocence and beauty of her tiny fingers and dark curly hair was just almost too much. Aren’t babies amazing!?!?! Little canvases completely blank from our perspective and yet the Lord knows each experience and step they will make their entire life ahead of them. (Jeremiah 29:11) Miss Hope is beautiful along with her momma and big sister Anna-Kate!! Travis on the other hand……. wink!! Congrats guys. We love you and are so happy for you!
Red Box
NEAT-O finding of the day!! In your area you may have found these odd little Red Boxes around town from which you can check out movies for only $1. It includes new releases and everything!! It’s the greatest thing ever if you’re into movie watching. However, before we went to check out a movie today I wanted to see if I could look at what they had online first.
I ran across this website and found a wonderful trick that WORKS!!! Click on the link below and scroll down a bit. You’ll find a listing of free codes too which now you can rent movies for FREE… yes we tried it. Watched Martian Child with John Cusack for free tonight- which is pretty cool considering it’s over $4.00 to rent it from the movie store. I recommend signing up for the e-mail updates and codes to be sent to your account. Very AMAZING!! If you know me at all, you know I get excited about a good deal and ALWAYS love to share. Let me know if you try it!
been away a few days….
Sorry, I left you without warning… =)
Thursday morning our family picked up and headed off to Tulsa, Oklahoma for a few days to get away before summer youth ministry craziness is in full swing. We didn’t go very, far but we had a great time!! While we were gone we shopped, ate way too much, went “zooing”, watched Prince Caspian (it was definitely as good as the first Narnia), and just hung out at the “hill-tell” pool, as Eli called it.
We tried two GREAT restaurants that have been recommended to us for a long time.
1. Ted’s Mexican restaurant
2. P.F. Changs
Both restaurants were everything others had cracked them up to be. Thankfully our kids liked them too! Thanks to ALL of you have talked of Changs– yes the Mongolian Beef and Chang’s Chicken were fabulously Yum-MYYYY!!!
One thing of interest was that the very nice lady voice in Steven’s GPS and I did not hit it off very well. Read the rest of this entry »
