A visitor from afar!

What a wonderful time we had last week - and also the reason for the delay in my postings. We had our DEAR friend Jessica here from Tuesday of last week to Saturday. We spent most of our time visiting...but we were able to spend an evening down on the San Antonio Riverwalk where we ate at Casa Rio and enjoyed the riverboat ride and also a day at the San Antonio Zoo. I will post some pictures from that in another day or two - I was afraid that if I didn't sit down RIGHT now and begin to write...I would miss my opportunity for yet another day.

Jess was here for a GREAT happening in our household - WE GOT A COUCH - AND it hasn't broken...YET! I am almost to the point of believing that it isn't going to break. Dare I say it out loud? ha! Yes, finally, we have a couch upstairs - but I did go down from the sleeper to just the regular sofa. I decided that God was telling me that I didn't NEED a sleeper sofa upstairs and He was just going to keep breaking them until I came to that conclusion too. (j/k - sort of!) NOW - our goal is to get a couch for downstairs and at that time I think ALL of the MAJOR furniture purchases will be completed! That will be a GOOD feeling.

The first day of school was today!

Kyla started the 3rd grade w/Mrs. Lanham. She is in a portable building, but says that Mrs. Lanham leaves the A/C on so it is nice and cool for them. Mrs. Lanham has nicknamed her class the Longhorns and she has t.u. stuff (that is university of texas for all of you Alabama readers) ALL over the place. Our goal this year is for Kyla to get through the school year w/o a desire to wear burnt orange for the rest of her life. She has already been drawing longhorns on every sheet of paper and seeing them in everything - for instance, her ketchup tonight - it may be a long year for her Aggie mom and dad!!

Summer LOVES her teacher - Miss Briggs - and if Miss Briggs puts half as much time and attention into her kids as she did her classroom then it will be an AMAZING year! There was actually a little girl that Summer knew from Vacation Bible School in her class - Lauren - and that was ALL she needed to be totally excited about this new school year. We already have an "All About Me" project that is due Friday, however, Summer was ready to complete it TODAY! and had all of her forms out for me to sign as soon as we got home. I don't think that procastination will be in her vocabulary.

Oh - and Luke - I thought that he might really miss his sisters, however, he was in a GREAT mood today. I actually think he enjoys his mommy one-on-one time. But don't get me wrong - he was DEFINATELY excited to see them when we picked them up. It was wonderful picking them up because for the first time EVER - Granny got to be there to hear all about their day. That is something Kyle's mom has always wanted to do and never has had the chance...UNTIL NOW. Even though I still miss my Alabama family terribly, moments like today help because we get to experience our Texas family in ways that we couldn't before.

Just know that we are torn - we miss Alabama and we are happy to be back in Texas.

Love to all of "ya'll!"