We've been staying busy!

My posts seem to be farther and farther apart as we approach the end of summer and the start of the new school year. I find myself shopping for school supplies, tennis shoes, back-to-school clothes, etc. - but as far as I can tell I can quit spending the $$...the lists are complete and now we wait. School doesn't start here until August 27th but we will have a meet the teacher day next Thursday (the 23rd?) and the girls are VERY excited for that day to come! I think there is a bit of "fear of the unknown" as they must brave a new school w/new kids and teachers. That is one thing I will REALLY miss about Alabama....if we had stayed at West Limestone the kids wouldn't have EVER had to change schools. They would have started at West in kindergarten and graduated there as Seniors. It was nice because it was small enough that the teachers knew most of the kids and there was a real sense of community. Now we must start from scratch...however, unlike West, this is a community that is accustomed to new students/families and I think they will do a good job in welcoming my girls. I have been praying for their teachers and I know they will get EXACTLY the person that God wants them to have. The important thing to remember is that the person will be EXACTLY who God puts in their lives...whether we agree with Him or not. ha!



Kyle took a day off this week and we had one last "hoorah" at the Schlitterbahn water park in New Braunfels, TX. If any of you plan a trip out here in the summertime we HAVE to go there. It is one of the BEST water parks in the WORLD! We spent most of our time on the tube rides. Part of the park uses water from the nearby Comal river...by bringing it into the park and then recycling it back to the river. The fact that it is a spring fed river makes it nice and cold on a hot summer day! Some of the rides even take you down to the river, however, with all of the recent rains that south Texas has had the river was still moving too quickly and they had those parts of the park closed off to tubers. There was a whole side of the park we didn't even venture to...maybe next time. You might notice that one of us is missing in the picture and that is because Granny watched Luke while the 4 of us played in the water. I was amazed at the number of small children who were at the park, but I was very GRATEFUL that ours wasn't one of them!


The sofa saga continues. A third couch came to our house yesterday and a third couch came to our house BROKEN. I couldn't believe it! I have decided that God is telling us we DON'T need a sleeper sofa upstairs and I am going to try to order the "regular" sofa and see what happens. The only problem with that is that I must go back to the store and place a new order...they couldn't just do it over the phone....very frustrating! Everyone at Rooms to Go is very sympathetic when I talk to them, however, that doesn't get us a couch here in one piece!

The day wasn't a total loss...my shutters for the dining room, Summer's room, and the gameroom were installed and I LOVE them. Kyle is already wanting them in the bedroom because they block out soooo much more light than the blinds. I am thankful that we went to the expense of getting them...even when we couldn't do the whole house at one time. I just felt that if we didn't start w/them now, we might never decide to spend the $$ on them...and now that we have them in some of the rooms, I think we will eventually add them to all of them.


The girls and I (and Luke :-D) baked a pizza and watched High School Musical 2 tonight. It was REALLY cute...too bad we weren't around some of ya'll in AL...our girls could have gotten together for a "viewing party." Kyle missed out on the fun because he is working the second shift...that is until next week when he starts the night shift. That is bound to throw our schedules into a tail spin. One of these days we will be back on schedule...I keep saying that I am going to get the kids to bed early in order to get us back to the school schedule, but w/o school I don't have alot of incentive. That incentive will be here soon enough and like it...or NOT...we WILL be back on schedule.


I'll try to take some pics this weekend of the rooms w/the shutters and post them...first, I'll have to clean up around them. ha! Have a great weekend!