Cards!!!!! Part 2

9-11 memorial service

Here we are heading up to find our seats!

We are all wearing our red !

Walking into find our seats

Jackson was a little overwhelmed

Chance chose his seat between the newly weds.  Sorry Rachel and Matt!

Levi and I with other one of our self picture

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Raegan and Cooper. 

Jackson, Rachel (Levi sister) Chance (covering his ears?) and Matt  

Chance stole Dad's hat

OK I was trying to get a cute picture but got this.

This is the TRUE Chance

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It was awesome weekend with Rachel and Matt. 

Some memories made and some BIG choices

narrowed down.  God is working in big way in our lives.

Now the patience to wait on HIM to make it happen!

GO CARDS! Day 1 in Atlanta

This is Cooper Spring of 2002

We are BIG St Louis Cardinals fans.  When we lived in St Louis we tried to make as many games as we could.  It was so much fun. 

Well there wasn't a MLB team in Alaska or Spokane, WA.  We missed it alot.  So now that we live down south, we can try to catch some games.  We live about 7 hours from Atlanta.  We looked at the Braves schedule and saw that they were playing the Cards the weekend of Sept 9-12.  Well... we started planning.  We decided to drag our camper up to Atlanta.  We got the Rachel and Matt, my sister and brother in law, to come up and stay with us and go too.  We joked that we went to a Cards game who just happened to play the Braves that weekend.

We left Thursday morning and drove the whole way.  It really wasn't that bad EXCEPT that I forgot all the DVDs back in the trailer EXCEPT Star Wars the Clone wars.  Needless to say we got the DVDs at the next stop. 



Carter Presidential Museum overlook to downtown Atlanta

This is how 2 little boys enjoy the Carter Presidential library.  And yes we got into trouble.  Those stinkin guards.  They were being so good too. 

Chance was sooo done and need food.  Thankfully it was at the end of the museum

World of Coke!!!!

Whose crazy kids are those at the Coke museum?  Oh ours!  Better get them under control

Kids waiting on the soda jerk to serve up the soda

Original Rockwell

Trying all the different sodas from around the world.

It was so funny because they tried so many that after a while we

were standing there and Jack BURPED!  Loud too.  I just laughed and

kept going.

Levi had this in Peru on his mission trip.  He was happy to see there. 

Levi and me.... We take a picture of ourselves.  I will someday make a collection of all those pictures.

Girl TIME!!!!!

Raegan and I spent about an hour in there.  Levi came back with the boys and we were done!

Not bad! 

Note to readers.... sorry I am still trying to figure out how to flip the pictures. 

Until I do this is what I have to offer!

First Day of School

The first day of school for our new school year was August 23! 

We are part of Classical Conversations this year.  I will be tutoring the 9 and 10 years old.  

So far I love it!  We work through Science Experiments, Fine Art, and all the memory work.

Raegan is starting 5th grade

 She is 5 ft tall.  She has grown so much over the summer. 

She is quite the young lady now.  She loves to paint and draw

Cooper is starting 3rd grade

Jackson is starting preK.  He is so excited about

attending Mommy school.  He is learning to read.

Chance is starting preschool but he is mostly destroying, I mean playing and listening.

He loves to sing the Latin from our Classical Conversations CD

We are excited about our 3rd year of homeschooling.  We look forward to 

spending time learning all of the many things planned for the year.

Reading

Writing 

and Arithmetic... bringing back memories of the school days song 

that my parents LOVED to wake us up too

Chance is 3!!!

 Dear Chance

Our sweet youngest child.  

You are a bundle of activity.  

Daddy says it is because you have to keep up with 

the bigger ones. 

You were our smallest baby of the 4. 

You weigh 8 lbs!  Your heart and determination is MUCH bigger than you.

  Pray that God uses it for his glory.  

Daddy is your light of your eye.  You look at him in such a different way than any other person. 

I love to watch you talk, snuggle, and smile at him.

You are content sitting his lap or being next to him.

You are also our only thumb sucker.  It has to be "the thumb" too.  Your left one is the one!

Rae Rae, as you call her, is your only sister but you love her so much.

She helps you out when you are in need or trouble. 

She loves to make "nestes" for you.  You are the baby bird and you just snuggle down into it.

Cooper... well that one is a "special" relationship in itself.

He would give you his last piece of candy and then next make you scream

But you love him just the same

Then there is you and your right hand man.

You are only 19 months apart.  You have such a special 

relationship with Jackie (as you and I call him)

I pray that this relationship stays there for a life time.  

Your favorite stuff animal is Stitchy

You getting to meet Stitch.  

You bring sunshine to our lives.  

Your dark brown eyes and the gleam in them.  I know we are in trouble when i see it

Praying that God gets ahold of  your heart and makes a 

GREAT and MIGHT man of God out of you.

Happy Birthday Sweet Boy!