leah (and the shower)

Tonight Leah had preschool orientation at Munfordville Baptist (where she will be going to preschool 2 half days a week). This will be her second year so needless to say, she was a pro at the orientation tonight. Kiley (her cousin) is also in her class. They make a very "talkative" pair! Anyway, at the very end of the orientation, Mrs. Brown (their teacher) has all of the children lined up outside of the Family Life Center and she has just finished explaining to all of us (parents) how to drop off and pick up our children. To finish everything up she asks if anyone has any questions. And of course, Leah has to raise her hand. And when Mrs. Brown calls on her to share she says as confidently as possible, "I taked a shower last week!" The entire congregation of parents and grandparents burst into laughter as they teased us the rest of the night about only bathing our child once a week. It was hilarious!

Anyway, Leah has had her second shower (by herself) toinght! She loves the independence and we love not having to fool with it!! I think we will have to start instituting the "smell test," though, as she gets less and less enthused about the process. But as of now, she loves singing, washing and scrubbing her hair in the shower all by herself.

I think we have a grown up on our hands!

home

On our way back from Chicago, Doug & I met Kristin so that we could go to Allison (Summers) and Shea (Allen)'s wedding! It was a beautiful ceremony and Allison was a beautiful bride. We had a blast seeing lots of folks from our old college days (and catching up with some of our most important spiritual mentors, Donna & Roger Blair, from Campbellsville). We're finally home now...ready for church tomorrow. Here are some pictures from the wedding and of Leah & Lex when we finally got them pulled away from Nana and Pop to come home.

Kristin, Allison (the beautiful bride) and ME!

Lex trying to wear Doug's hat!

There you go buddy =)

Leah - the future gymnast!

a few days off

Dad bought Doug tickets to a Chicago Bears preseason game (on Thursday) so we spent Thursday, Friday & Saturday (morning) in Chicago!! What a great little get-away it was!! Too bad the bears couldn't pull out the win! But we had a great time at the game and shopping the next day. And we found a great little hidden sushi place Friday night. Thanks Dad for a much needed restful time together.

poor lex

Today was a long day (to say the least)! Early this morning, Lex was strolling around in his walker (following Leah around) and he stuck his hand in the henge end of Leah's bedroom door. Having no idea he was there, Leah tried to shut the door....with his hand inside! She slammed it so hard, she made an indention on his poor little left hand and once Doug finally got them both calmed down it was swollen bad enough that he decided to take him to have it x-rayed.

After two hours at the doctor's office and much examination of the one x-ray that Lex let them take, the doctor decided that he had a stress fracture over four of his metatarsals. But she decided that since he was still using his hand she wasn't going to put a cast on him (yet). You can still see the red indention and the swelling, but it's not as bruised as I had imagined it would be as Doug described it on the phone to me.

We are so thankful that it wasn't worse. I'm just glad that his entire hand was in the door and not just a finger or two. It brings back memories of the time I slammed Kristin's pinkie finger in the door when we were little. She lost about 5mm of pinkie from that incident (sorry Kris). But she still has a beautiful hand =)

doug's birthday

Doug turned 29 last week!! (We're getting old - hehe!) We had a little cookout at Mom and Dad's for him. Leah had a blast swimming with her friends Madaline and Sarah (they loved wearing their goggles). You can see the pics below!

Dad gave Doug tickets to see a Chicago Bears preseason game this week so we'll be heading to Chicago on Thursday for a little get-away! (I'm just glad he picked ME to go with him!) We're still praying for his job situation and trying to be patient as we continue to wait for God to provide (something)!

the missing verse

OK....so you totally can't see the inspiring verse that is supposed to be in the open space. I bolded it, but I must have turned the text black too (which obviously blended in with the background). Here it is....

“You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You.” Isaiah 26:3

perfect peace

Tonight I have been completely inspired by a single line on my 20-year-old cousin's blog....a young woman WISE beyond her years....much wiser than I was at 20 and still am at 28!!

"You will keep in PERFECT PEACE him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You." Isaiah 26:3.

Oh that I would trust in Him......that my mind would be steadfast on Him so much so that He would keep me in His perfect peace. As my life has been so full of ups and downs these last few months......waiting on God's perfect timing, and as these last few days have come to a culminating mountain of anxiety, this verse has come to my rescue!! For His peace is truly perfect.

The Hebrew phrase for "perfect peace" in this verse literally translates "peace, peace." My prayer tonight (and always) is that my mind will be steady on Him so that I too, might receive a double dose of His peace.

(Thanks Alyse!!)

the first day of school

Yes, you read the title correctly!! Today was my first day of school. Without Doug, things were a little wierd this morning (I was actually early). And even though I didn't see a whole lot of him during the school day when he was there, I still felt like there was a little piece of me missing all day today. No one to email, no one to eat lunch with, no one to stop in and chat with (if I wanted to). But I made it through.

My classes were great today! I am excited about getting to know all of my new students. I am also excited about getting to use my curriculum (by Carnegie Learning) all year this year (as opposed to last year when we adopted it 1/4 of the way through the year).

Oh, by the way, I am featured in a few of their online info videos on their homepage www.carnegielearning.com. (Check it out!)

And for those of you who keep wondering about Doug's job situation...God did send a tiny little piece of confimation today that our "time in the desert" (my new name for this long period we've been waiting) has not been in vain!! We'll keep you posted as He begins to reveal exactly what He has planned for us!! (Thanks for your prayers....keep them coming!)