I'm alive...

if anyone is still reading my blog...i'm still here! it's been a crazy summer. lots has happened.

brian is hot! oh i mean he's doin good:)and look at those arms! wowsers! good but tired. our youth ministry has been going strong all summer. we started the first week of june at camp and have been doing something every week except 1 week in june and one week in july. time to slow down. and things are gonna do just that.

Friday will be my last day of working outside of the home. i'll be a "stay at home" mom...whatever that means. i am soooo ready to be home again. i firmly beleive that i was where i was supposed to be for the last year an a half and now the Lord has made it possible for me to go back home. the money will be tight what w/ food and gas prices being so high but it'll always be tight. i wasn't doing much w/ the money i made anyway....gas, babysitters, eating out b\c i was too tired to cook. we just got back from our family vacation. i left my keys at one of the campsites and our beach bag w/ our digital camara in the swim area at another campsite. aaarrrggghhh. very frustrating. good times but it was rediculously hot.


mattie starts 1st grade not this friday but the next. she's not real excited but what kid is excited when school starts. she has lost another tooth...one of her front ones. she doesn't know how to stay at home and play. either she has to have someone over or be goin somewhere. living the life that we live...always on the go...she doesn't know any better. she's decided to take dance/ballet this year. we'll see.


ryder is ryder. he is crazy about camo, guns, animals, and trucks. he loves his big sister. he'll be 3 soon! has a pretty short temper. wow! doesn't quite understand why we have to go to the church all the time...that will soon change since i'll be home more. loves to swim...just started putting his head underwater while we were on vaca.