Is is really already September????

ok, life has been crazy again....August came and went and I think we forgot to take a breath....Our Church was celebrating 175 years in the Medina community in August, so we were very busy...we had a 3 week celebration...starting with the past, and we had an accapella concert on Friday night, August 15th then we had Church on the Medina Square on Sunday, August 17th, it was a really neat service. We had almost 800 there and we fed them all chicken and JOJO's, which in the part of the country I am from we just call them potato wedges....ok!!! Whatever! Then the next weekend, was the present, we started that weekend off with "SLIME TIME LIVE" on Friday, August 22nd, then our service on Sunday, was kind of like a birthday celebration, we had cake, punch, mints and nuts, and we dressed up a little more than normal, Nate wore a suit, take your breath away, I know!!!! Our last and final celebration was the future, and we joined our service with 2nd Baptist, which is a Church that ours helped to start many years ago, so they came and their choir sang with us and we had a wonderful service. Then after Church we all set up for what we like to call "THE PARTY", it was a community event, we had 8 inflatables, a petting zoo, pony rides, a slip and slide and so much more....but best of all our friends the Bettinger's came down to see us and to attend our event! and another surprise of the day, Nate's mom and dad showed up to see what we were doing for a couple hours. It was such a nice surprise!

In the midst of all of this we reached another milestone in our lives, on August 21st, my baby boy, BRADY, started ALL-DAY Kindergarten, on that Thursday morning, it was a little easier for me to get out of bed for some reason....and I also kept grinning, and singing "Oh, Happy Day", I have waited for this day for 5 1/2 years and it is finally here....don't get me wrong I love my boys, but I love them more when they are in school all day, and learning new things, and ok I will stop you get my point....they are both doing really well, Brady really likes the routine of all day kindergarten and Riley well let me say they hit the ground running, our first week of school we had 3 hours of homework a night, because he was not getting his work done in class, well that has gotten a lot better, I guess he finally got it, that if he does his work in class he won't have to bring it home, DUH!!!! but really, they both are doing well, and are liking their teachers and their school....

on to house news, we have looked at almost 20 houses, and we have narrowed down our top favorites, we have made offers on two, and been rejected, so now we are going to look at one more that we found and see what we think, then we will hopefully make an offer again, who knows maybe the third time is a charm! I would love to get into a bigger place, so we can stop being on top of each other all the time!!! I know God has the perfect house for us, it is just hard to wait at times for His timing and not our own, but we will, and then we will reap the blessing!!!

today we are off to Norwood, to see my brother's ordination service tomorrow night. We are making the cakes for the reception and of course singing, It should be a very special service, and I am hoping I don't cry, so I can make it through my song!

pictures of all our events are posted on nate's facebook and some on our myspace pages too....we are slowly but surely getting them on there!

www.myspace.com/nateandroc
www.myspace.com/live4jesus4
www.firstmedina.org