Quick Update

We are slowing down a bit these days, just enough to catch our breath and speed back up again. Last week Matt and I celebrated our 28th birthday, yup 2 more years and Matt & I will be th-th-th- THIRTY. Right now I am okay with that, but ask me in 2 years, how I feel:0l We didn't do much for our birthday, which we seldomly do, but we did go out for supper on Friday for then hitting up WalMart (by ourselves I might add). We continued our Birthday celebration Sunday at Matt's Aunt's house for our birthdays and her son's birthday, ate a mouthwatering, belly filling lunch before heading to my parent's house for visits, pizza and more CAKE!!! Whew!!! I am feeling about 10 lbs heavier just writing this.

Grace News:
Friday night Grace spent the night at a friend's house. She was supper excited to tell me all about what her and Hailey did. Hailey's mom did tell me that Grace missed me and she asked Grace if she wanted to call me and if she wanted to still stay the night (something like that), Grace said "I don't miss her that much". Gotta love the honesty;) She was really worn out Saturday, which means she had WAY TO MUCH FUN!!!! She said that they slept down stairs in a tent and she couldn't stop talking about staying at Hailey's house.

We (my mom and I) took Grace with us for a day of shopping, but we didn't get to far before Matt called and said the local C0-op had a break down and he needed to go take care of business (there went Iz's day with Daddy, they were going to go to the park) so we meant him and Izabelle in town and Izabelle came along with us big girls. It was a fun day, tiring day of shopping but fun.

Grace's class room has been hit with the ickies, don't really know the details, but alot of the kids in her class as well as her school have been out. They called me on Tuesday to come and pick Grace up because she had a fever. Luckily when we got home she was running one, but we stayed home and rested. I didn call the school on Wednesday to make sure she can come back that day or not and since she hadn't ran a fever for 24 hrs with no meds, she was safe to come back. I hope this is the only thing that happens to her. But we are keeping her friends and other students in our prayers to regain and keep their health in check.

Izabelle News:

Miss Izabelle is doing a little better in church on Sundays. She finally knows that we don't get our snacks until after they sing, this way they are quieter while the sermon is going on.
Sunday afternoon she started to develop an eye infection of some sort. I don't know if it was actually pink eye, but to be on the safe side we didn't have anyone over on Monday. Got some eye ointment and was much better after a couple doses.
Izabelle is in AWE over babies, whether they are real babies, play babies, or our dog. She is cooing and awing over them. I caught her in Grace's room the other day, playing with her 2 babies. Each one had a bottle, a blanket and Izabelle's 2 snuggies. She quickly made sure I knew to be quiet when I entered the room.

Other News:
I am loving Sunday School. The kids are wonderful, not only are we seeing the kids learning the Word of God first hand, but I feel like I am learning right along with them too. Our lesson Sunday was of a man that could not walk and his friends wanted to help him, so they heard that Jesus was at a house, so they picked up their friend and carried him to the place, but it was too crowded to be seen by Jesus. The friends carried their friend to the roof and dug a hole in the roof, lowered the friend down, and Jesus saw that the friends had a great faith and healed their friend. So, we had each kid be the man that couldn't walk and the rest were the friends. It was fun to see them working together and watching their friend get up and room around the room after Jesus healed them. The kids are fun, loving and truly love Jesus Christ and I am happy that I am able to teach them. It's also fun that Greta is doing this with me and we get to see our girls learning the songs that we sing. I have noticed at different times Izabelle singing some of the songs we sing. I believe Greta has heard B singing those songs too. Gotta love 'em.

Dance has been gradually taking shape. I went from 22 girls to 7, so for a while I didn't know where the team was heading, but these 7 girls have given me some great ideas and they are very excited to dance this year. I can't ask for anything better.

On another bit of news: I got my hair colored. I am no longer light brown but a brunette. The color name was Mocha, but I think it has a bit of red in it, which my hair tends to have a reddish or cooper tint when I color it. At first I didn't know what to think. I went from liking it, to what did I do, and now I am liking it again. I asked Matt and he said "You changed it", "You look the same", "I don't really notice the things you do". I think he was digging a hole on that one. But he did say "It's what's on the inside that counts"...NICE!!! I will have to get a photo to post of the new hair.

Until Next Time...

God Bless

Jess