Be there for someone.....

I love this!

Nathan's First Pet! :)

This weekend Nathan got his first pet....a red-eared turtle! He has been wanting a pet turtle for a long time now. You may remember me posting about hatching turtle eggs, but they didn't survive. Ever since then, we have been on the hunt for the perfect pet turtle.

We found this one at first monday in Canton.

Meet Tuck the turtle!!!

Nathan thought that Tuck needed to go outside and needed a play mate, so he brought Tuck and his fake turtle outside.

He then decided to lay with the turtles...LOL!

Tuck!!

Nathan sure does love this little turtle!!

School has started.....

Well, its been about a month since I have blogged. School is in full swing and so is junior high basketball. Since our school does not have volleyball, we play fall junior high basketball. Our first game was the first week of school, so I have been busy busy busy! My team this year is so awesome, they are a GREAT group of girls and are very fun to be around. Our record so far is 10-1, and we have won 2 tournaments. Here are some pictures of them after winning their second tournament this past weekend.

Dinner Play Mates!!

This weekend, we were supposed to go to the deer lease with my family. The girls just pretty much hang out while the boys work on all the stands and start getting things ready for deer season. We were going to leave Saturday morning due to  a class matthew was in late Friday night. About 7:30 on Friday evening, Nathan started throwing up. Needless to say, we had to stay home this weekend. We were really sad that we had to miss seeing the family, but had to get Nathan well. Mom and Dad came down Sunday night so they could see Nathan and eat dinner with us. Nathan was so excited to see them :)

I don't think him and Gammy stopped playing for 5 minutes.

He enjoyed playing with someone besides us I think.

Thank for coming Gammy and PawPaw, we love you!

We will miss you Jojo :)

Last week, we had to say good bye to one of our very favorite people, Joanna! She left for college this week, and boy are we going to miss seeing her everyday. She is so special to us and always will be.

Nathan absolutely adores her as you can see!

We feel very blessed to have been a part of her life so far and look forward to seeing her play basketball at the next level this year. We love you Jojo!!

A revelation....

The Lord has spoken to me in many different ways this summer and I am just trying to figure it all out. Seems like I just can't quite get all the pieces to the puzzle together yet, but I am still working on it. One thing for sure that I know of is, this verse is my new lifestyle. I am going to try and live by this 100%

1 Thessalonians 4:11-12

¹¹ and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you, ¹² so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

This verse just stood out to me like a sore thumb while reading this summer. Pray for me as I try to totally live by this and try to figure the rest of the stuff out that HE is trying to tell me.

I'm in the Lord's Army....