Random Thoughts

I love Spotify! If you haven’t heard of it, it is a live music streaming service, almost like Pandora. I think it is better than Pandora though, because with Spotify you can create your own playlist, with specific songs. My children will not be able to get away from my love of such a wide variety of music. It is almost comical.

The boys are both still pretty excited about school. Reese is being typical Reese, and having trouble being good during nap time. I often ask him to show me how he is supposed to be during nap time. He will then lay still and close his eyes. How hard is that? I suppose to an active 5 year old, it can be torture.

I have introduced my children to The Waltons. Brooks calls the show “John Boy.” The fact that I am enjoying this old classic is funny because when I was younger, I didn’t think I would like it. I guess at the time I thought it wasn’t cool enough! Now I watch this show and long for a simpler time in life. Although, they seemed to have a hard time making ends meet. So did those Baldwin sisters ever figure out that their “recipe” was actually whiskey?

Brent and I are going to be the new coordinators for VBS at our church next year. The former coordinators have done such a great job with it; I don’t know how we will ever live up to it. I am already brainstorming for ideas for next year! I guess it is never too early.

You know college football starts this week! I hope along with that, the cooler weather will begin to return to our area as well.

Have a great week and WAR EAGLE!

First Day of School!

This past Wednesday the boys began school. They were both excited and looking for a change. When I went to wake up the boys that morning, Brooks was already dressed, shoes on, and he was fixing his belt. I guess that means he was ready to go. Reese was harder to wake up, but still just as excited.

It is becoming a tradition for us to walk them into school each year.

Reese went right to his new locker and put his things in.

Here is Reese with his teacher. We love Mrs. K.

Brooks was ready to begin his work!

I can't wait to see what this year brings!

Hot Summer Days

The summer has flown by and in two weeks we start school! I can't believe it! We tried to do some fun things this summer, but I feel like time is slipping away before we will be back to the routine of school. The boys recently spent some time playing in the blow up pool. When it the humid has been as bad as it has in the south, any water activity will do.

Of course Reese keeps things interesting!These two are going to miss their summer time. Oh well, on to new adventures!

Do we limit God?

Yesterday we took Reese to his yearly eye doctor's appt in Birmingham. He has been going to a doctor up there since he was younger than 2. He turns his head awkwardly when he looks at things at a distance. I even have pictures of him doing this when he was real little.

Anyway, when we went to the doctor yesterday, we were expecting Reese to be getting a prescription for glasses. The doctor even mentioned that he would more than likely be getting them at this visit.

The doctor checked him all out and we still have no answers as to why he turns his head like he does. Reese even did this when he was trying to watch Tangled being played on a TV across the room. Reese has no explanation as to why he does it.

His vision isn't 20/20 but it is not bad. The doctor didn't feel like he needed glasses at this point. I was amazed! I had been already planning in my head how we would handle a 4 year old in glasses. The questions I had were endless. How many pair would he break? Would we fight to keep them on his head? Would they bother him? Would he get made fun of?

I just kept praying that this transition would go smoothly.

Today I got to thinking about all of this. All along I had been praying that God would help us through the glasses, not dreaming that the answer to my prayers would be "no glasses" right now.

Do we do this in other areas of our lives? Do we limit ourselves as to what God's answers to our prayers may be? Why do we pray to God asking for him to help us with a problem, rather than taking the problem away? God never promised a perfect answer to our prayers exactly like we ask it, but why do we limit God by not praying to him for what we really want?

Haircut

This picture is pretty blurry, but you can see Reese's new hairicut. He loves it! He likes to spike it up some days like his good friend Cooper. I think it fits his personality. Now Brooks wants his cut short too, but I like his hair longer. On my, what is a mom to do...

Bargain Shopping!

I was scanning things for sale on Craigslist this morning. I have to say that I rarely go on there, and at the moment I can't remember what made me think to go look at it this morning. I am so glad I did. I found a great set of wrought iron patio furniture! Fast forward to the end of the day, and it is now on my deck. We got the cushions that go with the set, (or at least some of them) but they are old and worn. Now on to figuring out how to recover them, because has anyone priced patio furniture cushions lately?!?! It is ridiculous. Too much for this bargain hunting woman!

Now if it will only cool off a little so we can sit out there and enjoy it!

(sidenote, I have got to post a picture on here of Reese's new haircut. I buzzed his head the other day and he looks like a new child! I still can't pick him out of a crowd yet. We were at VBS earlier in the week, and I was looking all over for him when it was over, and he ended up being pretty much right in front of me. Stay tuned for that one :) )

Braves

We took the boys to the Braves game this past Saturday. Reese had never been, and Brooks doesn't really remember the time he went. Reese was amazed at the huge baseball in the picture below.Both boys got to play in the toon town area and try their hand at hitting the ball. Reese did a good job hitting it!This picture makes me laugh because Reese was standing on second, and then just took off toward third, and had a stand off with the pitcher. Everyone in the crowd was laughing, while Brooks was shouting, "GO BACK, GO BACK!"Reese seemed to enjoy the game as well as I thought he would. It was extremely hot though, and the snacks didn't seem to hit the spot with it that hot. Oreos start to melt when it is hot!