Weekend Recap

How did this whole week go by without a post? I know y'all are sad, so let me recap my week for you!

I got my house cleaned this week, which was HUGE!! By the way, many of you have been asking for pics of my new house. Well, like 3 people have. Whatever. Anyway. I will get some up soon! I had a sweet lady from my church who owned a flower shop come this week to give me decorating suggestions. It was wonderful! I just pointed to things and asked, "what do I need there?" And she had answers!! We rearranged my living room and talked about ways to rearrange my bedroom. So, hopefully soon, my house will be done enough to photograph! So exciting!

I also bought my first pair of leggings this week. And wore them. Big day.

We went to a Homecoming presentation which was really sweet. We had company for dinner Tuesday night and I made this fabulous Black Magic cake. It was seriously sooo good. New favorite!!! My previous favorite was The Pioneer Woman's Chocolate Sheet Cake, which I love. But it has been replaced as my favorite. Seriously, try this recipe!!

Sam had football practice twice, which takes for-e-vah. Ugh! I am glad he plays sports, and I know it's only gonna get worse when the other 3 are just as busy, but gahhh that takes up so much time. And this is his first year to play and he isn't a "starter" which means he and about 3 other boys sit on the sidelines for about 70% of practice. Seriously?! I have to drag 4 kids up there for 2+ hours, get home late, which means supper/baths/bedtime is late just to watch my child watch the other kids practice?! I am all for playing to win and therefore giving lots of playing time to the best players. But at practice? I want my son practicing!!! Ugh! Anyway, end of rant.

I also went to my monthly Young Ladies' Share Group with some fabulous ladies for my church. I look forward to this night every month! Next month, we are starting the Bible study "Growing Kids God's Way." Can. Not. Wait. Friday night, my parents came in and helped with the kids while I went to a Ministers Wives' Retreat with my friend and fellow minister's wife, Ellen. We had a great time learning about the love of God from Dr. Rhonda Kelley. I got home Saturday afternoon just in time to get ready for a wedding. It was so beautiful, as was the bride, Katie, and Eddie and the other minister did a fabulous job! After the wedding, we rushed home, got the rest of the family and headed to Copeland's to celebrate baby Noah's first birthday!!

 Noah loved the cake and ate and ate and ate until we finally took it away, and he then proceeded to suck it off his hand. He is his mama's child! :) He won't actually be a year until next weekend, but I will be in South America on a mission trip so we celebrated early! My mom and dad took Eli and Meri Hobbs back home with them for a few days, so I have high hopes of a productive week!! Hope yours is great as well!

Weekend Recap

So, my mom (and many other wise women) have always told me, "you better write that down or you'll forget it." So this is me....writing it down.

I made cupcakes for Meri Hobbs' class on Monday and Sam's class on Friday.

Eli has been potty training. He has done really well! Our biggest problem is that we don't stay home long enough to be able to be really consistent.  But, when we were home and he was wearing his big boy undies, he has only had 2 accidents. Almost down to only one in diapers. So hard to believe! I have had 2 in diapers for 4 1/2 years! The highlight of the potty training quotes this week came when Eli looked in the potty after his first time to go #2. He looks in, looks at me and says, "a mud in there!" Ha! He thought it was mud! Too cute!

Meri Hobbs is always saying something funny. Her quote for the week was today after church. She asked me who the "baddest" was. Confused, I asked her to explain.  She said, "Who's the baddest at First Baddest Church, Mama?" HA! Love it!!

Noah is doing great with his sippy cup! He must be going through a growth spurt, because he is eating everything we put in front of him! He is getting more teeth, so that has some rough moments. He's still not crawling, but is dragging himself everywhere!

Sam is doing great. His heart for God is still strong, as he prayed for one of our church friends tonight..."God, please put Your power on Anna Cathryn and heal her leg so she can run faster." Wow! Love that boy! He was chosen by a college student to do a reading fluency test for a project she is doing. I was very proud to hear that she only had books to a level 4, so she had to stop there even though he could have gone higher! Smart little thing!

Other fun things this week: We had Round 2 of a garage sale. We made about $450, so I was excited about that...even though we had tons left over! But, we are donating that and glad to be rid of all the extra boxes! Sam had a football game (which I had to miss because of the garage sale). He was playing wide receiver and was running a hook, and was going to have the ball thrown to him for the first time, but the quarterback got sacked. Boo! The babies and I went on a few strolls in this beautiful weather.

Eddie flew to Mississippi with a farmer friend and loved it!  We tried to go to a junior high football game after Sam's practice Thursday night, but we were too late. We did get to go eat with some friends since they were all leaving the game when we were walking up. We went to a neat catfish restaurant with some of the older people in our church Friday night. Saturday, after football and garage sale, the kids had a birthday party to go to. Then, Sam and Meri Hobbs went to the movies with some friends and the rest of us went to a Sunday School party. After the party, we had some friends over for coffee and board games. Sunday was a wonderful day at church! 7 people joined the church in the early service (not sure about late service), with one salvation! Praise God! Eddie went out of town tonight to get up and go hunting tomorrow, and I came home and made this for the kids and me:

                                        Recipe from http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/cheesy_bread/

Yum! What a wonderful way to end a wonderful week!!!