Valentines Day

We had an interesting Valentines weekend. Friday was a good day. Isaiah had his Valentines Party at school and got lots of candy and had a good time so that was exciting. But then Friday night Elijah started not doing so hot and had croup so we ended up having a very long night/early morning. He had a really bad spell at 4a.m. so we got up and I wrapped him and Jonathan up and they stood outside for a few minutes since it was like 18 degrees and that really helped open him up. Then we slept for a couple more hours and at 7 he woke up again so I got ready while Jonathan sat in the steamy bathroom with him to open him up again and then I took him to the emergency room. By this time he was running a fever and not too happy about going to the hospital but who could blame him? It didn't take all that long in the ER and the doctor was awesome. We went to Walgreen's and got his medicine and as we were leaving I said come on lets go home, you have to take your medicine. He said, "I don't want to take my medicine" I told him to bad he had to. It was going to make him better so he said, "OK I will try." It was just really sweet.
Later that day for Valentines Jonathan decided to cook me dinner. He knows how much I love Stuffed Chicken Marsala from Olive Garden so he got the recipe and made it with some roasted potato's. It was so good. He did such an awesome job on it. I think Olive Garden better watch out!!! It turned out to be a really nice Valentines and Elijah is doing much better.

Jonathan is ordained

Jonathan is Ordained!!! He has been a licensed minister since October 20, 2006. The next step is to become ordained. He got up early yesterday and went with our pastor to the Church of God State Office in Indianapolis and took his ordination exam. And he passed. He is officially an Ordained Minister in the Church of God!!! We are just so excited. I can't wait until the certificate comes in the mail, there will be a picture of that, I promise!!!

Isaiah's first day of school

So Friday Feb 6th was Isaiah's first day at school. I have been homeschooling him since we were in Texas and we didn't know for sure when we were moving. I didn't want to start him there to move him so I decided to home school until we got settled here. Now that we are settled, we checked out the school that he would go to. It is a good school so we decided he was ready, well really that I was ready. I can't believe how hard it is to send them to kindergarten!!! Jonathan, Elijah and I took him to school. It was so hard to say goodbye. Elijah was not happy about it at all. The night before we were on our way home and Isaiah was telling Elijah, "Tomorrow I am going to school!" and Elijah said, "But I'm going to miss you!!" It was so sweet. Then Isaiah tried to make him feel better and told him how he would be able to play with me and that he could play with his toys while he was gone. It was so nice of him to try to make his little brother feel better!!!

We met Isaiah's teacher, her name is Mrs. Benjamin. She was very nice and so were the other kids in his class. I could tell that as the time for us to leave was getting closer that he was getting upset and so was I. I kept it together and told him goodbye and that I loved him and would be there to pick him up. As we walked out the door I turned to Jonathan and said, "I am really having a hard time with this." And of course started to cry. Jonathan made me feel better and as we were walking out to the car Elijah was holding my hand and said, "Why are we outside?" I told him we were going home. Then he said, "You forgot Isaiah" It was so cute. I told him that we would come and get him later that he had to stay at school. We had a good day and so did Isaiah. He really likes school and I am so happy about that!!! I hope this leaving him gets easier!!!!

Fun in the Snow

Well we had a really good snow last week. When we went to bed it was snowing but when we woke up this is what it looked like!! You can see in this first picture and look at the picnic table you can see just how much it snowed. When this picture was taken it wasn't even done snowing!!!

We went over to David and Audra's house, our pastor, so we could let the boys play with their kids. The kids had so much fun. They played in a huge pile of snow and we pushed them down the driveway in a little sled. Then they around back and had a snowball fight. There was just so much snow!!!! This is what we were hoping for. The kids love the snow, they drive me nuts with it though, they can't just walk to the car on the shoveled driveway, no they have to go trampling through the snow every time. And of course they tried to eat it too, which totally grosses me out!!! But it only lasts for a little bit so we are all enjoying it while we can.

Isaiah's 6th Birthday

January 10th, 2008!! I just can't believe my little Isaiah is already six years old!!! It was a really nice day. It fell on a Saturday this year so that was nice. He chose a Ironman Cake. He first wanted an Indiana Jones cake but when we got to the store they didn't have any so he looked through the book and finally after much deliberation decided on Ironman. His birthday turned out really good. We didn't do anything big, just a little home party but I think those are sometimes the best. He was really excited because he got what he really wanted, Bolt the video game for the Wii. He saw a commercial for it on TV and came running to me and said, "Guess what is out? Bolt the game and they have it for the Wii and it's rated E for everyone so I can play it!" He was so excited about it. I had to go to three different stores to find it but I did!!!