the weekly recap {July 27-August 2 the last week of summer break!}

We tried to have some fun on the last week of our summer break!

C Girl was invited to Amazeum with some friends. She had a great time!

I took them to Braum's for lunch one day.

 We also made a trip to High Rise!

We had meet the teacher night!

We are SO excited about our teachers and classes this year!!!!

 I cannot believe that I have a 4th grader!!!

I love that this boy begged for this Superman outfit! Stay little, please!

We met friends at the park one day and had a fun time!

On Friday night, I met friends for dinner in Rogers. My pizza was good but the sausage was SO hot!

 We ended the night talking at Starbucks! We shut the place down!

On Saturday morning, we went to the farmer's market so that we could participate in the Yarnell's ice cream festival. This festival is held every July and they give out free ice cream, they have an ice cream eating contest to win a year's supply of ice cream and Tim caught me a free t-shirt right before one of the ice cream contests!

 I LOVE our square and I love that they changed the layout of the farmer's market so that the square is open to hang out on.

 Afterwards, we headed to Rogers to visit the Daisy Airgun Museum and the Rogers Historical Museum.

This was our first time to ever visit the Daisy Airgun Museum.

It was pretty neat and there was a lot of history to explore!

 The kids had just watched A Christmas Story for the first time this past Christmas, so they understood what this exhibit was about. They were even playing the movie on this antique television.

 This picture just scares me!

The Rogers Historical Museum is neat and is attached to a home that is about 120 years old. 

It is called the Hawkins House.

It was very neat to walk through and see the history and how people lived.

 We locked them up in jail!

 We finished the afternoon off with yummy Mexican! 

I LOVE the salsa and chips from Las Palmas!

 The kids have been learning to chop and slice fruits and vegetables this summer!

B Boy has been going to a neighbor's house this summer to play basketball on Sundays with a bunch of other boys. He has learned so much and I'm so thankful for the dads who are helping them learn!

Christmas fun and news

From last week- mailing their letters to Santa.

A lot has transpired this week (more at the bottom of this post.)

Monday, I worked on some Christmas shopping and grocery shopping.

We also were notified that C Girl's 3rd grade teacher would be leaving for the rest of the year due to medical issues. We were all pretty shocked. She is actually meeting her new teacher today. Kids are so resilient. She seems very excited to meet this new lady.

Tuesday, I spent at home wrapping presents, cleaning house, watching a Christmas movie and various other things.

 Look what happened here this week!

 I spent all day Wednesday making treats for Tim's co-workers and all of the kids' teachers. It was exhausting but I love being able to show them some love!

 I realized that I have not posted any pictures of our Christmas decor.

 I love getting Christmas cards in the mail almost every day!!!

 This is how I started displaying them last year. I love walking by this everyday!

 I ate lunch with these two cuties before their class parties yesterday. They were so happy to see me KFC for lunch.

Their class parties were fun. C Girl only has one more year of elementary, so I'm starting to feel sad about that. I don't want them to grow up this fast!

 Daddy got to come by both of their parties!

 B Boy's class had set up a fun photo booth!

 I received a couple of other pieces of news yesterday- one fantastic, and the other, not so fantastic. The fantastic news is that one of my dear friends from church is going to be our new Women's ministry director! Our current one is retiring. We are going to miss her, but I'm so excited for the future too!

The not so fantastic news- I received the results from the biopsies of my colonoscopy and it agrees with the diagnosis of Crohn's disease. My heart sank when I read those words. I really had not believed that I would have this diagnosis. I'm still sort of in shock about it.

I have an upper GI test soon to determine how much is affected and to what degree. All I can do is pray. I'm so thankful for my wonderful friends who have given me words of faith and encouragement. Sometimes that's all you can give, but believe me, it definitely gave me a boost that I needed. I'm thankful that Tim is supportive and loving and just wants to take care of me no matter what it takes.

So, not the best news to get before Christmas, but it sure does explain so many things that have happened over the past 7 years. I'm just trusting in God that everything is going to work out.