Lake Day

Our Sunday school teachers live at the lake.  They have a great set up with a back yard with a beautiful view of the lake and a boat dock in their back yard. They invited our Sunday school class for not only one but two Lake Day's this summer.  Here are some pictures of the second one.  We had lots of fun both times.  We actually didn't take Alex the second time.  We dropped him off at my parents house on the way out.  Max is pretty good at swimming with a life jacket and listens a little better than his about to be 2 year old brother, so we thought it would be a little less eventful if he spent an evening with his Grandparents. Max tubed for the first time this summer.  I was a little surprised he wanted to do it, but he definitely looked like he had fun doing it. It was good to get to hang out with some other people from our Sunday school outside of church and especially for Max and Alex to get to know their kids. Me and Mike are so thankful to have found a Sunday School Class we enjoy attending with such great teachers.

Bentonville Fall Soccer

 Last Friday Bentonville had their Fall soccer kick off where we got to meet Max's coach and assistant coach and his team mates. His team name is ELITE, they have blue jersey's and he is number 4. Last Saturday he had his first practice.  Below are the pictures.  It was a little hot, we went through a Gatorade, caprison, and two waters.  His coach seems really nice and knows a lot about soccer.  She played games with them, had different drills for the kids and rewarded them with stickers. Max did really good especially compared this this Spring :) He was listening and doing all the games and really kicking it hard, and he looked like he was really enjoying himself.  I'm so glad we signed him up.  I was a little hesitant at first because it lasts through October and there are practices and games almost every week, but it looks like Max is going to have fun playing, and we are going to have fun watching.  We want Max to learn to play a sport because we want him to be active as a kid and find something outdoors he really likes to do.  We also want him to learn how to make friends and work as a team.  I also want him to learn to take instruction from other adults like his coaches.  I think it really is going to teach him a lot. We're looking forward to an eventful soccer season with lots of practices and games in our future!!

The Color Vibe

  The Color Vibe is a fun 5K that came to Fayetteville, AR for the first time this year on August 3rd.  Our good friend Jennifer Fox convinced me and Mike over Memorial Day weekend we needed to sign up and run with her.  Me and Mike signed up and started training.  Some weeks I would run 3 5k's in one week. We were having fun training and felt good about exercising. Everything was set for the big 5K. We had pictured in our heads a nice sunny August morning, mid 80's, beautiful skies, a fun run, getting colored by the different colored power on the run.  It was just going to be awesome. We were going to take awesome pictures, our friends would be jealous :)  I even picked up our packets!  See below....we were ready to go.  Me and Mike go to bed at 9pm on Friday night before to get ready for the big race.....

Saturday morning came.  I had my alarm set, but we were wakened before hand by thunder and lightening.  This wasn't just any storm.  This was a Thunderstom with hard rain, wind, lightening, and loud, very loud thunder. We decide that the race doesn't start for 2 hours and we are going to go.  We did not do all this to not even go.  Aunt Kelley came over to babysit the boys.  We told her we wouldn't be back til 1pm. Jennifer Fox met us at the house, and off we went.

Look at what we drove through to get to the race.  At this point it still hadn't sunk in that we were about to attempt to run a 5k in this mess.

 We didn't get a lot of pictures.  Jennifer was the only one who brought her phone. We got to the starting line 30 minutes early.  The rain was steady, but not very hard, we kept thinking we can do this.  I got hit with some pink while we were waiting to start

Everyone was cheering to start - I joined in

and than the race began.....(15 minutes late...)

You will see no pictures of the actual race because as we start the race - the skies opened.  Lightening all around, buckets and buckets of rain poured down on us.  We could bare see in front of us.  The rain was pouring down my face, and I could barely open my eyes. We ran through the county fairgrounds AKA grass and mud that formed small 6-8 inch ponds everywhere.  We ran, we walked, we laughed, we got hit with color bombs, we laughed more.....we hung in there as long as we could - and than headed to the car.  Below are some after pictures.  I can not believe I am posting these because they are litterally the worst pictures of me I have ever seen, but you have to see them so wee how drenched we were.  Our shirts stuck to us.  It was still pouring down when we took these pictures but we ran under a cover so we could ge tthe phone out.  We ran to the car, sat on towels, and headed straight to Taco Bell to celebrate :)  What a day

Below is my hand - my pink hand.  The dye ran and bled everywhere because of the storms.
My hair was pink for 2 days.  That was interesting :)

Here's to another 5K with Jennifer soon.  Maybe the next one we can have some sunny skies?

The window

Tracy (mike's mom) had an extra old window that she gave us when we went down in July. I wasn't sure what I thought about mike's original idea (by our front door inside the house) but I was going to go with the idea at least til we got it up ; ) as we started talking about where we wanted to hang it and what pictures we were going to put in it we decided on a great spot we both liked. We ended up putting it on our back porch and put black and white pictures of our St Louis trip. I love it. I think it turned out great, don't you think?!





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Alex's Money

Alex is a good saver. He makes me laugh so hard. When he finds money anywhere even if it is just a penny, it makes no difference, he will yell.... MONEY! And than say My money, and than run to his piggy bank. There is no way you can get the money out of his grip, if he finds it , he will not let it go. He is very stubborn. He will walk to his piggy bank in the kitchen, wait until you put it down on the floor (he does not like if you hold it) and he puts the money in by himself and than gives himself a cheer. I love it. We have him his own little savings account and someday he will need or want something and be able to get it with all of his saved money!





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