Katie and the Jonas Brothers

If you are a "tween" Girl then you know who Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers are. Well Thursday night they cam to town to perform a concert. Like in the old days when New Kids on the Block were all the rage, the concert sold out in twenty minutes and tickets were being scalped for up to 300.00 dollars. CRAZY!!!!

Well, needless to say we didn't get to go to the concert. But last night, we decided to go to mall to walk around. Katie was bummed because it was a friday night and she had nothing to do. THE BEGINNING OF THE YEARS FOR US. So, we went to the Galleria mall and were walking around. These two "tween" girls were in front of us wearing their Hannah Montana shirts, so Katie asked them how was the concert when all the sudden Katie looks over the bannister and takes off running down the escalator saying "IT"S THE JONAS BROTHERS!!!!!" Noone was around them. Katie walks up to them, while I am trying to catch up to her. She walked a while with them talking. Other people started realizing who they were and started staring but there she was walking and talking alone with them. I grabbed her camera phone from them and asked if we could take their picture. So now, she has a picture to remember this by. SO COOL!!!! As we are walking away, she looks at me and says "Can we go to the mall every friday night?" OH NO WHAT HAVE WE DONE!!!!!!!

Finally Fall is here MAYBE????

This week the weather has finally gotten cooler. I fee like we have had to wait so long.
Nothing really exciting has been happening. I have 10 clients between Greentree and Covenant. And I could not love it more. The one thing that has been so meaningful to me is being able to listen and speak into a persons experience. I am have become acutely aware of the brokenness and fallness of man. People have amazing strength to endure circumstances and not only survive but to come out the other side and give the glory to GOD. It really is a privilege to be a witness to that.

Katie is a busy girl. Sixth grade is in full swing and she comes home daily telling me that she is sick of the homework.

JACK IS READING!!!!!!!! It is so exciting to see him learn new things. After years of therapists saying that it will take him a long time to catch up. It is amazing that he has managed to do it in one year.

Neill too is busy with work and now is playing basketball with church guys on Thursday nights. Now that we go to church in Chesterfield, we sometimes feel like does anyone live by us??? Well, yes they do Neill meet a couple of guys that live at the end of our street and down the road .

Nooma.com

Check this site out. Rob Bell produces these short videos about various spiritual topics. They are incredibly thought provoking. I love "Noise" and "Breathe". Have any of you heard or seen of these videos? I watched one not to long ago about his son and a rubber ball but I can't recall the name of it, but that one was really good to. It was probably my favorite actually.


CHECK IT OUT!!!!

Two Cousins Fishing

Michael and Jack decided to go fishing while we were at the camper. They stayed down there for quite awhile. Never caught a thing but when they came back I asked them "If you didn't catch anything, why did you stay down there so long?" To which they replied " I don't know. We were hanging out." Isn't it so great to hang with your friends, no matter what age?

Closed up the Camper

It has been a busy week and a half. This past weekend, we went up to the lake to hang out at the camper. Katie and Jack brought their cousins Morgan and Michael with them for company. It was 93 degrees on Saturday. The pool and beach had closed down for the season, so the kids were hot and running low on ideas to keep themselves occupied. Where is the fall? Neill and I were talking last night and he said that he heard the other day that all winter is supposed to be warmer than normal. I don't like that. I love Fall. It is my favorite season and I feel like I have been cheated.

Anyway- We decided to go ahead and close up the camper for the season. Once school, soccer and volleyball begin it is hard to get away. No more camping til April. That is Ok, we have decided to get our house ready to possibly sell in the spring. I told Neill if after getting ready we decided not to sell and put on the addition then at least the house will look really nice.

To completely change gears, Neill and I are thinking of going to Mexico to celebrate his turning forty and my graduating from Covenant. Any suggestions on where to go? We would like to go to an all-inclusive and see if we can't get my brother and his wife to go with us.