More Than Halfway

Today the littles got to go back to Bible study. Between Joel's recast and their colds, Lydia and Paul haven't been to class in a while. They were both pleased to be back and their teachers were glad to see them again.

We celebrated our goddaughter's birthday with her and her family by meeting for lunch at Burger King Play Land. She was so was premature and so tiny when she was born 7 years ago. Now she's such a big girl. Time flies!

Then we headed to the doctor's office to get another x-ray on Joel's leg. It seems everything is healing well. We're more than halfway through this seven week process. Only three more weeks to go!

Here's a list of some of the blessings the Lord has given us over the past week:
1. Grace and I went to two big church yard sales over the weekend. We came home with four garbage bags of clothes--Gap, Gymboree, OshKosh--all 50 cents each.
2. Matt and I were able to have a double date with our good friends--no kids (courtesy of Grandpa Bob and Grandma Dianne) and some time for good fellowship.
3. My brother-in-law's church had a chili feed fund raiser. At the end of the night, the woman in charge of the food said, "Here, take this to your sister-in-law who has the baby in the cast." We now have enough cornbread and chili in our freezer to feed an army :)
4. Daddy actually had time over the weekend to get the pasture mowed (so we wouldn't have to pay someone to do it) and to place a couple of railroad ties around the swing set to get us that much closer to completing that project.
5. We got to go to our niece's last softball game of the season. Her team won-- 17-5 (which was a much nicer way to end the season than the game she had a month ago in which they lost--19-1). Raphaella even got beaned, but still played out the game--way to go!