New Carpet ... Finally!

Our new carpet was installed yesterday! Our basement flooded in September and the carpet has been on back order. It was supposed to take about 5 days and it ended up taking over a month... ugh! But no complaints. It could have been a lot worse.

The kids have enjoyed the open space in the basement! Although Rhett is looking forward to being able to play the Wii soon! (All of our furniture, etc. has been in storage/unfinished part.) Now all that's left is to arrange the furniture. I'm wanting to do something different, to make better use of the space. I'm hoping that Cindy and Tabby can help me with that. For those of you that have been in my basement, I'm open to suggestions!

I've survived ...

the 1st 9 weeks! The first 9 weeks of school are always the hardest for me. When mom goes back to work is a big adjustment to the whole family to say the least! There's always so much paper work, testing, analyzing data, getting to know the students, parent conferences, etc. Plus, everything that needs to be done at home, too! This year is even more busier because I'm taking a literacy training course and I'm now the Team Leader again (I took several years off). Shew! I've been pressured by several blog readers to update, so I thought I would start by letting everyone know why I haven't had time to post lately! ;)

A LOT has happened in Sept. & Oct. so stay tuned for more updates!!

Sellersburg Celebrates Princess Contest

Isn't she just adorable? We were so proud of her for participating and not being too shy this year! She picked out her dress ... which was much fancier than any dress I would have chosen. It's funny because I realize that our tastes our different. I need to start taking her with me when I go shopping for dresses. Don't get me wrong, I think her dress is absolutely adorable, I just tend to buy more simpler styles. By the way, she also picked out her shoes, which have little clear heals that don't really show up in these pictures. Micah is definitely a shoe girl! It's so much fun having a little girl to play dress up with! Micah is so much of a girly-girl! Speaking of that, I'm off to read another Fancy Nancy book to my little girls right now!

1st Day of School Pictures

I still can't believe that Micah is in Kindergarten! Here are some pictures of the first day of school:

Rhett with his teacher! ;)

Micah with her teacher, Ms. Harbin

Rambling

I've forgotten how crazy-busy the beginning of the school year is! I'm exhausted. Rhett is in my class this year ... what a blessing. He's doing really well and I'm so excited that we will have this special time together!

I wanted to tell everyone that my mom got her CA-125 bloodwork back and her number went down from 28 to 18!!! (That's good news!) The radiation is working. She meets with the radiologist in a couple of weeks so I'll give another update at that time. She's feeling pretty good, but a little tired now that she is back to babysitting. Tony's mom has graciously offered to help out by babysitting one day a week to give mom some much needed rest time! Thanks Sharon!!

Micah was in the Sellersburg Celebrates Princess Contest a couple of weeks ago. She did a fabulous job! We were so proud of her! She wasn't shy and I didn't even have to go on stage with her this year! lol! Cindy came over and fixed her hair ... she looked so cute. I will post pictures this weekend.

Blair's funny saying for today: She constantly is telling everyone that she is "a big kid now" and thinks that she should be able to do everything that Micah does. Well, today when it was clean up time, all of a sudden, she said, "I can't know how to clean up. I too little."

An Update on My Mom

My mom's cancer (Ovarian) is back. I had been waiting to tell everyone until we knew what treatment option they would choose. She will be admitted Tuesday (the 18th) at Norton's for 48 hours and will have a localized radiation treatment. She will have to lay flat and the radiation will be administered through hollow needles only at the centralized location, which is close to her bladder. She can only have 1 visitor each day for 30 minutes and the visitor must wear protective lead gear. It sounds awful! Please pray that she will be comfortable and that the time will go by fast.

It has been 6 1/2 years since her initial diagnosis and she has went through at least 6 rounds of chemotherapy and 1 round of radiation treatments. She has been through so much. Also, pray that this treatment works and that she will not have to endure more chemo treatments for awhile.

BFF

I just love watching these two together. They are just so cute! I took these pictures of Brooklyn and Blair the week of VBS. I pray that they will always be close friends. Every night (and before each meal) Blair prays for "Bwooklyn, Wizbef, & Bella" along with many, many family members. I love this age ... she's just so funny and sweet!