This is our Gaba at a church in Queensbury. She was nominated as 'Woman that Says Yes to God' and I was privileged to go with her. She was just tickled to be chosen and got to shake hands with the bishop.
There was this giant grub at Home Depot the other day and Thomas wanted us to take his picture with it. He's pretending to be fighting the grub.
Chris ran another 5K and happily waved to his adoring fans! He bettered his time by 2 minutes.
We've been too productive lately to update the blog much, or take many pictures unfortunately. We went to 2 banquets this week--basketball and the Blue and Gold Dinner --and forgot our camera. We've been running by the seat of our pants and just lucky to make it there let alone remember all the gear we're supposed to bring too. Oh well. Hopefully we'll remember the mental pictures we have.
So basketball has ended and both kids loved it. Now they are both learning tennis. Nolan is playing baseball. The team he is on is mainly younger players, so it's a little bit of a struggle for him to be challenged. But he's getting to pitch a lot, and he hit a triple last night (made the paper!). So he's getting good play time. Thomas is really excelling in swim lessons. He has got the hang of breathing now and can go across the length of the pool. He starts an art class this week too. We didn't mean to sign him up for so many things. It took Thomas so long to want to participate in anything that now that he wants to, we don't want to say no! And tonight was the Blue and Gold Dinner for Cub Scouts, where Nolan became a Webelos II and Thomas a Wolf Cub. I'm not going to be Thomas' leader anymore so I'll keep helping Chris with the Webelos and work behind the scenes. We all just love Cub Scouts, but it's nice that it's winding down too. We just have the Niska Day parade and a picnic in June before it's over for the school year.
Our house is almost done being painted. Home renovations are so much work! But it looks great. There's still some final touches, and a few more shutters to put up. It's a crisp white with navy blue shutters. The door is a brownish red...Sundried Tomatoes is the name of the paint. But what really makes it is the great big star between our upstairs windows. It just really pulls the whole thing together. I got a cute copper pail to put our mail in and planted a couple shrubs today. We'll take a picture soon.
Chris was promoted at work to web manager. He's slowly moving into this new role and really likes it. He hasn't gotten a new office yet, but he's psyched to get out of the closet he's been working in for 13 years. His hours are a little more flexible, which works well with the baseball schedule. I've been volunteering a lot of time in the church office while the administrator is out on bed rest. I will be working part-time in the fall running the religious education program at St. Helen's. After 10 years of being a stay-at-home mom, it's weird to be out of the house so much and trying to find time to do everything that needs to be done. And not wear jeans everyday! And the idea of actually making money, albeit very little, what a concept!
So we are blessed in multiple, abundant ways. I need to remind myself of that when I complain about having to go to one more thing. How lucky we are that we have such good things to go to. Life is good!
