What about Wendy??

Wendy:

- has made some new friends...so excited about that!
- learns something new everyday....or keeps realizing that I don't know it all!
- should brush up her organizational skills...
- is ready for summertime with no schedules..
- can't wait to find out what baby Ezell is...boy or girl
- keeps laughing at all the crazy antics of her kids...and he chaos..well, after the chaos.
- just finished Crazy Love and is picking up a new book today!

Now some of the happenings around here:











Aaron won third place overall in the first grade at field day yesterday.











So proud of that medal!








Aubrey (my niece) showing Lauren the ropes at school.










Ethan at field day yesterday. He placed third in the race that I did not watch.










Brendan running the 800m at his last track meet.

Normalcy

I absolutely hate it. Yes, hate is a strong word but it is the perfect one for this. I have often felt quite guilty for hating normalcy but not lately. I think that this is part of the way that God designed me. It's for His glory that I am here on this earth. He has a special plan for my life and for me and it just doesn't include normalcy.
( This is not a hidden agenda for others that cling to normalcy and love it. I don't believe its a bad thing. Since this blog is what about wendy, I get to tell you about me :))
I am most unhappy with normal. I feel like I am not doing what God has asked me to do when all is normal. God intends for each day of my life to be different and unique. I don't always live up to it the way I would like. It is easier some days to be normal than to be the one that is left out, talked about, looked at weirdly. In fact, its so easy to get caught up in the what others think about me. Then I realize that my focus is me, me, me. When I have the courage to go against normal, I find that my focus is just where it should be....on HIM!

Random

Just an update of the happenings here.....

It is snowing today. Crazy. The second official day of spring and snow. This is the place where it rarely snows and it has snowed maybe 3 times this year. WE are all ready for warmer weather.

Brendan is running track on the JV/Varsity track team. He is running the 1600M (1 Mile). His time last week was 7 minutes and 54 seconds. Not bad for very little training. He enjoys it and will run again this week. We hope to see it get easier every time and improve on his time.

We planted our garden a week ago. Onions, peppers, strawberries, spinach, carrots, and cilantro. The peppers were already not liking our cooler weather we were having so I have a feeling that they will need replacing after this snow and probably a chilly night :-(

Everyone made honor roll (A's and B's) on their report cards last week! Hooray!

We have a few new pets around our house.I will post some pictures soon.

Thad is still flying with a few students here until time to head north to spray.

Thats all for now!

Break my Heart For What Breaks Yours

This really spoke to me today so I thought I would share.....





A Place Called Simplicity: We Didn't Get the Memo

Our Saturday

It was a beautiful Saturday here!! The weather was terrific and makes us ready for spring. We spent some time today with some new friends. The first was this dog, Jake. He was friendly but a little bit of a nuisance in our situation....Ethan was entertaining him.











Brendan having a blast on our new friend.
















Aaron's turn next....















She looks like a pro doesn't she??




















She had the best time loving on this horse. She was completely fascinated by the whole thing. She rode him by herself. She brushed him and even got to ride him again with her brother. We just have to work on not leaning too far to the right. Brendan and Lauren both slid off of the horse and onto the ground. It scared everyone including the horse but no one was hurt and they both got back on and rode him again. Ethan enjoyed riding too but for some reason I did not get a picture of him up there. Thanks so much to Ms Deanna for sharing her horses with us ;)

Happy Birthday Lulu!

Guess who has been playing with my camera??

















Fun on Lauren's 4th Birthday















Lauren's Cookie Cake































You know you have brothers when you have to hit your Tiara Pinata with a Batman sword!

Snow Day!!!

This is how it started on Thursday afternoon. See how excited he was???












This is how much snow we got on Thursday night and Friday morning!
Pretty proud of that snowman.










Next, the boys needed an igloo. Not sure whos idea this was.











but it turned out great!
























WE haven't seen this much snow since Michigan!














Lauren liked it the least. It was fun for about an hour until her toes got cold!









The boys played outside from 7am until about 3:30pm with a 20 minute pancake break.










We even had tears when it started to melt. Such a fun day and so many memories made. We made snow ice cream, another snow fort and lots of snowball fights!