Friday, September 19, 2008

Charlie's night out with The Girls


Here are my friends:
Left side & Front to back-
Tracy, Stacy, Amy, Ana
Right side from Rear to Front-
Audra, Tracy and Charlie

I got to go out to dinner with some of my best girlfriends & I had a great time. Two of them have moved away so it was so awesome to get to see them again. There's a couple ladies w/o kids yet, one is Ana (with the glasses) who is awaiting her special guy from Ethopia prayerfully getting him next month (here's her story), the other lady is Tracy (in front in black-who is 13 weeks pregnant). The rest of us have 2-4 kids and can you believe that one of the few times we get out w/o kids to just gab....we talk about our kids most of the time. Oh well, I've given up because that is my life right now. It was a great night and I'm grateful to have such wonderful ladies to share my time with. Thanks girls.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

1st Day of School




September 11, 2008

Well today we have officially started Kindergarten for Alexis, I know a little behind everyone else. Oh well, we're on track now.

We have decided to homeschool Alexis for this year and I'm excited for her and excited to see how we will do. She loves the one-on-one attention.

The kids are also involved in a few church related classes.

Of course there is Sunday School, Preston & Alexis both learn the same lesson just designed specifically for their ages while Carter gets loved on and watches puppet shows.
Charlie is rejoining the Motherwise group at our church, during that time the kids have separate lessons and a particular curriculum throughout the whole year.

Alexis & Preston are also in AWANA this year, first time for Preston.

Then there is our mid-week service at church, and that is also fantastic and they have a completely different curriculum for that as well.
The Kindergarten class is focusing on Children Around the World and now Alexis wants to be a missionary and is currently focusing on our neighbors. She is writing out Bible stories that she is copying from her Bible & intends on giving them out. She also wants to save a family member that does not have Christ as her Savior. It's her mission right now to get her to understand what can happen if she doesn't go to Heaven.
Preston's mid-week church class has certain words that they focus on for a few weeks at a time. The word right now is "Hard-Working" and according to Preston it simply means to "clean-up your room... & stuff like that".
Carter is just enjoying what everyone else is doing and wants to be apart of the action. He's a little guy, but he's a tough cookie and likes to get the ball rolling on wrestling with his brother & sister.

That pretty much sums up what's going on with the kids.

Travis & Charlie are doing the normal thing of keeping up with our normal responsibilities. Travis has joined the health club so he can play racquetball more often, we all know that he struggles with his weight so he needs to keep up with exercising. Note the sarcasm in the text.

I, Charlie, am trying to figure out how to balance everything and keep my sanity, is that possible? Thankfully I don't have an outside job, otherwise I don't think I'd survive.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Here ya go...

Here are a few photos from recent activities:

Charlie & kids visiting with her Aunt Charleen & Uncle Tom, Mom Becky, niece Grayson and nephew Aidan.








Alexis & Preston sitting in a Black Hawk @ the Hillsboro Air Show








Just one showing they all smile alike.


Our visit to the Oregon Coast Aquarium with Gma Becky and Uncle Tim

Daggetts and then some: