"Our School"

When Ryan lost his job way back in 2009 my dear friend Regan sent me this verse, "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived the plans the Lord has made for those who love Him." 1st Corinthians 2:9  I printed  the verse out and put it on my bathroom mirror and clung to it and many others during these past few years.  We made the decision to move back to McDonough this year for many reasons.  One of those was that I thought I would stand a better chance getting on in the county again since I previously taught there.  So we knew the area we needed to move to still be in close proximity to Ryan's work and I knew that I wanted Carter at Timber Ridge.  It just so happens that this school is in the district that we needed to move to.  I promised Carter that he would stay at this school until he moved to Middle School.  I mean this will be his third school and he's only in second grade.  Although each school and teacher has been amazingly good for him.  Back to the reason of the post, I applied for many open positions.  I had some interviews but nothing fit quite right.  After each interview I was kind of worried about what I would do if I was offered the job.  God knew that the desire of my heart was to have Carter at school with me and Aidan to in the future.  It just didn't seem like that was going to be in the cards.  Towards the end of May we had settled on a house and were stepping out in faith that a job would come for me.  I was about ready to give up applying when I saw the opening for a first grade position at Timber Ridge.  I actually thought about it for a day before I applied because it seemed to good to be true.  Well low and behold I was called for an interview the first week in June.  I interviewed with the first grade teachers.  That interview went really well, and I was really excited about the possibility.  Then I was called in the same afternoon for an interview with the principal.  I felt that the interview did not go very well.  I got nervous and when I was thinking back on what I had said I felt like none of it made sense!  She said I would hear something within the next day or two either way.  Well several days went by and I figured that I didn't get it.  Well much to my surprise one afternoon she called to see if I was still interested.  I was thrilled!  Not only is this the grade that I love at a really great school but it is Carter's school!  The school that I knew several months before that he needed to go to.  How good is God!?!?!  To think that I almost didn't apply makes me just shake my head.  So like the verse said my mind did not see this plan but I am so happy and beyond greatful that God did!!  I'm also beyond thankful that He loves my child enough to answer this prayer for him.  He prayed hard that I would be able to teach at his school.  He is so excited to be down the hall this year and I know that it will make the transition to a new school so much easier on him.  I love hearing him say every time we drive by the school he says. "look mom, there's our school!"  Lord willing he will be able to say that for a long time!

Jumpy Place

I took the boys to a local jumpy place to burn off some energy this morning.  It was awesome and we were the only ones there for the entire hour and a half.  They had lots of fun and I enjoyed the long nap from Aidan later!

Fourth of July

was spent..

moving here...

trying to get a decent picture...

fabulous cookout at the Kane's...

(loved this one of Papa watching the movie with the little ones!)

and relaxing with friends.

Fernbank

We headed to Fernbank with my good friend Melissa and her kids Grayson and Kinsley.  Melissa is a friend from my college days at Georgia State.  I would not have survived my year in Dacula without her and will dearly miss our late night coffee meetings and talks!  Here are some pics of our fun day!

More June Pictures

Carter loved the fort he built!

Picnic lunches are the best

Carter is very creative! He made this jet pack out of a left over box.

Aidan decorated some of our boxes.

Tired is falling asleep with your hand in a bag of chips!

They can play together sometimes!

No words needed

We put lots of puzzles together and built lots of towers during potty training bootcamp and while Carter was at VBS.

We had a lesson on Wii playing and taking turns, it worked for about 10 minutes. ;)

One must dress up as Superman to play a Superman Wii game!

June in a Nutshell

Our June consisted of lots of...

self-entertaining

potty training

timeouts (it's so hard being 2!)

packing, lots of packing!

Washington D.C.

Back at the beginning of June my mom and I flew up to D.C. for a couple of days.  My sister, Sallie, was up there for her training before she left for the Philippines.  We went so we could be a part of her commissioning service.  The service was absolutely beautiful and moving yet very simple.  I wish I had pictures of that.  Here are some of the sites that we saw.  We were also able to meet up with mom's college roommate and her daughter for dinner one night which was very entertaining!  We also had dinner with one of Sallie's good high school friend's and her family.  Another entertaining night!  It was a great long weekend trip.

Washington Monument

World War II Monument

The Pentagon Spetember 11th Monument, very moving.

Arlington Cemetary

Air and Space Museum

So besides Sallie's service this may have been my fav part of the trip!  We went to Georgetown to Georgetown Cupcakes, or DC Cupcakes which is the name of their show on TLC.  So yummy!!!