Summer Fun

We have had a pretty perfect summer. There has been lots of time outdoors, lots of time together, lots of memories made and believe it or not... lots of pictures taken!

I keep thinking I'll blog some of the adventures, but haven't made the time yet. Maybe in a few weeks when they are all at school and I am lonely and bored, I will get around to it. Until then, I'm doing all I can to enjoy the time we have together and the simplicity of summer.

But...... as a preview.... here is some things from this week:

At two am on Sunday morning, I woke The Boys out of a peaceful slumber. I drug them to the kitchen and gave them a glass of milk and a heath bar and then we hit the road. We searched throughout the area for a perfect spot with open sky and zero lights. On one lonely, dark road, when the only directions to where we were would have been "take a left and then two rights...", I looked down and my gas gauge said there was no gas. Like,  at all. EeEEEK! Luckily, with a little faith and I think a miracle, we made it the 10 miles back to civilization and a gas station without being stranded. After that excitement, we finally found our perfect spot.

Then we climbed on top of the Pathfinder, ladi back and enjoyed the night sky, meteor shower and all. With the help of modern technology, we used my phone to decipher constellations and talked about how minute we are in the scheme of things. We counted around 20 meteors and loved every moment of the evening.

When I made them take a picture, the flash nearly blinded us all... hence TMB's crazy eyes ;)

We got home sometime after 4 am and crashed for a few more hours.

It is simple times like this that I realize how completely in love I am with my kids and the opportunity God has given me to be their mom. When I'm doing the laundry, not so much.......


I also want to show this:

We've been through hell together. And for once, we aren't there. For once we are madly in love and planning our future together with eagerness and childlike anticipation. God was there for me every step of the way when things were hard and I feel His blessing on us now, in this new phase of our life together. Certainly His promises are true-- for He has "restored the years the locust took" in my life. (Joel 2:25)