random updates!

I always have good intentions of blogging and something will be on my mind and I never get around to blogging about it.....HHHMMMM well, the girls are doing great!  Darbie is in full swing with school and afterschool activities... At times, I feel like a taxi cab driver that works for free between her and Brylee.  Here's a look at our week.... Mondays are our free days so we only spend 3 hours in the car... thats 30 min to take Darbie to school and 30 min back home.....about a 20 minute drive to take Brylee to gymnastics and then 20 minutes back home...then 30 min drive to pick Darbie up up and 30 min drive back home....(I know, we could have sent her to the middle school we are zoned for and we've heard nothing but great things about it, but she had an opoprtunity and I wasn't working so we couldn't pass it up.  She is getting more options where she is now than what she would have gotten at our zoned school.  She is learning in creative ways which makes me very happy.  She has had some struggles because thinking outside of the box isnt a strentgh of hers but shes learning and growing!  We are soo pleased with her teachers this year and she likes them all too!  So anyways, the drives every day are totally worth it!  Tuesdays, we take Darbie to school and come back home... We go pick Darbie up from school late because she has play practice in the afternoon and head straight to ballet for Brylee....spend an hour there and then head home quickly so Darbie can jump out of the car and throw her soccer gear on then we leave immediately and head back to the soccer fields (I didn't mention that we live in one place...drive in one direction for Darbie's school...then drive to the opposite end of town almost for Brylee's dance and then back to somewhat middle ground for soccer depending which field she is at that day)...then we leave soccer and come home to finally eat dinner... Wednesdays, we take Darbie to school and then come home...We pick Darbie up and every other wednesday the girls go to kids club and do crafts.  Wednesday nights they both go to Awana... Thursdays we take Darbie to school and then pick her up late because she has play practice afterwards... we then go to soccer on Thursday nights..... I know... we could cut some things out...and we have...we cut out SGA for Darbie on Wednesdays because she wants to take piano lessons again and we had to give up something in order to fit that into our schedule... but back to cutting things out... she loves theater and thats a creative outlet for her!  She loves playing soccer and it keeps her active... Brylee loves dance and it teaches her balance and some calmness for at least an hour... She is loving gymnastics and learning to be even more fearless han she already was!  They each get so much from each of their activities that it is worth the craziness we go through during the week to get them at each of their activities.... I now this is only a season and it will not last forever!  So, those are my thoughts on feeling like a taxi cab driver!

Darbie is doing good in school.  She kidn of got off to a rocky start but is really picking it up and doing well!  She was having trouble with staying organized and remembering to turn homework in... With some resistance and now closely being watched and made to stay organized and learning to become a good time manager, she is doing much better!  (She is on a block schedule and has math and language arts every day.... they have "a" days and "b" days... with those days, science, social studies, pe, and an elective rotates every other day so it takes some organization and some responsibility to remember to do homework and to remember to keep it in your binder to turn it in two days later.... She is doing amazing in soccer this season... She has a really good coach and what we have learned about our eldest in the last few years is the fact that she will perform where you expect her to.... if you have high expectations, she'll meet them.... if they are low.... she doesnt go beyond that.... so anyways, her coach this season is really good and has high expectations of her and she's doing amazing!  I find it hard to get pictures of her with two rugrats to look after but hopefully tomorrow morning I can get some pictures of her playing!  One good thing about the long ride to school in the mornings is there is time for some good conversations to happen!  She is a light for Christ and it shines soooo brightly!  We are sooo proud of her for this!

Brylee oh Brylee!  She maybe the death of me and her daddy!  She is oo full of life and personality it's not even funny.  A day doesnt go by that she doestn crack us up with something she has to say.  At times, she melts your heart and drives you completely insane all during the same moment!  She is fearless and opinionated.  Tim and I wished we would have started a log with all of the crazy stuff she says becuase man, she says some funny funny stuff and then we forget it =(  However, here lately she has been watching sooo much disney Princess movies that all she talks about is her Prince and marrying him.... Last night, Tim told her that he was going to take her movies away because she is too young to be thinking about marrying her Prince (he is a little concerned at times with this) and she said "OH DADDY, YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO ME!"  I lost it!  Then, the other day I had had it with her behavior and told her I was going to spank her butt.  (a  while ago we had to rename that body part to booty because she said "butt" a lot and it just didnt soudn the greatest coming from her sweet mouth) and without skipping a beat the other day...before I could get to her to spank her she very matter of a factly told me we dont say the word butt....we say booty... how can you spank a child after that????? come on!!!!!  She is exhausting.  She never stops and goes ninety to nothing from the moment she wakes up until the moment she reluctantly closes her eyes....  She definitely keeps us going.  Oh and something funny...she calls gymnastics benastics and it's the cutest thing ever!

Hudson, well I just updated you on him... but I just can't say it enough how cute he is... I think he has the most charming smile ever...The ladies better watch out... =)

Tim and I are doing great!  He just changed schedules and instead of working on two, off two...now he works every single day m-f and every 4th night he sleeps on the boat... which, already I am liking it better!  We was gone for a week last week and it just confimed that we are sooooo done with deployments and if nothing changes are getting out in two years!  He had the privelege of going on the mans retreat from church last weekend and had a blast!  I am sooo happy he got to go this year.  It seems like every year he has to work and can't take off!

I can't beleive the holidays are coming up so quickly!  I can' t wait to go home and see my family for Christmas!

Me, I am doing good... Trying to stay content with where God has me right now!