Is it really Friday????

The last couple of days have seemed blurry.... It's funny how you can have so much going on that the days just seem to run together!! Wednesday is when my baby niece was admitted to the hospital, we had Church, Thursday we had the "back to school" cook-out for our teen Youth Group from 4-9, and today I spent cleaning trying to make sure Saturday would be a great day to be together as a family and not have SO MUCH TO DO! My little princess of a niece was released today, they determined she had a very very bad virus that was taking it's toll on her tiny body! They hooked her up to the I.V. immediately on Wed. and kept her going strong on fluids and antibiotics to keep her from dehydration. They broke her fever but she just wasn't eating anything and still kept filling diapers for 2 days! She was sent home today with directions to return to the doctor tomorrow so they can check on her. Please pray she'll get her little appetite back, her momma said she's a much happier baby, and not fussy, but she's just a weak little girl from the virus she had. Pray that momma and baby get some much needed rest and strength =) Lord thank you for being the Great Physician.

~Brandon & Alaina~

So the youth group's' "back to school" cook-out was a success....Sheldon did not set our bushes on fire (I think everyone was nervous when the gasoline was brought out....lol) there was SO MUCH MOUNTAIN DEW involved that it should have been against the law ;) Tons of our teens came and even some of the parents stayed for the whole evening, some hung out for a little while... that was awesome to see some of the parents enjoying themselves and getting juiced up on Mountain Dew along with their teens...lol The evening was wrapped up with all of us piling in (and I do mean over crowding couches and bodies all over the floor) to watch Passion of the Christ. Such a great movie to watch and be so overwhelmingly reminded of what Christ went through all because He loves us so much. We truly are blessed with some amazing young people in our church and it's exciting to be a part of their lives and watch them grow in Christ. It truly is humbling to be loved by these young people and sow into their lives. Oh, and Brandon was eating up the attention from all of his favorite young ladies =) HE SLEPT SOOOO WELL THAT NIGHT! Anyway, kind of a rambling and odd blog, but that's what the last few days have been like!!! Lord, thank you for being a part of every second of every crazy day that we have, if we didn't have you as our anchor in life, we would be tossed around and be beaten up by the craziness, instead you blend it all together and show us how exciting and sometimes just down right entertaining it is to be called your children.