Our week!

Our new home ...

This is the view from the pool looking toward the entrance ... we drive up that hill to our apartment home!

Grant, Harrison, Shelby, & Sarah Jane as we celebrated Jack's b'day a little early week before last when my sister came for a brief visit! What a treat!

On Sunday, July 16th my Dad turned 65! We celebrated at Outback! At that time we didn't know we would be celebrating Jack's birthday again before they left (Dad & Mom extended their stay), so the cake was for both of them! :)

Jack chose the same cake for his birthday! We started our week by going to a church across town. Nice, but we probably won't go back! Monday we celebrated Jack's 3rd b'day! WOW! We picked up a cookie cake at Kroger, went through the drive through at McDonald's for Happy Meals for the kids, and burger for John, and I got a great salad - I was really impressed! I am not a big McDonald's fan! We got a good bit done on Monday ... the rest of the week was full of miscellaneous things! Getting new cell phones, getting my DSL up so I can blog (HA), and trying to get everything in its place so we can start school on Monday! Added to all of that we had workers here on Tuesday and Wednesday tearing out the floor in our half-bath to replace the floor under the tile and relay tile on it. They still have to come back and replace some molding pieces they broke in the process. They were very friendly and did a good job - but we had extra people in the house! On Thursday, our maintenance man was here to work on the list of things I turned in that needed repair upon move in! I still have a couple of lingering things Mr. JJ or Mr. Bill need to take care of before I am completely satisfied! Friday, we picked up John from work and headed to the mall in Franklin - that was the closest JC Penny's that I had to order curtains from, and they were ready for pick-up! I will blog more about the apartment and send pics of the rooms and the outside soon! (Jack calls it the repartment!) Today I took care of some banking and we cleaned out the master closet! It had not been organized yet, but it is now!!!!!!!!!

Tomorrow John will go to a new church and we have decided for the rest of the family to have church at home. We used this method some when looking for churches once we moved to Allen. I plan to have Sunday School in the morning with the children and then to watch FBC-Parker on the internet! We use to do this when we practiced for church, so this should work until we can find a church that we want the family to try! It is a scary thing to take my children into some churches not knowing the people or what is being taught etc. Please pray that this is a quick process!
Well, I must get to bed! The last pic is of the fountain by the pool and at the base of our hill. We love to watch the ducks and geese. Have a blessed Lord's day to all of you!

Happy Birthday, JACK!

Happy Birthday, Jack! I am sitting here waiting for the one picture I took of my son on his 3rd birthday to load ... it is taking FOREVER, and I am still not sure if it is going to work! SO, the picture may have to wait until later in the week! Jack did have a special day! He was thrilled with picking up a store-bought birthday cookie, getting a McDonald's Happy Meal, and going to the park! WOW! We enjoyed it too! More to report later! I will try to start blogging more! Miss you all!