It has been a while since I have blogged but I wanted to make sure that I was able to cover all that has gone on in the last couple weeks and boy has been it a fun and busy two weeks!
Quentin spent his final week in Kansas with Darcy's parents and had a blast! They brought him back this past Wednesday and have stayed with us until today. They will be heading down to Darcy's brother Doug's house for a week. We will see them again this coming Saturday for his niece Gracie's birthday party in Columbus, GA.
My parents came down the same week that Quentin was with Darcy's parents. They came down to spoil Noah and spoil they did! We had a lot of laughs.
I am so very happy to have our family back together! I have loved the company as well but am ready for our routine and house to get back to normal.
Quentin started his first day of Pre-K 3 of school at Chapel Hill Christian School here in Douglasville. He did well overall. He shed a little tears as he thought we were going to leave him at the school all by himself. =) We reassured him that he was going to have a blast and I cannot wait to hear the details when we go to pick him up at noon.
Here are some pictures to share:
Well...it has been almost 2 weeks since I have cuddled with Quentin and I am going through withdrawl. We have been Skyping with him nightly so it has not been so bad and the funny thing is that he has not mentioned once about missing us! My mom and dad dropped him off with Darcy's parents today and I know they are going through withdrawl now. Quentin had such an awesome time with them and I know that he will have a wonderful time with the other grandparents as well. It is amazing how quiet it is at the house with having only one child. We have no idea what we did when we only had one child. =) We have been loving our time with Noah. This weekend flew. I worked yesterday and helped with a Welcoming Reception at church. Ready for a couple days off to relax and also to get the house ready for my parents to come and visit. We are going to have a couple busy weeks ahead with my parents visiting for a week and then Darcy's parents in town. Quentin will return in a little over a week. Looking forward to it!
I have finally been able to sit down and blog. I have actually missed it! It is a great way to gather my thoughts.
We had a wonderful time in Kansas from July 2- July 10. We went to Downs for a couple days and were able to spend time with Darcy's parents, his sister Karen, his sister-in- law Amanda, and cousins Megan, Kirsten, and Kaleb. It was so very hot in Kansas the entire time we were there that we went to the pool a couple times and were able to enjoy the Downs Celebration with riding some rides. I have learned that Quentin is a little dare devil. He enjoyed jumping off of the diving board and also the Ferris Wheel and Tilt a Whirl.
We went back to Wichita on Friday to celebrate the marriage of one of my closest friends, Kim. On the way back, we were able to join my grandma for lunch which was a blessing. The time was very short with her but so very important that she was able to see her great grand children. The wedding was beautiful and I wish her and Austin such a wonderful life together. I was able to hang out and have a blast with another close friend Kristin. The wine flowed a little too much and I think we left an impression on the wedding guests at the reception. =) I always have an awesome time with Kristin.
We then spent time with my parents and celebrated my mom's recent retirement from teaching. She is a wonderful teacher and I know has touched the lives of so many kids in the 20+ years of her career. My brother and his girlfriend, Linda were able to come to dinner with us. It was so nice to see them. The pool theme continued in Wichita and we were also able to catch up with some good friends of mine, Terry and John, whom I had lost touch with over the past couple years but now have reconnected with. It was so great to see them! Darcy flew out on Monday back to Georgia and then I flew back with little Noah Tuesday. He did pretty well on both flights. Quentin is spending time with the Grandparents in Kansas for 3 weeks and I know will be totally spoiled rotten! I miss him very much but know that he is in wonderful hands and needs this important time with his grandparents. It is strange just having Noah as an only child. It makes me think back to my time with Quentin when he was this age. I will enjoy this time with him and Darcy.
Here are some pictures of the trip and Noah turning 9 months!
We are coming off of a great weekend together as a family. It makes me sad though, because I know that it will be our last full weekend together as a family for a while. I have to work next weekend and we are going back to Kansas for a week the July 4th week which we are very excited about. However, Quentin will be staying in Kansas for 3 weeks to be spoiled by his grandparents. We will miss him so much but I know he will have such a special time with all of his grandparents.
It hit me a couple weeks ago as Noah, Quentin, and I sat playing on a Monday morning that our time as three on Monday and Friday mornings is coming to a close quickly since Quentin will be Kansas and then starting school right after that for half days 5 days a week. A sadness came over me when I realized that my little boy is growing up. We have spent almost 4 years together on Monday and Fridays and I have cherished every moment! The bright side is that Noah will get his much needed one on one attention by mommy on those mornings.
We had a really fun weekend. Spent a great day and evening with our good friends the Corbetts at the pool and then eating a wonderful dinner. We went to church and ran errands and relaxed this afternoon with naps. I love Sunday afternoon naps! Quentin and I always nap together and generally Darcy and Noah cuddle.
Noah is really making strides! He is an official crawler. For the past couple months he has been scooting along but he is officially doing a crawl now and our lives are about to get even busier chasing him around. He is loving his new freedom! He is also trying to pull up on things. We found that he is cutting his first tooth. He also just tried today some finger food of yogurt bites and loved them!
Here are some cute pictures of the boys loving their bath time together and Noah trying finger food for the first time.
Happy Father's Day to all of those fathers out there!
Today and every day, I am so grateful for my dad. He has helped shaped me in so many wonderful ways. He is a great dad but I must say he is an outstanding grandfather! I am so happy that he gets to be in my boy's lives.
Today, I am also so thankful for Darcy. He is such a wonderful dad to Quentin and Noah. He plays an equal role in everything that our boys do and I see so much of him in them.
I also am very thankful for Darcy's dad, Bobby Brillhart. He helped raise such a wonderful son and so many of his great qualities are because of his dad.
We have had a great week. Quentin was only able to have one swim lesson due to the pool being broken. He only has 3 more to go and it has been a whirlwind of a difference since his first lesson. He is loving them!
We are just taking it easy this weekend and it has been very relaxing. Here are some pictures of the boys in the back yard.
We had a challenging but great week!
This past weekend we were able to spend time with our friends the Corbetts. The boys had so much fun playing together for about 4 hours straight. We were blessed on Sunday to attend a reception to welcome a newly ordained priest into the church and received a blessing for our family. I have been told there is something very special about a blessing from a newly ordained priest so we felt very lucky to have received one from him.
This week posed some new challenges for Quentin. He started swim lessons on Monday and we had to leave after 15 minutes due to him refusing to do anything. He was crying and I was about to as well! We talked about it with him and did a little bribing which helped Wednesday's practice go much smoother! Tuesday, Darcy and Quentin went to Quentin's future pre-school to do some preliminary testing. Quentin's strong will and also shyness took affect and it took a lot of coaxing to get him to do the tests but he ended up doing them and tested very well! He will start school in August at Chapel Hill Christian School and can potentially go through the fifth grade. We are all very excited!
Quentin, Noah, and I went yesterday over a friend's house from church to pick blueberries. We had a lot of fun!
We celebrated the end of the week at Chuck E Cheese playing some games with Quentin last night. I have to admit....I was anti- Chuck E. Cheese but after playing the games during a slow evening and watching the pleasure on Q's face, I would go back. =)
Today has been a relaxing day for us. I love the weekends.
Wow! What a week it has been! That is why I am just now getting to blogging rather than my normal Sunday routine. We went Friday-Monday to Kentucky to meet up with our good friends the Clarks. We wanted to do a trip this year where we would meet half way between Georgia and Ohio and Kentucky offered this. We stayed at Lake Cumberland Resort in an awesome house on the side of the mountains. We actually never once went to the lake but enjoyed spending time together at the pool, cooking, playing pool, and laughing until our belly's hurt. Laughter means it was a successful trip! We all were exausted due to late nights and Noah was in our room and not feeling very well so we were pretty tired at times but the fun times out weighed being tired. We were also on a mission to convince them that they need to move back to Georgia. We will see how well we did in the near future. =)
I dove into work on Tuesday and Darcy was smart and took the day off to recover. So needless to say... the boys and I have nothing planned for today on my day off except to take it easy.
We have a church event on Sunday but other than that we will be enjoying spending some down time together as a family. Really looking forward to it.
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