Snow Day

I'm convinced God knew how tired we were for the weekend and blessed us with a SNOW DAY Monday. I'm even more convinced because it was all gone and warm the next day. When Siloam calls of school- that usually means that that roads are bad enough that Ty sometimes gets to stay home too. We had a great day of just being home- he got a lot of work done and I got a lot of my to do list done as well.

Roman loved the snow. We let him out in it right away Monday morning. He kept saying, "uh oh" as if something had spilled everywhere. It was cute.

Tomorrow (thursday) we go up to Omaha for state wrestling. Ike's SR year of wrestling. Let the butterflies and hives begin :) I'd appreciate the added prayer!!

Rome brought his sleeping buddies under the table where Ty and I were working so that he could hang with us- it was adorable how many trips to and from his room he was taking to bring it all :)

His other go to place to hang was in his wagon- with his milk, cereal, and his ipad he's good to go :)

Disciple Now Weekend

This past weekend, our church had it's annual Disciple Now. D Now is basically a week long church summer camp crammed into a short weekend. Ty and I have been helping plan this for about 3 months and have been so excited to be a part of it!

We had a huge crew of about 80 kids. It started Friday night and ended after church on Sunday. It was an interesting balance for us. We hosted a home of high school boys. Because of Rome, I couldn't do a house of girls. I would have loved it and it ended up that I really missed not being able to have a group of girls. It's tricky being involved in ministry when you have a little one. But it's just for a season :)

Our group of guys that we had at our house were such good guys. Roman LOVED them and constantly ran to where they were just to smile and show off a bit. I loved his eager and bold spirit!

We finished the weekend by joining Kerwin and Lois, Rissa's fam, and Russ for a nice lunch at Market place. Then home to sleep :)

Our group of guys

cosmic Bowling the first night

My good friend Ariane helped me do the registration table- BIG help!!

Ty helped lead music and was in charge of doing the games for the weekend.

Rome and his friend Ryan played together for most of the weeknd.

Rome loved the music- he was always dancing around.

Crazy February

Just when I thought, "I really need to start blogging more." I get busy!

Since the last post, we've found out Isaac GOT his scholarship! WOO HOO!! (now to convince him to come to JBU!)

I started watching the sweetest little baby, Avery. She comes 2 1/2 days a week and she is perfect. She only cries when she's hungry! It's so good for Roman to learn that mommy still loves him but that my attention sometimes needs to be on Avery. He's handling it well and he LOVES to be my helper. It's good practice for both of us for the possible future!

Last Sunday we had a Super Bowl party for the Youth at the church. It was fun to have a few hours to just hang with the kidos. We have the best youth group! I LOVE the kids!

We have Disciple Now at our church this weekend. Both Tyler and I have been really busy with this. He's doing a lot of prep for the actual event and i'm helping with the behind the scenes stuff.

Ty's playing basketball and finishing up 2 grad classes (3 more weeks 3 more weeks!!)

I'm still Coaching Gym and maintaining my working out schedule! Every day! It's so relaxing going each night when Ty gets home. I'm reaching my goals that I set as well so it makes it that much more rewarding!

We got a new kitchen table. This is actually our FIRST kitchen table. It was fun to sit down and have a family meal- we usually just eat at our own convenience or when we're hungry.

Roman's birthday is coming up! I've been planning the party and have so much more to do! it'll be low key but really fun! i can't believe he'll be 2!!!

A week from today we'll be on our way to OMAHA for Ike's Sr year State competition for wrestling! So excited to get to watch him but ALSO to have a weekend with great friends and family. There is no experience like state wrestling. Not just for the competition but for the 3 days of just being with so many amazing people. It is something that I look forward to every year!

ADVICE: If anyone has some advice about hotel stays with a 2 year old let me know- our last experience was horrible and I'm scared to death how this will go. He doesn't do well in the pack and play- PLEASE help me!

Oh and did you watch the duke game last night? I've never seen my husband (world's biggest duke fan) so excited! it was an amazing finish!

Scholarship weekend

This weekend we had a super fast 24-hour visit from Mom, Dad, Ike, and Jay. Ike got accepted to JBU and had to come down to interview for some potential scholarships.

Boy, was it an experience! I never have had to do anything so intimidating as Isaac had to do. He had 3 separate interviews, either group or individual, that determine a certain number of scholarships. This was the biggest group of kids that JBU has ever had competing for these few scholarships. Isaac did great! He definitely didn't fit in with most of the kids there! :) I continuously teased him that he not only had the brains to be here but also the bronze :)

It was fun to have them here for a short time (especially during the hectic busy wrestling season!!)

They also brought Roman down his birthday present. Rome has LOVED the wagon! he sits and plays in it. He BEGS to go outside for a ride. It's super fun!

gummy bear

One of Roman's favorite things is you tube on our ipad. He can navigate from video to video. His favorites are elmo and mickey mouse. And occasionally he'll find some real gems. He LOVES the laughing baby's and he loves all the crazy basketball trick's people do on there. The other day, he found this REALLY annoying video. Since he found it we've watched it many many times a day.

Yesterday, I caught him dancing to the video- it was adorable. I tried to video it sneaky-ly so that he wouldn't stop. He danced for about an hour- it was so funny!

Fun with Laura and Brody

A week ago Wednesday, my friend Laura and I went over to Fayetteville for the morning. She has a little boy, Brody, who is 6 months older then Rome. They play so well together and Roman just LOVES him! We went to Chick fil A for lunch and then over to McDonalds to play at their great play place.

We also decided that we were gonna tackle the fitness world and signed up at Anytime Fitness! So far we've worked out almost everyday- later at night while the kidos are winding down/sleeping. It has been wonderful. Despite the first few days of being so sore, it has been so energizing. Getting to know Laura more has also been great. She is such a good friend!

Our Family Christmas

Our tradition is to have our little family Christmas on New Years Day. This year, since New Years was on a Sunday, we had to have a speedy Christmas before church.

Tyler made Mickey Mouse pancakes!

Rome got elmo slippers- he LOVED them!

Hugs

kisses

He got a stool so that he could go potty in the potty chair :)

Rome loved his hat he got!

(Roman started running a fever Thursday night and it was still there on Sunday- we ended up taking him to urgent care on Monday because he was still feeling awful! Turns out it was strep and a double ear infection! POOR KID! That's why he's crying in the pics!)