Update

Ron made it home - and it great time!  His meeting with his adviser at the beginning of the week went well and he had a good week of research!  He is glad to be home and we're glad to have him home.  He left a little after 5 in order to get here!  We are thankful for safety and a good week!

Additionally Ryan is doing well the last day or so too!  He is taking baby steps to improvement!  We are thankful.  I cannot begin to imagine how people handle situations like this without the Lord.  It has been an emotional, difficult and trying 5+weeks (and that is just for Ron and I).  Holly and the girls and Ryan's parents are living a huge roller coaster.  

We are thankful to know the One who not only knows Ryan, but has known him before he was born!  We continue to trust that He will guide and strengthen and heal!

Star Student

This morning I had the opportunity to volunteer at the boys school.  I can only do this once a month, when Ron is gone and I'm not babysitting, but I really enjoyed it!  Wish I could do it more often!

So I was in Nathaniel's classroom first thing this morning when the announcements were going on and I hear that Eli Adkins is the Student of the Week for Mrs. Meyer's class!  Yeah Eli!  I was pretty proud to get to here the announcement.

He was super, excited even after school when he showed me all his stuff!

His certificate says, "Eli is an Awesome listener!  He participates in class and cares about learning every day.  Eli is a great role model for his classmates."

Super proud of our Student of the Week!

School Spirit

I posted just 3 weeks ago that these handsome (I can say that because they look like their Daddy) men were beginning at Fairview!  Well they are 3 weeks in and here they are!

"Everybody" wears Fairview clothes on Friday, "everybody".  Well maybe not everybody, but these 3 managed to find some baseball shirts that would work!

Nathaniel proudly displayed his 4th Grade Football Jersey!  

(Not all that excited about the whole football thing :), but I'll post more for his first game next week.)

So they are Fairview Apaches now.  Maddie wasn't sure why she didn't have any Fairview clothes to wear, guess we'll have to work on her and I getting into the school spirit!

Seriously though, all 3 boys seem to be doing well!  Eli had a setback for a couple of weeks, but I finally got clued in and addressed the issue.  He's been great all week and loves recess again!  Ronnie is doing his best to beat everyone in his class with AR points.  Not sure he is winning, but he's reading :)  We just have to get him to slow down and understand what he's reading!  Nathaniel is doing well too.  I was able to volunteer in his classroom today and it was fun to see him in "his classroom environment".  He didn't even seem embarrassed to have me there.  So thankful for that!

So we are underway with the year and praising the Lord for a good start.  There are minor adjustments still being made and we are covering them in prayer every day, but we are so thankful that they don't go alone, The Lord is with them!

Out of the Mouth of Babes

A child will lead them!  

This little gal is such a blessing!  

Maddie's been playing "Momma" a lot lately.  She loves to play in her kitchen, on her computer, with her baby!  She just loves pretending and being so grown up.  She rarely misses an opportunity to tell me how big she is and how she'll be going to school very soon (a year, if we let her) :)

Tonight she grabbed a picture of Jesus with kids all around him and sitting on His lap. 

"See this Momma?"  "I wanna be this little boy."  (Pointing to the little boy sitting on Jesus' lap). 

It's makes perfect sense!  Right where we should be, sitting in Jesus capable hands.  Allowing Him to control and take care of everything for us!  No worries, no fears, just sitting and soaking in Jesus!

The last few days this beautiful little gal has been very aware of the Lord and talking a lot about what He wants from us and for us.  She's been praying more and more and keeps repeating the first commandment - Keep God First!  Her heart is bending toward the things of the Lord and I sense her desire to know more and more each day!  It's exciting!  

I'm blessed beyond measure to be Momma to this beauty and her big brothers!  I'll never understand  why I was chosen to be "Momma" to 4 amazing kids!  Blessed just doesn't seem like enough.  They challenge me, they inspire me, they stretch me in amazing ways!

I'm so thankful!

Grandparents

It's nice to have a change of pace sometimes!  

Thanks Pap and Grandma for dinner and a quick couple of games!

Pap was showing his multi-talents by playing both scrabble and chess at the same time.  I'm pretty sure he beat both boys at chess and I think he did pretty good at Scrabble too!

Wilmore Week #17

We are officially underway on Year 3 of Wilmore Weeks!  We  are use to the schedule now, but still not liking being without Daddy for a week!

We would appreciate your prayers this week as we are apart as a family.  I don't like the thought of not having Ron around for a week, yet I think about my sister-in-law, Holly, who has been at the hospital for over 4 weeks now at Ryan's bedside.  Sometimes able to talk, sometimes just praying and waiting for a small step of improvement!  I don't have much to complain about.  Ron will be back on Saturday and while we miss him and are anxious to hug him and have him back - we'll be OK!

We would appreciate your prayers for his safety as he travels and just being away by himself.  We would also appreciate prayers for the kids and I as I hold down the fort here with school, football practice, piano lessons, youth and whatever else comes up.

Pray for Ron as he has a meeting tomorrow afternoon with his adviser.  This is a big meeting and he needs the Lord's guidance in all of this!  Additionally, it's difficult eating TV dinners and researching for 12 + hours a day.  He loves the research part, it's just hard to go at it one week out of a month.

So here we go, another Wilmore Week!

Monkeys

The final week of summer Eli began to figure out how to climb the tree outside our house!  

Maddie kept watch from below...

and slowly his big brothers realized they could do it too!

The true climber though is the one sitting high up watching it all take place below him.

 Feeling a little sorry for the tree :)

Fun, Memory Making Days!

Saying Good-bye

Two weeks ago now, we said good-bye to a great friend.  Kasen is a great guy who our kids have really gotten to know and look up to in a short amount of time.

About a year ago Kasen began playing piano and leading music for our Farmer church.  He is multi-talented.  He's a fantastic musician and really that is just the beginning.   This young man is on fire for the Lord and he is very mature for his young age!  

He has been a great role model for our kids to look up to!  There were tears when the kids realized that the college he chose, Northwestern, was far enough away that we wouldn't be seeing Kasen every week.

Kasen has shared so much with the kids, including some silly glasses!  It's not often that great role models come along - Kasen will be greatly missed by all of us!

He also made the drum line for Northwestern and his first game is tomorrow!  Have fun Kasen and we might even cheer you on, when you're not playing the Buckeyes! :)

New Sherriff...and side kick

There is a New Sheriff in town!  And he's stinkin' cute!

He has a side kick too!

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These warm days of summer seem so far off on these cool (almost autumn) days!