Roadtrip!!

Cooking with Mama!

On Monday of last week we left for our roadtrip!! Just me, Ryan, the boys and 36 other people, most of them teenagers! We went on the annual Youth Group Bacon Break as we call it and we had a great time. Of course our boys loved being with the kids all week and being absolutely doted on non-stop. We had a lot of free time and a lot of lesson and devotion time with the kids. The hardest part was missing Ry all week. He was always right there with us but so busy with the kids we never had much time together. For that reason it is great to be home again!

The boys continue to do well with their schooling here at home. They actually read a story the other day thanks to Hooked On Phonics. A friend gave us the entire set and it has been a great tool to get the boys reading. To think that less than 3 months ago they came home not even recognizing one letter or number!

Ezra had yet another ear infection while we were on vacation, poor kid. We followed up with the doctor this week and he is sending us to a specialist. He feels Ezra has probably had a lot of previous infections that went untreated and he has also had a ruptured ear drum and lots of scarring. Needless to say at kindergarten round-up he failed the hearing test miserably.

Never ending fun with Legos

Both he and Addai went through round-up this week and are so excited to go to school, "When we turn six, right Mama!". They did really well with all of the testing and I think they won't have any real troubles in school.

We also had a tough week, as we remembered Miciah's first birthday on April 2nd. I really just can't believe sometimes that she is not here. Ry and I miss her dearly but try to always remember that she is with Jesus just waiting for us. We continue to struggle with where to go next in our adoption journey. We feel that God has more children planned for us but that we need to just be patient at this time and that he will provide when the time is right.

Tomorrow the boys and I will go up north to watch Papa in his first dirt bike race of the year. Ryan will also be doing his Heavenly Havoc ministry at the track and we pray for a good crowd that is eager to hear and receive God's word. This ministry has been so blessed with an attendance of 25-40 at every event. Not bad considering the first time it was done by another gentleman attendance was 1! This ministry is a really great way for Ryan to combine his 2 passions, dirt bikes and the Lord. Who would have thought that combo was even possible!

Well that is our last 2 weeks in a nutshell. I go back to work part-time in 1 week and our schedule is only going to get busier as summer nears but life would be boring with too much free time, right?

Bye for now.

In Christ's Love,

Steph