My friend Sheryl has started a new meme! 

Week’s Weather   weird! hot, dry, humid, rainy, sunny, windy!  90ish.

Sunday Sermon     All about fathers.

Life lessons    – giving it all to God.  

Favorite Meal(s)  Chinese food on Fri. night!

Treasured Moment(s)  watching grown men have a water and potato gun fight! and enjoy themselves so much looking like little boys.  

Impacting News

    National     Meet the Press Anchor, Tim Russert dies of heart attack at age 58

    Local   Two little girls shot to death close to home while out for a walk.

    Personal  Bailey & Emelia spent the week at camp!  Izzy tried “kid walk.”

Things I Read   Bible, preparing for class.

Talked with  Amanda… with two away it left us a lot of quiet time to talk.

Places We Went  Panera for lunch with brother Mike, shopping with mom…

Blessings -Kids home safe from camp, with lots of good stories and fun memories!

Challenges – Insurance and equipment.

Accomplishments – finished all the CADS I had to do.

Family Happenings – Father’s Day party at moms, Matt’s birthday party, Mom’s birthday party!

Photos  Love this pic of my brother Mike, enjoying the water gun fight!

This week has been a blur… Izzy hasn’t slept very well the past few nights, so as a result… neither have I ;o). Monday must have been pretty mundane, because I can’t remember anything interesting… Tuesday we spent the evening at the ball field watching Emelia’s games… Wednesday I cleaned out my closet, and kept Iz home from school (mental health day)… Thursday felt like Friday, ALL DAY… and then Friday was a busy busy day. We went to Bear, then school, I ate at panera with my brother … and then had dinner out with mom and dad. Saturday we stayed in all day! Had chinese carryout for dinner and leftovers after church today! Love that. Church was good today. I missed tonight for dinner at mom & dad’s. It is my daddy’s birthday! We had grilled steak, huge homemade hot rolls, fresh corn on the cob, pasta salad, salad, blackberry cobbler, and cake. It was good! (I didn’t eat the cobbler because fruit is yucky!)

Thanks for your outpouring of love & prayers for Izzy this week.

Tonight I just can’t seem to compose my thoughts in an articulate way, not that I ever do…really… but, I am very thankful for you. I love reading your posts, it’s truly like visiting you each individually. If I don’t post long comments it’s usually because I’m holding Izzy or feeding her while reading your blogs so I am commenting with one hand. I’m thankful for my parents, for my dad on his birthday… for my family, my sweet kiddos… for Izzy, she’s such a fighter and such a miracle. I’m thankful for God’s love that fuels my life everyday.

This was another week full of blessings… Monday was Labor Day, we ate Mexican food at mom and dad’s house. It was delicious! Matt and I did a little shopping during the day too. I did my time travel Tuesday post all about Monday! Tuesday all the kiddos were back in school, including Izzy… who has been a little stuffy this week. She made it to school all week and was a trooper. Wednesday I got to meet Rachel, a fellow blogger. It was so neat meeting her and her family. Thursday was the day that Emelia surprised us with a full agenda. I had just pulled in earlier from picking Amanda and Izzy up and told Amanda, “tonight will be great, no plans!” and at 5:15 pm Emelia told us she had a honor choir try out and two softball games! Honestly, I enjoyed the games. I joked about softball not being a real sport like basketball. Truth is I just don’t take little kids sports as seriously as some. I believe they are for fun, learning to work as a team, being a good sport, exercise… a little bit of healthy competitiveness is fine, just as long as we don’t get ‘crazy!’ Matt and I sat on the bleachers and enjoyed a beautiful late Summer night, the breeze was almost cool. Friday we raced to see bear, home for a quick lunch and then off to school. Another busy day for miss Isabelle! (and her chauffeur!). Saturday we stayed home – ALL DAY! That was first in a long time. I got to visit with CoachJ on the phone.

• Izzy’s healing.
• Parker
• Heather
• Luke
• Abbie
• Kari
• Collin
• Susan’s granddaughter Oksana, and Susan
• Darla, one of my oldest bffs from way back who is a minister’s wife and stranded in a place she is not happy.
• Ann, dealing with sadness.
• Michelle, Joe & Kayla as Joe is deployed next week.
• Zenaida’s friend Vic who is in ICU after terrible motorcycle accident.
• K.C.’s hubby.
• 6 week old baby Emma to have a good biopsy report
• baby Jackson to grow strong and healthy!
• Terri, Debi’s friend, who is battling cancer for the second time around, prayers for another victory!

I’m so thankful that I KNOW that God answers prayers! Please leave any prayer requests you might have in my comments and I’ll add you on. I want to pray for you and think prayer is very powerful and necessary.

Jesus who died for me
Church to worship & recharge
friends to chat with
health
family
cooler weather
YOU!!!

What a wonderful lazy Sunday afternoon it has been! There was a scheduled potluck tonight at church, but because so many people had mentioning going out of town, they canceled it. At first I was a little disappointed, because … well I love a good potluck and this one was Italian in theme. But, now that I’m halfway out of my first nap I am seeing the benefits. I could be in there concocting a special casserole and I get to be here on the couch instead!

Another benefit of the day is having a daughter old enough to drive to Braums to get sundaes for everyone! (mine was hot caramel). YUM. Matt’s mom and her hub John were here yesterday, John made his famous and my favorite penne pasta with sun dried tomatoes, olive oil, tons of garlic, artichokes, fresh herbs, and fresh tomatoes right at the end… oh yeah, and tons of fresh grated parmigiano regiano cheese too. I had leftovers for lunch today and it was even better than yesterday. I made my garlic bread so we’re safe today from all those werewolves…

This week flew by like the past few. I think the routine of school makes time go by faster somehow. Izzy had a good week in school again and is still lovin’ pre-k. I can’t tell you how happy it makes my heart to know that she is thoroughly enjoying herself. Seriously.

I had lunch with Laura at Old Germany one day, it was delish and I enjoyed catching up with her life. Friday I took Iz to Bear. Afterwards we stopped and ate quickly with mom at Panera. You can tell I’m doing excellent at my diet by all the food talk huh? There’s always next week.

I mentioned in my previous post the movie “the ultimate gift.” I forgot to mention that it is a fox faith movie. I went to that website foxfaithmovies.com sometime ago and put a lot of the movies listed there on my blockbuster queue. I have enjoyed them so much.

Praying for …

• Izzy’s healing.
• Parker
• Heather
• Luke
• Abbie
• Kari
• Collin
• Susan’s granddaughter Oksana, and Susan
• Darla, one of my oldest bffs from way back who is a minister’s wife and stranded in a place she is not happy.
• Betty, who hasn’t been feeling well.
• Michelle, Joe & Kayla as Joe is deployed next week.
• Zenaida’s friend Vic who is in ICU after terrible motorcycle accident.

I’m so thankful that I KNOW that God answers prayers! Please leave any prayer requests you might have in my comments and I’ll add you on. If I forgot you (like I did Darla last week) just remind me and remember I’m still half asleep ). But, I want to pray for you and think prayer is very powerful and necessary.

I’m so thankful for…

• God’s love & forgiveness!
• health
• joy
• Izzy’s teachers and prayer warriors
• my family
• good friends
• YOU!

My sweet friend Judi isn’t doing weekend reflections anymore. She has offered this to me if I wish to do it. I am going to put a mr. linky here for week in review if you want to share your review of your week with the bloggy group.