Busy, busy, busy!

Wow, what a busy April and May we are having! We survived another RSV season and we are so happy to have made it another winter without any major health/lung issues! This meant that we got to bring Dane for the first time to the church nursery, do you know that I have dreamed of this for the past two years??? Getting to go to church as a family and drop him off in the day care like a normal family was a day that we knew would come, and we had to celebrate with this photo of Dane in his new shirt and his hair combed for his first day! Getting a decent picture of this child has proven to be more than a difficult task lately, but we did get one decent one with his eyes open...and here it is! Unfortunately I do have to report that he cried the majority of the time and we had to go get him half way through service! He isn't used to being around little kids his age, and I think that if we would have put him in the 5th grade Sunday school class he would have done better! But we are going to try again to ease him in, it will just take some time!

Of course we had the March of Dimes walk which was so amazing, but that day also brought Gage's senior prom! Gage and Jordyn looked gorgeous, and had a great time at prom...thanks to my Mom and Dad, Dan and Kelly, Jordyn's parents, and a little something from Chad and I, they were able to go with out breaking the bank! We all pitched in to help with the cost of prom...I can't believe how expensive it is for these kids to go, it's actually quite ridiculous! But we all made it happen and we were happy to get to see them all dressed up, they are good kids that both work hard and deserved to go and have fun!

Dane had great time at Easter, we had an egg hunt and he was very excited to see that these colored eggs had candy in them! Jake had to make sure to hold him back...Dane was going in for a closer look at Jake's Easter basket!

The rest of this month bring lots of new things for us...starting with Gage's graduation this month! I can't believe that he is graduating and having to decide what to do in life, we have heard rumblings of joining the reserves or maybe even enlisting...time will tell, but we are very proud of the man that he is becoming!

Chad and I have been given the opportunity to lead our church's Jr. High youth group! This means that we will have a house full of Jr. Highers at our home every Wed. night, we will be planning lessons, games, and activities for this high energy group! If I think about it too much I get a bit of anxiety, because it really is a lot of work...but we feel that God has given us this opportunity to love on some kids and share with them what God has done in our life. Now, we have hosted a weekly Bible study in our home, but this is totally different! We will be doing monthly activities as well as planning "Jr. High ditch day" at church the first Sunday of every month, so please say a little prayer for our family...this has the potential to be a huge blessing for so many and we don't want to mess it up! If you ever went to youth group as a child and you have a great memory that you can share with us, we would love to hear from you! (We need to as many ideas as possible...and we ain't to proud to beg!)