Taylor's sweet act of kindness

I had been working late one week and came home to this note from Taylor.  He did this in-between getting out of school and going to his Cell group that night. 

He made salads for his brothers for dinner, an extra one for me or Jeff and made salads for the next day's lunches!

Notice he signed his full name :)

Love his sweet heart!

Valentines day 2014

This year we were so glad that no one got hurt... that is always a good Valentine's Day! (we spent 2 Valentine's day in the hospital with Tay).

Jeff sent me some beautiful roses to the office!

Matt goes to his first dance with a girl

Matt went to his first dance with a girl... as "friends".  Her name is Marlesa.  They met at the dance.
Doesn't he look handsome?

Snow Day (s) 2014

How many snow days have we had this year?  A plethora!

Once day when I was in my home office working, the boys came in and asked me to take their picture being super goofy... I warned them this would make it on the blog...

What do the following have in common: Noah, apple cider vinegar & plantars wart?

I was ready to find a doctor to remove a large plantars wart from the bottom of Noah's foot. It was getting caught on things and was bothering him when he ran.

I began asking around about doctors and I am embarrassed to say a friend had to tell me about this natural method for removing warts!  I have never heard of it!

My friend Allison, and another lady we know, both successfully removed the warts from their daughters by using apple cider vinegar!

So, Noah and I tried it... each night we used a Band-Aid to "tape" a small piece of cotton swab that we had soaked in raw apple cider vinegar.  We were told it would probably take several weeks to a month for it to be gone completely.

We were SHOCKED by the outcome.... his wart was gone after 6 applications!!!  Within a week... GONE.  It was so interesting that we took a pic each morning to document how well it worked. 

Morning after the first application:

 
Morning after 2nd application:

Morning after 3rd application:  part of it has come off and it's flattened out

Morning after 4th application... now it just looks like a scab

 

 

Morning after 5th application... almost gone!

 
Ta da..... 6th morning it is GONE!!!

 

Matt wins Homecoming Queen (9th grade)

Yes, the moment every mother is proud of... when she opens up Facebook and finds that her SON has been elected "Homecoming Queen".

I love the fact that Matt doesn't take himself too seriously and can have a little fun, at his own expense.  From the parents who witnessed the event at the pep rally (which Jeff and I knew NOTHING about), Matt apparently hammed it up quite a bit!

Taylor-- Sept 2013 Student of the Month

It's hard to see from the glare, but the person in the top right hand corner, is Taylor, for the Explorers POD.  This is the 2nd year that Tay was elected "Hero of the Month" in the first month of school.  He must make QUITE an impression on the teachers (they are the ones that vote).  Yay Tay!