for such a time as THIS!

several years ago when the tsunami struck indonesia, jordan started a project called LEOS FOR LIFE. she collected gymnastic leotards from her teammates and we sold them on ebay and donated 100% of the money raised to help the victims.

when katrina struck, we started it back up again. this time on a much larger scale. we had local gyms, not-so-local gyms, gymnastic manufacturers all sending leotards and we were able to make a nice contribution to the american red cross.

before we were getting ready to move, we had a gym donate a large amount of leos to us. i couldn't do anything with them because of timing and so i packed them up and brought them with me figuring "when the time was right" i would get to them.

THE TIME WAS RIGHT THIS WEEK!

i belong to several ebay selling groups. one day, someone had a question about selling leotards and a woman responded. in her answer, she happened to mention that she was searching for a large group of leotards that would all be the same.

i sent her a message and let her know that i had a ton of leos and wasn't sure what she was looking for but to let me know if she was interested.

turns out she's a highschool gymnastic coach. their team competition leos were stolen and the girls and their families could not afford to replace them and their first meet was coming up.

also turns out that the leos i had were the perfect sizes AND THEY WERE EVEN THEIR TEAM COLORS!

a HUGE BLESSING to them as a team...in return, all i asked was that they do a fundraiser for THE CHILDREN OF HOPE VILLAGE.

so this is truly a WIN-WIN situation for everyone involved.

i'm amazed continuously at the faithfulness of God and how he chooses to SURPRISE us with his creativity! those leos have been sitting there waiting...FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS!

here are some pics of the girls in their "new" competition leos! GO MUSTANGS!

we're having our first house guest!

we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of our very first visitor here at our house! miss jen is coming to stay with us this weekend! she's been visiting her grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins in beaumont and was close enough by to schedule a visit with us too!

we're very excited to see her and will be sure to take lots of pictures! the boys have grown so much since this pic was taken at our goodbye party in july:

girls can be superheroes too!

so i asked jordan to keep the boys busy for me while i got some work done...she was doing a great job...they were playing hot wheels and army guys and who knows what else...then i hear SHRIEKS of laughter and then she came around the corner. she's wearing hudson's size 3 buzz lightyear jammies. she's a dork. she then proceeded to "accessorize" her new look. thought these pictures were HYSTERICAL. this coming from the girl who used to be shy??????

carson salutes you :) he was soooo excited to ride the school bus! he's having fun but he DOES miss his momma and when he gets home he requires lots of extra "snuggle time" as he calls it.

there...two posts in one day...i might even come back later and add some more pictures...i have some catching up to do.

the WEEKLY something??? the SEPTEMBER something????

so maybe my goal was too lofty? i'm hoping not.

seriously. i want to start adding to this daily. but i may need a sticky note. actually, i need a LOT of sticky notes. austin thinks i need to wear one on my forehead. cheaper than botox for hiding wrinkles, right? :)

school started this week. we're off to a good start.

carson declared his teacher PRETTY and so all is good in his little world.

jordan is excited to be in sixth grade and this year gym class is first period (they have it daily) which means she can wear her tennis shoes to school and then change into her CUTE SHOES for the rest of the day. that's cause for celebration ;)

and austin is thrilled to have art II for first semester...

and then there's hudson...who has suddenly been left with only me to entertain him.

pray for him. pray for me. pray for both of us. we're getting reacquainted. it's fun...but i wish he'd stop calling me LOIS.

it's been so long i don't remember how to attach pictures. will try in a separate post so that i don't lose this one :)

cheers.

the daily something

wow...easter? i last entered something at EASTER? time flies!

so today i read about the daily something...a challenge to blog SOMETHING daily :)

it doesn't have to be deep, it doesn't have to be funny, it just has to be SOMETHING...

and i thought, I CAN DO THAT.

and so, today's daily something is to say that from today forward there will BE a daily something.

because a daily something is better than a daily nothing.

:)

happy easter!

just popping in to say HAPPY EASTER!

it's our first easter away from family and it's definitely not been the traditional day we normally have.

but we still had a great day together, the kids and i.

bobby has celebrated easter in the tradition of sam walton...he spent it at walmart LOL...still waiting for him to get home and then we'll probably just hang out for a bit.