July-August Recap

July 


We were in a wedding!  Like, almost our whole family.  It was such an honor supporting the Walters.  I remember when they first started dating and Kassy just knew he was the one.  Kate made us so proud as a flower girl with her friends Victoria and Sophie.







 The day after the wedding, Jason and I celebrated 7 years of marriage- we went on a low key date to AppleBees. The highlight of our anniversary this year was looking at each other across the alter as Eric and Kassy said their vows. Thankful and in love don't even begin to describe my feelings about Jason.

 

 Got some bummer news that I have precancerous cells growing on my cervix. It was complicated by a mistake made by the office and calling me back for an emergency appointment due to my blood work. Jason took time off work, went with me to the appointment and I was braced for the worst.  I had asked over the phone if it was cancer related and she wouldn't tell me- I thought for sure my tumor marker was way up or something.    False alarm.  Office mistake we learned, once we got there and my doctor was then concerned about how high my blood pressure was due to nerves!
Aaaaaand we're switching doctors lol. Still have the precancerous stuff to follow up on frequently, but have a much more organized office I'm dealing with now.

 We started a community garden with our life group in hopes of sharing what grows with those in need


 

 Swim lessons! We ended 4 weeks of swim lessons in July and I've been very happy with Christian's improvement. On the last day he willingly jumped off a huge diving board into the deep end.  We loved Ms. Jordan



I started walking in the mornings- just 3 mornings a week. It has become a rich prayer time for our family!

 At the end of July, Jason's temporary construction job came to a halt - just no more work for them,  which put us in a really scary place. We started praying like crazy, again, for a job that would meet our need.

I can't even remember when it was now- but we enjoyed a day on the lake with the Silvas.  This is a  couple who just gives and gives and gives.   Tons of laughs every time we're together, but also a couple we can go deep with.  Jason and Frank meet up weekly and Jessi and I as well, to talk Bible and life.  We are so blessed by them and their friendship.  And not to mention our kid's friendships!






August 


Jason got an excellent job, writing grants.  What a huge, huge praise this is.  It was all clearly orchestrated by the Lord.  This is a job that we can see him making a career out of.  The only way to express how excited we are about this would be to see the grins on our faces!

In turn, we are now back on the Dave Ramsey plan!

I joined a bunco group with my friend Kelly- what a sweet group of women.  I'm really going to look forward to this each month!

We took a trip to Bakersfield for Dad's birthday 

We took a trip to Bakersfield for Caris' birthday

Loved this- it was pretty awesome seeing Alif's family outside of the ICU waiting room for the first time in a while.


 



 Had my first "hey our sons are friends, so let's do a play date," play date. We met up at the zoo with Joseph (who's in Christian's class at church) and his Mom and had a good time. These 2 are hilarious together.

 




I got to be a part of pulling off a surprise "sprinkle" for Jessi- it was a success! And it was beautiful, in Shaver Lake at her in law's gorgeous log cabin

 

Surprise was a success!

 

 Made these for the first time and will definitely be doing them again!

 

And then, Christian started preschool!  But that does require it's own special post. Until then, check out this sunset I saw last week from our house!