Update, Block Party, and a Three Day Weekend

Our friends mom was released from the hospital on Friday and is now at home with the best medicine, her grandchildren. Please continue to pray for her quick healing.

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We really enjoyed our weekend with daddy and we had a great time together. Today he was well rested and ready to face the world, he had a huge hurdle at work today and he just took it in strides which was such a blessing! Hopefully he will take a few more three day holidays so that in the future he doesn't get quit so stressed; sometimes it is just so hard when you have a job that requires you to be there! :)

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Our block party was a success. Everyone had a great time and all want to do it again, one lady asked if I could try to plan something for between Thanksgiving and Christmas....ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! I polietly said no thank you. We had a great turn out with several extra families showing up that had not RSVP'd. The kids stayed busy on the moonbounce as well as with the games we had set up. J made a huge clown and cut out holes for the bean bag toss, then we had large scale tic, tac, toe, as well as another game that our neighobr made and donated. We had enough food to feed an army and it was all great. We all partied for five hours but by the end of the night J and I crashed, as we had been up and busy since 7:00 a.m. with preparations. It was great meeting our neighbors that we don't normally get a chance to talk to, and great meeting other kids.

We collected money over the last few weeks for the moon bounce, and to cover other costs, so since we got the moonbounce until this morning we told all the kids to come back on Sunday for some more bounces (hey we should get our monies worth right?), well only a few showed up but when it was time to deflate the moonbounce our little princess was CRUSHED and devestated. We thought that to be extremely interesting, especially considering we have been invited to two birthday parties recently at "Jumper Places" and she refused to go in them, let alone near them, but she really warmed up to it over the weekend.


All in all it was a success, but I think next year I will pass the torch on to someone else and just be a volunteer! We were extremely blessed with great neighbors who pitched in and donated their grills, tables, and canopies to shade us from the beaming sun. Most importantly though we have really been blessed with great neighbors.

I had to load the picture up top because that was the only place it would let me but you can see that they had fun on the moonbounce! And at the end of the night while we were cleaning up Claire fell asleep sitting on the stairs in the garage! Poor baby!