Wonder twin power....activate!: Spring Break (part 1)

Josiah and some of his classmate buddies at field day

We had the firetruck come to mom's morning out last tuesday. The kids enjoyed getting a chance to sit on the driver's seat and see all the cool firetruck tools.

Leighton got sick right before we had to leave for AR....the doctor said it was some sort of asthmatic thing and put her on steroids and albuterol neb treatments....my little independent girl wouldn't let me hold the mask on for her, she had to do it herself.

Kylie got Top Cat (a citizenship award) and was given her award at the assembly the friday before spring break!

The PTO did a penny drive the week before spring break....each grade had a teacher volunteer to be the pie in the face person...and the 3 grades with the highest amount of money got to throw a pie in the 3 grades with the lowest amount of money. The vice-principal and principal also had goals for the whole school set and after raising over 2500 dollars they both got pies in their faces! The kids loved it.

I took my camera to Arkansas with us and this is the only picture that I took. I think after the craziness of getting there I was just so tired and overwhelmed...I really didn't even think once about taking a picture (which, if you know me...is not me at all!). Many of you have heard our crazy travel story......because of the assembly that we were at school for on friday noontime (and because we weren't fully ready to leave after the assembly) we missed our flight out of orlando that afternoon. The guy at the desk told us our only option was to fly out the next morning (saturday)...we had to pay the penalty for changing the ticket, but did it and ended up staying in a hotel in orlando for the night (and took the kids to see monsters vs. aliens, which was fun!). Did i mention that Kylie had thrown up friday morning and Josiah threw up in the car on the way to the airport? We arrived in AR on saturday afternoon...our time there was busy, but a lot of the time was just visiting with people and getting to know them and the area. We met with the search committee on saturday night, Tom met with the session on sunday night, we had a dinner with five or so families on monday night.... monday we spent most of the day driving around town looking at neighborhoods, getting tours of several schools in the area.....Sherwood is the city that the church is located in but it's looking like we might actually try to live in North Little Rock, which is another suburb of Little Rock....all three cities seem to run together a good bit. Anyways, the visit itself was very nice and we feel like this could be it! The congregation will be voting on us in a week...and we'll continue to process our time and pray about this being our next step.....please pray with us!! I'm getting more sad at the thought of our time in Wauchula coming to an end. I'm going to miss a lot of people here. But, I'm excited about the next step...and I know that God will provide for us wherever we end up next! Ok, so on tuesday we went to the airport to fly home and found out then that when we missed our flight on friday, the guy cancelled our roundtrip ticket, applied the penalty fee towards changing it to a ONE WAY ticket to little rock!....We didn't have a flight home on tuesday....instead of paying 1500 to fly out either later tuesday or early wednesday (since we only had 2 kids) we decided to rent a car, buy a bunch of dvd's at wal-mart and drive the 16 hours home....we got home with two hours to spend with rose marie before tom had to drive her to tampa to catch her flight back to VA. whew....we were sooo glad to get home!