First Campout, Last Football Game & a House

Like most of you, we had a very busy weekend! Christian went on his first campout with the church youth group. I had scrambled to find him a sleeping bag (we have one it is just in storage!), borrowed one from a friend and then had to make a quick trip to purchase pajamas, warm up pants and a flashlight (yes we have flashlights they just must be in STORAGE!). Dallas had a cold front BLOW in on Friday and I mean BLOW. The wind was gusting around 40 miles per hour and it was in the 50's when they left! They went to a state park and camped out in tents with a bonfire and the whole nine yards. He had an absolute blast!! (I don't have any pictures because like most pre-teens he does not want his picture taken - I did ask!).

Saturday morning was our last green-gator flag football game. Unfortunately, Joel got up coughing that morning and after watching him Craig decided he did not need to play in the freezing cold that morning. In fact by the time the game started that morning he was wheezing. Caleb did play and had a GREAT game. We had several players missing so Caleb got to play both offense and defense most of the game. He got several flags and even caught a pass for a few yards! The gators WON!! It was a great ending to a good season. (I took the picture of them in the car since Joel wasn't playing and also because it was SO COLD!)

As the day progressed Joel got worse. Craig took him to a Care Now center and they diagnosed him with asthmatic bronchitis. (He does not have asthma and has only had one other experienced where he did the same thing when we lived in Sugar Land. He will start wheezing and starts having trouble breathing.) They prescribed him breathing treatments and a steroid. I made several phone calls trying to locate a nebulizer (yes I have one but it was guess where - STORAGE). A night in shining armor went with me and crawled all through storage and FOUND it in the very back in the box with the blender!! Joel is doing much better after 2 days of treatments.

We made our usual trip to see the house on Saturday after the green gator game but we couldn't get in because they were painting!!! YEAH. Craig and I went back on Sunday and took these pictures. We really like the paint, the cabinets, the stairs and EVERYTHING and are getting really, really, excited to see a finish in the future! (The first picture is looking from the living room into the kitchen - the cabinets where covered because of them painting. The second picture is looking up from the living room - the stairs are covered as well because of the paint.)

This week is just as busy - Joel is home with me today so we could get him some more breathing treatments but much to his dismay he will go back to school tomorrow. Caleb has a field trip on Wednesday and I am leaving to go to Houston to teach for the Wednesday Womem's Workshop at Lakewood (my old job!). I will be back on Thursday just in time for Joel's first ever school program Thursday night! Then the kids are really looking forward to being off for the whole week of Thanksgiving and traveling to Grandpa Billy & Jo's!