Friday, April 30, 2010

Change

Right now I finally decided to sit and write on here for the first time in 6 months. I am sitting outside in the beautiful Chico weather. Jay and Jadon are at a paintball retreat, Valor is working, Ethan is on a bike ride with a friend and Breandan is playing outside with the neighbor kids and I am getting a chance to relax! Right now we are in the middle of baseball season so this is a rare moment to enjoy! Life this past 6 months has been busy, changing, difficult, happy, and probably anything else that you can think of! So much has changed and is changing.

I think Change sums up our last 6 months.

Kids grow up so fast!! Two of them are now taller then me :-(. There is something surreal about when your kids get taller then you. Now don't get me wrong with having all boys I hope they are one day all taller then me! It just happened so fast. And they love to tell me over and over.

Most of our changes have been for Valor. He is graduating Jr. High and we signed him up for his High School classes, he got his first job (umpiring), he is getting to go to the National young leaders state conference next week and fly to Irvine by himself. Wow time goes so fast! He is very independent but yet so much still a kid. It is neat to see him becoming a man.

I feel like as the baby or toddler stage of our parenting is over, and even though we enjoyed that, we are loving our whole new adventure. Of course there are hard times and trials, but watching our kids make their own decisions, some good and some that we need to walk them through, has been awesome. Even though our kids can give us hard times at home I think the real test is how they act when we are not around and they are with other people. We are very proud of who they are and who they are becoming. We do miss the babies though and have to borrow to get our baby fix sometimes!!

Well those are just my thoughts for now hopefully I will get or take moments like this more often and post on here more regularly.