Golfing at the Range

After church this morning Scott and Drew took Max to the range.  Tommy and Drew are home with a stomach flu bug...well they are on the mend but still home.

Max will NEVER turn down the opportunity to go and hit golf balls.  He has a new set of clubs and thinks he is pretty cool stuff.  It is SO cute.  He doesn't want anyone to carry his bag for him.  He is all about etiquette.

I snapped these when I went to pick him up from the range...Scott and Drew were headed out to play 18.  These are his golf shorts and one of his 3 golf hats he wears.  He wasn't happy I requested the long sleeve shirt because then no one can see that he is wearing a golf shirt.  I canNOT make this stuff up.

Prom 2015

Prom was Friday night.  Tommy was elected last year in 2014 as the Sophomore Prom Rep which meant that he and his friend Maria, the girl Soph Prom Rep, were the ones who headed up Prom for 2015.   They have had weekly lunch meetings since fall, they have gone to business after business looking for donations, they have chosen committees, gone on field trips to scout locations...it has been a BIG process.  It all culminated on Friday night with Prom.  

After decorating Thursday night and all day Friday he came home to prep for the big night.  

He chose to take his good friend Morgan to the Prom as his date.  He picked her up and we met them at Glen Oaks Country Club for photos along with the 3 other couples they were going with. Morgan looked lovely and Tommy so handsome.

Tommy and his good friend Alec and their Dads.  

 Tommy always finds fun socks for dances, these were Galaxy themed and Morgan opted for comfy shoes this dance.  

 I loved how the flowers turned out.

 Max likes the girls and their pretty dresses.  He told Morgan he liked all of her necklaces on her dress.

 Tommy's friend Courtney posed with Max too.

I love this photo, I love how cozy Max is with Tommy.  

 Such beautiful dresses. 

 I had eye surgery this past week, so we could only snap photos from the side to avoid looking at my ugly eye.  Oh how I love this boy. 

 Max opted to "meditate" while we snapped photos.  Anyone seen the Air Bud movies?  That's where he got this idea.

My littlest helper during photos.  He took many many MANY on my phone.  

After photos a Limo picked them up and they headed downtown to Centro to eat dinner.  Then back to Glen Oaks for the dance and the Grand March...

At the grand march, hoping for a better photo from the Prom Photographer, but in the meantime here they are...Tommy mid breath.  

He had a great time.  I know he is relieved to have it over in many ways.  I am proud of him and all of his hard work.  

Resting

It has been so busy, what is new.  I am behind on much.  I do not like being behind.  It stresses me out.  But yet it is the season of life I think.

Yesterday my new computer arrived, my old one had been dying a slow death.  It was long overdue.  I hope to get back to blogging and photos now that I have a computer that can keep up.

I have been tired this week, of course that doesn't seem new either.  But it is true.  I am physically tired and a little bit emotionally too.  Always so much going on in my head and heart.  SO much to be grateful for...SO very much.

Tomorrow will mark 1 year since Mom had her surgery and we officially learned of her cancer...it changed me forever.  I feel like I don't take my Mom for granted, I don't feel like I ever really have...but at the same time that word cancer and all that goes with it has forever changed me.  Early on in her diagnosis I was on the phone with my brother and he said "really there will never be another day of our lives where we don't wonder if Mom has cancer" that is so true.  Dad had prostate cancer a few years ago and for some reason that feels different to me.  But then again I worry about his health often too...I need to be reminded that we are NOT in charge.  God is.  We cannot change things, God has it all determined.  I find peace in that most of the time, I should ALL of the time.  But I have a bit of "control freak" in me, NO idea where that came from..Ahem.

Today I am home, catching up on laundry, house stuff, getting the new computer set up, moving files and deleting files.  In my jammies still...my friend Sarah sent me this devotion.  She knows I am weary....

It was just what I needed to be of today...

"Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less." - Charles Spurgeon Hey weary one, don't buy the lie that rest is weakness. Breathe in, gather fresh strength and hit the pause button when you need to. Maybe you think you're too needed or too busy, that the responsible thing is to keep pushing. The responsible thing is to fill up so you can pour out, to sideline yourself before things break down and sideline you against your will. We're not too important to take a break, and the world won't unravel while we nap. To rest is to place ourselves in our Father's arms, to admit that we're weak and helpless apart from Him. ▪ Jacey Grace + Peace, The Naptime Diaries Team (Nick, Jessi, Jacey, Alicia, and Jen)

The blessing of a babysitter

When Tommy and Drew were little we met Genevieve. She became the only babysitter we used...she helped during the summers a couple of days a week, she was our go to sitter...she came along to both of our brothers weddings and became part of our family.  She and I became close and I loved the girl time it provided me.  She went off to college and grew up.  

Then we had our sweet Miss Emily enter into our family and I know I have shared so much about her and how much we love her.  I have blogged about her time and time again. 

Back to Genevieve for this post...she was the first person we trusted our boys to that wasn't family.  I adored how she played with our boys and cared for them. I watched her with them. Many times I was home when she was helping with them so I truly got to watch her in action. I knew she would be a wonderful Mom some day. 

I feel it is a privilege to have watched both Genevieve and Emily love children long before they were Mother's themselves.  I feel like I had a front row seat in watching their love of kids develop. 

Today Genevieve became a Mom and I got a text this morning with the following photo. It makes me heart sing. She has waited a long time for this and motherhood has not come easily for her. God is good.  I'm so happy for her.