Fall? Fall!

The last three weeks have been unseasonably cool and rainy here in Savannah.  Leaves are falling in the Seattle-style rain, the breeze is cool, we've had our windows open!  (Which is fabulous because our A/C has been out of commission and is barely hobbling along as we speak)  Though it's way too early to bust out our fall attire, it's been very beautiful weather!

Some other great stuff has been happening around here:

1.  (I might overly love lists)  We are so proud of Jordan.  She has officially completed her 1st Google search.  Josh is more proud of WHAT she searched FOR...m ms  :)  hahaha!  She is definitely his child!

2. Jack, as we reported last, learned to ride his bike without training wheels.  It does not matter the size of the bike, he can start it and ride off into the sunset without trouble :)  He has, however, had his first wreck.  And it was doozy.  He was racing Renae (primarily) and a car (secondarily (!?!)) to our driveway.  They saw our friends' car heading to our house and took off top speed....and he went over his handlebars. Ooooo nellie!  But nothing is broken and he has all his teeth!  The inside of his left cheek was black for a few days, and his face was swollen and bruised up pretty good- not too bad though!  Gotta love the face first landing...We met some new neighbors out of the whole deal--there's an elderly couple that bikes around every evening and the husband put Jack's bike in his bike's basket and rode it home and another neighbor ran out of her house to pull the wagon with Noah and Jordan in it so Josh could carry Jack home.  (I was home waiting for the friends!  Talk about a welcome wagon!) A couple days later:

3. Two Saturdays ago we had a large adult lizard in our house dining room.  It was an adventure!  No one wanted to catch it of course, so it got chased behind a heavy cabinet.  Fabulous. Awesome. Yay. So I (under the influence of the Holy Spirit) went to get a yard stick and Josh forced the lizard to climb onto it.  He held it's tail and let the kids look at it up close.  What a fun experience! Until it startled Josh miraculously escaped from Josh's death grip and jumped onto Renae's chair (it is worth noting that Renae was the only child who wanted no part in examining or petting this lizard).  Horror movie quality screaming ensues.  Josh recaptures and relocates.  Lysol and dinner commence.

4.  Josh had another great save a few nights later as we look up to the ceiling and see a full grown cockroach just hanging out up there.  Now, if you miss killing it on your first attempt, that thing is gone so fast you are left wondering where to search and good luck.  So, Josh get's a chair, and the container of lysol wipes (I told him he was so brave to forgo the shoe method and just clamp the grossness inside a wipe in his iron grip) which he then slammed into the ceiling (the WHOLE container, not A wipe).  He held it there for a good minute. Then risked a minuscule peek....STILL ALIVE!!!  By the time he applied full pressure again, the head had wiggled out.  We were left with this:  a roach beheading.  Siiiiiiiick.

I'll zoom in for you:  :) hahaha

5.  Josh and I went to see War Room (actually the same night as Jack's face injury) the movie.  All I'm going to say is this:  If you haven't seen it, you MUST.

I'm the first to admit that most faith based movies thus far have been a little (or a lot) cheesy at times.  There are only about 10 cheesy seconds in the movie, and they aren't even very cheesy.  We loved it.  LOVED IT. Ok so I said a little more... ;)

6.  Josh got to go to the Nebraska-Miami football game in Miami with some great guy friends!  He had a great time, and that game was incredible frustrating something else!  Check out facebook for some great pictures.

7. I got the chance to go visit some of our favorites in NYC a week or so ago...Parts of that city sure are beautiful!  I got to eat at Wahlburgers and attend an Army 9/11 Remembrance Service on Sept 11th--very moving!

8.  One of Josh's soldiers made us a delicious pie.  Sweet potato cheesecake. :)

9.  We met another neighbor due to flying our Nebraska flag...they are Air Force retirees who were long-time stationed at Offutt AFB!  She said Omaha was one of the two places where they felt at HOME in their entire career.  The other was in central Georgia.  I think they might be us in 20 years :)

10.  BSF has started again.  Bible Study Fellowship.  We are studying the book of Revelation this year.  If you are interested in studying the Bible---only the Bible!---I promise you BSF is not what you think it is.  We study the Word, we study Jesus, we study Truth, and we trust the Lord to teach us as we study Together.  Please look it up--men and women and school age kids--guided study thru Revelation, verse by verse.  www.bsfinternational.org  I've been a part of the Genesis study, the Matthew study, and the Life of Moses study (Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy).  Always wonderful!