Tonight was our annual trunk or treat event at church. We LOVE this event so much because we truly invite the whole town to come and worship, eat hot dogs, and get lots of candy!
Yes that it snow on our coats and in our hair! It snowed tonight for our trunk or treat. CRAZY!!!! I love these girls and I love seeing youth show up to church to serve others. It blesses my heart. I never ever envisioned myself as a youth leader but here I am loving it.
This is my grandmother who got moved to a nursing home on Friday after some foot surgery. She will be there for several weeks. She is something. Most of the time she is sharp as a tack and knows everything and everybody. Then there are times she has hallucinations and bless her heart they are very real to her. My parents are doing an exceptional job of caretaking for her even if she is not always the sweetest patient! HA! They continue to show me the example of honoring your parents even when it is not always easy. Today Hope and I had a great visit with her. She loves her Jesus and thankfully is very happy at her new facility as her foot heals. I told her as a left today to show the nurses her princess side and not her big bad wolf side because she certainly has both:)
Here is our sweet Dorothy with her piano teacher who was dressed as Audrey Hepburn! Last night was Hope's fall piano recital and she played Somewhere over the Rainbow dressed as Dorothy. I held my breath her entire song and despite a few wrong notes she kept her poise and did great!
The concentration.... :) I love that Hope loves piano and that our home is full of music. the boys do not always appreciate her practicing but we love it! I pray she uses this love of music for the glory of the Lord one day.
While Mike and I were enjoying a night of music at the recital, my brother, my Dad, my nephews, and my boys were out in the rain watching the Hokies. They are die hards and stayed most of the game!! Tech won and my boys made memories with their Pops. They were drown rats despite the rain gear because it was basically a monsoon!
Mike was on the road a ton last week doing what he loves doing-teaching, meeting with other educators and visiting kids in his program. Here is Mike last week with the Governor of Virginia at an award ceremony for an award United Way received for their work on workforce development in our schools through the Ignite program.
He called me when the ceremony was over and said for a moment sitting in the Governor's mansion receiving this award with this organization, he felt grateful for how far God has brought him. He never dreamed as a kid from a small town in Arkansas he would have a PhD and be where he is today. Just a reminder that God can always dream bigger for us than we can and that HARD WORK pays off. Mike Robinson is not perfect but that guy has always worked hard at whatever he does. He is a good role model for our kids.
This past week was Kyle's first scrimmage for basketball. It is almost that time of year which makes all five of us soooo happy! We joke all the time that when I dated Mike I refused to watch basketball with him because the guys shoes squeaking on the court drove me bonkers and now here I am a referee-yelling, basketball-loving Momma and coaches wife! I still have a lot to learn but that does not keep me from yelling and cheering! :)
This past week at our after school program at church we carved pumpkins with almost 100 kids and youth. It was loud, crazy and wonderful all rolled into one. We have the most amazing Wednesday afterschool program going on at church. God has called some great folks to teach and lead and we love that our church is rocking every Wednesday after school. My youth taught the elementary kids the pumpkin carving prayer and then helped them carve a pumpkin. Here is Hope with two of her favorite youth ladies!!
It has been a busy but pretty great week in our household. The days are full and parenting is NEVER easy but we are thankful for seeing God working in our church and in our family. May everything we do be for His glory!
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