You’ll just have to read about our day here:  http://www.dinewithoutwhine.com/blog/it-was-one-of-those-days

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Nine years ago today… I became a mommy.  Now my baby is half-way to adulthood.  And my what a wonderful 9 years it has been.  We’ve had so many life changes, so many good stories, so much fun.  I’m so thankful for my “baby” boy & and I am so proud of the young man he is becoming.  Happy Birthday Ryan, I love you more than you could possibly imagine – you are an incredible boy!

Here he is first thing this morning opening a couple birthday presents.  Of course he just “LOVED” the Sesame Street wrapping that Matt came up with in the middle of the night.

The sleepover he was talking about was a few nights ago.  He had 3 friends over then.    We just had the Borger boys over last night.  (and they slept – quite well actually!)

Tonight just our 3 boys are camping out in the living room – the last night before school starts.  Christian starts homeschool tomorrow, Ryan starts school Tue. and Dane starts Wed. 

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Hey there, sorry it has been a bit since the last update.  Life seems to just keep moving on fast-forward and I just am trying to hold on without falling off this fast ride! 

Things are good – we’re good.  We have been enjoying the last few days of summer:

-Staying up late & sleeping in (slightly)

- Making homemade ice-cream & snow cones

- Consuming way too many slurpees from our local convenience store

- Swimming

- Celebrating birthday’s

- Having Play dates & Sleepovers

- Back to School Shopping

- Back To School Dr. Appt.’s

- Garage Saling

- Playing our new Wii

- Working on my business

- Going out to dinner with friends

- Girl’s Night Out

- Visiting the Farmer’s Market

- Ignoring our garden (oops)

A couple weeks ago the infamous football program began again – the life consuming football program that my two oldest boys adore.   Practice is every night and this week we start games too – one on Sat. one on Sunday.   Practices that we leave the house for no later than 5:10 and return around 8:15 p.m. The practices that make cooking dinner somewhat of a past-time around here.  I need to reacquaint myself with my slow-cooker & freezer cooking methods I suppose.

School starts Aug. 25th – that is 12 days away! (which means Ryan’s 9th b-day is 10 days away!)  I can not not believe it is that time already.  With our long vacation it seems like summer just began.  I am kind of sad to be sending them back to school already.  We are homeschooling Christian this year, and he is really excited about it.  I ordered his materials and they should be here Sat. (so the tracking says – does FedEx really deliver on Sat.?)  At any rate, they shall be here soon. 

Some exciting things have been happening in my business.  We have partnered with The Cooking Club of America which looks like it may turn out to be a very successful partnership.  We also are heading to Asheville, NC towards the end of Sept. for a conference. 

Matt got to ride in a tiny little airplane the other night and fly over our house & the church.  A friend of a friend from church invited him on the trip.

I started Ryan a blog last night.  It isn’t too exciting yet, but you might want to go take a look soon.  www.ryfrog.com  We told him when he learned to type he could have one, and he is getting there, so I set it up.  It still needs a bit of work (needs some frogs he says.) 

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Catching up with some more pics.

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