United under the Crimson and White

Ah......it's here finally after months of anticipation...dreaming of missed opportunity and mounds of regret. The slate is clean for a  few more mere hours or even minutes and hopes are at an all time high. Yes that's right my friends......the greatest sport of all time football. And of this heroic sport college is the fairest of them all. Makes grown men's blood boil one minute and cry the next. Causes cheers of joy and pain. It is my obsession this time of year and I can't get enough.....

Here it is my friends.......ROLLL TIDE!!!!!!!!

This week school began, not officially until Tuesday but for the teachers and staff we began Monday of this week. I love the beginning of school, but I love it through such new eyes now that I have children of my own. Barrett had a difficult time not understanding why he needed to wait one more year for kindergarden, but finally last week the switch went off and now he is excited about "pre-kindergarden". He is so funny when he says the world putting extra emphases on PRE! What a dear, and Brock is so excited asking everyday to go to his new class and see Miss Missy his new teacher. They will get along smashingly I think:) I adore this time of year to begin and grow and nurture those precious little minds, what a blessing!!!

11 Years of Grace

It isn't easy finding words for this man......he has given me such patience and has an ease about him that calms me each and every day. Alfred and I were such goofy kids when we met at Liberty University, unaware of where God would send us or how He would chose to use us. I really can't image this journey with anyone else. He is a rock, MY rock! I gladly overlook things now that once I thought would drive me over a cliff and I look back 11 years ago and laugh out loud. He is a piece of work and no one but me knows how perfect that piece is:)

Sisters

I can not begin in the world of blogging without putting a picture of me and my precious sister Holly. No she isn't my earthly sister ,because I only have one brother, but she might as well be. We are two bodies with one brain 99% of the time. She make me laugh hysterically and think deeply. She gives me so much encouragement and love that it soaks right through my normally hard self-protective shell. She is a saint as far as I am concerned and I love her so dearly. She lavishes teaching and love on my monkeys and they adore their "Aunt Holly". It's a wonderful thing to find one friend that so completes a missing portion or adds to who you are as a person, Holly does that. 

So here they are in the flesh my monkeys, Barrett London and Brock Lincoln. Don't let those sweet sappy smiles fool you they know full well what they are doing when they wrap you around their little finger. These two get into mischief almost hourly and well I don't think I would have it any other way. Barrett gives his brother "suggestions" and of course Brock adores his big brother so he goes along never suspecting his wise older brother will lead him astray. Ah, but to Bear's defense he always tells me when the mission has gone south. These two make my life so amazingly full and funny. I don't think I have ever worked as hard or dreamed as deep. These monkeys sweet voice linger in my head when all else is quiet in the house and I thank God each day that He made ME their Mom.