A big day for everyone

After a full weekend of baby shower, seeing cute little Rowdy Benedick and eating yummy zucchinni cake at Grandma's, we were home last night to get ready for open house at the kids school. We spent the morning digging in other areas to find my digital camera battery charger, but no luck. Found many other things that we forgot about. Anyways, so we had to run to the store so I could take pictures of their open house. We got there around 4. It was scalding hot and none of the schools are air conditioned, so we felt for the teachers. This was their first day back into the rooms, so they had been their all day. It seemed that most of them had gone home to clean up. We went in and walked the downstairs so that we could locate Nathan's new room. We saw that his friend Seth and Will were together in one room and that in the next room was his friend Caleb. His teacher's name is Ms. Milbourn. He has several of his previous classmates in their with him, so it will be interesting to see how it goes. Well, since the older kids open house didn't start till later, we went upstairs to see where Hannah was. The first room we came up on was Mrs. Houser, who is like the mom of all the kindergarten teachers. She was in the hall greeting every kid she saw. She asked Hannah if she was ready for school and asked her to check her wall to see if she was up there. Nope, but her friend Carson was, so we moved to the next room. Mrs. Sauvage, who was pretty new last year. Hannah's name wasn't on her tree, so we knew she had Mrs. Kingery, who was Nathan's teacher last year. She got super excited and nervous as we peeked in the room. Mrs. Kingery greeted her and showed her where her desk was and where her cubby was. She then asked Nathan about his summer and if he had seen his room yet. We filled out a couple of papers and grabbed our packet to take home and then went into the hall to drop off supplies. As we were leaving the room, Hannah said to me "Mom, don't worry. I won't even miss you. I just knew I would have Mrs. Kingery and I am glad." I gave her a hug and told her I was really glad too. She was really eager to get her stuff in her class box. I was proud of her and her excited spirit about it. I am so happy and ready for her first day. It is sad in a way, but so exciting in another. We then went downstairs to meet Nathan's teacher. She was in the room and had the kids do a little scavenger hunt to put their supplies away. Then he got to choose where he would sit in class. He chose a desk in the corner by the window at a group of three. He was the 2nd kid to arrive, so he didn't actually get to see his friends. I had the kids make a gift to take the teachers like I did last year. This year we painted little terra cotta pots and then put flowering block in it and made lolly pops into flowers with tissue paper and stuck them in it. Both of the teachers liked that. Anyways, it was great night. We went to Wendys for supper and got frosties since Chris has to close their first day of school.
It was really fun!!
Lets see, other than that, Friday was an eventful evening. We were getting ready to go to Jadyn Kindley's party and the kids were reading in the living room as I was making supper when I heard the sirens got off. Luckily we were playing music and the kids were so involved, that they didn't hear it. Chris was in the bathroom, so I snuck in there and whispered, "I think the sirens are going off, just to let you know." I turned on the tv and sure enough, tornado warnings for us and the county next to us. I interrupted the kids and told them they needed to go to my room. Nathan started to panic. I told him to let his faith in God be bigger than his fear of tornados. I had already put supper in the oven, so I kept checking it and we picnicked on our bed as we watched the weather. Once the storm crossed the river, the rotation died off, but there still was a large hook echo at the south part of town, so they kept watch on it for a while. When they gave the all clear, I called Dawn to see about the party. They actually had been in Target and had to take cover. So they were just getting home and if we still wanted to come over, they had all the party stuff and would do something. So Hannah and I went to the party while the guys had a talk and hung out. It was a sweet party. There were probably about 6-7 little girls there all wearing hula skirts and pretty floral lays. They played 2 games and made little seashell bracelets before opening gifts. Then they had some cupcakes with ladybugs and butterflies on them. After all that, they got their pictures taken and then went downstairs to watch Cinderella. It was really neat. Hannah had a good time and it was fun to just visit and spend time with Dawn and Brian Kindley. He is our youth minister at church and since I don't have any jr. High or high schoolers, I don't know him or Dawn very well except that I had Jadyn in my sunday school class.
We headed to Mom and Dad's after that and got their around 11pm. It was wild. Shower Saturday and went to church with Grandma. It was really neat. Since they live out in the country, they have one minister for 3 little towns, so their services are short and to the point so he can make it to the next town in time for services. Probably about 50 people. The kids stayed until the sermon and went downstairs, had a bible lesson, colored a coloring page and came back upstairs. His sermon was about fortified walls. He had been to Greece and talked about how amazing it was to see the walls around all the cities. That is was made for the cities protection, but that even in the greatest manmade creation will eventually crumble. That our wall is Christ and that he will never crumble. He read from Psalm 71 and gave a blessing to the church, and it was over. It was neat. I really enjoyed it!!
We got home yesterday afternoon and that is a full circle for my blog.
Lastly, Heidi and Mary tagged me and I don't totally know what that means, because I am pretty retarded when it comes to online stuff. I am pretty old fashioned.
So, here are 8 random things about me:

1. I can't leave a bag of 24 rolls of toilet paper uneven. I will pull out way too many rolls and try to find them homes in the bathroom so that the bag is flat and I can stack things on top of it in the closet.
2. When I put dishes away, I am pretty paranoid about things lining up. kind of goes with the whole toilet paper thing. I will rearrange cups for over 5 minutes getting them just right. Wierd, I know
3. I only listen to Contemporary Christian music. I haven't listened to anything secular, on purpose, (elevator music excluded), in probably about 10 years.
4. I would rather snail mail than anything else.
5. One of my most annoying traits and sadly my son does it too, is that I silently repeat things after I say them. (yes, tim, you hate that!:-) Chris says it is fun to watch.
6. I like to plan things at least 6 weeks in advance. Any shorter than that throws me in a panic.
7. I can't sleep without a blanket. Something about the weight of it. 110 heat index outside and I have to have a blanket at least over my waist or I feel naked.
8. I LOVE football!! I don't know what it is about the sport, but it is so much fun. I don't like nintendo games or computer games, but I will play Chris in NFL Blitz and really get into it and kick his butt. I have no idea what I am doing on the game with the buttons and stuff, but apparently my love for the sport flows and I always seem to intercept his passes and score twice as much as him and be clueless as to how I did it. Odd, huh?

Ok, hope you enjoyed those because coming up with all of them has really irritated Percy, our cat, of whose chair I am still sitting in and she is ready for bed. :-)
Lots of love to all of you and will post sometime next week after a full week has gone by. (1st day of school, preschool meeting, church and such)