Update and silly gooses

Ok, so Emily ended up getting sick, too, and missed school Thursday and Friday this week. We are on the mend, though. Everyone seems to be healing up and responding to the antibiotic cream. Praise God! Thank you for your prayers and concern. We are hoping to have a quiet weekend here at home, packing up and getting ready for the work ahead at the new house. We are hoping to close next Thursday now, but a lot of things need to fall into place before then. Please pray for Joey and I to keep our eyes on God through the next couple of weeks. If we close next week, we will spend the following week working at the house (tearing down wallpaper, painting, flooring, cleaning, updating light fixtures, etc.) before moving in over labor day weekend. We are anxious to get settled and excited about our new home!

Prayer request

Please pray for Molly and Matthew. They have been diagnosed with impetigo...a skin infection. It looks especially scary on Molly. They are being treated with an antibiotic cream, twice a day. I am worried about it turning into a more serious staph infection, so please pray for peace for Mommy. Emily has avoided it so far but we are keeping an eye on her. Thanks so much! Love to you all!

First Day of School!

Here is our big first grader! The year is off to a good start and we are loving Monrovia Elementary school. Emily already has about seven best friends....Kensi and Avery seem to be on top of the list. She has always been one to befriend everybody, I hope that continues. I also hope that I can adjust to these early mornings. Man, I miss curling up in our jammies and watching sesame street together. She got so big so fast!

Messy girl

Here is our Mollipop, eating a bowl of cherries...what a sticky mess! She LOVED them and even spit the seeds back out. She has been talking more and more lately. She was sad on Monday when both Matthew and Emmy went to school and she was stuck here with Mommy. She kept saying "bye Bubby"..."bye Memmy"...it was pitiful. She was especially mad when we would drive somewhere and she was in the back of the van all alone. I have signed her up for MDO and she starts this Friday. Matthew will be in pre-k and Molly will be in MDO two mornings a week. I plan to shower on those days! :)

Room to Roam

We were at the new house last night and the kids were running around in the front yard....the first picture is of the huge, beautiful oak tree that lines our driveway. We can't wait to move in! Our address, phone number and email address will all be changing in two weeks, so I'll send out our new info when that happens, until then....back to packing!

Slumber Party

So, there are many nights when little people end up in our bed....but this is hilarious. All three if them were in our bed, piled up on top of one another. I love that Matthew's pjs are buttoned wrong and that Molly has her foot hiked up on Emmy. This is one of those precious times when you lay down the frustrations of parenting and bask in the blessings. There are no words to express my gratitude for these three miracles with which God has graced my life.

Who needs teeth?

This is Emmy eating corn on the cob with no front teeth! She has had a great first week of school. She has discovered that first grade is a lot more work than kindergarten and is a little more worn out at the end of the day. God is good and Emily ended up with the teacher we wanted and is in a class with the only other little girl that we knew at her new school.

We are still set to close on the house in two weeks. We are getting excited and packed up! We have loved all the company we've had recently....Katherine, Marianne, Nana, Aunt Hollie, Lanie and Lacie....we are so blessed to have so many visitors in our home. We can't wait to invite you to our new home. More to come....

What is missing in this picture?

I had to get a picture of Emmy with no front teeth. It is ADORABLE! They are already growing in, so this new smile and slight lisp won't last long. Having no front teeth hasn't stopped her from eating corn-on-the-cob this summer, though! I took her back-to-school shopping this evening and we had a blast! She has her orientation this Thursday and then starts next Monday. She is concerned that the work in first grade will be harder and that she won't have naptime anymore....she never actually napped in kindergarten, but she got to "help" her teacher and do fun stuff instead. Plus, we'll actually have homework this year....that should be interesting!

Take me out to the ball game...

We enjoyed a Huntsville Stars baseball game last weekend with our dear friend Katherine who was visiting from Houston. We learned that the kids don't so much care about watching the game as they do about flagging down every boy that walks by with hot dogs, cotton candy, snowcones, popcorn, peanuts and dippin dots...baseball games are EXPENSIVE!

The highlight of the game was when Daddy caught a foul ball without even getting out of his seat! Daddy: next time we need you to catch THREE foul balls...

New House!

We are excited! We have a contract on a new home and are scheduled to close on Sept. 2nd! It's so us...(God knew what He was doing when He thwarted our plans to buy the two other houses we liked.) It sits on two acres, with woods and a creek in the very back. It is 5 bedrooms with an unfinished basement. We won't know what to do with ourselves with all this space! We have a lot of work ahead of us, though, as the home is very outdated....it's mostly cosmetic, except for the kitchen, which we'll be remodeling asap.
We can't wait for visitors!
(sorry to the Van Cises and the Stevensons who recently drove through Huntsville and we weren't able to catch up with you....please come back! ;)
Right now we are praying that the inspection goes well this Thursday.

We are happy to be settling down after the past year of decision-making and uncertainty. Since we are going to be here a while I have subscribed to Southern Living Magazine, perfected my sweet tea recipe and we finally joined our church this morning (Asbury United Methodist Church)!

Love to you from us!
The Broomes