For Paige...

This past year at school, I got to work with a sweet gal, Paige. I also got to see her on Wednesdays when she led the 9th grade girls small group and I did all the other gals. She always tried speaking to the littles at church, but they were always a little shy and didn't really talk to her. But, as the year went on, Hudson warmed up and would hug and speak to her. At the end of the school year, she said she wanted to come and visit us. I told Hudson and he asked every day for at least the first two weeks of summer if Miss Paige was coming today. Sometime in July, we finally nailed down the day she would come. The night before, Hudson went potty and came back and told me that he had prayed for Miss Paige. When I asked him what he prayed, he said that God would protect her and she would get to our house the next day! Sweetness! She stayed with us a few hours, played a fish game with the boys and just fellowshiped with us a while...we tried pictures at the end...Walker was kinda done! :)

Summer

We have been having a busy summer at the Dudish house! Tony and I went to youth camp with our youth from church and left the littles with my parents for the week. We had a great time and so did the kiddies. Although, when we returned Finley let it be know and quite loudly that she was not happy that I had left her for so long. She was then attached to me for the next week...which I actually spent back in Commerce with my parents because the day after we brought the kids home, the upstairs A/C went out...so off we went. Our compressor ended up being broken and so we replaced the entire unit which is now bigger and works a lot better than the old one that we've had to fix each summer since moving into this house!

Last week, the kids and I went up to my new classroom to work for a few hours and the kids had a blast playing in the housekeeping area of the room. I took a snack and they were all happy!

Tony's sweet sister and her husband, Lori and Justin took Tony and I on a last hoorah?? before summer is over. We left Sunday morning at 8 and drove to Savannah, had lunch, walked around, napped, had dinner...at the Crab Shack (best crab legs I've ever had) and spent the night at a sweet hotel across from River Street. We all got up early the next morning and drove to Tybee Island and spent a few hours on the beach...then back to the hotel to shower and pack before check out time. We walked around a little more, ate lunch at Uncle Bubba's-Paula Deen's brother...super yummy food! Then we headed back home to meet our littles who had spent another night with grandmama! We had a great time with Lori and Justin and are so thankful that they took us along on their trip! Thank you, Lori and Justin!

Summer fun

At the end of last summer, I found a fun Safari pool on clearance at Target. I was super excited about the great deal! I pulled it out today and started blowing it up. After it took 15 minutes to blow up the zebra slide, I kinda thought that I wasn't going to blow up the entire thing. I called Lori and asked if Justin had a hand held pump. He came over and it took about 20 minutes to pump with the hand held thing...seriously, I would've passed out trying to blow the entire pool up. The boys were so excited, they could not wait to get in. So, thanks to our Uncle Justin, we were able to play in our pool! And...as much as the boys loved it, Finley was not quite as enthusiastic about the baby pool. You can't tell in the picture, but she was letting me know she did not like it!

Justin's Beach Pics

So, these are some of the pictures Justin took of our family at the beach...

Out of Commission

So, I've been a little out of commission the last few weeks...sick. I haven't sat down at the computer or even thought about blogging, but I miss feeling somehow connected to everyone, even people I don't see often. Here are the pictures from Hilton Head that I was going to post weeks ago...

Swimming

Well, we had our first pool experience this year...and Walker LOVED it...Hudson...well, he loved it after a while, but didn't really get in. Lois, who keeps Hudson and Walker when I'm working, the lady who I consider my dear friend, has a pool membership and invited us to come to the pool today. Of course, our air conditioner is broken and so we were late b/c we were waiting on the man to come fix it and I had things to do to get ready for the pool...anyway, we were late. We stopped at Walgreens to get water wings for Hudson and off we went. He was excited about the pool and Wotis, Massew, Liliun (as Hudson says)...until we pull up and he sees it. Then he says no, no go in pool. Well, I love the pool, so I'm like, what? I let Lois hold Walker and I proceed to hold Hudson in the water...he screams. I jump around...he screams more. So, now I'm thinking I'll put Walker in, Hudson will see Walker likes it and then he will too. Well, Walker cries a little b/c the water is so cold, so I try Hudson again...more screaming. Finally, I just let Hudson play outside of the pool and Walker gets in his float where he stays content as he could be the whole time we were at the pool...except when we were eating of course. Hudson warmed up to the water, right about the time we needed to leave for naps...sitting on the side, kicking and splashing...I was so proud that he did this on his own, I had to take some pictures.