Busy Week!
We have stayed quite busy for the last week! Sean and I went to "Quiet Waters" last Thursday and Friday night. Our church hosts this time once a year and it is an opportunity to get away and seek our Heavenly Father through prayer, reflection and some instruction. We stayed at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Knoxville which was very nice and had a great time! My mom and dad came over to stay at the house with the kids and they all enjoyed that. They don't have many opportunities to be together without Sean and me present, so that was fun for the kids! (I think they get away with more when we aren't here!)

Sunday night was our first Growth Group meeting at our home for the Fall season and we had a great time! We had many new families come and we had a FULL house! On Monday night, Sean and Beckett began BSF (Bible Study Fellowship). Beckett and I have been attending the day program for the last four years and now that he is in first grade, he can go to the school-age program. Helen and I still go to the day program on Wednesdays. Sean's mom and dad are keeping Beckett on Wednesday mornings so that we can still go and we are so appreciative of that! Beckett does his school work in the afternoons on those days!

Tuesday night was our first Homeschool Family Connection meeting at our church. My friend, Sarah and I have started a group to help families who are educating their children at home to connect and find support! We had a good turn out and we are excited about this new group!

Last night we had some friends over for dinner and had a great visit! After dinner we moved into the living room to talk and our conversation became quite long and boring for the kids! They were VERY well behaved, but around 9:30 they moved to our bedroom and began watching "John and Kate Plus Eight". When our friends left, we went back to check on them and Beckett was on our bed alone. I asked him where Helen was and he told me that she had gotten too tired, so he put her to bed. I went in to check on her and she was all tucked in her bed, safe and sound and I was just so proud of her big brother for the way he had taken such good care of her! Just had to share! :)

Tonight we are hosting a table at the Young Life banquet! Didn't I say it had been a busy week? We are looking forward to this event, but I must say that we are also looking forward to a Friday night with nowhere to be and nothing to do! We are planning a hike on Saturday morning, so I'll share a few pictures of that sometime soon!