Unexpected Visitor

So as if my younger siblings hadn't had enough of "Ben and Becky's" house, they found themselves back at our place for another sleep over! Oddly enough, they had requested they stay with us :)
Why the sleepover again??? Well, my oldest brother Buddy lived in Tennessee, He worked out there doing building and roofing. We had the pleasure of seeing him about once every year, and only for a day or two! We always missed him and wished he had lived closer. Well....he was hired onto a job where the man was building a huge house. I probably won't get all the facts 100% acurate, but you will get the idea of what happened. So he was above the second story and over 20 some feet in the air when he fell off the house and landed on his feet! Thankfully he didn't land any other way, because He probably wouldn't be here today! Turns out he pretty much crushed his heels and feet, and then broke both his legs pretty good :/
     So My parents were planning on heading down to Tennessee for the weekend to help him out, with hopes (and all our prayers) that he would decide to come home with them! Ssssoooo, this all means that the two little Amigas +1 Amigo needed a place to lay their heads and then be woken up bright and early with little Ayden saying, "Hhhaayyy" and throwing his big red ball at them....all this because Ben and I wanted sleep and thought we would dump him off in the basement with the kids, in hopes that they would keep him busy!!!! Haha :) So ya they spent two nights with us! We then got news that Buddy had decided he wanted to come back to Michigan with my parents!! Praise the Lord for that!!! We are sososososo excited about having him around. It has been really cool having him just sitting there being apart of the family again. Just watching him, made me realize just how much I missed his presence even more! I'm so excited to have the opportunity to get to know my brother again, and also to have him be apart of my babies lives as Uncle Buddy!!! I want to tell the Story further, about my weekend, but with pictures...because I Love pictures!!


So Saturday was SUPER HOT!! So it called for some swimming!! Thanks to my parent's AWESOME neighbors, we were able to swim for quite some time.

So they thought it was so cool how you could easily hold another person up, while in the water...
So here Betsy (on the right) is pretending to be a bratty baby..No wonder Ayden
was afraid to go in...lol

 I was nervous about what Aydens 's reaction was gonna be, because I have put him in tiny baby pools, and he has hated every second of it...along with fireworks and any other "fun" summerish activity :)
After giving it a try, he ended it quickly with floods of tears and screams...so he sat on the patio and watched everyone else have a good time...

Then when they pulled out one of his favorite things (A Big Ball), he began to have second thoughts...

Thanks to one of his favorite Uncles (a.k.a lil Nater) and some encouragement from mommy and daddy, he slowly started having fun :)

Equals a fun time!!

Mommy and Daddy's support

Plus uncle Nate's Support...

  

He actually had so much fun that he was giving out kisses :)

Ayden Loved joining the
game of "pool Baseball"

So I had to throw this one up to. As I was snapping pictures,
he makes this face complete with the  "tick or click" noise.
I thinks he's pretty cute :)

Zachary Felt left out of our little pool party...so we snuggled a bit!
So far he loves his mommy snuggle times! And so do I :)

 So ever since we moved into our new place, we have been having lots of people over on Sunday nights! It has been sososo wonderful eating, chatting and getting to know some awesome people!!! It was even more special, because my big brother Buddy came along!! During these parties, I stay pretty busy with filling food, and taking care of my babies and of course chatting, that I always forget to snap pictures! So I asked my lovely sister Hannah if she could take some, and this is what she got. This is Buddy throwing a football with Nate our little brother! I thought it was sosoososos cute!!!

I hope you are having as much fun as I am this summer! One thing the Lord is constantly reminding me of, is that when I am feeling low or stressed and discouraged...I need to count my blessings and thank Him for each one!! It is amazing how fast doing that, can change your attitude! In the Bible, grumbling is right along side other huge sins such as Sexual Immorality and Adultery!! My prayer lately is that the Lord will get my attention right away, when I start slipping into that "grumbling" state!!! Why??? Because I am sosososo incredibly blessed, and He has given me WAY more than I deserve, so much so that the very LEAST I can do...is Praise Him no matter what!! I wish it was as easy as it sounds at times! But for some reason when it is most crucial to praise Him, it can feel like the HARDEST thing!! So be encouraged when you are having a hard day, knowing that you are NOT alone!! But most importantly, Praise Jesus for all that He has done for you and given too you!!