2 birthdays & Sweet Summa Time

The Davis family has been so busy, and I think we are finally slowing down!  Maddie Gray started swim team this summer, and she swims twice a week.  She's too little to go to meets just yet, but yesterday at practice she swam the length of the pool in 26 seconds and only came up for 1 breath!  I have to say, I'm one proud mama!

We also went to the beach with the Wigley family.  They have a little girl named Sarah Spencer that is Maddie Gray's age, so it was fun for her to have somebody to play with.  Mac loved the sand, but HATED the water!  He was pretty pooped out after his first day at the beach, so Daddy held him while he slept!

 Sleeping on Daddy, so Mommy could get some sun!

 Mac ate a handful of sand, but he seemed to enjoy it!

 Maddie Gray & Sarah Spencer

 My big sweet boy

Maddie Gray had been dying to have her birthday party at a football field, but 4 year olds, birthday cake, and a football field don't really go together, so I brought the football to her.  I decorated the house like we were at a tailgate, and I had tailgate food.  All the kids wore their favorite team jersey or cheer outfit.  I even had 2 sweet middle school girls come and teach a few cheers to the little girls!

 "Big" Sarah Spencer, Maddie Gray & Mary Brighton

 We had a second birthday party for Maddie Gray on her actual birthday where only family was invited.  This is a terrible picture of me, but it's really good of Josh & Maddie Gray, so I thought I would throw it in!  Boy do I look tired in this picture!  Maddie Gray was also in a wedding the following weekend, so we were all partied out!

 We took the kids to a pumpkin patch here in town too, since Josh would be leaving with the Guard soon, we wanted to cram as much in as possible!  They both had a great time, and so did we.  When Josh comes home we are going to "stick our hands in the pumpkin" & carve it!  Maddie Gray is giddy with excitement.

Finally, Mac celebrated his 1st birthday October 24!  I can't believe a year has gone by since my sweet man was born.  He's walking & will sometimes say Bye Bye.  He's gotten so big, so fast.  Josh wasn't home for Mac's birthday, so we are waiting to have the party.  I took these at my parent's house because I also had to put off his 1 year old birthday pictures.

I'm not who I was

I have been doing a lot of thinking and praying.  I have been trying so very hard to get into nursing school, only to be wait listed.  I'm number 51.  I'm a glass half full kinda girl, usually, so I didn't think that was too bad given others could and will choose to go to another school or change their life paths all together.  That's where all my thinking and praying has led me.  Maybe, for right now, I'm the nurse I was called to be.  I mean being a Mommy means you're always on call.  Now, true I may not give shots, but I do dispense medicine, put band aids (and kisses) on boo boos, check the color of snot, etc.  I also take care of a stroke patient every day.  I do a little physical therapy, speech therapy, make sure his drink has been thickened to the be sure it's thick like nectar, I make sure that he's eaten and again with the medicine giving.  I am in no way giving up on my dream of becoming a nurse, because I feel in my heart this is what I am supposed to do, just sometimes MY time isn't always HIS time.  I have a friend who is pregnant and due in March.  She and her husband could be moving but are unsure of where they will be going and when.  Such a stressful thing to be moving and pregnant with a little one in tow as well.  She said to me that it really wasn't the best time for them to be moving, and I told her it was the perfect time for them, it just wasn't HER time.  I reminded her that God's timing is always perfect.  I couldn't believe that had come out of my mouth, and I knew right away God took over my words, because they were meant to be tattooed on my heart and branded on my lips.  I have taken great comfort in those words ever since giving them out.  Funny how God works so subtly in a situation.  God doesn't always shout sometimes He whispers, and I just have to quiet my soul enough to hear the whispers.