School's Out...

Yeah!!! School's out for the summer, and now I have to find things to do with the girls while Michael works.
Here is a picture of Abigail with two of her favorite friends from school on their last day of school. They seem to be the three musketeers. I hope they remain good friends forever.

As for things to do, we went on our first adventure this weekend. We went to visit a couple of SC state parks - Jones Gap and Table Rock. Both parks have nature trails that you can hike; however, we didn't hike at Jones Gap. We may go back there later in the summer to see what else they have to do. Table Rock was beautiful and had more to do. We took the girls out on paddleboats and saw a family of geese. They have a beach area similar to Stone Mountain's. I think we will go back there again later this summer. Mom said that she remembers going there for picnics with her family. It would be fun to do that with family and make new memories.



Michael said Table Rock looks like Stone Mountain with hair. We'll need to take a picture and see if he's right.

Accidents will Happen

Just a quick update on what's going on in Spartanburg...

Six weeks ago the weather was nice, and we decided to finally work on our yard. You know how hard it is to get the weather and finances to cooperate. Well, it did and boy did we find out how wonderful God really is. Michael borrowed a friend's four-wheeler and the neighbor's aerator to prepare it for fertilizer and all the other stuff you put on your grass to make it look pretty. The girls had been begging to ride on the four-wheeler, so Michael obliged. While doing our yard, the neighbor two doors down asked for her yard to be done too. My husband told her that would be fine. He had just told the girls to hold on, started backing up, and then heard screaming from the girls. Abigail had flipped off the back of the four-wheeler and her feet went in between the bar attached to the aerator and the aerator itself. He then proceeded to yell for me. I was in our front yard, fixing an area that we were going to concrete later. Long story short, we ended up in the hospital for four days.

God is good - things could have been much worse than they were. Abigail ended up with stitches in both feet, a walking boot on one foot and IV antibiotics for most of her Spring Break. Thank you all that prayed for us during that time. She is doing great! She played in her first ball games this past week; the doctor has released her to run and jump and do all the activities she could not do with her hurt feet. Her coach has her playing first base. He thought it would help her since it doesn't require as much running as other positions. David did say he may move her to shortstop before the season ends. Below are pictures of the aerator that she fell on; you can see how sharp the spikes are when you see the mulch on it.

School is almost over and our summer will begin. We are in the process of planning what we want to do. Some things on our schedule are: going to the beach, halping family get houses updated, and anything else we can think of that will keep Mom, Abigail and Rachel busy while Dad works.