One thing I have been diligent about is collecting one second from every day in our lives in the form of pictures or videos. Then, each month I use the "One Second Everyday" app to create a little video that merges together the one second that I select from each day of that month. So, to catch up, here are the "One Second Every Day's" from May through July. (You can see months December 2016 through April on our youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Hdubb76/videos)
May:
July:
She has decided she absolutely loves theater and is enrolled in a "Broadway Kids" class this semester that teaches the combination of singing, dancing and acting at one of the local theaters that we absolutely love. She is extremely excited about this class. She is also excited to begin her first season of a team sport: Soccer. We just found out last night that she is on the Black Ladybugs team. That sounds like such an extremely cute team name!
Luke was excited to begin the Fall Baseball season. He began practicing early; however, as he practiced, a ganglion that he had on his wrist last spring popped back up with a vengeance. It is huge and places so much pressure on his wrist that it causes a lot of pain. After a visit with the pediatric orthopedic physician, we decided it was best to quit baseball this season, put Luke's wrist in a brace and hope the rest helps remove the painful ganglion. We are hoping he is able to enroll in a Parkour class soon though and his wrist won't be bothered by it. We are going to give it a little more rest before doing that though.
Drew and I participated in CG Games over two weekends in August. It required a lot of training and was one of the hardest things I have ever done. If you are interested in seeing the four events we had to complete over the two weekend, check out the videos on this link: https://cggames.com/prelims-event-videos/. Back in March, when we signed up, I was really excited about the upcoming prelims competition that would be in August. Then, they released the videos for the events we were going to be competing in. We started training specifically for those events. As August approached, I began to ask myself why I voluntarily decided to sign up and pay for such torture! After the first weekend of cg games, I really wondered what in the world I signed up for. For some reason, I decided to begin the morning with the Peak event---one of those most taxing on your legs. And, I failed to warm up well. So, i ended up injuring both quads and still had all of the events to do. So, it was extremely difficult for me (way more difficult than when I was training). But, I did it! And once it was over, I was so glad I competed. It's kind of like childbirth---during the labor process you wonder what in the world you got yourself into and may even say, "I am never doing this again!" But, after that baby is born, you forget about all of the pain and just cling onto all the joy! I am now excited to compete next year, and I learned so much from this first experience of CG games: like---warm up well before your first event and don't start with the Peak event! We are still waiting to see if we get to go to the finals in November. Drew did so well and was in the top 10 in our division for each of the 4 events!! Here is Drew completing the peak event (He is bear crawling 50 yards, pulling 100 lbs of weight in that bag. Then, he has to run back and grab a 25 lb sandbell out of that bag and toss it back 50 yards. Then he runs back and throws another 25 lb sandbell 50 yards. Lastly, he pulls the now 50 lb bag back the 50 yards):
Jelly legs!!
And last, Hurricane Harvey made landfall last week and was a major disaster. Last weekend in Austin, we got a ton of rain. However, thankfully, there was no flooding in our city. Unfortunately though, the Houston area got more flooding than ever in history! You hear of 100 year floods and even 500 year floods (a flood occurring once every 500 years). This was an 800 year flood!! Drew's parents and sister and her family all drove up on Monday as there was an voluntary evacuation for their area. The voluntary evacuation soon became a mandatory evacuation, so it's a good thing they headed our way before it was too late. The rains just continued to come down for many days. They received more rain in those days than they typically do in a year! It is really devastating. Drew's sister's house fortunately stayed dry. But, we think his parent's house has about a foot of water in it. Please pray for them as they recover without too much trouble: that they are able to line up contractors to begin as soon as possible and that their home is back in the shape it was in prior to the flood very soon! We were very thankful to get to spend time with his whole family, but were sad that it was under these circumstances. If you are interested in serving or helping financially with disaster recovery for all of those affected by Hurricane Harvey, our church has provided a great link for opportunities for you to help: https://austinstone.org/harvey.
Lastly, yesterday Drew had a big birthday! And it was awesome that his whole family was here to celebrate with him this week!
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| His family offered to watch the kids while we celebrated Drew's birthday as a couple over dinner. |
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| I made Drew's favorite dessert: flourless chocolate torte with a berry sorbet. |
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| He told me every time I asked him what he wanted to do for his birthday, that all he really wanted to do was watch the Ohio State football game (season opener). So, we made sure that happened. But at half time, we played laser tag in the dark, which was a blast (literally)! |
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| And after laser tag, it was time to open gifts! |
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