a solid effort is needed

i can not believe that i have not posted in more than a month on the family blog. what is wrong with me? i swear i think that i lose days. well i guess what i am going to try and do is blog at least once a week so that all the important people in devon's life stay in the know about all the exciting events that make one day blur into the next. so saturday we were very excited to see rachel. so we go out to kingwood and visit for a while then we head to the church for dave's baptism. it was a wonderful service and you could really feel the spirit in the room. i personally touched when dave was just overwhelmed and he started crying then rachel then the rest of the room. that was soon diffused by some funny joke. after the service devon was heelying in the church parking lot and decided that he was doing to add some disco moves with it. it was one of the funniest things that i have ever seen. i will have to have devon do it again and i'll take a video of it. then we get back to julee's and i had made enough water balloons to fill about half of a big 50 gallon tote. devon, rachel, michael, the elders, and myself had a water balloon fight. i tried not to engage in the water balloon fight too much so that i could take a video which i will try and upload to the blog. so then later in the evening devon is complaining that his throat is sore so we headed home. devon slept for most of the night but woke up around 3am throwing up. so then today devon laid on the couch all day and if any of ya'll know devon he is not one who lays on the couch unless he just landed on it while leaping across the room. i could not keep his fever to get under 100 degrees then devon asked me "mommy am i going to die" at that point i decided that if he is feeling that bad then we are going to the hospital. we headed up to memorial hermann hospital er. julee, rae, matt (rae's boyfriend) and brother croft came up to the hospital and gave devon a blessing. it took everything that i had not to cry. i can't imagine the parents of kids who are really sick what emotional toll it takes on them but it must be great. so that is all that i can think of right now. i will write more about some recent events in devon's life later. we love all who read this and hope that life is going well for you and your family.

time just flys

i thought there would be comfort in routines but all it creates is a blur. it is great not having any major stresses in life but because life is so peaceful all the days run together. devon has been working on reading more. it is frustrating because he gets upset if he doesn't get it right off the bat. i tell him that it takes practice to become a good reader but his patience is pretty thin. i am not quite sure where he gets it from ;-) devon is really excited that the pool at our apartment is now open. other than that life is the same old thing.