Catching Up

I haven't seemed to have a moment where I can just sit and blog lately so I am a little behind.

This is my attempt to try and catch up.

I feel like September has been so full of events throughout the week and the weekends.

Ezra feeding a zebra

Ezra and Brent fishing

On Labor Day, we loaded up the car and followed our good friends the Garrisons to their family lake house in Marble Falls off of Horseshoe Bay. We left friday afternoon and arrived in Marble Falls. We unloaded the car and went into town to get some pizza. That evening we planned for a pretty uneventful night with movie watching and heading to bed early. HOWEVER, the kids decided to have a "party" and stayed up to till midnight. They were having so much fun with each other. The Garrisons have two twin girls, Hailey and Sydney that will be 3 in december. They have so much fun together. Saturday morning we woke up, ate breakfast and took the kiddos for a walk around the Marriot resort, that is close to the lake house, while the boys fished. We had a relaxing day and went to bed a little earlier that night. Sunday I woke up and went for my 4 mile run (training for a 1/2 marathon), we got ready and loaded up the cars to head to the Exotic Zoo. We had so much fun there. They had everything from deer, to buffalo, to goats, to camels and zebras. The kids LOVED it! On the way home from the zoo, I started to not feel good. I got the STOMACH BUG! I was throwing up all afternoon and ended up in bed for the rest of the night. Emersyn got it a little bit too. I woke up Monday feeling better and went into the main house to learn that Lisa now how the Stomach Bug. She had been sick early Monday morning. On the way home from the lake, Ezra started throwing up! Then wednesday, Brent started throwing up! It was not a fun week!

The following weekend, Brent and Ezra went to the Farm to get the feeders ready for Hunting Season while Emersyn and I headed to Austin for my friends wedding!

That following Tuesday we got such sad news. We lost Grandma Eilers to the Lord. She lived such a great life and impacted all of our lives with her joy and love for the Lord. She would have turned 94 in October. She made it home just in time to celebrate Grandpa Eilers 100th birthday. He passed away 40 years earlier. On Thursday we celebrated her life with a Rosary and Mass conducted by Fr. Brian. Saturday we headed to Hallettesville for her funeral. It was such a nice funeral. That afternoon was so neat because we got to go to Grandma and Grandpa Eilers old hosue and dairy farm that Grandpa Eilers built and ran. It was a blessing for the siblings to be able to see the house they lived in and the old dairy. Grandma was smiling down on us! We will miss her but are so very thankful for God's promise that we will be together again one day! What a Glorious day that will be!!

The automatic milking machine

The house Grandpa Eilers built

The dairy farm

Our final weekend in September we will head to Lake Livingston to the Dach's lakehouse (brent's sisters in-laws) for a weekend with the Eilers. We are looking forward to all being together. Such a blessing that family is to us!

More pictures to come.