Wow, time has flown by!

So much has happened since the last time I wrote in July. My grandfather unfortunately passed away on my parents 30th anniversary on August 8th. It was extremely hard on my dad, I flew down to Arkansas to be there for him. It was Will's first day of school August 10th, I got to see him off, but my flight left before he got home so I didn't get to see him after. He was really excited about it, but he said the first few days was boring cause all they talked about was rules. He has been in school full-time for almost 4 months now. He is reading, writing, doing math, and he even got into a special science group because he is so advanced in it. He turned 5 in September, he is just too grown up. He amazes me everyday.

At the beginning of this month Ryan's grandmother, Granny Gee, passed away. They tell you a death can either bring out the best or worst in families, I have noticed that with ours only seems to bring the bad. People disown people, they start fights, they make idiotic comments in front of strangers, or bring up family drama that has been supposedly dead for years. I did not have my children go to either of our families funerals because of these exact reasons. I wanted to shelter them from being a part of the mass chaos that has ensued and also seeing a dead body at such a young age is traumatic for a child.

Alex is going to be three next month, he talks so much, and he is almost fully potty trained. I think it will be harder to let him go than it was Will. He seems to depend on me and want me more than Will ever did. They are both super smart and can do so many things. Thanksgiving was yesterday and this is the first year we did not spend it with Ryan or our family. Ryan is currently on Alert, which is like a mini deployment, and we couldn't afford to go down to see our families this year. It was still wonderful and we were blessed to have friends who let us share with them and their family on the holiday.

I started putting up decorations for Christmas this afternoon. I'm not putting up all of them one, because I'm afraid to get on the ladder to hang the lights up on the outside of the house, and two the boys and I think that we should wait to do the tree until daddy can be here to do it with us. They love helping him put on ornaments. Well, I better start figuring out what to do for dinner. There was my little update about everything going on with us. Hope you guys had wonderful holidays and found many things to be thankful for.