Hello there-
It's been awhile!  I intended to update this post with pictures from our trip to Indiana, but sadly I don't have a single picture to show from it.  Our whole family has had the stomach flu...yuck!  Jackson came down with it first when we arrived at my mom and dad's house late Friday night.  The next day I started feeling bad and got very sick.  We headed back early Sunday so that Jackson and I could rest and my mom and dad could be free of our nasty germs!  On Monday Taylor and Matt ended up getting it and James got it on Tuesday. So now it's been through our whole house and hopefully it is on it's way out never to return for many, many years! I absolutely hate any kind of stomach illness and this was an especially contagious and bad strain.  In fact, it was so bad that Taylor actually fainted.  I got a call Monday from his school that he had gotten sick in class and had passed out while in the nurses office and hit his head.  He's doing fine now, but it was really scary!  He has never fainted, so it really bothered me that this flu bug affected him that way.  The funny part about it was that the first thing I saw when I pulled up to get him was an ambulance parked out in front of the school and so I totally panicked! (I didn't know it was for the fire-safety program).  It must have been quite a sight when I pulled up, jumped out of my car and ran in that office with my no shower for three days hair-do, death warmed over complexion, ten-year-old sweatpants, and socks with sandals look.  :) I didn't even stop to sign in or look at the front desk, but raced past them down the hall to the nurses office and was in tears when I reached Taylor.  I think that nurse was a little taken aback, but  I was so relieved when I realized that ambulance wasn't for him.  He is doing fine thankfully and is back at school today!
On a lighter note, the leaves are starting to change around here and I'm so excited for fall!  I will post some pictures of the beautiful scenery soon!
Love,
Jennifer

Here are a few of the pictures I do have:

James on the couch this morning feeling better, yay!  He's a loner today as the other two are back at school, but thank goodness!  They had a flu bug pow-wow in the living room yesterday and there were lots of tempers flaring...you know it's bad when your kids are fighting over who threw-up the most!  :)

Here's one of Jackson I took the other day with his model of a plant cell that he made for a science project.  I had to post this because he was trying to be so stone-faced and cool, like any typical teenager...

 

But then  this....

 

And this!

 

I love it when I can still catch him being that silly little Jackson I used to know!!