home sweet home...

...or I should say, "school sweet school"  :)

Well, we are back in Jackson after a very fun and busy summer.  As much as we LOVED being with all of our family and friends back home this summer, it feels good to be back in our own apartment.  We are very ready to start classes again!  We have some really good ones coming up (starting with Romans!)

We moved back up to Jackson on Tuesday.  I didn't take many pictures, but here is one of our van, which was totally jam-packed with stuff!  Nathan's parents and brother Kyle came with us too, which we were so thankful for!  We had their truck totally filled,too.

We decided to move our kids' bedrooms around.  Before, Daisy had her own room while Kaine, Halle and Layla all shared a room.  But when the girls all took naps, then Kaine had nowhere to play.  Because of that and just because we felt like it, we decided to try something new!  We moved all the beds in one room (it was kind of difficult to get a good picture of all the beds):

You might notice in this picture that we decided to give our kids our ONE air conditioner that we are allowed.  At first, it might seem like we are so selfless to let our kids have the ONE cool room in our whole apartment, but don't think that for long...we actually have selfish motives because we know our kids will sleep better in a cool room and then...WE will sleep better:)

So then we made the other bedroom into a sort of playroom.  I think it will work well...as soon as all the kiddos are sleeping well in a room all together!  We will see how it goes:)

Nathan made this great lego table for Kaine...he finally has a place for all of his legos!  Now we just need to train Daisy not to touch it...she is so tempted by all those little pieces!

It has been great to catch up with friends...we are so glad we made it back just in time for Kaine's good friend John Wiley's birthday.  His parents are our friends on staff here so they invited  our whole family to the party:)

Kaine and his friends...

It was an Olympic theme, which was such a good idea!  Because of the rain, they did it in the gym with different events.  Here is Kaine running "track and field" through the finish line.

Halle was even able to participate!  She was so cute:)

The medal ceremony...they all won golds!

So fun!  We are excited to do some great training courses coming up this next week, which also includes a 5 day trip to a camp a few hours away!  Hopefully it will go well, having our four kiddos in a small cabin:)

Hopefully I can get back to blogging now that we have internet access again!  Have a great day!