Family Updates

This is just a quick update to let you all know that Avery had her follow up check up with the doctor on Monday morning, and her ear infections are FINALLY gone! Yahoo! Mommy is SO excited. A whole month of having ear infections was terrible, so I am very thankful she is healthy again. Now, the bad news is that she is cutting more teeth, so her sleep schedule is off again.

I wanted to take a minute to congratulate my younger sister, Shelby and her husband Obi on the purchase of their new home! They have re-located to the northern end of Jacksonville called Yulee. We are very happy for them as they start their journey of settling into a new home and expanding their family with baby Olivia next year ( hopefully). Brian and I helped them in moving over the weekend, but I neglected to take pictures of their new home just yet ( shame on me). Pictures to come in the near future...

Congrats Shelby, Obi, Blaine and Noah!

Congratulations and Avery News...

Congratulations to my nephew, Caleb! He graduated from University Christian on May 20th and we are SO proud of him!!! Caleb has received a football scholarship playing at Kentucky Christian University this next school year. As a matter of fact, he will be leaving us ( I mean Jacksonville) sometime in July to get started with training for football season. He just returned home from Kentucky after registering for classes, so we are all so thrilled for him and his new adventures in college!!!

My camera was not cooperative with the lighting at the graduation ceremony, but here are some photos anyway. We love you Caleb!

I took Avery to the doctor this past week, and to our surprise, she still has her ear infections! The doctor assured me that they were finally on the mend, but prescribed one more antibiotic just to be sure we got rid of them once and for all ( hopefully). Once again, we have a check up with the doctor next week, just to be sure. Avery has been a really good sport through all of her recent doctor's appointments, so I am thankful for that.

Brian is also approaching the end of the school year for 2011. We FINALLY have some good news on the job front... Brian found out yesterday that he IS going to be able to keep his teaching position for the next school year. He was surplussed, but because he has his ESE certification, he will be able to transfer over to a different subject area. So, thank you God for this great news!!!

We are starting to prepare for our family vacation to celebrate our 5th wedding anniversary in a few more weeks! We are so excited to be traveling to the Florida Keys with Brian's parents and look forward to some much needed time off to spend with the family. There will be lots of fishing (and relaxing by the pool) in our near future (HAHA).

I took a recent photo of Avery this morning, so I thought I would share with you... where has our baby gone? She is definitely a BIG girl now. More pictures to come, as Mommy has been lazy with the picture taking lately...