So, I know it has been ages since I have actually blogged and that the closest thing to a new post has been a photo slapped up here. Well, I want you to know that I have been wanting to blog forever and for many many reasons I haven't, with the main reason just being sheer lack of minutes in my day. The other reasons being that most of what I begin to blog about just seems irrelevant. BUT...I have decided irrelevant or not it is still what is going on here in the DeFoor house or at least what is brewing in my brain:) So with that said, I am going to be back to blogging for my sanity and if it seems irrelevant to you I'm sorry in advance...
Life around here has been fun, exhausting, heart-warming and eventful these days. Summer has been a blast, but the heat nearly killed me. If my family, friends & church would move with us, I would move to a more mild climate in a heartbeat, I LOATHE being hot. Having a new baby has proved to put the kabosh on doing a whole lot outside our four walls. I knew that adding a third child to the mix was going to really add its challenges and I was right. The good news all the challenges thus far have been ones that are surmountable, so as they say... "this too shall pass." I have learned to take my showers in the evenings to make my mornings less hectic. To be honest showering at night is the best thing for me and for Rob since I am usually covered in a layer of spit-up thanks to Maggie's perfected projectile spit-up. Most days it is all I can do to just make it to my bed without collapsing. Rob and I have been immersed in watching the LOST series from the beginning this summer. Since we aren't doing a lot of going out these days, this has served to be a fun way to melt into the couches and relax at night. I am very hooked and we are almost to the final season and I can't wait to see where all this craziness is going. Rob...not so much, but he seems to tolerate it for me.
The start of the Fall season has proved to be equally busy so far. Sam and Kate both started back to Southside Christian and are LOVING IT. They both have wonderful teachers and are thrilled to go each day, which makes my heart warm and taking them easier. Rob and I are just amazed at how God has used this school to teach our children more about Him and to impress upon their little hearts the preciousness of Jesus and what he did for us.
Labor Day has come and gone and we spent our weekend at the Lake with my family and Rob's mom and sister. We played, ate, swam & talked the whole weekend. The weather was cooler and the screened porch was a perfect place to be. Maggie started crawling this past weekend and so now we are off to the races around here. She is only 7 months and my bet is that she will be walking before Thanksgiving:) She is quite eager to keep up with Sam and Kate already.
The pictures above are just a sampling of our Labor Day weekend activities...most of the photos were taken by Sam and Kate as they snuck my camera:)
Sam rode this ride with daddy. He loved it and wasn't scared a bit. My little boy is growing up!
Daddy teaching Maggie the therapeutic art of watering our garden. She LOVES the Baby Bjorn and being right in the middle of whatever is going on. Please notice the dish towel Rob has hanging for "spit up patrol." If there is one thing Maggie has perfected in her short 7 months with us, it is the perfect projectile spit up. Lord knows I will be thrilled when I don't have to change her or me 7 times a day.
Sam got to ride a horse the other day at his first field trip to Whispering Pines Horse Farm. He really liked it and I have a strange feeling that we will be making a trip back sometime soon. 
