Birthday news!

I had my birthday. On 2/20 I turned 35yrs old and I really don't ever feel any older. But then I want to do something with the kids and I feel my age. I decided to have my friends, Matthew and Rebecca (little Audry)Simcox over at the house to play games and eat taco salads and strawberry shortcake.YUM!! We also had Shane's school buddy Matt with to celebrate. I got some great phone calls and presents. My brother Eric sent me a beautiful earring, necklace and ring set. Then Saturday morning we left to go to Arlington, TX to see Shane's sister Jill and family. They leave with AIM(African Inland Missions) in June to head for Tanzania, Africa. They are doing a presentation at their church, so we came down to support them. We also met with Grandma and Grandpa Nation for their 62nd wedding anniversary and Grandpa's birthday. It has been great to worship with other believers and their pastor was so dynamic speaker, then realized that he was a missionary for 15 years in Africa. Papa (Shane's dad) took the kids to the park and the cousins can spend time together.

what's happening now

Shane finally told me to at least start writing about what's happening now, then I can add past events as I think of them. It is February 10th, and I wanted to send out our winter newsletter way before now. We wanted to do mail-outs with a family picture/ prayer card but the weather hasn't helped. the children were not cooperative, then I couldn't find every one's mailing address. It really feel like winter now in Longview. No ice storms or snow just very cold, today rainy.
Austen really seems to like swimming, it takes more gas for Shane to travel back and forth to school right now, that's where Austen does his lessons. Austen is still struggling with many things, we can tell if he has had too much sweets or is very tired. HE actually wasn't sleeping very well for several months. Staying up very late reading or paying his gameboy. We took everything away but then he said he would wake up and stay awake for several hours then be very tired by the time I would wake him for school. Now that he is swimming he seems to be sleeping better. My evaluation is that he wasn't burning enough energy to be tired. Austen doesn't eat well either, not that he eats a lot of sweets ( too much in my opinion) but i can't seem to control everything in his life. Please pray for him, for all these things and he seems to gravitate to books with ghosts and wizard/witchcraft in them, I'm very concerned about it.