Soccer Fun!

The girls started to play in a recreation soccer league. They both are so excited to play and can't wait to go to practice or the games. They had their first game on Saturday. It was so much fun watching the both play.

A little pre game practice

 You notice Bree is in a white shirt above and below in her game she is in yellow...she got traded to the other team right before the game. :) Each team has to have 4 players to play and the yellow team(the Lions) only had 3 show up so Bree went to the their team for the game. This was her first year playing and she has been doing so good. She stays with the ball and runs hard to try and get it.

 She got the ball and taking down the field. After the ball ended up going out of bounds she jumped up and down, ran over to us and gave each of us kisses. She was just so excited that she got to kick the ball. I love her excitement over getting to do new things. The whole time she was playing she had the biggest smile on her face.

Katie's team is made up of 3 girls and one boy. Each team is suppose to have at least 5 players so they can rotate them during the game but for her team they all have to play the entire time. Her game on Saturday was the classic underdog story. The other team was all boys and they looked at our team and saw that is was basically all girls. I think they thought they had this game in the bag. It was really funny to watch the all boys team running round the field looking confused because our girls were running them all over the place. James, the one boy on our team was defending the goal and Katie, Lucy and Elizabeth were up and down the field. They ended the game with a 4-1 score. We were so proud of them and the were all so excited that they beat a bunch of boys. Coach Mike works them hard during their practice, he makes them run laps at the beginning and the end of the practice. He does a great job of teaching them the game and how to play and use their feet to move the ball where they want it to go.

Break Over

I am back to blogging after a short break. Life is getting back to manageable to me or maybe I am just planning and organizing better so I don't feel like I am going crazy. So I will have a few more posting coming soon. Since my last post, I had to travel to Fort Smith AR for work. I was there a week and because of plane ticket prices being cheaper to fly on a Saturday, my company had me fly in on Saturday. This was going to work to my advantage as my plans were to rent a car once I arrived at Fort Smith and drive over to Tulsa for the weekend since it was only 1.5 hours away. But....car rental places in Fort Smith don't believe in working after 4pm on a Saturday and since I didn't get in until 6pm I wasn't going to be able to rent a car. I was pretty bummed that I was going to be so close and not get to go back and see some of my friends. My friend Stef was going to drive over on Sunday to see me so we could spend some time together. I was excited about that, she is one of my best friends and I have missed her. As I was sitting in the Memphis airport waiting on my last plan to take me to Ft. Smith Stef called me and asked me what time my plane landed. I told her 6pm, and she said okay I'll see you then. I said "what" and she said I am going to get you and bring you back to Tulsa so you can see everyone at church on Sunday. I was floored...and BEYOND excited. Shortly after I landed Stef pulled up to my hotel and we were off to Tulsa. Even though I was only going to get to be there for basically 24 hours it was more than I could have asked for. An answered prayer...one that God knew I need for my soul. When we got to Tulsa on Saturday night we went over to my other favorite people in this world, the Hughes. I love this family and all three of their daughters. I taught two of them in Sunday School and their oldest was a youth leader with us. We hung out with them for a few hours and laughed more than I have laughed in the past 6 mths. It was a much needed. I loved catching up with all of them. I loved being back in our old church on Sunday and seeing some many faces that I have missed, hug them and talk with them. My heart was so happy that day.



 Before I headed back to Ft. Smith Stef and I headed over to Cherry Berry to get some frozen yogurt. Yum!!! I love this place...so I had to have some before I left. Two of the girls I taught in Sunday School also joined us.

Me and Jeanie...aka one of my favorite Hughes girls.

Me and Caitlin

Stef and I....she is one amazing friend.

On my flight back home on Friday I was on my last flight into Wilmington, the sun was setting and I looked out my window and I just had to stare. The sky was just breath taking to me and in awe of how wonderful our God is and how beautiful He can paint the sky. I think I more now than ever I see how God works in my life and He has giving more of the ability to see Him in everyday things. I am so thankful for that, it is something I hope and pray I don't take for granted.

Short Break

I have decided to take a short break from blogging. Honestly, life the past two weeks has been completely overwhelming for me and the next two weeks to come don't look any better. So the last thing I have on my mind is trying to blog about what has been going on in our lives, which I could sum up in one word....CRAZY....I will ask for prayers though with this "last" blog for several weeks. Life at the Reneau household is really crazy. Chris has been working SO much lately. They lost a plant up north due to all the flooding from hurricane Irene. The CEO decided to funnel all the product they produce out of that plant into the plant her in NC. Since Chris is in charge of production, flow of material and pretty much everything around how the plant runs from day to day he has worked 14 hours a day at least for the past 14 days. Yesterday was his first day off in 14 days. That being said everything else has been left up to me here as I still continue to work a full time job, get the girls to and from school, homework, dinner, laundry, etc.  and then all of last week I was sick. Thankfully, I am much better today. The next two weeks are going still be crazy as Chris is not sure what he will have to work this week or next and I am also having to travel for work. I have to go to Arkansas for a week for meetings. My wonderful parents have agreed to come be apart of our madness here to help take care of the girls and keep the ship afloat and running while I am gone.  Hopefully, by the time I am back things will start to calm down, at least I am praying. Chris is really stressed right now and worn out. Please just pray he has the strength to get through this transition and stay sane during it all. I promise....a new post will come soon...I hope. :)

Love to all!

Other Blog Update

Not sure how many of you that read this blog read the other blog I started last year "Live to Love". I wouldn't blame if you lost interst, I haven't really been blogging much on it this year or last. I did post something new on it and from some of the readers of this blog you were an influence on this post. If you get a chance check it out. You can get to it by going to the right of this blog under "Friends" and select Live to Love. My hope is more post to come on this blog than more than once every three months. :)

Back to School!

We are back in the swing of school schedule time now. Katie started back to school last Thursday. She is a big 1st grader now. She is growing up way to fast, but as she is growing she is becoming one amazing little girl. She loves school, loves to read, draw, write out stories and make things. She has such a creative mind that is just amazes me sometimes. She was so ready to start the new school year and not be the newbie anymore.

All set for her first day. Can you tell she is excited???

Had to take time to get a few pics before we left.

Daddy even went in late to work to be able to go to school with Katie on her first day.

We walked her to her class because she had a lot of school supplies to take. She told us that she wanted to go on her own but I convinced her to let us help her. When we got to the room I asked her if I could get a picture with her and her teacher, she kind of rolled the eyes a little and said if you want to I will let you. Already at the age of 6 I am embarrassing her. So this might be the last year of a picture with her teacher.

Katie and Mrs. Gibson

Katie likes her teacher a lot, she seems very sweet and enthusiastic about teaching kids which I am thankful for. You never want the teacher that is burnt out. The other big thing this year is that Katie asked if she could ride the bus to and from school. She wanted to be a bus rider last year but I was a no on it. This year she was kept asking and asking, so we came to a compromise. I would take her in the morning and she could ride home in the afternoon, on a trial basis. I am still not sure I am 100% comfortable with it, but she loves it. She loves the independence of it and riding with her friends from class. So for now....she rides the bus home. I have a feeling it is going to get old to her, but we will see.

Happy Monday!

Little Fish

Katie has become quite the swimmer this summer, well basically in the last few weeks. Our pool as only been open for a few weeks now. At the end of last summer she would swim in the 3 ft area just fine but she wouldn't go any further than that.

This summer she is swimming in the shallow and deep end, jumping in on her own, through toys in the water and swimming to the bottom of the pool to get them. She is all over the place when she is at the pool now. Here is a little video of her jumping in and swimming.