Happy Birthday Nate!

ODE to NATE!

Happy Birthday Big Boy! It is so hard to believe that as I write this blog 6 years have passed. At this time I would've been sitting in a hospital room in sunny Monterey, California, induction underway, epidural administered, anxiously awaiting the birth of our FIRST child... Nathan Thomas Oosterhous. Never could I have envisioned all that would take place in the first 6 years of your life little man. What a fabulous six years it has been. In appearance you are a little Mills but your pursuits and interests mimic those of your daddy. You are a wonderful big brother, prized child, and loved son of God. You are smart, athletic, adventurous, funny, and STUBBORN and I am so proud to be your mommy! Happy Birthday little man. Wish I could hug you today but I know you are having fun on your adventure to Madison, WI, with daddy!

Well, although the actual birthday is today and Zac's birthday is in a couple of weeks we celebrated with a big birthday party at the Christian School last weekend. The theme was chosen by Nate and it should surprise no one that he selected CAMO! Now you would think this would be an easy theme but it was not! It required a lot of thought, creativity, and help from our friends Barbara, Kerry, and Baylie Clay who supplied the decorations of camo and animal pelts! The boys had a great time. They used Nerf guns to shoot over tin cans (supervised by Tim) and a ring toss on to deer antlers (supervised by me) and a lot of free play. They ate yummy cake/icecream, "deer food", and "fish bait". I think it was a wonderful party and we were so glad that all of their friends came to celebrate and we were so thankful to have Nana, Papa Doc, Grandpa George, Jenny, Matthew, and Molly there to party with us too!

Hope this finds everyone doing well. Life is so busy right now that it seems so hard to find time to just sit, be quiet, and enjoy.... so for now, we will just run around like chicken's with our heads cut off, be loud and crazy, and enjoy this time as best we can! Hugs to all.

When all the sickness passes....

I'll get back to posting pictures! For now, I'm glad to report that Nate is illness free! Apparently, he likely had step along with the flu and now poor Zac and Ben have a good case of strep... oh and not to be left out, but I have strep too! Lovely! Oh well, it too shall pass and at least strep doesn't involve extra clean-up and laundry from unpleasant bodily fluids! Sorry for the complaints.... hopefully more pleasant posts with lots of fun pics will follow! Keep your fingers crossed that some how Tim will avoid a case of "family strep"!

O.K. one little funny side note. Tonight I was upstairs and Zac was sitting in Tim's lap and out of nowhere he said, "daddy, I know what color your hair is... it is silver"! Tim was apalled and I was impressed that he even knew what the color silver was! I'm sure the other 4 members of the family are cause behind that beautiful "silver" hair! Zac said it and it was funny, if I'd have said it, I don't think he would've laughed! Sweet Zac, you never know what will come out of his mouth! Oh yeah, and Nate called me "dude" tonight and didn't even realize it! I said, "Nate, you just called me dude." To which he replied, "no I didn't"! Whatever Dude!

Too lazy to upload photos...

Once again I've wasted too much time "blog hopping" on the computer tonight. Just wanted to give a quick Nate update. After 11 days of "the flu" I took him to the doctor on Monday. After X-rays, they discovered he then had pneumonia. Luckily he responded well and quickly to the shot and antibiotics they put him on. By Tuesday afternoon he was back to his "spirited" self and was back in school Wednesday! Wahoo! I also survived my first 1/2 marathon last weekend which I ran with my best friend Stephanie in Texarkana! I finished with a smile on my face and a time of 2:28... not fast I realize, but it was under the cut-off time of 3 hours! Did I mention it was about 28 degrees when we started running with a headwind the first 6.5 miles! I'm still tired but so glad that I did it.... will I do another one??? We will have to wait and see!