New School Year

I can't believe that school is starting already. I am not ready to lose my boys for hours each day. But on the other hand it will be nice to get some things done around here and have a bit of quite during the day. I have only Corban and Jordan with my during the days and then Memphis on a couple days of the week also. Two/three boys is so much different than six. It's so crazy that there is a difference but it's mostly in the volume of the house. :)

As I sent each of my school ones out the door onto the bus I was hit with the sad realization that another one is going and in two more years I won't have any more at home. That seems like no time at all, and all of my precious little ones will be gone most of the day and I will have to figure out something to do with myself, instead of crying all day that all of my babies have left me, and they are not even in college yet! :)

Even though it is sad for me, my boys can't wait to be out the door into school. All of them love it so much and look forward to different parts. John just can't wait to be back and enjoy it all, Ximon can't wait to make new friends, James is so excited about eating lunch at school and being there all day, and Zeke is just excited to be going and doing doesn't matter at all what, just that it is at school.

I love my boys so much and I am so thankful that I have been given the opportunity and blessing to be their mom. There is nothing more in this world that I would want to do more than be a mom and a mom of 6 and if the Lord so chooses to bring me more, so be it. I love it!!!

I can't wait to see how each of them grow this year! Memories are being made and I plan on enjoying and cherishing every minute of it.

While the boys are at school all day I am planning to do a bit of homeschooling with Corban and Jordan to get them hopefully soild on a few basic things. It is going to be a fun, rewarding challenge I think.

Well I have ranted and raved about this day for long enough, thanks for hanging in there with me. Enjoy the pics!!

Summer Memories

We had such a fun filled busy summer. We had so many fun adventures, we went to eliches, my parents came to visit, lots of bowling,VBS, museums, zoos, roller skating, broncos sports camp, building at Lowe's, lizards, swimming, July 4th, 4 birthday's and so much more.

These are just a few of my favorite pictures to give you a rundown of our summer here at the Reinsel house! Enjoy! And we hope your summer was just as fun and filled with great memories! If you want to see all of our pictures from our summer adventures just check out our flickr site!

Joy in what may seem to you as simple things, but to me is the Lord moving mountinans

I have had such a blessed week and the Lord has done some incredible things, simple as they all may be to everyone else they are huge in this house.

John has always had such a hard time eating different things and has had the most limited diet on earth and will not try new foods, which is all part of the Autism cycle we live each day. This is something we have struggled with for so long and prayed one day it would change but really didn't think it would so we were happy just with what he would eat. And as you can imagine it really messes up his digestion and bowel movements. So after a really bad incident about 1 1/2 weeks ago, where he could not have a bowel movement and when he did is was super painful and his tummy, butt hurt so bad, I had a talk to him about trying new foods and eating what we eat, which will help his tummy and butt feel better and not hurt. In the back of my mind I was thinking that this was no way going to work but what was the harm in trying and using this as the springing board to eat the things he and I call "Healthy food". He is very curious about what is healthy or not healthy, fortunately we eat a lot of healthy foods here (not too much candy, sweets, etc). So very unexpectedly he jumped off of that board.

Starting that very next day he ate all of the food that we ate! What a moved mountain in our lives and now 5 days later he has still eaten every meal with us, what ever we are having with very minimal issues. I am praising God and so thankful and proud of my little man working through it, even though I know it is so hard for him.

I didn't really think it would have lasted this long, but our God is good, and my boy works so hard so please pray that is continues and we can be getting him more of the things that he needs and he will find more and more foods that he actually likes!!!

The night we had fiesta salad (which is like taco salad), he was very hesitant to eat that meal but once he did just try the meat, he said "That is delicious". Shawn and I about shouted and almost fell out of our seats. He even asked for more. Then that next day when I made soft tacos, he ate 2 of them and even asked for a bit of homemade salsa on them. I am living in astonishment every day and so much excitement about how this is going to change his life and ours! Praise God!!

Thanks for sharing in this miracle with us and the joy of him growing up a bit and really stepping out of his comfort zone and at least trying. Even if this ends tomorrow, I am so glad for this great week we had and so proud of him for at least going that extra mile, even if it was just this once!