What a week!

We have had quite a week at the Mayfield's! The beginning of the week consisted of painting and decorating Elijah's room (pictures to come soon). Wednesday, I woke up with the worst headache and sore throat I have ever experienced. About the time I started to recover, Elijah came down with some sort of stomach something! Thankfully we are all better now and so far Wes and Zeke have avoided it all!

Blogging Take 2

Ok, I'm going to try this whole thing again...who knows if I will be able to keep it up, but we'll give it a try!
We have had a super busy summer full of swimming, parks, trips to Springfield, and lots of fun with students. Now that the students have all started school things are starting to get into a better routine.
AWANA started last week. Elijah has memorized several verses already and is loving being a Cubbie! Zeke is a proud Puggle and can list off a ton of things God has made. We only had one little misstep when we were learning "All have sinned" at the same time as "God loves us" and ended up with "God has sinned." But I think we got that cleared up!
The church's new Family Life Center is almost complete. Once we can start using it, Wes has some really exciting things planned for the youth. We will be doing small groups on Sunday mornings. Wes and I will both be small group leaders as well as about half a dozen other adults. I will also be leading worship during the large group time as well as during youth on Sunday nights. Last month I started singing with our church's praise teams during morning worship. We are busy, but we love it.
With the start of school, we have started homeschooling preschool with the boys. Elijah is loving the fact that everything we do is school. Earlier this week we were in Springfield and visited Wilson's Creek Battlefield and had a fun history lesson. They are just so eager to learn. They challenge me everyday!