Wow, I am amazed at how fast the boys are growing. Nathan turns 13 in a couple of weeks, it doesn't seem possible! Andrew turned 10 over the summer and to think I had him a decade ago!
I love the stage they are both at, it is challenging in a new way. I am proud to be their Mom!
Andrew cracked me up yesterday as he was "forced" to go play outside. See we have a rule that there is no video game playing during the school week until Friday. Brad 
and I have found that this rule actually stinks because it makes them want to go on a binge of them on the weekend (-: Anyway, he and Nathan had been playing all morning so Mom finally forced them outside, get dirty, create a game like I had to when I was a kid-ha ha! So at 3 Brad heads out there to start sawing some wood and set up a firepit with our old fireplace out in the backyard and solicits their help. They were loving helping him saw wood, stack it, get the fireplace just right on the cement blocks we had. At 6 Andrew comes in the house to announce to me that since 3 o'clock he has had the best day of his life!! I couldn't help but bust out laughing. He thinks of the craziest stuff and says words from the dictionary that I have never heard of in my life. He said that in school they don't want him to use the usual words, find some new ones that mean the same thing he tells me.
and I have found that this rule actually stinks because it makes them want to go on a binge of them on the weekend (-: Anyway, he and Nathan had been playing all morning so Mom finally forced them outside, get dirty, create a game like I had to when I was a kid-ha ha! So at 3 Brad heads out there to start sawing some wood and set up a firepit with our old fireplace out in the backyard and solicits their help. They were loving helping him saw wood, stack it, get the fireplace just right on the cement blocks we had. At 6 Andrew comes in the house to announce to me that since 3 o'clock he has had the best day of his life!! I couldn't help but bust out laughing. He thinks of the craziest stuff and says words from the dictionary that I have never heard of in my life. He said that in school they don't want him to use the usual words, find some new ones that mean the same thing he tells me.
And then there is Nathan, the almost official teenager, even though it has already begun-for real! He has turned into a picture of sarcasm, like Daddy I might add. It reminds me of the old Cosby show where the kid tries to get away with a little something that their parents would never tolerate and Bill gets sarcastic with his kid and then they go back and forth in fun-that is the stage we are in. This Friday is his first "junior high" dance, oh my! I of course am going as a chaperone-hee hee. I remember those days... guys standing on one side and girls on the other until after like an hour one person breaks the ice by asking someone to dance and then it's downhill from there. I can't believe HE is in these days already. Where has time gone?
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Well, we tried to tell you that before you knew it those boys would be all grown up! So, here they are: young men, practically, and just so you know, we are very proud of them both! So happy that they have chosen to serve Jesus! Next thing you know they'll be heading off to college. Enjoy them. They are very special! Love, G'ma Shover
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