To some of you, this may look like a strange post, but several of you will understand why I have a picture of a minivan on my blog... I just had to share this wonderful blessing from the Lord! We have been a one-car family for the past two years, which has worked out fine. But, now that Baby #3 is on the way, we knew that there would be NO way to squeeze a third car seat in the back of a Honda Accord. Even if we
could, this baby would be crunched, poked, smothered, squeezed, kept from slumber, you get the idea...
Well, now I am officially one of those "Minivan Moms"... never thought I'd ever join the club, but it really is the most practical thing for this stage in life as many of you moms know. Yes, of course, it's a Honda. (We are a Honda family, after all... what else do you expect?!?) It's not brand new... a 2003 Odyssey... but, it is certainly new to us! And we are SOOOO thankful for it!!! :) We are thrilled and humbled to see how the Lord has provided this need for us and we just had to share! God is so good!
J woke up Saturday morning with a high fever (probably from licking the pretend corn at the museum on Thursday) and it was just SOOO pitiful! S gets sick pretty frequently, but I can probably count on one hand how many times J has been sick in his lifetime. And you know your kids are miserable when they just lay there with that blank glassy stare. With a fever, it's hard for anyone to find a comfy spot, but when J climbed up on the ottoman he seemed to finally be content. These times remind me how thankful I am that our healthy days outweigh the sick days!
Come back to my Creole Cottage anytime! 
Labor Day for us was pretty quiet... which was a WELCOMED change of pace. We didn't have the typical cookout (or try to battle the Labor Day crowds at the beach). Instead we took a simple picnic dinner down near the airport not too far from where we live. They have this great little fenced-off play area right next to the runways where there are park benches, a mini-version of a criss-cross runway, a "lookout tower" and several little airplanes like you see S and J riding on in the picture. It was great! Nobody was there except for the four (five) of us... we just sat up in the tower and ate our dinner while planes zoomed by us to take off or land. Then the kids just ran around and played.