Good times!

I just realized it has been awhile since I lasted posted, and I thought I would update my 7 followers on how things are going. I love saying that. Anyhow, things are great! The boys are starting preschool in 8 days (who is counting down?). I am eager for them to get a little time out the house, but I am very nervous too. The school has this intense drop off/pick up set of rules. When you drop your kids off DO NOT GET OUT OF THE CAR! But when you pick up please get your butt out the car and come get them. When you drop off only form one line of cars, but when you pick up please form two lines, but NEVER THREE! I am just nervous about driving there. I kinda want to park down the street and just walk there. If I was April I would probably just walk. But the preschool is a 15 minute drive from our house. Maybe I could park at April's house and walk the kids to school. Surely, they would take naps then.
Yesterday we took the kids swimming at my parents house. I think this is the fourth time this summer the kids have went swimming. I really hate to go swimming. I really absolutely love swimming without kids. I know that sounds horrible. Four kids under four plus lots of water and I am one stressed out momma! However, yesterday was just pure fun and enjoyment. I had so much fun. I think it was one of our best family fun days in a long time. The funny thing was I felt like such a kid swimming with my kids. We all jumped in like a hundred times. We all went down the slide like a hundred times. Jeff, April and I had head stand contests. I think mine was the best, but it was hard to judge being under water. Jeff put me on his shoulders then I put Jeff on my shoulders. Seriously I did. I felt like Hercules. Good times.
Tonight Jeff is taking our 'new' van to the shop. The cab of the mini van keeps filling with gas vapors while we are driving. Good thing we don't smoke. I have been bummed since we have only owned the vehicle a couple of weeks. But Jeff and April keep reminding me that we just need to work out the issues. We did only spend $2700 on it. Oh, I don't know if I posted this or not, but we did sell our old mini van. After less than a week we sold it. So, besides our mortgage we are debt free! However, I am not really feeling very excited about it until the 'new' van is functioning. But I just feel like Jeff and I are the absolute best husband/wife team I have ever seen. Not to offend anyone else and their marriages, but we are so good together. We are NOT perfect and we definitely argue! However, we are so good together. We are a family of six. We live on one average income. We are debt free. And we totally kick butt raising these kids together. I could not have all these kids with anyone else.
Everyday God just amazes me more and more. This is kinda funny. Last week I was telling Jeff that he really needs to get out the house more. He never does anything besides work and take care of all of us. We were brainstorming ideas. I told him he should call his brother and ask him to go golfing. Jeff said that sounded fun but he didn't have any clubs. Yesterday his brother called him and asked him to go golfing next Saturday! I do NOT believe in coincidences. I just think that is kinda awesome that we were just talking about that. I am excited for Jeff to get out the house next weekend. I hope they have a good time.
Yesterday we went to church and the message was awesome. We just love our new church. Pastor Mike was discussing at the end of his message some ideas to reach out to others. He went on to explain to us that next time we eat out to try something. He said after your meal when are all finished and the waitress comes to your table one last time to say, "Hey, I am Christian and later today I am going to be praying is there anything I can pray for you?" He said 99% of the time the waiter/waitress will say yes. He said in his experience so many people just completely unload on them. He said he has even had times when the waitress will take a break to talk. If the person says no you can just say, "that is okay, I will just pray for a blessing for you." This would really be stepping out of my comfort zone. I am not sure if I would feel comfortable saying that to a stranger. If someone asked me I would be so happy. I would think how awesome is that. If you are reading this I would LOVE to hear what you think. Could you do that? Or if someone approached you what would you think?