HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU!!!!

We wanted to take just a minute from our family to yours to wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with the richest of blessings!!! Enjoy our beautiful leaves we have had this year!!!!

Blessings!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Well we wanted to wish each of you a Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!!! We are just a few days away from Thanksgiving (yes I know...long time between posts...) and I wanted to share a few things that we are truly thankful for!!!

I am truly thankful for the gift of salvation that is freely given by our Lord Jesus Christ!

I am truly thankful for my husband!

I am truly thankful for my amazing children who are awesome inspite of their parents!!! Love you guys!!!

I am truly thankful for our family! We have an amazing family in SC that really makes a point to keep FAMILY alive by getting together each month to spend time together and keep family close! I have a family like no other!!!

I am truly thankful for my friends that have been placed in my life! A lot of them have become like family to us! We laugh together, we cry together, we spend time together......Each of you are amazing!!!

We are thankful for Children's Hope International...the most amazing adoption agency ever!!! They have become a very special part of our lives over the last 4 years!!! We are glad that they are our friends!!!

Our prayer for each of you is that you are truly surrounded by those that you love this Thanksgiving!!!

Happy Halloween!!!!

Well Happy Halloween everyone!!!

I hope everyone has a fun and safe night tonight!!!! It has taken us a little bit of time to decide what we finally want to be tonight!!!! But after much consideration and looking through the dress up clothes...it has come down to....drum roll please.......... CINDERELLA!!!!! Although this morning, she is dressed up as a University of South Carolina Gamecock cheerleader!!! We had to do that because we went to see one of our friends who is a die hard Arkansas fan!!! Guess who plays one another this weekend!!! YOU got it...USC and Arkansas in Arkansas!!!

Tonight we are headed out to the church to the fall party there tonight and we will come home a little early to go see a few neighbors!!!! But she already has TONS of candy!!! Our Arkansas friend had a big bag of goodies for her this morning!!!! Enough smarties to hurt someone!!!! But those are Hopes favorites!!!!!

Well off to do a little bit around the house....

(Sorry no new pictures...camera is broken..... :o( ) Hopefully Santa will bring a new one for Christmas!!!! :o)

Band Sista!!!!!

Well here we are at the beginnings of marching band season. We are freshman parents so this is the first year of the next four years!!!!

Friday night was the homecoming game so the band played for just a little bit then had to start packing up for the big competition on Saturday. It takes such a long time to pack up 3 Ryder moving trucks full of band equipment so we just stayed and watched the rest of the football game. Hope is in her element as she is walking up and down the bleachers, helping to pick up trash that gets left behind and helping take bleacher covers off of the band seats.

Saturday was no different! We had to be at school at 8:45 Saturday morning. So Hope had her backpack ready for the day. We had enough snacks to choke a bird...which the color guard found very funny when I said that! Well Hope and Stephen became the official water kids for the band. Hope thought it was fun to sit on the cooler and when one of the band members needed a water bottle, Hope would hand them one. She took that on as her job for the day! At dinner time she and Stephen gave each student a water bottle. It was fun to watch. Some she would hand to personally, others she would hand to Fred for him to hand it to them. After the band competed in competition, she took back over her position at the water cooler! She and Stephen were such big helpers!!!! They made the day a little easier!!!!

After the band competed, she looked at me and said MOM....I'm ready to go home. I told her that we had to wait for the awards! She was such a good girl all day and it was a very LONG day! We didn't leave the competition until around 10:30 pm. It did hurt just a bit when I had to leave to get on the bus with the color guard and she looked at me and said...MAMA I want to go with you!!!! I told her she couldn't. That only took her a few minutes then she was happy to be walking around back to the car with Fred!!!

I am so proud of all of my children! They are truly amazing gifts from God to our family!!!!!

TOOOOOOO SWEEEEET!!!!!!

I was sitting at the computer doing some work this morning and Hope was reading one of her Beauty and the Beast books. Then I heard the sweetest thing:

Yes, Jesus loves Belle, yes, Jesus loves Belle! Yes Jesus Loves Pocahontas, Yes Jesus loves Cinderella, yes Jesus loves Mulan, Yes Jesus loves Gaston....She went through the entire princess line stating that Jesus loves them!!
I know that she loves to sing at church because we sing all of the time at home! But it was very touching to hear her sing that this morning.

Last night we were watching a dvd of Phillip's marching band playing and when they started to do the National Anthem...she can hum the ENTIRE national anthem!!! It was awesome! When she realized that we were all watching her instead of the DVD...she stopped...then went back to humming!!!!

It was awesome!!!!
We just love this girl!!!!! :o)
We are truly blessed to have her and our precious sons in our lives! We feel blessed that God has placed them into our lives!!!!

Hair Cuts and Football Season....

Hair getting long at Christmas! Of course the chin all the way up didn't help!!!!
Her new big girl cut!
It is now all the same length!
With Phillip at Friday's Football game!

Well just a couple of weeks ago, I took Hope for a haircut! She had all of these layers in her hair and it looked thin. So we had a friend cut off all 4 of her layers to the shortest one! It made her look sooooooo much older!!! I wasn't sure how to handle that! But she looks adorable (as always :o) .....ok I'm a little partial!)

Fall weather is on its way and it was awesome this past Friday night to go to the football game! You could wear the sweatshirts and drink hot cocoa and watch high school football! I love to watch high school football! They play because they want to, not because they are making millions to do so. But we have learned that at Phillip's school, you don't go to watch the team win...you go to hear the band play!!! Which was my plan all along because in marching band families, we all know that half time is game time!!!! The band goes and takes over the field at every game and does an awesome job of it!!!

Hope enjoys cheering for Phillip's band! She now has her "football clothes" as she calls them to wear to the games! Since they don't sell highschool clothes to fit toddlers...we made her an outfit! She of course has several different hairbows (don't want the outfit to get boring!! :o) ) She has also learned that football field popcorn has a lot of salt on it!!!! This past game I think she either had a little lip chapping going on or she had a little boo boo owie on her lip so she would be eating along and then look at me and point to her lip and tell me OUCH!!!! But she still mananged to polish off most of her popcorn!!!

I do believe that she is planning to be a drum major when she gets to high school!!! She loves to watch the drum majors on the field and she will move her hands and as she says..."deduct" the band!!! So we let her "deduct" all she wants! It is fun to watch!!!

Where are my brudders? Part 2

Today was a special day for the Kovach boys.....First Day of School! What does that mean for the little girl at home?????

Control of the TV for the first time in almost 6 weeks! She could watch her two favorite shows: Sesame Street and Calliou without having to tell someone to turn their computer game down or to stop playing their drums! She sat with her bowl of nice cold watermelon in the recliner enjoying her quiet time!

Then she realized that she hadn't seen Phillip today! Here came the question? Where's Phillip? He's at school today! Oh ok...back to the watermelon! She knew that Stephen was at school because she got up to go "catch the bus" with Stephen! We stood at the bus stop and waited with him! I almost got teary eyed when I told Fred "Do you realize that in just two short years, we will be standing here with Hope to get her on the bus for school?" Then we will have an elementry student, a middle school student and a high school student!!! That just about brought me to tears!!!

When the bus came, the lady asked if Hope was starting school today!!!! I quickly said no...in a couple of years. Happily was able to walk back across the street, we sent daddy off to work and realized...."HEY us girls have the entire house to ourselves once again!!!!" It was nice! We did a little bit of cleaning, watched Sesame Street and Calliou, ate watermelon, cleaned a little more, ate lunch, read a story and took a nap! It was nice!!!

They will all start filing back into the house shortly! And so ends the quiet day for the Kovach girls!

I will have to get my camera out and take a picture of the new hairdo for Hope!!! We went on Monday to have back to school hair cuts done! I decided to get her hair all evened out! She had about 3 or 4 different layers of baby hair in there! I'll wait to tell you more when I get the picture up!!!