June 2010

In June, we got to have our 20 week ultrasound... it was really at 21 weeks, and we got to find out that our sweet baby #4 is a boy! We are super excited about our brood, and can't wait to welcome Caleb Emory into the world come October.

Carson graduated from preschool. It was a cute little ceremony, and the kids recited the pledge of allegiance and the pledge to the Bible. They sang a few songs and gave out diplomas. Then they celebrated with a picnic and ice cream sundaes. Carson had so much fun!









My parents came out to celebrate with Carson:


Carson and his preschool teacher, Miss Rebecca:


We also had a small house fire towards the end of June. It was a little crazy. Caden went upstairs to watch a show around 9 one morning. Evidently, he found a set of matches in Cary's night stand that were from our honeymoon, because he lit one. As far as we can tell, when the match got hot, he must have dropped it and it caught a small suit case that I had started packing for youth camp which was coming up. Once that burned up, the carpet caught, and thankfully, nothing else was nearby and the carpet was flame retardant, so the carpet smoldered for a few hours. We have lots of smoke damage in the upstairs portion of our house from the smoldering, but most of it will be reparable, and I am super thankful for good insurance!! We smelled fire for much of the morning, but couldn't find it in the house, and we didn't go look upstairs until right about the time we found it since no one had really been up there since early morning. Our alarms never went off since the door of our room held most of the smoke inside. At one point Cary even went and asked the neighbors about it and said the smell was worse outside, so we figured it must be a street or two over. Cary ended up finding the fire when he went upstairs to change clothes for a meeting he had. By that point, our bedroom door was beginning to turn black from the fire, and the burning portion of the carpet in our room was about a foot from our bed and about a foot from our curtains, so he really found it in the nick of time! It could have been so much worse. The firemen had to come and everything, and it was an insanely stressful day. We will be staying in a hotel for a month or so while the repair work is done, but it's worked out okay aside from things being a little out of whack. Caden was pretty traumatized from it all, so we took him with us for the first few days of camp. He's still having a hard time now and again, and keeps telling us things like how he wants to go home, but his room isn't pretty anymore (since they are cleaning everything in the house right now), and he also keeps pointing out sadly that they have to throw our bed away. We just keep reassuring him that we will get new things for stuff that's messed up, and we'll be home before he knows it. It has been somewhat convenient that we already had an insanely busy schedule this month that was going to have us gone or busy at least for much of the month, we're just having to change it up a bit. We had youth camp just a few days after the fire, and Cary's Mom and step-dad Tommy flew in to keep the boys for the week. Then 4 days later, we headed to Houston to celebrate the 4th of July with them. I'll have another post about that, including pictures shortly, but so far our stay away from our house hasn't been too bad. Hopefully, it will continue to be just as okay while the repairs are finished!