{"id":9469,"date":"2015-10-16T20:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T01:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=9469"},"modified":"2015-10-16T20:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T01:30:50","slug":"emma-and-eli-september-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=9469","title":{"rendered":"Emma and Eli: September 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We were so excited for September to arrive! \u00a0Clint and I had planned to surprise the kids and head to Destin for Labor Day weekend. \u00a0We left school a little early and made it to Destin in time for dinner at The Back Porch\u2026our very favorite restaurant! It was a great way to kick off a really fun weekend! \u00a0Emma and Eli were right in the middle of everything and Clint and I had a blast watching them have fun. \u00a0We visited all of our favorite Destin spots and just enjoyed being all together for a few days.<\/div>\n
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Once we got back home, we jumped right back into all of our fun activities with Emma\u2019s first cross country season, dinners with friends, and a chance to see the first ever Kennesaw State University home football game! \u00a0We loved the game and had a lot of fun! \u00a0We started that day at a friend\u2019s birthday party, spent the afternoon at the game, and ended the night at The Taste of Kennesaw watching our friend Amy\u2019s band The Mustangs. \u00a0Definitely a perfect Saturday as far as the Strange crew is concerned!<\/div>\n
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The next week was a busy one as we had a lot going on and I was packing to leave on a mission trip to Haiti the following week. \u00a0That Friday night was Lower School cheer night at the NCCS football game and Emma loved it! \u00a0It was also Eli\u2019s first official Varsity football game. \u00a0Our sweet friend Chloe is in 5th grade this year and she kept up with Eli at the game\u2026they had a great time together and made big plans to hang out again soon! \u00a0I flew out Saturday morning for the week in Haiti. \u00a0Clint, Emma, and Eli headed over to spend the day with Clint\u2019s dad and then were going to spend the next day at Six Flags with our sweet friends the Wallaces.<\/div>\n
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The next morning we received the tragic news that our dear friend John-Michael Ritchey had passed away. \u00a0I quickly made my way home from Haiti to be with my family and my NCCS family. \u00a0I wrote more about that here<\/a>, but I wanted to include it in our family blog as well due to the fact that JM meant so much to our family. \u00a0It\u2019s been almost a month since he passed away, but just the mention of his name still brings a huge smile and sadness for what we miss. \u00a0God is good and we have seen that displayed SO many times this past month!<\/div>\n
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Emma had her first cross country meet of the season at NCCS the first week of September and then her second meet was the last weekend in September up at Darlington in Rome. \u00a0The Darlington meet was wet and cold, but it was so fun to see Emma and her friends having so much fun! \u00a0They have the sweetest coaches and Emma really has enjoyed learning about running!<\/div>\n
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Eli has really grown up so much these past several weeks. \u00a0He is almost completely potty trained wearing a diaper only to bed at night. \u00a0He talks all the time and is making sentences\u2026he mostly loves to make people laugh. \u00a0He does that by laughing all the time and inviting you to join in! \u00a0He has become a little snuggler lately and keeps asking if he can lay down with me. \u00a0I figure this stage might not last long, so we snuggle with him every chance we get!<\/div>\n
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We also celebrated our sweet cousin Sarah\u2019s birthday in September. \u00a0That is always a fun day as we get to catch up with most of Clint\u2019s family. \u00a0His cousins are so nice and we love getting to have all of our kids growing up together!<\/div>\n
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As we head into October, we look forward to continuing to see the way that the Lord is growing and shaping us to be more of who He created us to be. \u00a0We are grateful for this time in the life of our family and excited about what the future holds. \u00a0God is good!<\/div>\n
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We were so excited for September to arrive! \u00a0Clint and I had planned to surprise the kids and head to Destin for Labor Day weekend. \u00a0We left school a little early and made it to Destin in time for dinner at The Back Porch\u2026our very favorite restaurant! It was a great way to kick off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,22,25,37,12,16,32,18,33,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-cedarcrest-church","category-education","category-eli","category-emma","category-family","category-marriage","category-north-cobb-christian","category-restaurants","category-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}