HAPPY 9TH BIRTHDAY MATTHEW~WE LOVE YOU!!

Happy Birthday to our pride and joy!!

We can't believe you are NINE today!!

Mommy is a bit nostalgic as she realizes how fast nine years have gone!!

A mom at your party said, "you realize we're half way done raising them!!"

WOW.....not ready to hear that!!!

Hope you enjoyed a wonderful day with your friends at Kangaroo Jac's!!

Matthew and a couple of his "buds" Alex and Taylor on the way to Chesapeake to Kangaroo Jac's for a "bouncing good time!"

The boys take a breather from bouncing off the walls!
How 'bout a game of air hockey.........I'll take winner!!!
Bring on the pizza and cake....we need to get back to the business of playing!!! We will stop momentarily for food!!

"Hey guys, we may be retired military men but I think we can take that wall of that fort over there & bounce down the other side!!!"

Wow, we did bounce off the walls at Kangaroo Jac's~time for the ride home....over the river and through the woods back to Suffolk we go!!!

Do we have to leave so soon Mr. Mike??

Matthew hope you enjoyed your "first" birthday party in Suffolk!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM THE GOODWIN'S!!

We enjoyed an awesome Thanksgiving Day with the Thumm's!!

Brian, Kerri, Danny & Aaron put on quite a spread for Thanksgiving.

We tried to get a picture before the group "dug in" to show off Kerri's talents!!

We had a wonderful time and great "eats"~Thanks so much for inviting us!!

We must do this more often!

This is the third grade classes from FBCS putting on their Thanksgiving program on Wednesday!

All the classes did such a good job! They got to go back to their rooms & enjoy their Thanksgiving parties & then a half-day off before Turkey Day!! Yippee

It was great for Mike & I to both get to attend!!

We're so proud and thankful for our little guy!! (he'd disagree with that "little guy" part now that he is almost 9!!!)

It's a big weekend for the Goodies as we anxiously await Sunday as that is Matthew's Big 9th Birthday!!! Soon he'll be in double digits!! :( Mom's not ready for that!!

I can't believe my baby will be 9!! WOW

We love you son!! Enjoy a special day!!

TASL U-10 CHAMPIONS!!

WAY TO GO GOALIE!!! TASL CHAMPIONS!

U-10 Boys Soccer Team goes UNDEFEATED for the Season and WINS the Championship!!

Matthew, Mom & Dad are sooo proud of you!! You learned a lot this year and played great!!

It's time for Fall Soccer!!! AND Third Grade!!!

It's fall and it's time for SOCCER!! Matthew is back again with 4 of his team mates on the Boys U-10 traveling Soccer team and they started the season out strong with the first game ending in a tie and the double header this past Saturday in which they won one and tied one!! I love soccer season and it's so fun to watch these boys work so hard and have so much fun!! We'll upload pictures soon!!

It was also the start of THIRD grade!!! I can not believe our baby's a third grader!!! WOW has that gone so fast!! He has matured so much this year and he's working very hard in third grade!! We are so very proud of him. We stay busy with our soccer schedule, pioneer club at church, practice and all other forms of chaos but we wouldn't have it any other way!! We are so, so blessed!

Update without any pics!!

OK once again I've been threatened of being thrown out of the "blogging world" so just a little update!!
Summer has flown by, Aunt Susie visited July 9-July 30 & we had an absolute wonderful time. We did girly sister stuff, shopped, went out to eat, shopped, Aunt Susie went on a filed trip with Matthew (pictures to share soon), Susie and I went to the Women of Faith conference in DC and had a wonderful time. Saw Beth Moore, Sandi Patti, Anita Renfroe and yes!! we have pictures!!! She got to visit lots of friends in the area~we had a great time & we miss her already!

Mike, Matthew & I have been to Water Country, a Tides game, swimming with his buddy Tristan a lot, Matthew's been to 2 VBS programs this summer and soccer camp and now Fall soccer is back into full swing and Matthew is on U-10 travel team again this fall!! Matthew's had 5 stitches this summer, falling from his bike, I think we have an evel knievel on our hands (he crashed again last night but luckily Dr. Mom could handle this one!!)

Teachers return to FBCS this week so it's been rather hectic but it's always exciting when the teachers return and another school year is on the way. On top of all that I had to go & get the "stomach bug" this weekend that seems to be going around full force!!!

I also started my last "full" semester of school with 3 classes this fall and then one in the Spring & hopefully that will meet all my requirements to graduate in the Spring with a Bachelors in Business~Finance..........finally!!

Well pictures to follow soon, just haven't had the chance to upload and post but the Goodwins have enjoyed a wonderful summer and are very blessed!!!

Aunt Susie arrives!!!

Monday July 9th Matthew and I went to the airport in Newport News/Williamsburg to pick up Aunt Susie, my big sister!! We unfortunately have not seen each other in a couple of years and we've just been making up for lost time and she and Matthew have been having a blast!!!

This past weekend (July 12-14) Susan and I traveled to the Women of Faith conference in Washington DC with a group from First Baptist and Southside Baptist here in Suffolk!! We had an absolute blast and we were so very blessed by the speakers, events and the new friends we made on the trip!!! Beth Moore was so phenomenal & it was even more exciting to hear her in person!! Anita Renfroe is a hoot, we've never laughed sooo much!! If you have a chance to attend a conference around the country~GO and if at all possible get a sky-box...that's the only way to travel!!! (special thanks to Dee from Southside for getting us such awesome accomodations!!!!)

Will upload pictures soon!!!

more Matthew and Susie adventures to come!!