Summer Has Arrived!

As I was going through the pictures in May, trying to pick some out for the blog, I realized just how much we have had going on lately.  Visitors, family days, life, ministry, work... it all adds up and before you know it, another week gone.  Good or bad, I'm afraid this summer won't be much better with friends visiting, a family trip to Michigan, climbing the Grand, going on an international trip,,, and so the story goes.  Though we are busy, I can honestly say, I truly enjoy our life.  We have been blessed by a great community, some amazing people and a great church, just to name a few things.

Enough rambling.  Here's what you really want to hear about.  Elijah and Ellie are doing very well.  Elijah is all boy.  Either we are playing swords, wrestling being ninjas or just playing in the dirt.  He loves reading (especially since his mom has started reading him Little House on the Prairie at night), going to the park, playing at the mall, and of course, playing with friends (typically he'll find another boy and ask if he wants to be Robin because he's Batman!).

Elijah reading comics as we take a family walk!

Ellie... man this girl is cute!  She has a personality all of her own, that is for sure.  She simply loves doing her own thing, whether it is taking things out of boxes, playing her with toys, looking at books or just going up stairs to play in her closet (it is really funny watching her go up and down our stairs!).  She also loves her brother Elijah and loves when they play chase as she runs from him with her little walker.  She can walk, I guess you could say, though she would prefer to crawl.  She is starting to babble a lot a say things like Jack, baby, daddy, and momma.

 

Ellie LOVES getting into the little rocking chair that JuJu bought!

Shelly and I are doing well.  She is well adjusted into her new job and enjoys the work... she also enjoys the time she gets off, which is nice for all of us.  I too am doing well and stay busy with the church, neighborhood, guys at the Mission and getting ready for the Fellowship House.  The house is coming along well... a few weeks ago Shelly and I laid sod with a neighbor, planted trees, and bushes.  It is just nice to have grass!  We haven't had grass since we left Memphis last October (no joke).

Some random pics from the month of May...

Elijah's FIRST bloody nose... from wrestling with dad!