Trip to Kaz!

Kalena and Justin got to go to Kazakhstan for 8 days. They were able to connect with the Church there and get a better feel for how our church can help the church there. We love the people there and want to encourage them in any and every way we can! Kalena had a great time and even got to celebrate her 8th birthday there! It was a birthday she will never forget!

Best day of Summer 2014.

This is the last picture of Katie in her purple cast. Katie had her cast removal appointment and then we went strait to the airport to pick up daddy and Kalena who have been in Kazakhstan for a week. It was the "best day ever!" She could not wait to get out of this cast even though it was very beautiful. Praise the Lord for our bones and their ability to heal.

Happy Birthday Baby!

Our sweet little house guest turned two!! We love her sweet smile and her contagious giggles! 

Worship Recital

We love our piano teacher Stacy. We just had our first recital and it was so fun to worship along with the kids as they played for us! I love that it was not about the kids. It was about making music to the Lord. 

Superman Saves the Ballerinas!

Preschool

Katie and I are having so much fun doing preschool! Now that her cast of off and she can use her right arm, we are catching up on all the things we wanted to do for the past two months!

Hiking Eagle Peek

Fun at the beach!

My Chemist

This girl is obsessed with chemistry. I thought it would be just a phase but she is really, truly in love with chemistry and chemicals. We had to set up a work bench in the garage for her lab. 

My Boys

Katie's Arm

Broken arm #2 for our family! Katie fell down a slide (while walking on it... Mommy wasn't watching very carefully) and she broke her radius. I was able to secretly snap these pictures as we came back from the hospital and Katie got some TLC from Daddy. It was such a sweet moment.

Lovin life.

Family Pile Up

We are positive this is the time period in our life we would want to freeze and keep the same forever and ever. We love all the stages our kids are in right now and are having so much fun with them everyday. I wish they didn't have to grow up!

Andrew is almost 3!

3!!! I can't even imagine life without our sweet Andrew! He comes to give me huggs probably 50 times a day. Despite his sweetness, Bubba is helping to bring manliness into the household as well. He loves drums, guitars, super heroes, firetrucks, garbage trucks, and all other trucks. His favorite colors are red (for firetrucks) green (for Green Lantern) and blue because Daddy likes it. He loves loud things and breaking things. However, he doesn't like to be dirty at all. He will change his clothes and wash his hands repeadidly to stay clean. He is the cuddliest of all our kids and is always wanting to snuggle. He loves all boys (Bampi, all his uncles) and is so happy to have two boy cousins, Sam and Max. He also loves his sisters like crazy and is always playing with them. We thank God for giving us this sweet and sensitive little guy. Justin and I are still in shock that we have a boy... and we are loving every second with him! 
Bubba's first taste of Jello! ^ He loved it!

This is called "Daddy playground"

Happy 3rd birthday to our sweet boy!

Bubba and the Zip Lock Bags

This is one of my favorite things that Andrew does. When he is really hungry, he will go grab a box of ziplock bags and bring it to me. P b and J sandwiches are his favorite food, and have you ever noticed the  p.b n j on the front of the zip lock box? It looks really good and the crust is even cut off.  I love it so much when he does this, it's so sweet and funny, that I haven't yet told him it's just plastic in the box. I just take the box from him, sit him down and make him a sandwich. I am not sure when, but someday soon, he will realize there are no sandwiches in the zip lock box. That will be a sad day for me

Tanzania

Justin got to go to Tanzania recently. It was a wonderful trip full of great opportunities. We loved the work going on there so much we would jump at the chance to go live there someday. 

But Not Gino

My wonderful mother-in-love wrote this fabulous Children's book and has just had it published this spring. We are so proud of her! It is called But Not Gino and has a nice little song on CD to go with it! The kids love it and love their G-ma!!

Safe Families 2014