Christmas dresses

Christmas dresses and Christmas Smiles... Do you like Rhoda's new hair
style:)

Ireen and Rhoda

Such a sweet picture of the two buddies. Ireen Hilty is a daughter of our
director and his wife, Tim and Andrea Hilty. Rhoda spent the night with
Ireen for a couple nights a few weeks ago!

Wow.. Safariing Memories

Oh, wow... What an amazing couple days we had safariing in Botswana and seeing a dry Victoria Falls... So much to share but figured a little slideshow might be a good first step... Hope you enjoy!!!

(If you are receiving this via email, you may want to click on the attached link to go an watch the video!!!)

puzzled?

Our girls went crazy the other day and decided to do every single puzzle we have. This took several days and instead of putting them away, they just kept adding them to the pile!  Thought I would show you the vast array and plain ‘ole vast number of puzzles that we own…

Pool Daze...

Just thought I would show some of the pool loving that is happening at our house!  

Under the Mirror

Just wanted to show you that even in Africa we have orthodontist.  And, it is entirely possible, plausible and probable (and hopeful) that Kamryn will have finished all her orthodontia work before we come home next and you won’t have even see it.  So, for that reason, here is proof that she is indeed a BRACE FACE!!!

A Birthday to remember

We have no excuse. Before when Julia was our youngest, we could use that excuse when we forget to take pictures or blog about them, that she is our third.   But in one year, our baby Julia went from being the baby in our family (five years perfecting that role) to being the middle child.  CRAZY!!! So, anyway, we did celebrate her birthday. It just took me almost exactly a month to get her blog posted!!! Forgive me my darling, beautiful, sweet, loving Julia!!! She is six now. She is six. We just watched her baby video the other day.  Crazy how time flies…  Three houses, a million miles and a couple new sisters later, here we are. I love you Julia!!! You brighten my day, and make me feel loved like the dad I want to be.

Hi.

Happy Birthday to my beautiful wife... I was thinking about her today. Life doesn't often allow such time for just thinking. I just thought about great my life is with her, and how different a person I am through her and grateful I am that she is in my life. She is a gem that makes me more valuable. Thank you Lord for this precious gift of a precious wife. May I delight in this beauty, rejoicing in her evermore. May this priceless gem only grow in value as I delight only in her...

Happy Birthday Bradyn!

Brady turned 8 today! And, girl, did we celebrate!

We started the morning off with a private breakfast, just mom, dad and Brady! We went to a place called Kiliminjaro's, where Brady has a Milo (a hot-chocolate/coffee drink that daddy mostly drank:) and then had a cake brought to her with a birthday song and then crepes with ice cream. It was pretty sweet (pun intended). Bray and Steph went shopping for a bit, daddy took the car to get a rack put on, we met half way, and then played around the house for a bit. Nshima for lunch, Swimming in the afternoon, homemade pizza for dinner and ice cream with all the friends for dessert... We were exhausted but satisfied at the end.

We love our little (getting bigger by the day) Brady. She is so sweet, adventurous and the life of the party. I thank the Lord for my little girl.