A buding artist

Is this cute, or what?
I asked Melody to tell me about her picture…

“It is a picture of God watching over us.”
“See, there is Daddy, you, Polly, me and Selah”

“What is this?” I ask, pointing to the floating person

“That’s God laying on a cloud with a pillow.”

“Oh...and God is wearing a dress?”

“Well yes, in all the pictures in the Bible, they are wearing dresses.”

Of course, I should have known.

Family Addition

We have a new princess at our house. Her name is Polly and she is an exchange student from Thailand who will be staying with us for the school year. It is fun to have a teen-ager in our home again. She is very sweet and the girls have adopted her as "big sister" already. We look forward to teaching her things about America and getting to learn about Thailand. Tony has already began to teach her things like "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it", "we are just picking on you", etc... We didn't realize how often we say things that cannot be translated literally - they just don't make sense unless you know the cultural context. So it a great learning experience for all of us.

Happy Anniversary!

Wow! Look how young we were!

That was 18 years ago.

And we really had no idea what we were getting into.

We have learned a lot over the years, and as I think back about all the places we have lived and the weird things we have gone thru... I am thankful to have such an adoring husband.

And it blesses me to remember how we have grown in our relationship to each other and to God. Our commitment to Him has helped us stay true to our commitment to each other.

Wow! Daddy's strong!

They sure do love their Daddy and often argue over whose turn it is for him to carry them... well this day he got them both. And they thought it was great! Us girls sure are blessed to have such a wonderful, caring, playful Daddy & Hubby.

Blessings

God answered our prayers about what to do in the girls room and provided us a free bed. They are very excited about it and it gives them more space in their room to play. Thank You, God!

Amazing

Selah is learning so many new words and suprises us often with things we didn't know that she knew. This is her "that's amazing" face.

Of course we also have to be careful what we say because she repeats everything too. Melody keeps asking me to make Selah stop copying her ... and I say "get used to it, that's what little sisters do"

Splish, Splash, but not in the bath

The girls are taking swim lessons and creating quite a splash. Melody is proud to be the bravest in her class ... (of course, she is also the oldest in her class)