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Do you like my collage of our Texas trip? I did it on Picasa, a free online picture editing/downloading service which is so much fun!! You can download your pics, do all kinds of fun things to them, make movies, slideshows, collages, etc. all FREE!! (That's my favorite part!) So fun!

 

My friend from college, Suzanne, had a baby shower yesterday!! She is having a little boy who they are going to name Jackson. Congrats again, Suz, I'm so excited for you!!

Texas Trip 2009

Wow, we had a GREAT trip to visit my dad and Christy in Texas this past week. It was a LONG drive (2 FULL days in the car, both ways), but Caleb did so well, we were so happy. We stopped in Little Rock, AK on the way down, and got to my dad's house on Sunday night. We had so much fun just relaxing out by my dad's pool--it wasn't quite warm enough to swim in the actual pool, but we swam in that hot tub every single day. You could adjust the temp so it would be just right. My friend Kristy lent us this great "mommy and me" float that we used. We also went to the Houston Zoo one day, ate at a lot of yummy restaurants (gotta start eating good again tomorrow!), visited with friends, went to lots of different parks, and spent time with family. We love the town where my dad lives-it's called The Woodlands. It is so family friendly, clean, well planned out, and only a 30 or so minute drive into Houston. The weather was in the low 80s all week, which was perfect. Some milestones this week-Caleb started eating finger foods like small pieces of strawberries, cheese, etc. AND his very first tooth broke through!! It was a scream-filled evening, but we got through it. He's such a big boy!! We were sad to leave, but happy to see our doggies again when we got home. Enjoy the pics!

Playdate fun!!

Today we went over to Eva's house-she is his friend from storytime-for a playdate!! Her awesome nanny, Kristy, set up an inflatable pool inside the house for them to play in-it was adorable. He loved it until the water got cold, then he was ready to get out!! She also took toys and froze them and they took turns hitting the block to unfreeze the toys, which was fun! He crawled around and played afterwards and now he is CONKED OUT!! Going on a 3 hour nap, which never happens. Here are some pics of the fun!

Park pics

Here are some pics of a couple of recent trips to the park!

Good weekend

We had a good weekend this past weekend (wow, that sounded redundant!)! The weather was GORGEOUS, which is such a welcome change from the yucky wintry weather we've had. We played with Caleb outside a bit, relaxed, went to church Sat night, storytime Sunday morning, ran errands today-got Caleb his new BIG BOY car seat!-and life group tonight. It was good except for Caleb screaming his head off in the nursery again. It kills me to come upstairs and see him SOOO upset. We're thinking about trying to start going on Sunday mornings to see if it's the time that's messing him up. He gets cranky when it's close to his bedtime, so I'm thinking morning might be better. But that stinks because we LOVE going to church on Sat. nights. So, we'll see. I don't want him to be miserable!!

Speaking of chuch, the message was really great this weekend. It was about Abraham and the faith he had to have to trust God to give him a son in his old age, and to have the faith to lay Isaac on the altar at Mt. Moriah. Jon talked about how God makes promises, and always has a provision (aka the ram for the sacrifice instead of Isaac). He talked about our own "hills" we have to climb in our lives and urged us to trust God no matter how hard it might be. It's also pretty awesome to see the parallel between Abraham being willing to give his only son as a sacrifice on a hill, and how God gave HIS only son as a sacrifice on a hill called Golgotha...possibly the exact same one. Ooh, chills. :)

We were excited and sad to buy Caleb his big boy car seat today. Had to put the newborn carrier in the garage-hopefully to be used in the future-and it was bittersweet. He's getting so big! He has a new word-"buh buh" to add to his other word "da da". It's cute how he makes his lips form to say the "b" sound.

So all in all, a good weekend! Hopefully the weather will be nice this week and we can go to the park a bunch! We also need to pack for our Texas trip coming up!

Storytime friend!

We have really been enjoying going to storytime at the local libraries and bookstores here lately. It's a great excuse to get out of the house, and it's very fun. Caleb has a little friend at storytime named Eva (eeee vah, like in Wall-e). Her babysitter Kristy brings her and her own child to the same storytimes we go to every week. Here are some pictures of the two cuties. She was born 3 days before Caleb.





And here he is on the way home from storytime...ZONKED!