Birthday Videos

Karisse's Birthday and Camping (Callie's first Camping Trip)

My big girl turned 3 on Memorial Day! We went camping for the long weekend and had her party at the campground. Grandma and Grandpa (Daddy's parents) camped with us for the weekend. A bunch of other family came up for the party.

I will try to add some videos later!

Camping wears me out!

Changes

After much turmoil, prayer and urging from the Lord, our family is making some pretty major changes. Monday night at the board meeting Christy officially resigned as Children's Minister at Avoca.
For months now she has been feeling an extreme urging to stay home with the girls. We never thought that it was an option for us financially. We recently finished going through Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University and we are almost debt free. We have our van for sale and once it sells we will only owe on our house. Since we are basically debt free we can live on my salary. We will have to give up some of the luxuries we are used to, but we decided that it is worth it.
Please keep our family in your prayers during this time of transition and if you know anyone who wants to buy a nice 2006 Honda Odyssey please send them our way.

Photo Session

We finally had another photo session with Julie Roberts last week. She has posted this one picture as a teaser. We LOVE IT!!!

First taste of baby food carrots!

Callie has started eating baby food and rice cereal. She has really started eating well. This is a video of her first taste of baby food carrots.

The Big Girl Room

Last Saturday Christy and I painted Karisse's room and set up her big girl bed. Today we put the finishing touches on the room. We added the dots, the other things on the walls and the curtains. Here are a few pictures. We think it turned out really cute.

The rectangle on the wall is just a reflection from the mirror.

Karisse LOVES her new room!!

Our Little "Santa"

Karisse was playing Santa to all of her "friends" today. First, she read them a Christmas book and then she ask them all what they wanted for Christmas. Amazingly they all wanted exactly the same things she told Santa she wants. She is soooooo cute.