Picture laden post

Just wanted to put a brief update with recent pictures. We are pressing on here, keeping perspective on our current stress by remembering and seeing pictures of those dear people in Africa right now with soo much less. When I look at the chubby cheeks on my children I remember to thank God for where he has placed us and how he still provides in his own way. All is Grace.

Love the look on these two faces

Theo has taken to towing Soren around as Soren's legs aren't long enough to move himself yet.

All dressed up in vests from Nana. I think they look rather handsome


Thanks to the generosity of the in-laws we were able to go camping with them this last weekend. This was a blessing to us in so many ways. We would move out to these mountains in a heart beat if we could. How we love them.

Me and T :) Can't believe how much he is looking like a little boy and not a toddler at all anymore. Sometimes I think he is 4 and not 3.

My almost 1 year old.

At the beginning of one of our hikes T stood there and looked and said, "You can see the highest of the high! It's beautiful!!" Soo so sweet.

Theo thought that Soren should get to experience being in the water a bit since he got to walk in. Soren loved it. (Not that he had any clue what was going on, but hey, that's ok)

He could stand there allllll day and throw rocks in the water!

Just us.

"We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will be." C.S. Lewis

So I know it's been a while but for fear of too much heaviness here I have kind of refrained from writing. I have never felt so much like a farmer's wife, watching the weather, waking up praying for sunshine, feeling giddy when it is there as it means another day of work for hubby. I swing back and forth between feeling totally hopeless about our situation to having total faith that God is going to see us through this, one way or another.

We have not yet not met our bottom line, mostly due to the gifts of generous people who give out of what little they have. Brian and I were saying how interesting it is that often those with less money are the most likely to be generous. Probably a better recognition that it all comes from and belongs to God anyway. (This is not to say that those with more wealth aren't generous, just in our first hand experience it has all been those with little who have helped us the most) We are certainly learning that. And how to do without. It is hard to be stuck home in the summer. We yearn for and miss the mountains, but are glad to know they will still be there when are heads are back above water. :)

I need to blog about the boys, and add new pictures. It is looooong over due. Soren, my dark, thick hair baby at birth is getting very blond and looks exactly like a miniture of his father.

It took him 1 week short of 11 months to figure out that crawling is worth trying and he is still slow, but learning he can now reach all those cords that aren't supposed to be touched. (Whoever said children aren't smart doesn't have any)

Theo looks more like me, his hair is getting more curly and his comprehension and vocab still blow me out of the water. And nobody reveals the ugliness of my heart and my utter need for more time with God like the T-bird.


Soren's personality is becoming more evident, he has always been laid back, about everything, except for now, we have introduced solids. Seriously o-60 if that spoon is not in his mouth the minute he eyes food, anywhere. And he SO knows when you are feeding him something different from what you are having, and he is NOT letting any of that slip by. Haha I remember T being like that too though when he first started solids. I will have to write more about them another time because this could get sooo long.



Just wanted to update, a non doom and gloom post, mostly cause I feel optomistic right now. lol.