Prayers, please!

Hi everyone! We are in for a busy week! It's VBS, nad I'm the coordinator this year. We would like to pray for the rain to stay away in the mornings and Friday evening! Also for God to guide all that we do, that many kids may come to faith this week, and bring their families to faith. But I'm also pretty nervous - as we have lots more kids registered than we expected. Four years ago when our pastor started, they cancelled VBS because there were no kids registered. Now this year we have over 100 registered! Praise God! - Please pray for us this week!

Sisters

I love this picture - especially because they have been fighting so much lately. We took this on a nature walk, and I think it was the only time during the walk that they weren't fighting. Actually, this was really just a second that they looked like this. I snapped the shot, and then O pushed I. :)

Blessings overflow

As I sit here watching my children, I am reminded how truly blessed I am. 5 years ago I thought O would never stop crying, never be healthy. Now today I is the one who's sick (stomach stuff), and O is out in the yard playing - BY HERSELF! No coaxing was needed, she just decided she wanted to play outside. Since I is sick and mommy needs to stay with her, O decided to just to out and play on her own. - She has come SO FAR! Thank you God! Your mercy continues to astound me. I quietly reads a book, waiting for me to finish this blog so I can snuggle more. The Lord is certainly merciful and mighty. I pray He brings our next child home to us quickly.

Softball game

O and I decided to play softball with the grown-ups at the picnic. I didn't last too long, because the bat hit her in the face. But here's O on 2nd, running to 3rd, and running home!

Church Picnic

We had our annual church picnic last Sunday. It was a great day for it! Here are the girls in the sac race. Daddy is helping O along, and Pastor is helping I.

Weekend fun

We had a really fun weekend! It started with a going away party for some church friends here on Friday evening. Then Saturday our friend Kevin was in town visiting from Taiwan! So Lisa and her family came over and we all hung out. Kevin was able to spend the night and join us for church and lunch before he had to go. It was really great to see him again - it's been 3 years, way too long! Thanks for the visit Kevin!

Swimming

We spent the afternoon at what the girls call "the tire swing park" with our friends J and Lisa on Thursday. We always have fun with them!

More cleaning

More cleaning was done by the girls yesterday! Here they are washing the windows!

Happy 4th of July!

We spent the morning of the 4th picking strawberries. It was a lot more fun than I had expected, and it was nice to have fresh strawberries for supper and for strawberry pancakes!

Cleaning

Cleaning has been VERY low on our priorities lately, so week took some time to catch up on just a very small amount yesterday. Olivia took some coaxing, but still helped out. Isabelle couldn't get enouch vacuuming! Here she is sucking up the hair in Mandy's kennel for me. It's nice to have such great help!

The drive home

It's pretty obvious that they had fun when they look like this 3 minutes into the 30 minute drive home.

Camping

We took the girls on their first camping trip this weekend. It rained, but they still loved it!


Here they are helping put the tent up.

Muffins - yum!

Fun in the tent.

It was cold at the beach, but they had fun anyway!

Roasting marshmallows is always so much fun! Too bad the only fire we could get going was a paper fire. The wood just wasn't catching.

Sleeping

I. always comes up with some interesting sleeping positions!

Sprinkler fun!

Summer fun!

Now that we finally had some warm weather, we got out the sprinkler for the first time this summer. They had a ton of fun with it! We spent the morning at the Como Zoo yesterday, and then the afternoon running through the sprinkler. I can't believe how grown up our girls are becoming!

Cousins visit

Our cousins came for a visit this past weekend! The oldest girl in their family was at a theatre camp in Chanhassen all week, and had a performance on Friday that we got to go watch. She did a great job! Then they spent Friday and a good part of Saturday with me and the girls. - Mike was in Milwaukee watching baseball for the weekend. These are some shots of a nature walk we all went on together.

More reunion pictures

Reunion

A couple weeks ago we went to Heather's home town to visit with some high school friends. Unfortunately, O. got the stomach flu early that morning, so she and daddy stayed with grandma and grandpa, while I. and I got to go to the park to visit. Here are pictures from the day.

Rain play

Storms

The girls have really begun to enjoy the rains - and even tolerate most of the thunder. (The really loud booms still scare them.) Here they are playing in the rain last Thursday.