Happy Birthday Trey...baptism too

My nephew had his golden birthday this weekend, in case you have never heard of that, it is when you turn the age of your birthday date. So in his case he was turning 7 on the 7th so it was his golden birthday.

Maria helping Trey with presents.
Trey reading his cards, he is getting to be such a good reader.

He wanted a hunting cake...so there was a hunter, trees and some deer on it.

We were also able to be a part of the celebration of his baptism. Larry was the dunker in the tank with him. It was a hot weekend and we were tired from vacation, but it was good to be a part of his special weekend.

Trey's confession of faith with the children's pastor in front of the congregation.

Uncle Larry baptizing Trey...the heater in the pool was broken so it was a bit cold!

Trey with parents Jeff and Michele

Trey with Uncle Larry
We Love you Trey!

We have plenty to praise God for; new life in Him.

Welcome Charlotte Amélie Rose

Charlotte Amélie Rose

06/07/08

7 lbs 13 oz.

19 1/2 inches

1.33 am

Chicago, IL

Congratulations Rachel and Daniel... and Hamlet and Ophelia too.

What a beautiful baby and such a blessing!

Maria's vacation fun

Maria trying out a shower cap. (that's Buffy checking her out)

Maria playing piano with Dad.

more time at the beach

Maria loves to play in the sand.

Cape May Lighthouse
At the top...199 steps up!
Look at the birds mom!
I'm not quite sure about the waves, they are kind of loud.
See the waves are okay.
Ah, I love the beach.

Maria playing in the sand...(sorry for the loud wind sound)

the beach

We took a drive down to North Wildwood to the beach, it was getting windy and a bit chilly so we just took a walk and headed back home. Maria liked watching the birds and water.

we have plenty to praise God for; oceans.

Cape May Zoo

Brown Bear

Bison
Giraffe

Camel


Flamingos

We spent our first day in New Jersey poking around the Cape May Zoo here in Cape May Court House. Some of the animals were really active. We even saw a bison chasing an elk around their habitat. Although Maria seemed more interested in the other kids than the animals...we had fun.

We have plenty to praise God for; beautiful animals.

caged animal

Maria is having a great time on vacation...here is her favorite place to play! Buffy's cage. We are staying with friend's of Larry's from when he attended seminary in New Jersey and had his student appointment.

Bill and Arla at North Wildwood beach with Maria.

We have plenty to praise God for; great friends willing to open their house for us to have a wonderful, relaxing vacation.

road trip

Maria and I took a road trip last weekend back to my parents for a baby shower for my best friend, Mindy. Larry had to attend conference in Lafayette during the same time. While I was home I was able to visit with my grandparents, my two grandmothers and my grandfather who is in a nursing home . We also went to dinner at my brother and sister-in-law's house. We had a nice visit with all of them.
On Friday night we went to the shower for Mindy, who is having a baby boy in July. She got lots of great baby stuff!

Maria had been running a low fever since Thursday and wasn't feeling her best. Upon returning home I thought Maria's fever was going away, we had hoped it was from teething since she has had that before, but at 5am Sunday morning her screams told us otherwise. She was burning up, and with a 104.6 temperature, I decided to head to the ER while Larry stayed behind for church service. The ER doc decided that it was an ear infection. So we got a super dose of Motrin for the fever and a scrip for some antibiotic. We were a little concerned since we were to leave for vacation that afternoon. They assured us it would be fine, just watch her fever and make sure it stayed down and eventually went away. It really was a blessing in disguise as she slept for a nice portion of the trip out to New Jersey. Within 24 hours she was seeming to be her normal 1 year old self!

We have plenty to praise God for; a daughter who has just had her first major sickness at 13 months.

beautiful blooms

Some of our mystery bulbs we planted last year from church came up and surprised us with such beauty! And other bushes started blooming too. I love Spring.

We have plenty to praise God for; beautiful colors.

busy weekend

We spent most of the Memorial Day weekend working around the house. I had a couple projects that I finished. I tiled a backsplash behind the sink, and it only cost me $3.77. The guy at the carpet/tile store let me use their glue and grout and return the unused portion, and gave me the tile free, it was some misordered or extra I think. So the only thing I had to purchase was a trowel...I couldn't argue since he was so nice about all the rest. I ended up making him some oatmeal cookies as a thank-you.

I also had to patch a hole in the wall where they combined the two thermostats into one programmable one. Luckily the church had all the supplies I needed to do this so no money spent there. I was pretty impressed with the result...it was just to the left of the new one, can you tell?

Larry and I also put up the fancing for our vine growing plants in the garden and made 5 tomato cages. I bought the fencing, but was able to use some posts from the church parking lot that were no longer needed. Our garden is coming along pretty well. We are excited for the yummy food we will get to enjoy later this summer, nothing like homegrown vegetables.

We have plenty to praise God for; very cheap repairs and successful work.

random cuteness

Just a random cute picture of Maria on the deck.

We have plenty to praise God for; a new deck to hang out on.

sweet dreams

We took a trip to Indy a couple weeks ago and Maria was a great traveler...she looked so darn cute while she slept.

We have plenty to praise God for; a daughter who travels well.

Run Larry Run

Well, this is a bit belated, but better late than never, right? Larry and I went down to Indy last weekend, May 2. He ran the Mini-Marathon on Saturday morning along with a friend, and his sister. It is his third time running; last year he didn't run because we had a 2 week old at the time. He didn't quite meet his goal, but did decent. In the picture is Matthew and baby Peter, Emily and baby Joshua, Larry and baby Maria. All are within 6 weeks age of each other.

We were also able to celebrate Peter's first birthday on Saturday after the race. Maria and Peter had such a good time playing together. It was impossible to get a good picture of the two of them...since they are both walking, one or both was always on the move. But I got some very cute pictures of Peter anyway!

We have plenty to praise God for; awesome friends with built in playmates for Maria