Been a long time since I blogged. I think I’ve blogged less the last two months since we started the blog in 2006! Someday I’ll fill you in with pictures… we’ve had a great couple months in our new home and on summer vacations!
I have pictures from:
Camp Attitude
Visit from Lydia and Lori
The county fair… well, at least I hope I have some on my phone and my mom’s too.
Maybe you’ll get to see them someday!
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It’s here!!! He signed! Yippee Skippee Wahoo and Yay!!!!!!!
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This time, the adventure isn’t mine.
Close to the equator!
My parents are moving to Uganda, Africa.
You heard that right.
Their house is rented, their jobs are covered, the furniture not needed by the renting family (Hello, Smiths!) is being offered to us kids.
And they are going to be diving into culture shock on the other side of the world.
Because God has led them there. Because there is a need for somebody to help coordinate details for heart surgeries that my cousins, who live in Beijing Lynsay and Bill Lewis are arranging with their non-profit Morning Star Foundation. You started our family on a path of radical living, Lewises!
They’ll spend some time with Paul Hunter and Pam Hunter, I’m sure, but will be living in a different city.
And that, my friends, is what you call and unexpected announcement from your parents.
Please pray for them as they take this leap of faith.
Please pray for us all as we miss each other. I cannot think about this part much.
This seems to be happening quickly. They leave early September and will stay about a year. Really, they are staying as long as God will have them there. That’s just the plan.
Mom and Dad during our 4th of July celebration.
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It’s not every 9 month old baby that can recognize a chocolate chip cookie from 20 feet away. Ok, the distance might be a little bit of an exaggeration, but Carolyn loves her some cookies.
Cut watermelon into little cubes to feed Jordan. Encouraged him to take a bite, then made him take a few more. Little boy was like a chipmunk with it all stuck in his cheeks. Fantastic coping skills there, son!
Maggie and Anna experienced ice cream bars for (I think) the first time yesterday when the neighbor kids shared. They came home messy and so happy! Anna explained multiple times how it was two chocolate graham crackers with three colors of ice cream in it. Yum!
The girls eating popsicles and explorin the maze.
Mmmmm – sauted kale and fresh onions. Thanks, Wayfarer farm!
The TV that I grew up with with a DVD player from an old friend…. equals a place for Jordan to watch Signing Time videos! Well, almost… right now he throws the dvd player and pushes buttons with his toes, but it’ll happen!
The kids bring me the most beautiful wildflower bouquets.
We went to the nearby river/park! It was a good adventure!
Jordan found it hard… he wanted to just run in…. all the way, you know? Discovered it was cold. And Papa stopped him. But he could still see the water and still wanted to run out into it. It was a confusing, conflicting half hour. Luckily, a half dozen refrains of Row, Row Your Boat, complete with rocking motions helped to calm him down.
Coldstone for Father’s Day!
Jordan and I shared their biggest size.
Happy!
And sad…. this is what happened when Jordan and my bowl was empty. He loves his ice cream and I can totally relate. 🙂
Friends invited us to their new and beautiful home downtown! After church and a tasty barbeque, we went to the water fountain behind their house.
Fun!
Fun!
Anna scraped her knee. Luckily, Mr. Pat who is known for his mustache, donated one of his mustache bandaids.
Oh my, but our Carolyn is beautiful!
These two are buddies! They have a budding relationship. In the bath, Jordan steals her toys. (ha!) When Carolyn finally gets one, she tries to feed it to Jordan, but he can’t reach her because she’s so tiny. It’s pretty adorable.
This little girl reminds me so much of Calvin in Calvin and Hobbes. Not that it’s related, but this is a picture of her eating plain, cold black beans instead of delicious Chicken Javanese.
The Mellingers got to come for a visit!!!! So wonderful to catch up with them some. They all went for a tromp out through the field and down into the trees to the creek. Brian dutifully brought the camera, but he had a bizillion little kids with him and by the time he remembered to take a photo, they were all coming back and the kids were hot, tired and crying.
Boo hoo hoo!
One of our wonderful neighbors offered us the housewarming gift of mowing our back lawn! SO NICE. It is not just as overgrown again, but no maze. That grass grows fast! That’s why we’re wondering how hard it is to tether a goat or sheep or something grass-eating. 🙂 We have a mower coming…. in four more weeks. Ah!
A video I took this morning. Nothing amazing except it was a gorgeous morning:
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Videos from Jordan’s birthday rice pudding…. too thick for him, but he was a sport and gave it a try anyway:
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