Spring

Spring!  

Welcome old friend!

Green grass and warm weather... welcome back.  

Both kids are glasses wearers now.  Lou has joined the glasses team!

My sweet team of teachers won the camping themed dress up and room decorating contest at school for the Spring book fair.  We rock!

Bee is running track again. 

She likes the sprints.  

Lou and daddy are back to playing baseball.  

Bee is a soccer referee for the school. 

Sister has a job!  That's her time card she's signing in on.  And there's our new under construction high school in the background!  It opens in the fall.  

Busy spring. 

Bible journaling

So I've recently gotten into Bible journaling.  Bee and I have been spending lots of evenings together playing with our watercolor pencils and new journaling Bibles.  I'm using lots of inspiration from what I see online but trying to add my own twist to it.  Here's what I've been playing with.  

So, I've decided I like using my black pen and the water color pencils.  Lettering is where I need the most practice and need to slow down.  I'm learning as I go.  

Want to see some more?  I've got a tog over to the right called bible journaling.  I have a few posts with pictures of my stuff. 

winter time

Just going through pictures and collected some random winter photos.

Dinner in front of the fire.  

Family game night. 

Our only bit of winter weather. 

Lou started playing the recorder.  Good times with hot cross buns. 

Bee did a lot of art. 

Lou and daddy playing chess. 

Lou won the Col 3:23 award at school. (back down right)

Bee won top scholar award for science.  (front row, maroon pants)

Lou having a little fun with fraction pizza at school. 

We all passed around strep, a cold, and strep again.    Happy winter.

The leg, the final chapter

 After four full months of dealing with the leg- we've graduated out of physical therapy!  
(that leg part 1, part 2, part 3)

One day he said, I think I can do everything Jon asks me to do today.  And he did.  

And then he chose to take the stairs at church. 

And then they let him graduate.  The shirt is diploma.  

Congratulations buddy.  They didn't give us enough shirts though, we all earned that shirt! 

We got to return the wheel chair.  This happy occasion called for a selfie.

Baptisms

I'm going through old posts and look, here's a precious one that never got finished.  

My sweet baby nephew... eat him up... oh my word...

This is from before Christmas... He's a big old 6 month old now.  

My mom and her hubby drove in from Kansas (to northernish Indiana) and I drove up a few hours (from southern Indiana) to be there for nephew's baptism. 

Look at these two stylish kids.  

Here's the sweet family. Happy baptism day!  This is the beautiful church where they were married.  

This is the baptism gown that Bee wore, I wore, and my sister wore.  There were several family gowns between my sister and her hubby to choose from, but nephew is the first of hopefully many babies, so there'll be others to wear the other gowns.