Andrew's First Street Dance

Andrew loves Street Dances! And why wouldn't he? If you have never come it is every other Friday on Main Street around 6. Next is July 8.


He is squealing at Papa playing the dulcimer.



Aww shucks. :)
Come dance with us!

Our visit to Aunt Emily

As you probably know by now our dear Emily is changing the world with World Changers, a section of the North American Mission Board that organizes high school students into crews to work on houses in cities across the country and world. Emily is on summer staff on a team of four and for the last three weeks has been running sound for worship and video taping the events on Birmingham, AL. It has been a whole month since we saw her. Too dang long. So this weekend Scott, Lisa, Ben, Josh, Andrew and I piled into the Suburban and headed for Alabama. Drew is such a good road trip baby. He rode patiently (mostly) from state to state, restaurant to coffee shop, Target to BestBuy while we waited for Emily to be free so he could hug her. She is doing an amazing job. We are so proud of her hard working spirit and her willingness to be used by God this summer. Yea Em!

Here are some of the better shots from the weekend:



I missed you!









Mommy, one day can I be a World Changer?



What does that button do?



Holding hands with his ugly doll.



One of our many "five minute stretch breaks" we took along the way.

Drew went swimming for the first time too.






He loved it. He kept trying to grab the water. Cute guy.

We visited a church in AL called The Church at Brook Hills and heard an amazing sermon preached on Psalm 127. The pastor talked a lot about the analogy or children being like arrows that God gives us to load and aim at the right targets, pouring into them our love for Christ and aiming them at ways in which they might serve him. I couldn't stop thinking about what a great job our parents have done at aiming us, especially in light of what brought us to AL in the first place. Josh and I pray everyday that we are aiming Andrew in the direction God wants him to go.

Pictures in the grass

I love that guy. :)

Daddy is Amazing

Summer Days

We spent the day with Aunt Robin yesterday. We visited my nana and papa and Andrew had a second shot in the bread bowl:






He's just a bit bigger now. Andrew fell in love with Robin yesterday. She knows just how to make him laugh.









Then, it was so beautiful today that we just had to get out in our yard for a little tummy time. Josh took some great pictures that he won't let me publish yet. What he doesn't know is that I got some great ones too.













I love my family.

Cutie Patooti (is that how you spell that?)

Showing off the cute cloth diaper.







Do these pictures look familiar?

Baby in a Crock

Josh took these pictures yesterday:







(Carrie, I think he looks like Wyatt in this one)









What you can't see is Lisa and I hovering on either side ready to catch him if he fell. He was so proud of himself. (I was proud of him too) :)

Also

This boy is on the move! No stopping him.

I grabbed the camera for this video because Andrew was actually up on his hands and knees. Of course, I failed to capture it. You know how it goes.

Daddy's Pictures

I stole Josh's hard drive today to post his amazing pictures on Shutterfly so the rest of us can enjoy them. They are gorgeous! I have the most amazing husband.

Here are the highlights, but do please check out the Shutterfly site (link to the right).


Baby Maddie, our friend Katie's newborn.


Itty Bitty Baby Andrew. I think this was from when we first got home from the hospital.


Aunt Terri and Andrew during Terri's visit last week.


Future Banjo Player


Adam (the day after his car got wrecked. He seems surprisingly upbeat in this picture, doesn't he?)


Sweet Leila, from when we visited her and Jessy in February.

See what I mean? He's amazing, right?

Rice Cereal!

Getting ready...



Trying out the spoon...



First taste...



Hmmm...



Mommy, should I like this?

In the end I think he likes it. We will do it again. :-)