Welcome to Aggieland!

This week we were excited to welcome Rachel's brother Matt, Lara, and Prisca to our new home in Kurten. At ten months old, Prisca is a delight, scooting around and offering huge smiles. Here she is in her Aggies shirt...



Heading to church on Sunday

Snuggling with Uncle Kevin

Johnathan pals around with Uncle Matt

The cousins cuddle! Naomi and Johnathan couldn't keep their hands off their baby cousin - They wanted to "help" her with everything she did!

Swinging out back

We had a fun weekend going to Kurten's Fall Festival, touring the church campus and the Kurten area, and eating Texas BBQ.

Naomi's First Day of School

Naomi has been waiting and waiting for the first day of school... And it finally arrived! Sporting her Dora backpack and her new ladybug lunch bag, she was off this morning to Central Baptist Weekday School.



Posing for first day pictures... (See how foggy the picture looks? That's what you get when the humidity is oh, say, 105%)



Here she is putting her things in her cubby like an old pro! She then hopped off to her name on the rug and it was adios, Mom and John!



Naomi reported at the end of the day that it was very fun. She planted some kind of seeds, learned about the 't' sound (that's the letter T, Mom!), and ate her very first lunch at school.


While Naomi was at school, her mother and brother were buying groceries at Walmart and emerging from the checkout line to find it was pouring rain. We're talking torrential downpour. One of these days this Colorado girl will learn to keep her umbrella in her bag.

Awana Buddies

Cubbie Naomi and Puggle Johnathan reporting for duty!

Front Yard Fun

Labor Day 2009

On Labor Day, we played in the wading pool and ate homemade ice cream - Strawberry Cheesecake and Chocolate Chip. Nothing like homemade ice cream on a hot summer night (In the yard so we could hose everything and everyone off where we were done!)


Yummy!


Johnathan rests from his labor. It's a lot of work being 3.

And speaking of labor, I ran across this picture from 4 months ago of the flower beds in the front of the parsonage. So, to show off my new-found gardening prowess (ha ha), here's a before picture...



...and after.

But to tell the truth, I do little more than weed it occasionally and throw the sprinkler on it. I sure do love gazing at it, though, and I'm thankful to those who planted it before I arrived!!

Kidnapping!

No youth pastors were harmed in the making of this post... At least not too much!

Joseph is Zion's youth pastor intern, and his fiance is Amber. Little did they know that when their premarital counseling appointment on Saturday was over they would be abducted and taken blindfolded by the youth group for bachelor and bachelorette parties!


Amber was taken away for breakfast, manicures, and makeovers.


Joseph was taken out back to be abused with silly string in the back of a pickup. (Notice Pastor Kevin fleeing the scene of the crime!) The boys then played lasertag and bowled.


The youth group rounded out the abduction with lunch and sharing what they appreciated about Joseph and Amber. So all that abuse was really because they are loved!!

Artistic Endeavors

Here are a few pictures from our jaunt to the Children's Museum on Monday...

Johnathan takes a bow!

Naomi paints a Bug

Johnathan's spaceman mask

I think Naomi has the makings of a teacher in her. Here she reads to her class of chessmen.

Johnathan joins the "class"!