Daddy's Day

We had a low-key Father's Day at our house as Audrey had a fever and wasn't feeling too well. The girls and I picked out some gifts for Michael that he opened and I made him a blackberry cobbler. He and Anna had fun playing soccer in the yard and hide and seek. Audrey and I had fun watching them. :) The girls are blessed with a great daddy who is their "knight in shining armor" right now. Anna asks if she can marry him often and Audrey drops everything and runs to tackle him the minute he walks in the door at the end of each work day. He's a pretty popular guy around our house!

Saddle Ridge Ranch

This past week was VBS and oh what an exhausting week! It was from 6:30-9:00 each night and while the girls loved it, it sure was tiring! We had a good time though and enjoyed seeing the girls' excitement. We were amazed at how the classrooms were decorated! This is a picture of Anna's classroom and many others looked very similar to this as many of the teachers built ranch-like structures to fill their rooms. Wow! Michael and I taught the 3rd grade class and we weren't nearly this creative. Michael was able to salvage some leftover material from another classroom and made an outhouse for our room. The boys in our class thought it was great! :) Audrey woke up with a fever the last day of VBS so she didn't get to sing with her class in the program. We were bummed as her music teacher told us what a great little singer and dancer she was. :) VBS left the girls exhausted despite sleeping lots at night and taking good naps. Anna had just woke up from a nap in the picture below but obviously wasn't quite ready to be awake.

18 weeks

Here I am, 18 weeks along with baby boy. I've thought about looking at pictures of me at this stage while pregnant with the girls but I'm sure it'll just depress me as I know I was smaller. O'well, he's healthy and I'm healthy and that's all that matters. I've gained 8 pounds so far and am trying to not let that get out of control. We had a great doctor's appointment last week and I praise God for getting us to this point and for our health. Michael wants to decorate the baby's room in airplanes, WWII planes, so we found some bedding we both like and bought some small model planes from Hobby Lobby to decorate with. He's very excited about the planes we bought, it's so fun to see his excitment. I'm feeling good besides the discomfort of stretching and am feeling the little guy move around more and more each day. I can't wait for the girls to feel him move!

Home in PA

We spent this past week in PA looking for a place to call home. God blessed us with a great house that will soon be our's and it clearly stood out among the others as the place for us. Finding a place with some breathing room is difficult there but thankfully He lead us to the right place. I was hoping to find something that didn't have a drive under garage but at least 70% of the houses there have this due to the rolling hills so that wasn't an option. The house is 4 years old and in very good condition. There've been no kids or pets living in it so it's about as close to brand new as you can get without it actually being brand new. The owners had beautiful furniture and decorations so it'll be intersting to see what it looks like after we get our things moved in. It definitely won't look so formal or fancy but that's ok. We're more relaxed and simple and I want my home to feel like a home where you can sit back and be comfortable without worrying that you'll break something or breathe the wrong way. =) Enjoy the pictures, we are praising God for His direction and provision!

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I'm so behind!

I'm so far behind with blogging. I don't know that I'll ever catch up. There are many pictures I'd love to share but never enough time. Since my last post, we spent a week in Indiana visiting family, Michael and I went away to Lexington for our 10 year anniversary, we got our move notice on Tuesday and are to be in PA by July 19, got our house on the market, and found out this past Thursday that we're having a boy (We are so excited!). We also had a garage sale and a house showing today that both combined just about put me over the edge. I'm thankful there's interest in our house and thankful to get rid of lots of stuff we don't we want to move but it's just been crazy lately and there haven't been enough hours in the day. This next week we'll be house hunting in PA so maybe the following week I can catch up with the blog. We'll see. So, for now, here are a few pictures, definitely not all that I want to share but these'll have to do. The girls with Great Grandpa and Grandma Burch Anna's Preschool Graduation Michael and I celebrating 10 years of marriage. Thank you Lord for a wonderful husband who's my very best friend, a great daddy, and most important, a man who's given his heart to the Lord and strives each day to live for Him.