Thankful that the 6th year of Tom & Matt tag teaming meetings has come to an end...
we are looking forward to next year already!
The VBS skits were pretty cool this year, like usual!
Jordan, Bryon, Brady, Jeswyn & Matthew T did a great job!
The joys of camping... inch long spliters... poor hud! thankful for surgeon and macguyver daddy who took it out painlessly while hudson was napping!
We took a day off of VBS and drove through the Cascades! ( yes they are pretty but also steep and scary)
Lego playtime!
Getting ice cream one afternoon was clearly in God's plan! She was also there! Small town, small world. Huge love.
He is a sweet, goofy kiddo who loves being active and social. He can play any sport, anytime & has sick abs! He loves meeting new friends and playing any kind of sport game except killer volleyball! He loves all food ( praise the lord since we catered to every request for his 1st 5 years, this gives us great hope that our other two will eat normally by 13!)
He has a new to him sassy mouth, but has a soft heart and great knack for massaging my back at just the right time. He wants to be a professional soccer player when he grows up & aspires to attend Notre Dame for University.
He is into fun socks and being creative with his hair. He is really excited for his 1st week on his own, at Anvil Bible Camp in Vancouver next week! He has made a profession of salvation and has been baptized, and now we pray that he will be fruitful and demonstrate his faith in real ways. He is beyond excited for soccer in IL and to be reunited with his IL buddies! He will be in the teen Sunday School class and is really looking forward to that! The group of guys there is pretty solid! We love his too big for his britches self and hope we don't mess him up too crazily as we navigate these teen years with him as our guinea pig! #joysofthe1stborn #thankfulforgrace #lotsofit
Their yard and the beauty of creation always gets us.
Sweet Helen was strolling in her chair, with two baby dolls on her lap.
Hudson loved them and she loved Hudson.
She shared the dolls ( the girl doll cries, and that freaked us all out. but Hud pretty much a natural ;))
At the end of singing, Wolter sang Happy Birthday.
It was a heart melter. She was overwhelmed with thankfulness and just covered her face.
and swingset!
and pool!
and their hospitality!
4 out of 10 grandkids stayed after VBS, and they were ANGELS and SUCH good kids for our kids to interact with! And a few other kiddos from church joined!
#girlseverywhere
That later scared the life outta us.
3am, power goes out. Now Matt uses a CPAP machine ( envision darth vader ), so with no power, no sleep machine, and you guessed it- no sleep.
We also sleep with every light ( or just 3) and fans. So the silence and blackness was deafening.
But then the garage doors were opening.
Insert all the panic.
Because I overdramatize every little noise, I might not have been taken seriously ;)
But pretty soon, all adults were up, Wolter, who works for the city in their power department had to go to work that early! In 55 MPH winds! I thought I was going to join Dorothy in Oz, but after getting some flashlights by the kids, realizing it was wind and a gorgeous lightening storm, not a country crazed robber, Calvin and Hobbes kept us ( just me, who am I kidding) calm, until power was restored.
SIGH.
What a night.
Lessons learned: Wolter is pretty much super human. Tina is a tough chick, without any fear of weather ( and can wake up and whip up a serious breakfast)
Wolter and Tina's grandkids
Jaxon & Kezia by Hannah
Taden & Riley by Harrison
Road trip towards Seattle happening now!
But 1st cherries!
The white fresh bed. The huge fluffy pillows, perfect for pillow fights and fun movies are the best!
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