Kool Park Waterslide

A camera

People have asked us when we are going to start updating these posts. Well we bought a camera, I've showed Ellie how to use it, and pictures should be forthcoming.

Also, I've been organizing some photos from the last year and I've updated some posts. But they don't show up at the top as I put them in chronological order. So scroll down and you might see something new.

Snow

 

Around Christmas 2007

My new goal is to keep these posts down to about four pics each, there are a lot more in this batch and if you'ld like to see the rest, go over to this link.

You'ld think for someone who likes to talk as much as I do I'd have more to write, but I don't.


Here's our daughter trying to eat beans, which just so happens to be what we call her most of the time.


I think this is her learning to clap (Ellie keeps better track of that kind of stuff)


Reading the picture Bible. Yes, we start 'em young.


And here is her first stroller.

Our new house

We made it!

On August 16th we left on a trip with no destination in sight and now, 3 months later, we finally move out of our trailer and into our new home.

For those of you who don't know what we've been doing, here's the scoop. A while ago, my wife and I decided that California isn't the must conducive place to raise a family, especially on a single income; and so we sold our house, I quit my job, we packed up our stuff, and we drove out of California with not a very good idea of where we where going. Our main goal was to find a local church where we could grow in Christ, and though that might sound like an easy thing to find, Ellie and I are quite particular about churches :) We eventually found a PCA church in Hickory, North Carolina where we seem to fit in quite well, and now, 3 months and 14 states later, we are moving into a new house. Well new for us anyway, it was built in 1950. I'm pretty sure that was before I was born, I'm pretty sure that's before my parents were born.

Anyway, here are some pictures and a movie. You can click on a picture to go to a web photo album where you will find a few more pictures.

A bit of an accident

On our way back from buying a trailer--the one we needed to go across the country in--we got re-ended. As you can see, the only part of the truck that was hurt was the part necessary to pull the trailer. We wondered if God was trying to tell us something.
















In case you missed it in that last picture, here it is again.















But we got her fixed up just in time to head out.















Yup, all fixed. We kept our fingers crossed for three months as we drove around. (That's code for we prayed a lot)

Rattlesnakes

Bodee has almost died quite a few times now. What's comming to mind is getting hit by a truck, getting hit by a 5-wood, sitting on death row in the pound, and now getting bit by a rattlesnake.

Here's some pics of him after he got back from the vet. Take a look at his right paw (the one without the bandage) it's huge!