Candace, The Teacher

We had our monthly English service with other missionary families this past Friday. Whoever is hosting the service usually tries to line up one of the adults or teens to teach a class for the children during the preaching time. Since we were the hosts this month, I decided to ask Candace to teach. She jumped at the opportunity, and ended up teaching 12 little MK's between the ages of 2 and 7. I let Deborah be Candace's helper, and now both Deborah and Emma are wanting to teach too. I told them they have to wait until they are a little older, but I am glad to see they have the desire.

Deborah's 10th Birthday

Happy Birthday, Deborah!

Rewind to March 14th, 2010

One Sunday morning in March, after church the landlord's son was doing some work, so Emma grabbed a broom that was laying around and helped him sweep.

I got the first few pictures of her without her seeing me.

Then when she finally saw me, I had her pose for one more.

Rewind to March 15th, 2010

Seth was 7 months old in these two pictures taken in March.  He loves to laugh, and he loves to be put up high in the air.

Rewind to March 17th, 2010

Gabby turned two years old on March 17th, 2010.  That's when all of these pictures were taken.  She is now 2 and 1/2 years old.

Mom's delicious homemade monkey bread makes a good birthday breakfast!

Happy Birthday, Seth!

Seth Josiah turned one year old on August 14th.  Time flies!  Seems like yesterday we were in Thailand to "pick up" our special delivery package!  It's been a great year.  Seth is probably the most laid back baby I have ever met.  He has a really warm smile and is also very ticklish.  He doesn't talk yet, but he yells a lot.  He crawls at lightning speed, and he just walked about 10 steps to come to daddy a few days ago.  His hair is usually sticking up, but we wet it down for these pictures.  He is getting a few little curls on the back of his head.  I was teasing Angela saying the boy needs a haircut.  When she said how cute he looks, I replied, "Do you want the boy to grow up to look like Joel Osteen?"  Anyway, here are some pictures from his birthday.

4th of July Pictures

I just posted some pictures on The Missionary Memo.  I have a few more pictures that I want to post, but I don't want to overload the ministry blog with family pictures.  Since this blog is for grandmas, grandpas, uncles, aunts, cousins, and friends, I know there is no such thing as "too many" when it comes to pictures of the kids.  :)

In 2006 I started a tradition of taking pictures of all the kids on the 4th of July.  So, without further ado, here are this year's middle of the year pictures.