Saturday, June 20, 2009

June Means...Micah's birthday...Tim is home...




Happy Birthday, Micah! He is three years old today! Here he is as a newborn, his first birthday and a year ago when he turned two. Micah, we love you!

When Tim's cover is on the bench, it means he's home. I love to see it!


While Tim was in Jacksonville he was a part of a group of four mids. Sergio, Nickie, and Laura with Tim. They had a great time together going to the beach, a weekend at Disney World and hanging out. Tim got to fly out to San Diego on a P-3 one weekend along with Nickie. It was a surprise bonus since Courtney lives in Long Beach and drove over to take in the zoo and a Padres game with them. The four landed back in Annapolis on Wednesday. Laura and Nickie spent the night here since they needed a place to crash. We LOVE having mids over! It was great to meet them and hear the girls talk about "stuff". Here's Nickie but I'm sorry to say I didn't get a picture of Laura!

Rene and Shelly came for dinner the Thursday night. We LOVE having people over! It was great for Tim and Rene to catch up plus we got to know Shelly better:)


Jeff and I are back to our old tricks...teaching 4's and 5's Sunday School! Since September I have been helping our children's pastor and his wife by preparing all the preschool Sunday School materials during the week. I've wanted to be free on the weekends to bring Tim to church with us. This summer I have jumped in with both feet by now writing and preparing the preschool curriculum....and...teaching! It's a great thing for me to do as I can use my gifts plus contribute!

While Tim was gone we built this rock retaining wall in the front. It is phase one of our landscaping project for the front. Because of the steep hill we must put stepping stones for the winter slippery months.That will be phase two! I must admit Jeff did the hard part with the digging and all but the two of us made a good team for putting it all together!

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Heading to Jacksonville!




We dropped Tim off at USNA the night before he flew to Jacksonville. He's been there two weeks with one more to go! I am so thankful I get to see him so the good byes are not so hard. A year from now...oh, I hate to think of it!

Tim's Summer Uniform




Here's Tim in his summer working uniform. He was getting ready to head to Jacksonville, Florida and needed help getting his pins on even! Notice I'm standing on the bottom stair to be tall enough!

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Grandbaby #4 is on it's way!

I've been wanting to put this on the blog but the pictures were on Jeff's computer and I always thought about it when he was at work! So I'm finally getting it up and going!
Jill and Nolan are expecting Baby Nelson in late January! This proves it! We got to hear the great news via web cam! The next best thing to being there! Jeff caught some pictures of the fun announcement which made Jill and Nolan laugh. I wanted to hear Dan, Anna, and the kids' response so they called them while we watched. We could hear all the talking and Josiah could hear us...."Grandma, are you at Jill and Nolan's???" Josiah is always trying to figure out where I am! Jill tried calling Mike, too, but he didn't answer....