Carries Pre-K Graduation Day

Carrie graduated from Pre K this morning. It was so much fun to see how excited and proud they all were for us parents to see them in action at their school. We have been so blessed with the quality of education at WCC and even more blessed by how much the staff and teachers truly love the students. It has been a wonderful year for Carrie!

















This is Mrs. Debbie, the director of WCC, and Mrs. Simmons, Carrie's teacher, gave her her diploma.

In this video, you can hear several songs that Carrie's class sang during the graduation service. She keeps a pretty serious expression when she's performing, until she sees her Dad!

Thank you Mrs. Simmons and Mrs. Debbie for a fabulous year! We'll miss you terribly!

Titus 2:11-14

This one took some time, but she's got it! Carrie is graduating from Pre-K next week. I don't know how I'm going to keep her from being bored to death all summer. She is getting so much more independent these days, and mom is wishing she would just stop growing for a little while!


Don't want to leave Ethan out, so I'll share that he is fascinated with the bugs that jump around in the backyard! He's a boy - just waiting for the day he brings me a frog in his pocket! He needs to stop growing for a while too!

(That's Clara, our neighbor behind us. Ethan thinks she's the coolest because she can catch the bugs!)

Loving Siblings

I have official evidence of Carrie and Ethan actually getting along! I caught them playing TOGETHER in the fort. They were quietly reading books and snacking on pretend picnic food.

Yes, they are even seen sitting so close that they are actually touching on the couch without a fight breaking out. So nice for a mom to see!

New Words

Well, some of you know that Ethan is not a very verbal child. But he is slowly adding some new words to the vocabulary, so we wanted to record his sweet little voice to remember this phase.

Happy Birthday Mimi!

Spring Break Week

Bob took a vacation day and we headed to the beach Tuesday morning to build a sandcastle. We didn't even wear swim suits - the water was still freezing! (obviously those insane people in the water are from somewhere really cold!) It was pretty breezy (not neccessarily the best scenario with a two-year-old playing in sand) but it was a beautiful day. We are so blessed to be close enough to a gorgeous beach to go play for a little while and make it home for naptime!
(you can click on the individual pictures to make them larger.)
Building our sand city.
Carrie was very good at finding the wet sand to make the towers and walls.

Ethan loved the feel of the soft sand between his toes...and on his legs...and arms...and in his pockets...and in his ears...



Absolutely no luck getting them both to look directly at the camera at the same time!




I don't think they let the water get them any higher than their ankles if they could help it - it was cold!!!


Our one-man-demolition crew made sure there was no evidence of our visit whatsoever by the time we left the scene! If we build it, he'll knock it down!

Philippians 4:4-8

Here's Carrie's newest verse. It is unbelievable to me how easily she memorizes things. Obviously she needed a nap today since she can't seem to get two words out without yawning. We've let her have rest time instead of nap time on days that she doesn't want to go to sleep. She can look at books or play with her stuffed animals quietly on her bed. Many times she still falls asleep anyway, but we don't have all the complaining that she doesn't want to take a nap! We both win!

Carrie & Ethan's Orbit Commercial

This is our family's attempt at a commercial spoofing Orbit Gum for the commercial contest we're having during our Super Bowl Party this weekend. And no, Ethan's not eating finger paint, it's just pudding!