Lisa Carlson took these pictures of us. I love the girls! Their personalities really came out in them.
We had Ella's baptism on Saturday(the 14th) at our Church Family Camp. J.R. baptized her and it was very touching. He said her heart was racing as he held her hands to her chest before the big dunk. The baptism itself was held at the swimming pool on the camp grounds. She was confirmed by my father and assisted by J.R. in a service following the baptism. These are a few pics from that. Sorry they are on their side. I need to figure that out.
We have finally pretty much gotten settled. I still haven't taken pictures of the lower level, lovingly referred to as the man cave. I'll try to do that before Ella graduates, but here are a few pics to give you an idea.
We move in 3 days. The house just seems very empty at this point. It is a little sad :( Although it is rather easy to keep clean this way. Especially since all of the toys are packed away. The girls are excited but every once in awhile they mention how they will miss their friends and their schools. We have really enjoyed living in Pleasant Hill. We love the small town feel. It is comforting to go to the schools and know all of the other parents. You have to plan on running in to at least 2-3 of people whenever you go to the grocery store or even better the girls running into their friends. There isn't really anything that we didn't love about living here besides the distance from our family and also our church. Our new home is minutes from both. We are looking forward to being back in the middle of the action.
In other news, Coryn crawled out of her crib today for the first time. She proceeded to empty her diaper pail before I figured out that there was someone moving around in there. Gross! She went down later for her nap in it with no problems. Hopefully she'll stay in it a bit longer. Mama isn't quite ready to move her to a big girl bed yet.
Hopefully the next time I post it will be with pictures of our new house all situated.
Coryn is sick :( We were working over at the new house, and she was with my mom. When they showed up at the house she wanted to go straight to her bed. She slept an hour and a half and then got up all fussy. When she snuggled into me, I realized she was on fire. So I left my big old mess in the kitchen and packed her off for home. She is back in bed now. Please say prayers that she'll get better soon. It is such a busy week to have a sick little one.
As for the house....it looks like everything is on schedule. We are doing cleanup right now and J.R. was busy today building shelves in our storage area in the basement. Those suckers go up 12 feet! That is just crazy. We are going to need one of those library sliding ladder things to reach anything. I guess we'll just store all of his crap...oops I mean cherished belongings...up there.
And finally David Beckham's got nothing on my soccer star. Tara scored 3 goals during her game this morning!! THREE! And one of them was a total powerhouse kick and the ball flew over the goalies head. It was very exciting. I am really trying not to be "that" soccer mom, but hey when your kid is the star, it's hard to be modest :oP
Some of these are obviously older but these are my kids having a ball :)
