Happy Father's Day!!!

Your an inspiration to us all. Thanks for being such a great father in our lives. Your faithfulness and devotion to mom has helped us be better fathers. And your care and love of us kids (and now grand-kids) has helped us be better fathers.

Dinner & a Movie & other news

Monday we watched Luke Patty so Kristi could help Josh on their new house. They've got A LOT of work to do and are trying to get things done (enough to move in) by this Friday. We got this swimming pool from the Jackson's (who are in the states this summer) to use for the summer. We are already having a lot of fun with it. The weather isn't quite hot enough yet to really enjoy it, but it's an easy, fun thing to do with the kids so far!Later that night, Joel set up a TV (that we inherited from Kathy when we she went back to the states) with a movie on the terrace outside our bedroom. It's unfinished and because it's black, is quite hot and dirty from birds making their homes out there. Sounds inviting, doesn't it?! Well, we cleaned it up and decided to have dinner and a movie out there. It was fun...and a bit distracting for the kids. We didn't even make it halfway through the movie and the kids were bored. We gave up after dinner and went for a walk instead. But then after the kids were in bed and it was dark, Joel and I headed out there and watched "The Prestige" ---great movie, btw! It was so fun! We kept the TV upstairs and might do that some more this summer. It was really nice!

It's Katelyn's Double Penny Birthday today!

Two years short of being a teenager! Katelyn is already developing a strong Christian character. She is sensitive, sweet and well on her way to being a young woman her cousins can look up to. We love you Katelyn. Hope you have an awesome "rockin'" birthday!

Grandma and Grandpa

Park pics

We've gone to the park a couple times recently. The weather hasn't decided to turn toward summer yet, so we've had to go when we can. Here's some recent pics from one of those times.

Also! We bought our tickets for coming back to the states. We fly into Portland on September 5th, then we'll be there until around the 2nd of October then head to set up our new home in Charleston!! We've sort-of begun the packing process, boxing up books and some other things. I found a "moving checklist" online yesterday from Week 8 out from Moving with lists to do for each week. We're a little early to be starting, but since it's international, we need to be moving on some things!

Abigail's hamburger, hot-dog, pizza stand!