The one with all the Costumes...

Cindy had her friends jody & Liz come over to the house with their little boys this week. They were all pregnant at the same time and each of their kids are around a year old. It was so interesting to see how their personality's worked together. One of the boys was headstrong and active and going after everything, one was more of a momma's boy, and Isaac seemed to take it all in at first before he started in on playing. He and one of the boys took turns handing plastic animals to each other and putting them on each other's heads - very cute!

life around the house is still adjusting. we don't feel like we have much of a routine there yet - but we are so thankful for it. It's really nice to live down the street from church! it feels like we have way too many rooms and not enough stuff to put in it!

jeremy & angela came over this weekend and we all played Dance, Dance Revolution on the big screen together. I also borrowed the nintendo Wii from church and projected it on the wall - lots of active gaming that day for sure!

meanwhile everything keeps breaking for us - the washing machine broke... so I bought a new one from a garage sale. The lawnmower broke down & the TV is missing the color yellow for some reason. sigh... this is why we never had stuff... they always break!

even the bathtub drain wasn't working right so we had to improvise



Things at church are pretty good. I think we've settled into a rhythm and now we can start working on some kinks in the systems. I have a decent long-range idea about how we'll approach things so I don't change it all at once. On the other hand, it's hard to see some things that aren't going well & think, "well, that's next year's project" - but it's necessary.

I've been struck lately how much I've not been spending my time on things that matter. I'm using up a lot of time, but not spending it the best way I can - in the end it makes me feel like I'm never accomplishing anything worthwhile.

But, in the midst of all of that, our kids keep growing and doing more things. Jonah rolls from his front to back now & Isaac still is close to walking... I think he took 1 step this week!

Isaac went to Cam's birthday party this week... and dressed up as a puppy for it:

From Isaac & Jonah...

pretty stinkin' cute, I'd say


Isaac & cam first met before Cam was born... and while Isaac was still a month before his due date!



Isaac has been doing his best to help around the house lately, too




cindy's cousin brought over pumpkins for the boys for Halloween




and they tried to help carve them


Jonah didn't want to be left out of the costume party








and Jonah got a little sick of it too...


this one reminds me of how different Jonah looks from Isaac - in our family cindy has green eyes, I have hazel, Isaac has brown eyes, & jonah remains the blond-haired, blue-eyed kid. such a difference from his brother. Plus, his brother doesn't look like a pumpkin... he gets that from his dad