July Fun

Well, July lived up to the craziness of the past few months! Life continues to be busy for us. But it also continues to be a blessing! Part of the craziness was the visits we had from friends and family. So far this summer we have been unable to get up north. However, God has been very gracious and enabled many to come visit us! Enjoy the following pictures of some of those visits!

At the Santa Clarita Aquatics Center with my Family

Visiting the San Fernando Mission

4th of July

Enjoying Lake Balboa Park

Dressing up with the Myers girls

Kaylee and Autumn (Kaylee loved Autumn and called her baby, it was really cute!)

Fun at the Beach
Grace and Becca

Love this one of Cait and Charity

Trying for a group shot, not very successful

Rollerskating!!

The zoo with Uncle Rob and Aunt Adri

In case you were curious what I do all day

I was checking my e-mail real quick today, and this is what was happening in the other room:

And this is what that bookcase usually looks like:


After, my cute, sweet little Makaylee emptied the books out I put her in her room to play while Cait and Grace and I cleaned them up. While she was in there, she climbed on Carsons bed and then got on top of the changing table. There is seriously never a dull moment with her right now. She is so much fun right now and so much work!

Busy Times

The last month and a half has been pretty busy for us. We started off May with Tim's parents and brother and sister-in-law coming to visit for Jon's graduation. Unfortunately I have no pictures of that, but below is a re-cap of the what else has taken place.
We discovered our new favorite snack, peanut butter
filled pretzels. We like them so much that Kaylee
gets them out herself!

Grace turned 5 and got a new bike

Carson turned 3 and his favorite person right now, Joe Levis, brought him balloons for his birthday. Made his day!

The next weekend the Thorton's pitched their trailer in front of our house while they were here for Maria's graduation. While they were here we got to enjoy the beach with them.

We took a trip to the zoo. More pics to come from Grace's perspective.

And, we all flew to Texas to celebrate Jon and Julia's wedding.
More pics to come of that too!

Then, we started off June right by visiting our Farmers market and getting arm "paintings"
(can you guess who's arm is who's?)

Last, my brother and his two younger kids were visiting my parents from Georgia and were gracious enough to drive down and see us since we could not make it up there. It was a fun time of being able to introduce our kids to them and just spend time together. Unfortunately, Cait was already at school when I realized we didn't have a single picture of their time. O well!

Included in our business was the first official gathering of Redemption Church of Northridge. My family got to be here for it and it was a blessing.
You can be praying for us as we are having a neighborhood summer kick-off BBQ at our house next Sat. Pray for opportunities to get to know our neighbors better and just show the love of Christ to them. So far the warm weather is proving to be very helpful for this. We have already been swimming at two different houses and are on to our third on Sunday.

Redemption Northridge June Update Letter

Here is a link to the latest update letter for Redemption Church of Northridge.

Thanks for your prayers and support.

Tim

Video Card- Mother's Day 2010

This year the kids and I put together the following video for Nicole for Mother's Day. She is an amazing mom and we are incredibly thankful for her!





By the way- as most of you know- this kind of creativity is highly unusual for me. Don't get the impression that this is normal. In fact I'm open to any suggestions for how to celebrate our ten year anniversary coming up in a couple weeks!

What you've been waiting for

The past few weeks have been pretty busy for us. Between a trip up north, grandma coming to visit, and a little family get a way to the Hot Springs I have not had much down time. We have a little reprieve this week and then the craziness picks up with friends and family staying with us for various graduations and disneyland trips. Then at the end of May we are all going to Texas for Jon and Julia's wedding. Add in to all of this the every day normal life things that have to happen like school, cleaning, laundry, training, and well lets just say I am consistently busy. However, I am thankful for all of this business because it involves people and opportunities to love, serve, encourage, train, and teach.
Most of our blog has been devoted to pictures, but lately I have been trying to write more to give everyone a better idea of how God is working and what He is teaching us in this amazing journey of faith we are on. But I know most of you are wanting more pictures. So, here you go!
Enjoy!

Time with Grandma

Nancy, Grandma, drove home with us after our visit to Auburn and spent the next week with us. While she was here we did some fun things, and we just lived our lives and let her be a part of it.

Caitlin striking a pose

Grandma always helped with our flowers, so we made sure she didn't miss out this year! And the three younger ones got to help

Just some fun pictures of everyone playing outside and enjoying having Grandma around!

Our neighbors have been doing a lot of work on their house, and the first project the workers did was build a small wall between our yards. Carson loves to work and was inspired. Since watching he consistently drives around our yard in his "work truck" with wood and tools in the back and fixes and builds whatever he can get his hands on. I love seeing his thoughts and creativity!

One day we went to a really fun park about 10 min from us. It has great play equipment, a huge pond, and a big loop to ride bikes/walk. The kids loved it and we can't wait to go back.

We also got to decorate cupcakes with a fun cupcake decorating kit Grandma got us. Cait had a friend from school over, Tess, who got to join in on the fun.

Kaylee watching after she reaped the benefits of the decorating!