Firsts of Fall

Well fall is here and with it come many new firsts and a packed schedule.
First, we had our first soccer games:

Cait's team is the Lime-inators, and she scored a goal her first game

Grace has improved drastically this year! She also scored a goal for her team, the Lavender Ponies, that Tim is coaching. We are playing AYSO this year and they do things differently. Grace only has 5 players on her team and only 3 play at a time with no goalie. Cait has 7 players on her team with 5 playing at a time with no goalie.

And our little wannabe soccer player, a.k.a. their biggest fan

First day of school!!!

Cait is in 2nd Grade this year

Grace started Kindergarten - she loves every minute of it!

First glasses - Cait has been a trooper with needing glasses and has had a great attitude so far. She did have one boy in her class tease her yesterday so we got to have a good conversation about forgiveness and not worrying about what others think.

First "real" bike for Carson (he wasn't too thrilled with having his picture taken)

And last, first style. Kaylee's look for the games today!

Our community groups (small groups) also started up, and this week Carson will be starting a phonological preschool for speech therapy once a week. I am enjoying having some more time with Carson and Kaylee while the girls are in school, but we do miss having them around all the time.

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!