Summer's Baby Dedication

This Sunday was a special Sunday for Summer and for us as it was Summer's baby dedication at our church.  Summer's dedication was a chance for us to publicly proclaim our desire and commitment to train Summer up in the ways of the Bible, choose a verse that expressed our desire for her life, and ask for people to commit to pray for our daughter.

We chose Colossians 1:9-12 as our prayer for Summer.  It starts out talking about us praying for her ever since we heard about her, which we did :), and then it goes on to ask God to help her to know how to please him and  have the strength to do so. 

We have noticed great strength in Summer---Physical strength (holding up her head in the first few weeks after birth, holding her weight on her legs only a few weeks later, etc...) as well as a strong will (it is amazing how long she can cry if she does not want to be napping!)  Our prayer for her is that this strength will be used for God's glory....that she will stand up for Truth even when it is not popular and proclaim the Good News of Jesus even when it is hard.  Colossians 1:11 expressed this prayer beautifully.

Here are a few picture of the occasion, as well as a video of her dedication.  We thank the Lord for our little girl!

 Our family that was able to support us by being at Summer's dedication (many more were with us in thought!)

3 month photo shoot

We had fun with our 3 month photo shoot!  Click here to see the album!  There are 18 pictures in all....which one do you think should be Summer's "official" 3 month picture?

(Paul's Note: If you'd like an original of any of the pictures, let us know - they'll be a bit clearer if we email them to you)

Summer is 3 months old! (And other news)

It is hard to believe that our little girl is now 3 months old!!!  Yikes!  The time goes so fast!  This month we have noticed her smiling a LOT, starting to talk (gurgle!), sleeping great at night, still loving bath time, starting to grab things, sucking on her fist, being much more content, loving books, and growing cuter by the day!

Here is a picture of her in her new 3 month outfit from Aunt Nancy and Amanda.

 I spent a while this week getting the leaves out of the yard (at least the ones that have fallen) and couldn't resist taking a few pictures of my kiddos playing in the piles!

Tucker: "Mommy, Mommy, look at all of this! How fun, How fun!  Ooooh what is that?, what is that?, what is that? I have to check out everything!  There's baby sister, hi baby sister!"

Summer: "Oooh. Look at that leaf! "

Tucker: "Ok mommy.  I'll sit for a second for you to take a picture."

Summer: "Tucker?  Sit???? I gotta see this!"

 Tucker: "Ok, I sat!  What are you holding mommy, what are you holding?"

Summer: "That doggie is a whirlwind!"

 

Kitchen Floor Update:  

After pulling up the many layers of floor, Paul determined that it would be necessary to replace the sub-floor as well because of how rotted it was.  Here is a picture of the sub-floor.

Here is a picture of the first piece of sub-floor removed.  Yup, that is our basement you can see.....YIKES! 

 

If you look carefully at the top middle of the picture, you can see Paul waving.  I took this picture from our new "two-story" basement.

 

You can see our laundry room shelf through the floor in this picture.