Kate's Dedication

Last Sunday, we had the priveledge of dedicating Kate to our Lord and Saviour at our church in the presence of our family and church family. In doing this, we have made a commitment to God to teach her throughout her life, with His guidance, about His love and saving grace. And to model our lives in a Christ-like manner that is pleasing to Him and glorifies His name in everything that we do and say, so that we may further His Kingdom. 3 John 1:4 says, "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth." Our prayer is that Kate will one day soon choose to accept Jesus as Lord of her life and will walk in the truth, so that He will have no greater joy.

Festivals and More Festivals

State Fair
Jackson and this camel are having a staring contest.

Plano Balloon Festival

Kate enjoying the festival!


It always seems like once Fall hits, it's Festival time. Balloon festivals, State Fair, Fall festivals, etc. Lots of fun family time! We do like to try and make it to all of them on our free weekends. Jackson is at such a fun age and really enjoys the ones we go to and we love to hear the word "festi-bal" as part of his vocabulary. We have also decided if you want to know our family on a personal level, just ask Jackson. He tells it all just like it is at our house. Today, when Justin picked him up from his Sunday school class, the teacher proceeds to tell Justin that Jackson was "ironing" in the home center and the teacher asked him if he was ironing like Mommy does. Jackson replied, "No, I'm ironing like Daddy." It's so true. I wish I was better at that job, but as Jackson has observed, apparently, Justin is the one who does the ironing in our house.

Yum, Yum!

5 months old and we're trying cereal. Most of it ends up on Kate, myself or the bumbo, but she's trying. Kate started sleeping through the night pretty early on, but randomly started waking again recently, so our pediatrician said to try some cereal and it actually worked, or it was definitely coincidental! It's a wonderful thing when your baby sleeps through the night.

Congratulations Ben and Sarah!!!

Waiting among "the question"!
Here comes Ben!
Running to get the ring before Sarah landed.
"Is that for me?"

We're adding another member to our family and we couldn't be more excited! My brother Ben finally proposed to Sarah! We were so honored to be invited to the engagement which was the most exciting engagement I have ever seen! Ben and Sarah recently went skydiving as Ben's birthday present from Sarah, and they loved it so much that Ben decided to propose this way. It started out with Ben and Sarah getting on a plane while we (Justin, me, Jackson, Kate, Brooke, and some of Ben and Sarah's friends) waited in a holding room to run out to the area where they land to lay out the words "will you marry me" made by Ben in his living room with 100 pieces of hot pink poster board. Very creative! Ben jumped first, landed, ran to get the ring from his friend and was waiting for Sarah as she came down saying, "Is that for me"? Her tandem partner replied, "Well it isn't for me"! So much fun and we can't wait to hear all of their plans and for the actual wedding!!! Congratulations Ben and Sarah! We are so excited for the both of you and to have Sarah a part of our family!

Time is flying

Kate is now 4 months old and so much fun! I love this stage! She's so squishy and lovey and smiles all the time even at strangers. She's rolling over both ways and loves tummy time. Everything you hand her or is in her reach goes straight to her mouth. Slobber, slobber everywhere! She has that look in her eyes that she wants our food so bad and really studies Jackson playing. You can almost read her face trying to get to things or wanting to play with Jackson. We love her funny faces!

Did I mention I loooooooove my kids?

Every night we have a bedtime routine of bathing, pajamas and then Jackson picks out a book for us to read and a Bible story. It's one of my most favorite times of the day! Kate lays in bed with us and she listens too! Anyway, this particular night, we were done reading and Justin and I were talking about stuff aside of what the kids were doing and when weren't paying attention, we looked over and Jackson and Kate were cuddling. It was the most adorable thing I have ever seen as their Mommy. Kate didn't even look like she was all that comfortable, but Jackson just held her and didn't let go for several minutes and she let him without fussing. He would just look at her and pat her back and stroke her hair. Sooooooooo sweet! It was definitley a moment for me that I was wishing would have lasted forever. Justin ran to get the camera and just kept snapping away. I love my kids so much! We are so blessed to have so much love in our family! I just hope they stay that close forever. (sidenote: we finally got rid of the paci. we "left it" at home when we went to Nanna and Poppa's. It worked! We're pottytrained and paci-less. The baby days are left to Kate)

The Wiggles

Caroline trying to get a sip of Karen's drink.

Lots of dancing!
Karen and I turned around at one point during the drive home and this is what we saw. So cute!

Karen and Caroline Davis asked Jackson and I to go see the Wiggles in concert! It was a date! Jackson had a blast dancing with Caroline in the isle and singing along to the songs while snacking on one of Jackson's favorite snacks, popcorn. It was our first experience with a live concert for Jackson and he did rather well. There was a lot to see and it was very entertaining, although a little chaotic with kids and their parents everywhere. Funny to watch;)