We had a family “Megan’s Home/Anna’s One” party the weekend before Anna’s first birthday. We had a blast. Check out photos here. Here’s a video of Anna playing with her second cousin Joshua, and here’s us singing Happy Birthday to her. Anna also enjoyed playing with the wrapping about 20 times as much as the [...]
Read more →Being as it’s the end of April, here are some links to February’s photos. Anna made a photo book for Aunt Megan’s 30th birthday, which was at the beginning of March. It’s now in Idaho with Aunt Megan, Anna’s one and only true Aunt! Becky and Aunt Anna M came to visit, and enjoyed playing [...]
Read more →This Christmas, we missed Christmas Eve Vigils, and, in fact, all church services. I really missed them. It really drove home for me that going to church is not out of obligation–it’s out of need. I need to be reminded of the Living God. I need to be reminded of the miracle of God becoming [...]
Read more →Greetings! Here’s a whirlwind tour of December, pre-Christmas festivities. If you want to see more pictures, click through on the links, or just bypass my commentary and see December’s photos. I just know you’re sitting at the computer like me, right? I’m wearing my blue beanie in support of web standards. (Yes, my daddy is [...]
Read more →As I write this post two months after the fact (heh), I remember how nice it was to be back at my parents’ house for Thanksgiving. Max made the trek out, and, as is tradition, brought friends, James and Lucy (who was knighted “Chinese Lucy” and I “American Lucy”). Anna slept over at Grandma and [...]
Read more →Our Bible Study’s summer barbeque: Fun with Genna, Abby, and Noah: Anna has discovered that if she stomps her feet in her bouncy seat, the mobile swings. She’ll do this for twenty minutes at a time, happy as a clam. We’re trying to get her to discover her hands as well as her feet, so [...]
Read more →Matthew and Genna, friends of ours from church, invited us over for dinner. I was a little wary that Anna would make the evening very difficult, but our hosts live so close that we may have walked if it didn’t involve crossing a major road, plus they have two young children and therefore remember what [...]
Read more →Visitors, A Trip Around the Block, and More Expressions
Read more →Oodles of photos from the past week of festivities: 23rd: Dinner with John’s Aunt Pat and cousins 24th: Christmas Eve with John’s paternal extended family 25th: Christmas Day with Lucy’s paternal extended family 26th: Brunch with Lucy’s family and friends 27th: Christmas with John’s maternal extended family 28th: Dinner with John’s Aunt Michelle, Uncle Bob, [...]
Read more →I felt so very loved on my birthday this year. And by “on my birthday” I mean Thursday through Thursday (my birthday was Tuesday). What made me feel most loved was simply people remembering and saying happy birthday (which I need to remember, since I’m not that great at remembering birthdays outside my immediate family). [...]
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