Jenna Grace

Jenna came home on Tuesday. Emma and Garrett have been great to their little sister. So far Jenna has been sleeping good. She sleeps from about 10:00 to 2:30 AM... then Betsy wakes her up and feeds her and she falls asleep again until 6:30. We had a wonderful photo session with her yesterday, our neighbor Brooke does photography and she spent a few hours doing some really neat poses with Jenna. We can't wait to see the pictures.

Candy Land

"Our favorite meal"

While Rob was gone for a week (he was in Denver working on his Doctorate of Ministry program) we were a little more flexible with our meal. Several times the kids were able to enjoy a meal of smoothies and edamame. Emma would be content with this at every meal. Garrett really enjoyed Emma peeling the edamame for him.

Burning wood

I think these pictures can speak for themselves. We have been enjoying a warm fire since Tuesday.

Addition to previous post

As we were in church yesterday, I look beside me to find Emma's backside up in the air with her dress hanging down. This is not the first time, we have seen that view in church, but I thought it was funny since I had just written about it. So we are still working on how to sit properly in church.

I have a headache.

Emma enjoys very much being on her head. Garrett on the other hand, as some have found out, becomes terrified when he is upside down. Emma will just randomly run to a chair or couch and do her head stands....after leaving the table, bathroom, or anytime she feels like it. But she did admit to Rob today that while doing that she had a headache, maybe she is onto something.

Stone wall

We have been preparing for few months now to have my brother Caleb come and help us install a stone wall and platform, to put a wood stove on. Caleb was a stone mason for about a year and a half, so he offered to help us put up stone.

We had a wood stove in our old house and we figured with a new house we would not need to burn wood since we would have an "efficient" furnace and windows that are tightly sealed. It did not take us long to realize that a big house takes a lot of gas to heat. Rob does really enjoy cutting/chopping wood. Since being a pastor is more of a sedentary job, he likes being able to come home and throw is axe around, and get a few blisters on his hands.

You can see the wall before we started yesterday and then this afternoon when it was all done. Caleb does an awesome job and he was great at teaching Rob how to lay the stone also. Emma, Garrett, Sharon, and I all were able to put some stone up too. In a few day we would be able to put the stove on the platform, when the cement is set, but Rob will be out of town so it will be at least a week (he is going to be at Denver Seminary starting his first class working toward his Doctorate in Ministry), and then we will need to have it all inspected too. So hopefully in the next couple weeks we will again be burning wood to help heat our home.