Our Adventures

Caleb loves getting a few minutes with daddy before he goes to work in the mornings. He's not super awake here, but precious anyway. One of these days I'm gonna take pictures outside or without flash so he can keep a smile and not have the "deer in the headlights" look.

Early morning shaving with daddy

 This kid is a spit-up monster. (Oops, sorry, GJ! I mean monster in the most endearing way possible!! He's precious!! :)

I put this bib on him to catch all his spit-up (its getting ridiculous! and I'm having to wash EVERYTHING--including the walker seat, etc) but he thought it would be more fun to chew on it . . . .

until he saw the camera. Then we can try to grab and chew on that!

I gave up on the bib. He falls over. Notice the mouth. See? Told you he's a spitter! :)

 Our dear mother made me some GF baking mix with her new machine and gave me some recipes with it. You know its not bad when even David will eat the GF stuff! :)

My first attempt at gluten free choc chip cookes. David even likes them! :)

AND, and apple crisp. Because the neighbors brought freshly picked apples. And the weather was in the 70s-- that's *almost* fall, right??

Last night poor mom came and baby sat Caleb while David & I went the the Weecycled consignment sale. Our sweet boy messed up his schedule in the afternoon. He was supposed to eat shortly before mom came, then go to bed for the night and we'd have no time limit on returning. Well, he decided to eat an hour + early, then take a short nap and see if g'ma could keep him happy until mom and dad returned. He's got enough fat reserves I'm sure he wouldn't starve, but you know . . .  It was our first time to this particular sale and it was only opened for new parents/grandparents so you had to stand in line and show your printed e-mail letter of confirmation. The line was AGES long! Took us a good 20 min to get in and all they were doing was taking the letter at the door, like a ticket.  Then there was SO much stuff it took forever to go through and I think we stood in the check-out line for at least 30 min. They had about 8 people working registers, but wow.  We got some really good deals and came home with a few things accidently. Including a cute little tux for Caleb that I meant to show David but not keep. Oh well. Guess he'll be well dressed for your wedding, Jon! :) He should be good to go for the winter. We're only missing a good church outfit, so I'll check Ashley's (HWGA) sale for that next month. We got a baby monitor set to use at church during teen activities/fellowships. We currently use our phones (put one on speaker in the sleeping baby room and keep one with us), but this will be better.

Some of our loot from the consignment sale

Can't remember if I mentioned our dishwasher going crazy last week, but Jackie decided to install a new one for us. It came this morning!! Please pray for the guy who installed it. We had a good talk-- I wasn't able to give him the gospel straight-forward (as in I Cor 15:3-4), but talked a lot about religion in Bulgaria, what he's thinks of religion in general, a relationship with Christ,  life after death, etc. He is from Bulgaria (hence I can't remember his name), as is his wife. He said they've had lots of people invite them to church and they've gone to several, but have decided they are just not religious. They had some Mormon friends evangelize them extensively and he said they always give a polite hearing b/c they don't want to offend. I was his first job of the day so didn't want to detain him, but I had mentioned (in a discussion on large families) that my SIL had passed away last year and when he left I gave him her pamphlet. He seemed very touched and said he would find it very interesting to read. I did put our e-mail on there in case he ever wanted to contact us. Pray for him!