Settling in...

We've been living here with our friend's for 4 weeks now. It's hard to believe that most of January has passed and February is around the corner! The holidays were such a whirl wind with moving and unpacking and getting back into a routine that the days kind of blurred all together!

Since Christmas we've had 2 birthday's in the family. Carissa turned 4 as you saw pictured earlier in another post; and Noah turned 6. He's since had a hair cut and is looking quite his age. His height totally took me off guard this week and I'm realizing just how big he is getting. When I took cupcakes to his classroom on his birthday, his teacher (Mrs. P) told me she overheard Noah saying, "Oh Jose, I really like how you've made your p right on the line. It looks so nice." She said she giggled and thought, "He's turning out just like his dad!" LOL I love to hear about his sensitive spirit and to know that he is encouraging his classmates and doing his best to build them up.

Since February is around the corner I'll give you a peek into what's in store for us. Our church is having a women's retreat that I have the privilege of being incharge of the worship sessions. I am both honored and blessed to be able to plan how to bring the women that come, to the feet of Jesus in a real intimate way. The day I come home from the retreat is Micah's 3rd birthday so there will be hoopla's to do that evening :) I'm sure by then I'll be ready to be home and embrace my family after being renewed by being away. Two days later will be Eric's birthday.

Our living situation is working out well. We've all shared the sickie bug this week - we tried to tell them they didn't HAVE to share quite SO much with us but ya know.... :) living together means sharin' the love... and the ookies too. Hopefully we'll all be feeling much better by the weekend so we can work some more on putting in the bathroom in the basement :) Life will be SO great when we have a bathroom of our own in our basement home :)

Josiah is crawling ALL over the place. He's into EVERYTHING and he is all smiles to anyone that looks at him. He is going to be a charmer like his big brother, Micah, I think. Though, I do suspect he will not be QUITE the handfull as his big brother Micah.... Carissa informed us today that since she was 4, she would get more money (said with arms crossed infront of her). Eric asked her how much she got now and she said, "NONE"...he said, "that's what i thought... so giving you a raise won't be hard!" Ha ha. I'm not sure where she got the idea that she was entitled to money...????.... she'll soon realize we don't always get what we want to be entitled too :) (GIGGLE)

So, that's a glimpse at us in the here and now... and a glimpse into our next month.... it's gonna be busy - but blessed. I certainly hope your 2008 is being blessed so far.