we had a great time at the wedding, and since we did not have our kids we got to stay for the whole thing, it was a fun, free date and its always a gift and a pleasure to watch two people stand before God, with their eyes and hearts open, ready to face life and all that comes with it, together. beauty as it unfolds.

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isaac and i were in the pool for a good two hours straight today. he is really getting the hang of swimming, and floating. today was his best day ever. he learned how to let himself float and kick and paddle at the same time! i was so proud of him, and he was so very proud of himself! he did not want to get out of the pool at all, so we gave nolan his nap in the lawn chair, and stayed in the poolpracticing all afternoon and evening, until he was so blue and shivery that i had to make him get out. i took a video of it but so far i have been unable to get it to work. one side of his body is weaker so he kinda rolls in a circle as he swims. its absolutley adorable, inspiring and beautiful to watch him when he learns something new.

kendall and daddy took isaac out on the jet-ski. he went last year and definately remembered it. he shouted "WAHOO!" the whole time, and did not want to get off when it was time to dock the jet-ski for the day.

a day at the lake

sunday we had an awesome afternoon at the lake. 27 people got baptized, praise God for that!it is so moving and beautiful to see people committed to following Jesus. then we stayed and played in the lake with the boys for a couple of hours. they had such a fun time. nolan is super cautious and fearful of the water, and isaac would walk off the end of the dock with no fear if we were not watching him.

the boys have been doing really well and playing together so much more. they used to just play in the same vicinity, now they actually play together. sometimes.

this is my uncle eddie with the boys. he is like a taller more opinionated version of my dad! he was in town from california, and we got to spend a little bit of time with him. we had fun, the boys loved him and it was great to have him meet my familia since i have not seen him in about nine or ten years.

love my daddy too! my dad is a great man. he taught me so much about what it means to be a father and a husband, he gave me a high standard to set when it came to choosing a great husband of my own, he gave me a love of the outdoors,(although he never convinced me to kill anything) and he loves me, with all of my flaws and faults. kinda like my heavenly father, in an earthly, human kind of way!

mama and me! my mom is my best girl friend, we have fun we love the same things but balance eachother out with our differences, we can agree to disagree and still love eachother fully, i love my mama!

we brought the boys home an elephant puzzle and a sweet drum. they love them both and have had a great time playing with them. tom and i had lots of fun picking them out and bartering for them too.

isaac taking a water break on the back steps, our first day home from guatamala.

took this photo the day before i cut that mop. again, for the sixth time. he's only two! how many two year olds have had half a dozen haircuts? i must add that the only reason i cut it at all is because after a certain point it begins to infringe upon his vision.

little cowboys

there's something stuck up in the chimney and i don't know what it is......

saturday morning we woke up to a very interesting situation. there was something in the chimney. our stove pipe is 6" diameter and there was definitely some kind of critter trying to claw its way out. except it kept sliding down, bringing creosote raining down woth it, which in turn caused nolan (who has awesome hearing) to keep cocking his head to one side and ask "wassat mama?"
after deciding that starting a fire was not the most humane way to go we finally settled on a dog cage with a blanket over it, me with a camera and tom disassembling the chimney. piece by piece. finally the mystery solved, it was a bird! of course the bird slipped easily out of the dog cage and them we had a comical time catching it as it tried in vain to fly out all of our very closed windows. after knocking itself silly four or five times we finally caught it and released the poor captive into freedom! not exactly the way i had hoped to spend my saturday but still lots of laughs! great job to my very brave husband who of course had no way of knowing that the "critter" we spent all morning hunting was a little birdie.

nolan finally decided that he likes his spiderman hat. he dosn't know who spiderman is though so he calls it his fireman hat. he was very proud to wear it while riding around the house on the tricycle.

we went to visit toms parents on fathers day. we all had a good time and the boys especially liked playing in the pool, they had so much fun! nolan also really liked the strawberry patch. he won't eat them at home, apparently he prefers them fresh:) he ran off to pick some, soaking wet out of the pool. he called out over his shoulder "i'll be wight back mama, im going to pick strawberries wight now mama."