A Perfect Morning

What a great day! Matt Nichols, a friend of ours that attends our life group and church, was baptized on Saturday. He chose to be baptized in the river at dawn. Boy, was it early! I'm not a morning person, so I have to admit I wasn't thrilled about the time. But it was wonderful! The sunrise was beautiful and and we now have a new brother in Christ! Well, I had to blog this event because Thomas baptized him! This is the first time that Thomas has gotten to do a baptism and I'm so proud of him! It was funny because the river was quite muddy till they got way out into the water. It was fun to watch them wade in the mud up to their knees! Thomas says he tried hard not to think about what was in that mud! Here are some picts.
Here, the guys are trying to climb out of the water, but they were walking through mud up to their knees. They both looked like they would fall back in.
Muddy legs:
Just a beautiful view of God's sunrise.

Curls

Noah has adorable curls in his hair when it gets wet. Of course, they don't stay there when it's all dry. Here are a couple of pictures of him right after his bath tonight.

Preschool

We started school yesterday! Ok, we've been 'doing school' in little bits for the last year, but this year I plan to stick to some kind of schedule. I'm shooting for 3 days a week. So we've had day 1 and 2 and Cody has been having a blast. I've got pictures for you here of him working at his desk, but we'll be playing (educational) games and doing projects too! I wish you could all see him learning to read. He's doing so well. I don't think Noah has been quite as pleased with us starting school. Poor thing, he gets ignored for a while. I'm going to have to think of something for him to do while we work. Any ideas?

Notice how he's my lefty? Just like his Mama...

Ugh!

Just so you can sympathize with me....
I found Noah sitting in the hallway looking like he was chewing on something today. (That's not unusual. If he can pick something up it goes straight in his mouth!) So of course, like always, I look to see if he's got something and get it out. Well, I put my finger in there and pull out a bug! OH MY! I think it was a fly. I definately saw a wing. It was all I could do to get it out and not get sick myself! What am I going to do with this kid? I had already vacuumed this morning. I pick stuff up all the time! So I vacuumed again. It didn't seem to bother Noah at all. He went on and didn't get sick or anything. I, however, am still a little queasy at the thought....

A couple of random pictures

Thomas had a conference for work the last week in July. He was gone for a whole week, so I let the boys sleep with me. You wouldn't think that two little boys could take up that much room! When I came to bed, this is what I saw:

Because one day, he's gonna be an acrobat:

Golfing guys

My dad, Thomas and Cody had a 'guys day out' and went golfing. From what I hear, Cody's favorite thing about golfing is driving the golf cart. Anyone surprised?

A girls weekend

Autumn and Christy (two of my girlfriends from college) came to visit this last weekend. We had a nice time catching up. Autumn brought her 3 girls and Cody and Noah enjoyed having kids to play with. Here are picts from the weekend:
Us three girls:
Autumn and Maren. Maren is about 5 weeks younger than Noah.

These are all 5 of our kids. It's impossible to get that many kids to cooperate at once.

Jordan and Cody:

Bailey and Noah:
Jordan: