Bright & Beautiful

What a beautiful August morning! The sky is so blue today and the red berries on the vibrant green tree outside my window rest against the sky to make such an array of colors.

"For the beauty of the earth, For the glory of the skies, For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies: Lord of all, to Thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise!" ~Folliott S. Pierpoint, 1835-1917

Garden Goodness

This is my trial run at salsa. I think it might have turned out okay, but it could probably be a little spicier. It was fun anyway.

These will be interesting. I've never attempted pickles before. Pickles have to taste a certain way to be good. We'll see how they turn out.

Almighty Abba

"This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness." ~Lamentations 3:21-23 If only I would remember every morning that God is merciful to me again - what a perspective to the day! Where would I be without His compassions, mercies, and faithfulness. What an all-consuming God, and yet, what an Abba, Father!

Tummy Tally

Uh... can it get much bigger? Only two and a half months left. Time has gone by so fast! Soon we will be holding our first born in our arms.

Family Fellowship

This last week I was able to borrow my brother's car and go down to Granada from Waconia to surprise my parents. It was so fun! Charise kept a good secret. That night Charise and I drove to Owattona to visit Christa and to see her new apartment (wich is very cute by the way) and then we headed back for the cities the next day. Seth was very generous to let me be gone for a night (even though he likes to hold it over my head - silly man!). Charise was able to come and stay for what we thought would be the rest of the week, but we ended up having to be home Thursday night so we met my parents in New Ulm and had a wonderful time fellowshipping together. What a blessing family is!

Fairmont Fair booth

This is at the Martin County Fair. Uncle Jason and Aunt Darlene put a lot of work into this booth for the church. It looked great! Justus is in the monkey suit. Not too far from average for him, but I guess we are trying to prove otherwise - hee!

Busy Brothers

We will miss you Johnny! Truly, it was fun.

Recent Ramblings

Well, I am at the Waconia library right now. Since it is only a few blocks from our house here, it isn't too far of a walk. That is nice. I'm not sure how often I'll get down here, but it is nice to know that I have some kind of access during the week because there just isn't any time on the weekends. Today I took Seth and Johnathan (his last week ;( sadness!) their lunchbox and was able to enjoy spending some time with them over dinner and then watching for a little bit while they augered (sp?) and screwed in rail. I got some good pictures, but I only have seven minutes left to be online and then I have to share. Eventually I'll post another tummy tally because I'm definitely bigger than my last post. Only two and a half months to go!