Ack! I'm such a slacker. Oh well...life gets busy.


Here are a few things you missed...


Fathers' Day

I made a Tie Fathers' Day banner with some scrapbook paper I had. 

     Micah and I went to the Dollar Tree where he picked out a balloon for Daddy. I made the fun banner (above) and had it up with his cards on the table and balloon tied to his chair when he got home from work at 5 in the morning. The boys got him a pass for 5 1-hour sessions at a local shooting range...a Groupon I was able to score 60% off. The boys aren't in the pics because they were still asleep. When Micah did wake up and come out he said, "Happy Birthday!"

"Happy Fathers' Day to the King of the Castle from your Unruly Subjects."

Sweet Friends

     Ok, so really I just want you to see these adorable pictures and hilarious video. We've been so blessed to have the McWhite's as friends here at seminary. Lin and David have a similar schedule on the weekends, so the boys and I spend many evenings "playing with 'the nother Micah' and 'Sissy'". April and I will cook a meal while the boys play together and get out some of their energy. Lily and Levi...well they just like to sit/lie on the floor and look at each other. We have had some sweet times of fellowship and been able to share some of the joys as well as frustrations of being a mommy.

Painting on the porch

They're getting so big!

Foster Care Meeting

     We attended the Wake County foster care meeting this past Tuesday. It was very informative and made us even more excited about the possibility of becoming foster parents. We turned in our application yesterday, but we have no clue when we'll hear from the people reviewing applications. We have hopes of attending the July/August training if space allows. We eventually would love to foster sibling groups, but space only allows for us to foster 1 child now. (State law is that there must be a 4x10 space for each child, so since they would all be sharing the boys' 12x10 bedroom, only 1 additional child may be in there...which makes sense I guess.) Please continue to pray for us during this process.

     Lin was talking to Micah about it yesterday morning, and their conversation went like this:

-Lin: Do you want to have another baby brother?
-Micah: Yeah, bunny rabbit.
-Lin: No, do you want to have another baby Levi?
-Micah: Yeah, pig.

I think it's going well trying to get him to understand. lol.

Levi's First Solid Food

     Lin was able to be the one to introduce this new milestone to Levi. They both did great, but Levi was not thrilled at all with this turn of events.

First bite...

And it just got...

worse and...

worse. He is actually gagging in this picture.
It was okay though...nothing actually came back up.

And I leave you with probably the best picture to date of the two of them...

Go ahead...you can say it..."awwww" :)