Megan Takes a Bus Trip

Megan and I (this is Tiff) had the privilege to take a trip with MegaBus.com (check out their website for very reasonable trips) last week to visit my family in Rockford, IL. It is always nice to spend time with them. I had some definite qualms about being in downtown Minneapolis and then Chicago by myself, but thank the Lord, it could not have been easier! I think I was more antsy on the bus ride than Meg. She just won the hearts of all the passengers around us, so she was always entertaining or being entertained.
I also got to meet and hold my brand new niece Payton Joy, of which I regret to say I did not get any pictures. This is one of many areas in which Rob balances me out, the whole picture-taking thing. I am really bad at remembering to capture the moment!! So, I'm ashamed to say, here are most of the pictures that I took. We had a blast!

Megan (held by Uncle Todd) with rice cereal leftovers

The twins actually took on the challenge of feeding Meg . . .

which went wonderfully as you can see.

At least they had fun (they found it much easier to hold
Megan than when she was smaller - less scary I guess)

Meg did well adjusting to the playpen for her bed.

Aunt Tracy was so proud of herself for putting Meg to sleep!

The Minnesota Zoo

Tiff took a trip to the Minnesota Zoo a couple of weeks ago with some girlfrinds of hers and their kids. It was a nice time for her to get out and about with other moms and their kids. They wore themselves out walking around looking at all the animals (and running after the kids of course). Megan loved her first time at the Zoo because of all the people and animals. =)

Megan - 7 Months Old Today

Hey, We're Still Alive Up Here

Sorry for the long absence from my blog...we were busy at church all last week with a Vacation Bible Time program for all the kids in our area. Tiff and I were kind of heading up the planning and running of it all so there were lots of details to take care of. What a blessing the whole week was! We had a total of 25 kids attend (pretty much tripling our regular attendance) and we had a great time teaching them lessons from the Bible about The Ultimate Race of life. The theme tied in great with our decorating theme of car racing. It was wonderful to see the church people come together and work together as a real "body" and get excited about ministry. Lord willing, we will be seeing the fruit of the labor of the gospel for years to come.

So, here are some photos chronicling our week:

This banner was made by one of the ladies in our church...she did it with Sharpies, believe it or not! It's great to have people with special talents in different areas to help out. We came up with a skit to do every night to reinforce and teach the lessons from the Bible in a somewhat real life setting - in this case, Race Week for the not-so-famous Earnlittle family - of course we had a lot of fun doing it too and made the kids laugh a lot.
This is the cast of our nightly skit...Sarah as "Dela May", Rob as "Rusty", Dallas as "Dale", Johnny as "Slick" (he's a reporter, not part of the family) and Alex as "Dusty".
Here are a bunch of the kids and helpers with the race track our pastor built for the week.
Tiff and Meg smile for the camera - Meg loved all the people. =)
Pastor Riley with Johnny
some of the wooden cars (the kids got to make them in craft time for racing on the track) in the starting gate.
Me leading rally time with the kids
here's the track - it's 40' long!

Good Cleaning Tip

How To Clean Your Toilet
1. Put both lids of the toilet up and add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the water in the bowl.

2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.

3. In one smooth movement, put the cat in the toilet and close both lids. You may need to stand on the lid.

4. The cat will self agitate and make ample suds. Never mind the noises that come from the toilet, the cat is actually enjoying this.

5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a "power-wash" and rinse".

6. Have someone open the front door of your home. Be sure that there are no people between the bathroom and the front door.

7. Stand behind the toilet as far as you can, and quickly lift both lids.

8. The cat will rocket out of the toilet, streak through the bathroom, and run outside where he will dry himself off.

9. Both the commode and the cat will be sparkling clean.
























Sincerely, The Dog

Check Out Meg's Playpen!

Actually, in case you're worried were keeping her in cardboard boxes all the time...we do have a real playpen and crib etc. =D She just likes to get into whatever we have around and so when she saw us painting some cardboard boxes for Vacation Bible Time, she had to get into the action too. After she rolled over to where we were we thought she was too cute to not try out our boxes/would be cars.

Meg-O

Wow is it fun to be parents of our wonderful little baby! Meg continues to amaze us and make us proud to be parents. Here's a picture of her feet with mine (like the one we took the first month - check the archives to see it)

Dinner time again!! Meg is chowing down on corn...she loves it and pretty much anything else that she can get her 2 teeth on. She gobbles up any food we give her. =)

Where Did July Go!!

Well, hello everyone. I havn't posted in a while because we've been tied up with lots of different things lately. I came down with a bad case of Strep Throat last week that kept me from working for a couple of days. Thankfully the antibiotics the docter gave me took care of things after a few days. Unfortunately I passed it on to Tiffany, who woke up Friday with a mild case. We got that taken care of quickly, but it made for a rough week last week. (Megan didn't get it because babies very rarely get Strep...thank God)

We've also been really busy planning for our church's Vacation Bible Time program for kids. It's coming up next week and we're in charge of the planning. Things are coming together finally and it looks to be a great week of working with and ministering to kids in the neighborhood. Please pray for us and for the kids involved when you think of it.

Megan can sit up for long periods by herself now and just this week she was able to work herself into a sitting position from a laying position for the first time. She is really getting stronger and likes to pull herself up into a standing position using Tiff or I. Tiff says that Meg is developing a personality and is looking like a "little girl" now, instead of just a "baby". =)

Tiff and I celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary this week!! We praise and thank our Lord God for his wonderful, glorious hand in our life to bless us and prosper our marriage. We left Megan with some friends and went out to eat together...what a nice time it was. Then we spoiled it by going shopping while Megan was still at our friends' house - we shopped at 1 store for an hour and couldn't find things we were looking for. (Bed, Bath & Beyond is not a favorite store of mine) lol. For our anniversary, one of the things Tiffany got me was tickets to a baseball game! (not that romantic I guess, but perfect for a guy). My Detroit Tigers were in town to play the Minnesota Twinkies and we got to see them put the smack down 9-6 on the Twins. We went with some friends from Church who were Twins fans, which made it all the better. It was Megan's first baseball game ever, but she slept through most of it (except for when the fans got really excited and screamed like crazy). =O

This is the local police mascot dog "McGruff" who came around to our block party during National Night Out on Tuesday. Meg wasn't scared at all, but just wanted to eat McGruff's huge fingers. =)

Megan sleeps great, but she looks so wierd while doing it sometimes. =P