Pictures Again!

Though I still cannot find our misplaced USB cord, my pastor was kind enough to let us use his card reader to download the photos from our camera's memory card to our computer...hence we have some recent photos of Megan's adventures!

Enjoy!

Crawling Like Crazy

What fun our little daughter is!! And yet, harder to keep track of now. =) She started crawling before labor day and is doing so more and more now. Her explorations are now carrying her into the far reaches of our house...which isn't that far with about 500 sqft. lol, but still she likes to go into different rooms now, which means we have to keep a sharper eye on her. I keep thinking that one of these times she's going to get into the bathroom and find the water in the toilet bowl to be a fun playplace, like all babies seem to do. 8-O

We're loving this stage of her little life a bunch, each part of a child's life is great...for different reasons of course, but the development and growth is good to see and encourage. Meg is now saying the "g" sound in addition to "m", "n", "b","f" and "d" sounds (and of course the squeeling and squawking that she does when she's excited). She says "muh muh" when she's sad or hungry and we're pretty sure she connects that with Tiff, but even though she's said "dah dah", I don't think she really puts that together with me...I'm continuing to try though. =)

So anyway, here are some photos of an afternoon on the livingroom floor with Megan...

Daddy = Jungle Gym

We've gotten Meg to learn to give people "5" when they hold their hand in front of her!
My two sweethearts!!
Attack the first thing in sight...the water bottle!

on to the next conquest (now that the bottle lies vanquished)...the teddy bear!!

Now time to stand up and proclaim victory to all
Megan is getting stronger and stronger in pulling herself into a standing position on whatever is around...furnature, people or walls...anything to stand up.

Have a great week everyone!! Thanks for checking in on our little family. God bless you with the happiness and joy he's blessed us with so richly.

We hope to post pictures soon. . .

We are pretty aggravated right now because we have some great pictures of Megan crawling and cruising around that we cannot get off our camera without a USB cord . . . which Rob misplaced again lol (oh to be more organized=P) .
Anyways, we are headed down to Nashville this Wednesday-Sunday. If you think of us, please pray for our safety. We are taking a bus to Chicago and then flying from there to Nashville. It's a quick trip for Joel and Sarah's wedding on Saturday. We will get to see all of Rob's immediate family and some of his extended family as well. They are all really excited to see Megan (and we are excited to see all of them). Gotta laugh about how unexciting we have become since there's a baby around!!
We are actually taking an overnight bus on the way down, so hopefully all three of us will sleep . . . we'll see. And then we have several hours of layover time in Chicago, so hopefully it won't rain and we can do a little sightseeing, that is, if there's anything open at 7 am.
I'm sure we'll have lots of pictures of the wedding, so we'll really try to find the USB cord or borrow someone's or something and get those on when we return!!

The Next Basketball Sensation

I think we have found the next hot basketball sensation! Tiffany was at a Labor Day picinic the other day and broke out her mad skills with the rock to whup up on some teen guys. She had quite the high-school and college Bball career before hanging up her sneaks to have a family. I think she might come back and go pro and take the WNBA by storm. =D

I wasn't actually there to see the action, but I got these photos from a witness who said that Tiff even dunked a couple of times. She was so fast at it that the photographer couldn't get a picture.

Tiff and the adult in the picture (who actually is legally blind, took on a couple of teen guys (both named Alex) and beat them handily...so bad in fact that the guys were wanting to quit halfway through the game to save a little bit of their pride! lol They were pretty embarrased to lose to badly to a blind man and a 5'4'' mother.

We are currently accepting endorsments from any company with lots of money. =P Stay tuned for possible updates on the budding career of the Next Basketball Sensation.

But now it works!!

Praise the Lord I was able to figure out a way to fix the camera! We were going to go out and buy a new camera this week, but then as I played around with the camera and found a way to fix the malfunction. We were very glad to say the least.

You know the funny thing is that my greedy heart still wanted to go out and buy the nicer, new camera even though our's works again. Ha! I had already started enjoying the nicer features of the new camera...isn't that so consistent with our sinful, human nature? We always want more...never satisfied. I'm agian reminded of my relationship with God which makes total satisfaction possible and that with Him I need nothing else to be satisfied. He fills the void inside which nothing and nobody else can fill.

Anyway, on to taking more photos of Megan...I'll have to get her to open her mouth long enough for me to take a photo of her 5th tooth that just came through!! She's popping the teeth through like crazy. =) She is such an enjoyable little blessing.

So now...I just have to find my USB cord....

Our camera is not working!!!

Sorry for the long absence from posting (ok, not really that long I guess, but for us it is. lol) Our camera is malfunctioning so we cannot take any photos right now...working on solving that problem though cause Meg has started to "cruise" along furnature and is getting around more and more. She still likes to sit a play with her toys in one spot much of the time so we like that. Less chasing her around for Tiffany to do. =P

We've been staying very busy lately, as I'm sure everyone who is going to school is...the year just started a couple of weeks ago for us here in MN. (I'm attending Central Baptist Theological Seminary by the way, in case anybody was wondering) Only taking 3 classes this fall so that I can manage to keep working full time and still get some time with my family too. God has been so good to help us pay the bills so far. His grace for each day's efforts is so abundant too. I'm really thankful to be able to attend grad school like I am and that Tiff and I are able to be raising a family. It's exciting to be living in God's will and living life in His love.

Anyway, even though the camera is kuput right now, I found some photos from not too long ago that I never posted, so I wanted to put them up. By the way, Megan popped a third tooth through and the fourth is only days away. She's fighting a little bit of a cold and maybe an ear infection as a result. Pray for her and Tiffany if you all would ... that they will get through all the fun ok.