do not disturb...

...i'm sleeping

Game Day

Nothing like a Saturday in my scivvies.

Micki and Matthew...

...are engaged! Micki is Ben's older sister. She lived with us up until we moved to Greenville this spring. Mick and Matthew have an awesome story! Matthew is from England and of course Micki is not from England. Micki and Ben's mom has a friend that lives in England and knows Matthew and his family very well. She recommended to Ben's mom that Micki & Matthew would make a good pair--she doesn't like to set people up, but she really felt God's prompting. So M & M began corresponding via email VERY regularly (starting last fall)! Every night I got to hear about their "written conversations". Micki liked everything about their internet relationship, but wondered if they would have the same chemistry in person. They planned for Matthew to come for a visit to the states over Christmas. At this point they had still seen only pictures of each other...they didn't even use skype! So Christmas came and so did Matthew & the sparks flew. They knew that this was it. Micki has since been over to England twice. Matthew came to the states last Thursday for a week visit & popped the question! We are so excited about the two of them & love how God wrote their story! They will have a Tennessee wedding next July!

This is back in January during Matthew's first visit.


This is last week when we spent the day with Matthew & visited Micki at her school.


And this is the engaged couple! Check out that ring!!

4 months

Jack had his 4 month birthday on Monday! Here are some of his latest stats and things he's doing these days.
-rolls from front to back & now back to front! I love when he rolls onto his belly b/c it gives me plenty of opportunities to pinch that cute hiny!
-loves to watch us eat...he sticks his tongue out & smacks his lips when we do
-is trying rice cereal...seems to like it but doesn't quite have that swallowing thing down yet
-is very generous with his smiles...he's got one for anyone that wants one
-is all business in the bathtub...he will not smile...he's too busy figuring out the water I think
-we think he's an introvert. he's TIRED after being around a lot of people
-he's a little jumpy & loud noises frighten him and sometimes make him cry. I guess he's just sensitive like his mama.
-he weighs 16 lbs. 4 oz! I call it the jackson phenomenon b/c he doesn't look big to me at all, but he sure is solid

We sure do love our little man!

meeting my furry friends

I realized Jackson had never met the furry friends that live in his room, so he invited them all over for a party at his crib so they could get to know each other.


These guys are so lame, mom, can we do something else?
Now that's what I'm talking about...I'm invisible now!

uh-oh

Football season is here. And this is what my boys are doing. I have to say something multiple times to get Ben to answer me when he's watching a game and I think our Bonk Bonk is going to be the same way. Oh boy.
On Saturday Ben and a friend were watching the Michigan/Notre Dame game and a fire truck pulls into our neighbor's driveway. I, of course, say we need to go make sure everything's ok...he said "there's a minute left in the game, let's wait!" Yes, it was a good game but a minute in football time is plenty of time for a house to burn down. Luckily the neighbors were fine...the fire truck was just looking for a brush fire because they saw smoke & were using the neighbors driveway for a better view. Good thing!

rabbi jack

Our friends the Josephs' have been so generous to lend us their boys old clothes, but this is one thing I don't think will make it to the winter since it's about to cut off his head circulation now. Too bad b/c it is super cute. I laughed for at least 10 minutes. He makes a cute little rabbi doesn't he?