Our little Glory Girl is 7 years old.

September 17, 2003

 

September 17, 2010

 

 

We love you Gloria,

 

Mommy and Daddy

Has it been 12 Years?

 

On September 12th we celebrated our 12th year of marriage……………. with our girls.  The past couple years we have decided to do something a little bit different to celebrated the beginning of our family.  Instead of making reservations at a restaurant for two it was “reservations for five with a booster seat please”. 

 

 

But of course before we went we all sat down and watched our wedding video.  I do have to confess that we only watched the singing  parts and “THE KISS”.  We fast forward through the minister talking (he was quite long winded).  It was fun watching the girls get dressed up to go to a fancy restaurant by the sea.  They were so excited to go on a date with mommy and daddy for a romantic dinner, where they can order anything they wanted and they can have steamed clams as an appetizer.  I think I only got one clam out of the whole pile, I guess I wasn’t fast enough.

 

 

But I think what was almost as fun as watching our girls is watching all the other people in the restaurant watch us come in.  I knew what they were thinking, actually I should say I knew what the men were thinking.  “Oh great, there goes our quiet dinner.”  But the women will smile and say “now isn’t that adorable?”  And we would have to agree with them.

 

 

 

 

In His Grip,

Jeff and Rebecca

Ella’s First’s

 July has been a very busy month for us, especially since it has not

rained in a month.  Many of the  things we have done have been “firsts” for Ella.  It has been fun to watch her as she experiences these things for the first time.  Some of things she was a little apprehensive but has grown to love , like her car seat.  She cried the whole way home from the airport her first ride in the car seat.  But now she absolutely loves “Ella’s car seat”.
Many times God wants us to do things for the first time for Him and we kick and scream and want to do things that we are more comfortable doing.  But in the end God knows the future and He knows what’s best.  So as we do it God’s way we learn that God’s way is the best way because it’s the right way and we don’t have to be afraid.

“We never have to be afraid to do what is right.”

-Cousin Mordecai to Esther in Veggie Tales

ESTHER, the girl who became queen. 

Here are some first things that Ella has done.

First time in a life jacket.

Ella's first family canoe ride

First time to Northwest Trek.

           

First time seeing a tiger at the zoo.

First time dressed up like a butterfly/fairy

Her first s'more.