Family Fun

Jason and I after our first indoor soccer game together, on our church's league. It was fun but whew, feel a bit old! One of us would play while the other watched the kids on the sidelines. Unfortunately, Lauren was pretty sad about the loud noises, so we'll see what we'll do next game. We won 14-3 or something like that. Jason scored one of the goals!

(Sorry I guess I didn't flip this picture)-Lauren's been pretty sensitive to sound, so this is the sight we see lately at anything with noise.

The Duke football game for Employee Appreciation day

Our friends Mark and Amy, Eliza, Kimble, and Grant

Toilet training even goes for the baby dolls

They love wearing our shoes around.

Our small group went to a Durham Bulls baseball game.

Our new friends Amy, Eliza, and Grant came over for the morning. So fun!

Bath time fun (after the tears of washing the shampoo out of course)

My helpers-they're so cute-they love to fill the washer machine with the load of laundry (so smart, they thought to get the stool to make it easier for Carter. Lauren shakes and folds the clothes before they go in). It actually saves time cause I leave them to this task and go do something else.

Goodbye to new Friends, Hanging with the Cooks, and the 5K

I ran in my second-in-my-life 5K this morning (the first being 6 years ago). It was called "Race for Life" and proceeds were given to 3 pro-life organizations in the area.

It was fun (except mile 2 and the long hill at the end). I found I had a little competitiveness in me after all :-). I ended up placing 4th in my age group (out of 20).

Lauren helping me stretch.

The quote of the day was on the ride to the race. I asked Lauren what she would yell out to me as I ran by during the race. She said she would say, "STOP MOMMY! STOP!"


My cheerers!

We went to a Child Evangelism Fellowship FREE day at the fairgrounds. It was a neat idea. A bit crowded and the kids weren't into many of the bouncy toys but here's Carter trying his hand at the rings.

The Cooks had us over for the evening. We stayed until 10 p.m. and had tons of fun. Kyra read to the kids (above) and they all played with water in the living room :-)

We got to have our new friend Paige over for the day while her mom Kim finished up stuff before moving to WA :-( We'll miss them but were so glad to get to know them the last two months.

Our Week

Someone helped Mommy make the waffles (and only sneezed into the batter once!)

Uncle Micah came to visit us for a few days

A farm in the area had a community day that we went to. We got a rotisserie chicken, chips and watermelon to contribute to the potluck in the evening. We got there and the event had been called off!!! We had permission to stay and look around, so we stayed about 2 1/2 hours-eating the rotisserie chicken with our fingers, seeing the horses, goats, chickens, and bunnies, and playing a little b-ball





We got to go to the Life and Science Museum (thanks Kim!). He and Carter were both noticing the same dinosaur :-)



The kids loved playing with him

Watch out for that bee Lauren! The kids and I went to a science museum in Raleigh-pretty neat and it was free!


Lauren's latest thing is to put all her dolls to sleep on the stairs.

Our Past Week

We had a fun evening with our friends from college (and we now live near them here), Dave and Kyra. Their kids were so sweet and their two and our two had a fun evening of playing in the pool, eating, and playing in the apartment. We adults had fun catching up!

There was a Cedarville get-together at a park last evening. We didn't really know many people there, but it was well attended, had good food, and was really fun to chat with fellow Cedarville-ers.

Here we're picnic-ing during a walk on a trail near our house.
All around us it waterfalls. We are at the Old Tobacco Plant in Durham, before the Durham Bulls baseball game. It was really pretty walking around before hand, and the kids did great for the game (we got lawn seats). Lauren is not fond of fireworks though, we found out at the end.

New Friends

The first week we were here, a lady and I started talking at the park near by. She invited us to go to the Life and Science Museum with her and her daughter Paige, since she was a member and could get us in for free. We were touched by her kindness and had a great time going. We've met there with them a few times now. They are so fun to be with-The Lord really blessed us with our new friends!

We walked on the Dinosaur Trail.




There's live bears, wolves, farm animals, turtles, snakes, etc.

Carter thought it was funny to eat watermelon with no hands!

We went to our new friend Marissabel's house where the kids played with her kids, as well as her bunnies and fed the neighbors horse.

The Beach

We took a family trip to Wrightsville Beach at the ocean. It was such a relaxing, fun day. The drive, if you take the right ramp, is about 2 hours, 15 minutes. I made it a little over 3, but we know now :-)
(Above) I now have a buddy to relax with on the beach towels, collect shells with, and watch everything going on around us.

Jason finally has someone to play sports with on the beach! All Carter wanted to do was dribble the ball around. He had quite a fan club watching and got lots of "wows" from others

The air was about 87, the water was 82...ahhh!