the life and times of matt, jess, jude, ezra & theo
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
SOYC 2014
Southern Ohio Youth Camp was last week. This is one of my favorite weeks out of the year; however, I broke out my camera only...count this...2 days. Fail, right?!?! As it turns out being five and a half months pregnant and chasing after a toddler while camping with a lot of kids is a little tiring. Who would've thought. :) Even still it was an amazing week. God moved in our students' lives in such a mighty way. I keep hearing testimonies of how they have been transformed. This is what makes the time, effort, prayers, and investment worth it. I captured moments on Thursday & Friday during our tribal war activities. Matt, along with a lot of awesome leaders, organized crazy fun games for the camp. Jude and I stood on the side lines cheering everyone on most of the week, which is second best to actually being in the games.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Vacation 2014 & On Having A BOY!
First of all the month of June has been a whirlwind of one event after another. My last post was before the day we found out what our baby's gender was and followed up with my students' last musical performance, the last couple days of school, moving my classroom, leaving for a much needed vacation, returning to repack and go to youth camp. Like I said...a whirlwind. I want to give a special shout out to my father-in-law though. He keeps me on my blogging toes. Thanks for being our biggest fan, Donnie. ;)
Here we are though wanting to say we are so excited to say that we cannot be happier to say that WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER BOY. Honestly, Matt & I both thought we were having a girl. My pregnancy symptoms have been so different from my pregnancy with Jude that we were convinced it couldn't be another boy. We asked the ultra-sound technician to not reveal the gender in the room, but rather put the picture into an envelope. We left the doctor's office, went to Starbucks and opened the envelope at a little table in the corner of the shop. I think both of our mouths dropped open and then directly turned into huge grins. The only thing better than having one adorable boy is having two of them. The next day we decided on a name (which coincidently was not even on our name list). We absolutely cannot wait to meet Ezra!
Now...about our vacation. We took Jude to the ocean for his first time to Gulf Shores, AL. Thank you to our amazing friends Chris & Melinda Farley for providing housing for us. The accommodations were perfect for our family. The week was filled with sand playing, ocean swimming, seafood eating, and a lot resting. One of the best things about this vacation had to be the uninterrupted family time. Here a few (okay, maybe more than a few) pictures from our trip.
Here we are though wanting to say we are so excited to say that we cannot be happier to say that WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER BOY. Honestly, Matt & I both thought we were having a girl. My pregnancy symptoms have been so different from my pregnancy with Jude that we were convinced it couldn't be another boy. We asked the ultra-sound technician to not reveal the gender in the room, but rather put the picture into an envelope. We left the doctor's office, went to Starbucks and opened the envelope at a little table in the corner of the shop. I think both of our mouths dropped open and then directly turned into huge grins. The only thing better than having one adorable boy is having two of them. The next day we decided on a name (which coincidently was not even on our name list). We absolutely cannot wait to meet Ezra!
Now...about our vacation. We took Jude to the ocean for his first time to Gulf Shores, AL. Thank you to our amazing friends Chris & Melinda Farley for providing housing for us. The accommodations were perfect for our family. The week was filled with sand playing, ocean swimming, seafood eating, and a lot resting. One of the best things about this vacation had to be the uninterrupted family time. Here a few (okay, maybe more than a few) pictures from our trip.
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