Family Blog

While Jill, Israel and Samuel are on a walk, Israel tries to help a worm cross the road, but he’s a little scared.

Our little garden is growing nicely! Derick and Israel give a little video update.    

So…I guess it’s not technically a campfire if we aren’t camping out, but we love our little fire pit and we use it all the time! Check out these fun pics and videos from our lovely summer evening yesterday! P.S. The fire pit was a gift from Derick’s mom that came from Walmart!  

Israel saw this cute little bunny outside the other day, and asked me to come outside and see it! The bunny let us watch it for awhile before it hopped away!

So…this year we decided to plant a garden since our place has a little raised bed. We got some tips from my expert gardener sister (Jana) and got to work. Our little family has never done this before, so we certainly aren’t experts! We just thought we’d share some fun pictures and videos of our

We always love fellowshipping with our international friends. A couple nights ago, one of my Iraqi friends invited our family to the local Mosque for an Iraqi feast during Ramadan. While Derick was with his friends (men and women have separate sections in the mosque), I hung out with my friends. Here is a little

We’ve been working with Israel on memorizing portions of the Bible. Here is a passage from Ephesians 6:10-20. He is so cute as he gets distracted and excited during certain parts.

We had a fun day celebrating Jill’s birthday at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO with my mom (Cathy), my brother (Dan) and his wife (Deena).  Part of Jill’s “buddy team”, her brother (James) and sister (Jennifer) also joined us.