A few of the latest pics of the girls!
Sick day for everyone including mommy!
PULL-UP Girl to the Rescue!
High chairs watching movies
So we knew what we were in for when we moved back to NW Iowa after being acclimated to SoCal for 4 years. But this winter has been a little ridiculous with snow around since Thanksgiving and there's still probably a layer of ice about 3 inches thick at the bottom third of the driveway.
It definitely doesn't help either when we had a low of -19 the other morning. Our senior pastor said he pulled the van out of his garage and the temp. said 19 and by the time he got his kids to school it had dropped to -19, a nice 38 degree fluctuation in the wrong direction.
I'm definitely craving a round of golf at this point in late-January! Spring come quickly!
Life in our house has been quite interesting since Erin's last post. We've taken on a roommate, a 19 yr. old girl who found out she was pregnant right before Christmas. She was a sophomore at Northwestern but now is taking classes full time at NCC in Sheldon.
Long story short, we only knew her through the connection we had with her boyfriend, but felt led to provide her with some "shelter" in the craziness she's in during this season of life. It's definitely been a good place for her to be with Erin home most of the time so she doesn't feel alone. We're also trying to speak a little into lives of her and him as a couple. They had a rough first month after everything came out, but this past week has definitely been the best yet for them and I think for us as well.
We think we're a little nuts because we've been married 7 yrs. this summer and we feel like we have 3 daughters- 19, 2.5 and 1.5. At least that's the way I feel. God is good and has blessed Erin and I's relationship through it all as well!
Erin started her teaching job at Dordt this week- 3 sections of A&P lab between Thursday and Friday afternoons. She said it was weird to be the teacher of a class in a college classroom.
I'm into the process of potentially starting seminary this summer via Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, MN. They have an InMinistry program that takes 5 yrs. that would allow me to keep doing what I do at Trinity while I would take classes via on-line correspondence. I would also have to be on campus for a total of 4 wks., 2 wks. twice a year. That would all start sometime in late May or early June. Crazy to think we're looking that far ahead and before you know it I will be on the golf course and it will be summer and we'll be looking to Fall already!
