Puppets with Joshua and Andrea

Joshua and Andrea do a dry run of their puppet show -

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to Grandpa's in NY and KY -

Joshua clowns around

I got a new Flip camera for Father's Day, so expect to see more videos on my blog in the coming months. I've been holding off for a while on uploading some videos of Joshua acting silly on camera. Here are a couple of new ones -





Joshua and the girls are just getting warmed up. I'm sure we'll have some very funny videos given their creative spirit.

Elizabeth's recital costumes

Elizabeth's end of year ballet recital is on June 20th and 21st. We took a couple of photos of her with the outfits she will be wearing. She will be in three dances, including one solo performance. I'll have to post her solo costume later, but she will be dancing to Britt Nicole's "Set the World on Fire".




Listen to "Set the World on Fire" -

The Joy of Giving

Don't let the title scare you. I just wanted to make a short entry about something we have been working on with our three children. I found out about these things called Action Packs from Voice of the Martyrs. I first found out about this cool ministry from Randy Alcorn's excellent novel "Safely Home". It's one of those can't put down once you start novels.

Anyway, I decided to order an Action Pack for each of our three children and today we filled them. Elizabeth knitted a blanket and sweater for hers and she put her knitted hats in each of the bags. We were able to find the remaining items the bag listed and each child paid for the contents. We put a photo of the children in each bag. Finally, we mail them to Voice of the Martyrs and they send them on to Pakistan on our behalf to persecuted Christians.

I titled this entry The Joy of Giving because you can see by their faces that our kids loved putting these together. They are beginning to understand how much they've been given and it really blesses them to give back to others.

I took a photo of one of our Papaya trees. Kim has picked countless papayas from this tree and used them to make smoothies. This one is about 12 feet tall. Amazingly, it was just a baby tree 2 1/2 years ago. I'll get some photos of our Plumeria's when they bloom, which should be soon since the buds are already starting.