Sunday, April 22, 2012

Big catch-up post (with lots of pictures)


Where to begin?  Well, for starters, the weather has been really nice and so we've been outside a lot.  We're also continuing school trying to wrap up math for the year and chipping away at english too.  We've already begun "next year's science" because we just love the subject so much : )  We've also taken a few educational and fun trips lately.
This is our last month here where we live and so we are enjoying as much time with our church family as we can before we have to move and start all over somewhere else.  We are excited to see what God has in store for us!  Here are some of the things we've done recently:

Chad took Anna, Olivia and Christopher to their first baseball game!
Welcoming our friends home from China with their precious new son!
Gideon with his daddy : )
Hiking on some great trails and enjoying God's beautiful creation

Anna took these pictures of caterpillars she found during our walk

Christopher playing at a park
A little Easter fun before church where we celebrate Jesus' resurrection every week
Enjoying beautiful artwork by my girls
We love trips to museums.  Recently, we were able to see real terra-cotta warriors discovered in a tomb in China!

Amazing to think these were carved hundreds of years before the birth of Christ!
Emma can draw happy faces now

...and a few letters of the alphabet!

Chad reading the book of Isaiah to us.  We're learning a lot!
One animal we've been learning about is squirrels.  Thankfully we have a lot in our yard to study in action : )
Fun craft projects
Sweet Adelyn continues to melt our hearts with her cuteness everyday
She's 6 months old now and starting to sit up by herself!
A fun trip to the zoo with friends


This anteater got really close to us!  Amazing creatures.


Olivia continues to knit
Anna really likes crocheting
Anna's creative work : )  The girls trade these 6x6 squares with friends from church so that they can eventually piece together a quilt when they reach 100 squares
Christopher helping put chairs away after church.  He loves to work!

Anna, Olivia and a friend preparing communion trays for the church.  They like to help daddy Sunday mornings when he is the deacon on duty : )
Sophia and Christopher playing in sand out back after church.

We are moving in less than a month to a new state and home.  Here is a sneak peek of our new house!






 God has blessed us beyond what we deserve.  We are thankful for the life He has given us in Christ and the work he has for us to do on this earth.  We are having fun and learning so much too.              With love, Sandi