an hour of micah's life...

reading from his favorite bible...(thanks uncle mark and auntie lauren!)


trying to nap (is it a surprise that these wide eyes didn't want to close?)


hitting dobby in the face. dobby then licked his hand - a great example of turning the other cheek!


playing on his 'farm' micah's feet don't touch the ground yet, so he's suspended like an angel. it is so cute to see his chunky thighs dangling in the air...


helping me with the laundry. whichever piece he would grab i would fold! as you can see, i've never gotten the hang of separating your dark clothes from whites!


sitting in the swing, preparing to cry - it was a busy hour, and no one likes having a camera flash in their face all the time!

birthday weekend!

had a wonderful weekend to celebrate my birthday. the day started with matt bringing me coffee and a bagel in bed. then i had a lot of time to putter around the house in my pj's and get stuff ready for scott, holly and cora's arrival that night! we had a great time with them...dulce de leche birthday cake, going to the brevard zoo saturday night, a bbq picnic at ballard park sunday afternoon, and a lot of fun times watching cora and micah play together around the house. it is so nice to have family close! they were so sweet to watch micah on saturday while matt and i went to mike and ashley's wedding - a great time celebrating with them and being with our youth kids without always worrying about micah! some pictures from the weekend...

wedding pictures!

some of the wedding pictures are done! check them out at http://blog.emilyjohnstonanderson.com/
they are just beautiful....

other fun things this past week...
our first 'core group' meeting at youth. a group of 6 or so that want to be discipled. we will meet for an hour each week for discussion/accountability. so excited for this!
a 'luau' with our youth kids on thursday. pineapple upside-down cake, kebabs and a hula contest followed by a bonfire. so sad i gave up my hula skirt and coconut top after wheaton!
a last-minute invitation to go to longdoggers with the Gonda family. they just had a really cute little girl 2 weeks ago. it was fun to sit outside and just chat on a friday night...

micah is sitting in his bouncy chair watching 'praise baby'. we just realized how much he loves these videos, and it buys us 30 minutes of un-interupted time...although we have a nagging guilty feeling the whole time that our child is in front of the tv being 'babysat' by a screen!

it's been an easy saturday. matt and i played tennis at the park this morning after i made a pancake and egg breakfast, and i just finished making blueberry lemon scones and chicken salad for the week...the laundry is done, and my inbox is cleaned out. it's a great feeling to be ready for the week ahead...

dog days of summer

it was such a sweet time to go the new jersey shore - a welcome break from the heat, but so much more so...an amazing celebration of mark and lauren. the love that they have for each other and the joy that they shared with everyone around them was so refreshing to be around - like taking a long cool splashy drink of water. such an emotional weekend. as matt put it 'you'd have to have a heart of STONE to not cry!' a full weekend of events - a picnic on the lawn of ocean grove overlooking the beach with the bridesmaids, a brunch at the castelli tenthouse, a beach day with the wedding party, a southern bbq rehearsal dinner on the open air porch of the B&B (complete with made-from-scratch guacamole, corn chowder, ribs, blueberry tea and an ice cream bar to top it all off!), and the wedding day! beautiful pictures on the beach with our pool party blue dresses and parasols - they are going to look amazing! the wedding itself was so mark and lauren - second story of a pier house with open windows to see the ocean and hear the waves on the clearest, bluest wedding day imaginable. lauren was radiant, and mark was beaming. hours on the dance floor and an amazing lunch and cupcakes/candy, followed by a sunset after-party on the beach with s'mores, a bonfire, sparklers and games in the sand. such a sweet weekend...so many beautiful details and wonderful memories and being so so happy for mark and lauren and their joyous life ahead.

we were so busy i forgot to take pictures- i'll post a link when they are ready, but here are a few of micah of course, and some scattered wedding weekend pictures!