Looking forward to Hope

Baby Hope that is. Jodi says she can't wait for Hope to be born. Of course, I know that doesn't mean she wants to have the baby now, she's just excited. I am also excited for baby Hope, but it's nice to wait, and get prepared for having 3 kids. Really, who wants to rush that. Let's enjoy the time we have now with our 2 little girls and the peace and quiet, before it goes into crazy overdrive with 3 little girls.

This weekend we had the pleasure of having a few of our friends and their 2 adorable little girls visit us from Washington and hang out. They have a beautiful 5 month old, who just smiles at everyone, and it was nice to see a little baby face around the house again without having to change any of the diapers or do any of the dirty work associated with it. We had a great time hanging out with our friends this weekend, and now we are getting back to our busy lives.

I started up a Greek class at church that I'm excited about. I look forward to finally understanding Greek sentence structure and word meaning to gain insight about the bible that I've never had before. I mean, I've tried to understand the Greek in the bible... look at the blog on 1 Cor 7, and see my attempt at understanding Greek.

It's a ...

Healthy Baby Girl

99.9% sure we're going with the name Hope Eliana.

Tomorrow's the Big Day

We find out the sex of the baby tomorrow.

I'm not sure if I'm nervous or excited... I mean seriously what do I have to be nervous about.

This Week

Monday, we find out whether we are having a boy or girl. I'm still not sure that if we have a 3rd daughter that I can, with good conscience, name her Hope. Seriously, think about it, Grace, Faith, and Hope... kinda cheezy, right, but right now that's probably the best name we have. I'm hoping for a boy, but I think all that Radiation from the nuclear reactor on the submarine must have destroyed all my boy swimmers... I guess that's what happens when you stand right next to the reactor. All joking aside. I'm excited to find out in just a few days, a little nervous, but excited. Right now, I call our baby both Hope and Ephraim or "little baby", and it will be nice to have a name to call her/him, and will let you all know shortly the name that I will continue to call the baby. I'm glad everyone is getting their guesses in now on expectnet... we have like 10 guesses now, and that is very cool. Keep your eyes peeled in the upcoming days. I'm so excited.

Soon, very soon

... we get to find out whether we're having a boy or girl. A little less than a month, and now is probably a good time to get some wagers going... (the game is completely free) but might as well make them and see who is the closest.



To help make your guesses a little more edumacated...
Grace was 2 weeks overdue 8 lbs 6 oz and 21 inches long
Faith was 1 day over 8 lbs 5 oz and 20 inches long...

so make your best guesses people. Oh, and get the guesses in before we announce the sex of the baby, it's worth 500 points if you get it right.

Oscar Mayer

The weinermobile was in town and we got the kids pictures taken... so cute.


Grace being a weiner

Faith didn't want to get her picture taken by herself.

Devotions with the Kids

Today we decided to go back to doing a devotion with the kids. I'm not sure if we'll do this every day or once a week, because the kids seemed to lose interest pretty quickly. The devotion was about Jesus doing a very unbelievable thing and dying on the cross to pay the penalty for us, even though we are sinners. Then afterwards, Faith started asking me all sorts of questions about her Great Grandma dying (which happened a little less than a month ago, but I waited until the other day to tell them). It was interesting to see her think about these questions, I could see the little gears turning in her head as she tried to think about what she was asking, and it was kind of hard to answer them. She asked about the spirit, the brain, heaven, and our bodies, and man was I amazed at her thought process.