Misc summer pics! Part one

I finally downloaded some of my pictures from my camera from over the summer and I discovered that I had a few misc ones so here they are:


Peyton on his rocking horse


Jensen with Aunt Lara at the Wesley Chapel Sunday School picnic. They had a train for the kids pulled by a golf cart!


Story time!

Thanks for your prayers

Well, again it has been a few weeks since I have posted because as usual life got crazy. Almost a month ago now Brian lost his job of three years unexpectedly. It came as quite a shock and was very scary as he is the sole income for our family. After the initial shock and fear wore off we knew that the only one we could turn to in our time of need was God so we began to seek the Lord's guidance and asked for the prayers of many of our friends and family. We really felt those prayers and thankfully within a week of being off work Brian got a job interview at a design firm in Midland called Design Craftsman. He had applied there before but never got a call to interview and he was very interested in this particular company as they design exhibits for museums, auto shows, etc and he had done some work like that when we lived in Clarkston almost 6 years ago and loved it! Anyways, long story short, God was watching out for us as Brian got the job and started work there last Wednesday! Definately an answer to prayer and in God's perfect timing! Thank you to all of you who prayed for us and helped encourage us during that rough time.

Deer Acres

The other day the boys and myself had the chance to have a fun day with Grandma Mowat before she goes back to school next week. It is always fun to have her around more often during the summer and the summer always goes by way too fast!! We decided to take the boys to Deer Acres in Pinconning. I hadn't been there since I was a kid and didn't really even remember going just seeing pictures of it. It was a neat experience. We got to see lots of animals like monkeys, llamas, an alligator and of course deer. We went on a train ride through the woods which was Jensen's favorite part, accept he wasn't sure he liked it to well when the horn or the bell went off. After we left Grandma treated us to ice cream, it was lots of fun!

A Day at the Fair

Myself and Brian's mom were able to take the boys to the Isabella County Fair the other day and it was lots of fun. We went during the day so Brian wasn't able to go with us. I had never been to this fair before having always gone to the Midland Fair and it was a lot smaller but it had a lot of kids rides. Fortunately we happened to go on wristband day so I got one for Jensen and one for me because some of the rides I had to go on with him and I needed a band too to be able to do that. He really enjoyed them and soon was brave enough to do a lot of them himself! I was excited that he is going to like to ride rides like Momma!
Here he is on some of the rides:

Peyton sitting up

Sorry this is a little dark but just wanted to give you an idea of what he is doing right now.

Peyton @ 6 months

Well, Peyton is 6 months now! Half a year, wow how fast time flies! He is getting really big and doing new things all the time. He is starting to sit up on his own now and he is rolling over both from stomach to back and back to stomach. He moves around all over the floor now and acts like he wants to crawl already! That is scary, mom is not ready for that yet! He is losing a lot of his dark hair :( He is taking baths in the big tub now with his brother. He still wants nothing to do with solid foods which is strange for a six month old but he is a really happy baby and such a blessing to us! Here are some recent pictures of him:

Tigers Game

I was able to tag along last minute to a Detroit Tigers game the other night. It was alot of fun. We had a packed vehicle as we had Dad, Mom, Uncle Neil, Janelle, Bethany, Valerie, Lara and myself (Leah). The weather was beautiful for a ballgame and they won 9 to 3!!

Here are some pics!