I just realized I had NO pictures of Tim as well as Noah in my last update, so I thought I'd start out this update with a picture of both of them. On Tim's birthday, he wanted to go to the YMCA as a family and play a new sport he and Nathan have been getting into called pickleball! It's kind of like tennis and ping pong played with a wiffle ball on a basketball court (makes sense to me!) - it really is a lot of fun and a good workout! Check out Tim in action:
That night we went to the Rays game for his birthday and watched them win against the Orioles! A great time was to be had by all! :-)
The week after Tim's birthday my good friend, Dawn, was given a night to stay at a house on the Weekie Wachee river, so we had a girls' weekend (Friday and Saturday) with our daughters. We had access to 2 kayaks and 2 floats, so we tried tying the floats to the back of the kayaks and letting the girls get in the kayaks and try to go up the river with us in the floats. Oh my gosh - I SO wish I could have had a video of it. I haven't laughed that hard in AGES! To make a long story short, we were all paddling our hearts out and literally going nowhere because the current of the river was so strong, but then it took us like another 30 minutes just to make it back to the dock and get out! All the while, people were paddling by us left and right looking at us like we were complete idiots (I felt like saying, "Thanks for the help there, Florence Nightengale"!) Actually, I don't know that I would helped us either - we looked pretty pathetic! :-) Sorry we have no pictures of that, but we do have a couple of pictures we took on the dock later that day:
The next day was Father's Day, and Tim has been saying he wants us to get chartreuse shirts and get pictures made in them. Well, we were able to get some chartreuse shirts for him, and we did a quick demo shot with them on. We also gave him his favorite candy, twizzlers, with origami flowers (that Nicholas taught each of us to make) perched on top of each strand of twizzler and put into a vase to look like a bouquet. It wasn't even anything we saw in a magazine or anything - the idea just kind of evolved as we talked about giving him the twizzlers, and I have to say, it turned out pretty good, if I do say so myself! :-)
That brings us pretty much up to date! One more thing I should mention is this cool thing that has happened over the past couple of months regarding marriage ministry for us. We taught marriage classes for years using materials from Intimate Life Ministries that we just loved. We had always wanted to partner with them in some way, but when our church went in a different direction and started using other material for the marriage classes we just put that desire on the back burner. A couple of months ago we found out about Intimate Life holding a pastor's conference in Clearwater beach, and to make a long story short, we were invited to participate in that and subsequent follow up sessions with the pastors and church leaders who attended the conference (I was just on a skype session with several of them tonight). This weekend we are helping out with another training session with these couples, and we are just so excited to see so many doors opening up in this arena! So please be praying that we would be wise to step through the doors we should and close those we shouldn't, but right now, it all seems like a wide open door that we're excited to be going through! Thanks for joining us on our journey and any prayers on our behalf are most appreciated! Blessi
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