The Babies are Here! The Babies are Here!

We have had a whirlwind of baby action in our family.  Susi and Luke were due in July.  Autumn and Nick were due in August.  They were due about 10 days apart.  Sometimes life works out differently than planned.  Autumn ended up with an emergency c-section 2 weeks ahead of section so she got the July baby.  Susi was about a week overdue so she got the August baby.  Both babies are gorgeous, healthy, and so loved by us!  Welcome Sawyer David and Johanna Lake!  Uncle Josh and Aunt Cate have a blast with all the littles!

We have started "back to school."  Josh is a freshman this year at Homestead High School.  It is a large school but with the bigness comes a great ESL or ENL(English Second Language or English New Language) program. The kids have had the same ESL teacher for their middle school years and now they continue with her at the high school.  She is fabulous and is determined to see these guys survive high school.  We love her!
Cate is in her last year at Woodside Middle School as an 8th grader.  Woodside has been a wonderful school with great teachers for Josh and Cate.  Moving onto the high school is kind of scary with 2200 students enrolled. Josh is running Cross Country and that gives him a good group of guys to hang out with.  Josh also continues to play baseball.   Cate plays on the volleyball team so she has her good group of friends too.  We are blessed that both kids have teams to keep them active and involved,

A couple of milestones have happened.  Josh got his braces off after 2 years.

Cate decided on a whim to get her hair cut.

Both kids look great and are ready to move forward.  

 We have had a lot of family time lately and we love it.  We love our families!  Families are Forever we say!  The Lord has done spectacular things for us...we're overjoyed.  Psalm 126:3


Thanks for reading the blog and praying for us.  We appreciate you.  Keep the faith!  Keep your eyes on the goal!

Choosing joy,
Chris & crew