Happy 10 year Anniversary!

Wow! I can't believe we have been married for 10 wonderful years. I am so lucky to have Matt for my husband. He is kind, patient, loving, understanding, gentle, generous...just to name a few. He is so good with Nate and willing to help out extra when I have had a rough day. I couldn't imagine my life without him. He is constantly reminding me of God's faithfulness and encouraging me to trust Him more. I am grateful for how hard he works so that I can stay home and experience each growing moment with Nate.

Matt I love you so much. Thank you for how you protect your family from outside influences, how you provide for us financially, how you challenge us to not be satisfied with our walk with God, but to continue to look for ways to be more like Him and less like the world, how you lead us in being faithful and consistent in attending church. In hopes that meeting with other believers will become like breathing to our children, that they will never ask us if we are or have to go to church today, for loving me the way I am, for encouraging and supporting me. I have absolutely loved our life together and am so thankful for where God has us right now. I look forward to many more years together. I look forward to walking this journey with you and seeing where God leads us over the next 10 years.

Your The BEST!
Jamie

So embarrassing...

Nate and I went to the zoo and then headed to McDonald's for some lunch. After we ate, I let Nate play on the play equipment. There were quite a few big kids there so after about 10 minutes I told Nate he could go down the slide 1 more time and then we were leaving. Well, he decided to climb all the way to the top and perch himself in a car. He had no plans of moving or leaving. He would occasionally look down at me, but did not move an inch. One man tried to help by telling his son to have Nate follow him down...no such luck. Another lady offered to climb up and get him. At one point, he started coming down, but then he saw me a climbed back up. Finally, a worker said she would go get him. How embarrassing!! So this sweet little worker has to climb up and pull my son down. Nate thought it was so cool. On the way home, we have a nice little talk about how the workers job is not to rescue disobeying little boys. All he said was, "that worker stretched out my shirt." I don't think we will be playing at McDonald's anytime soon.

Fun in the Sprinkler

The other night Nate was playing in the sprinkler.

Matt joined in on the fun.

I couldn't resist playing with my boys....

and I guess the neigbors couldn't either!

This is Nate with our sweet neighbor JoAnn

Riding a Bike!

Nate has been learning how to ride his bike. He can steer and pedal, but still has a little trouble stopping. He still puts his feet down instead of using the pedals to stop. I guess it helps to have long legs. He looks so big with his helmet and elbow pads (he insists on the elbow pads). Sorry the video is not the best. I still need to video him riding down the sidewalk. Enjoy!

Lesson Learned

One night in April, Matt and I were in the living room when we heard a pinging noise. Matt went into our office to find that our computer hard drive had crashed. I started crying b/c all of our pics from March 2006 are saved on that hard drive and NO WHERE ELSE. Nate was born in July 06. Since then, our sweet friend Daniel has been trying to recover pics from our memory cards. I now have all my pics of Nates birth!!! Yeah! We are still missing 3 months in 2007 and 6 months in 2008. Sadly, I have zero pics from Nates 2nd birthday, Halloween 07/08, family vacation to Destin (this one makes me sick), our getaway to NYC without Nate, and many fun pics of just everyday life. We are now trying to decide if we should pay to try to repair the Hard drive. I guess there is a 50% it could work.


I get really sad if I think about losing these pictures. I try to remind myself that these pictures are an earthly treasure (not a bad treasure, but they are still not eternal) and that I still have the best gift, Nathan. And hopefully, Nate will surrender his life to the LORD one day, and we will get to spend eternity together. There are people leaving this world everyday without Christ and I'm worried about pictures...sad.


Still praying that we are able to recover the remaining pics, but trying to have the right perspective along the way.

Ellie Grace

I had an ultrasound the other day to see if my placenta had moved. Placenta is good, but I have to have another ultrasound in 4 weeks b/c she is measuring a little small. So basically, baby small, but mama ain't! I just loved looking at her. She has found a comfortable position and not wanting to move. About 2 weeks ago, I noticed that my belly was lopsided and that I could feel a hard round thing. I thought it was her bottom, but it turned out to be her head. The tech made me get in all these different positions to try to get her to move (b/c she was blocking the view of the placenta), but she wasn't budging. She finally moved just long enough to get a good look and then back she went. What's funny is with Nate, my belly was lopsided to the left.

Here's a pic of Ellie Grace showing off her muscles. I think she did this to show her big brother that she's pretty tough too.

Ice Age

We took Nate to his first movie last night with our Sunday School class, Ice Age 3D. We do not allow Nate to watch anything but G, but decided to make an exception (which we will not do again). The movie was cute, but I don't understand why they have to have crude jokes and use words that most people don't allow their children to use. Anyway, we had a great time and Nate did to. The movie was probably 2/3 of the way over when Nate said, "Lets go do something else." Afterwards, we went to Falcone's with our sweet friends the Websters and then for some yummy ice cream at Marble Slab. All in all, it was a wonderful night with family and friends.