Quotes from Kiah

Here are a few random quotes from Kiah recently:

I have to wash my face slow and brush my teeth slow because I am a slow person.

My belly needs a donut.

That muffin is as big as the biggest giant ever.

After Jon had some flowers delivered to the house for me, Kiah said:
Who gave you flowers? You don't need any flowers. Daddy must have given those flowers to that lady and she gave them to you. That is how it has to work.

Pictures

On Saturday, we headed off in the car and took a photo shoot of the kids.

back from the hollers

This past weekend we headed back to the hollers of Eastern Kentucky. Saturday was Jon's 5th year college reunion at Kentucky Mountain Bible College, so we spent most of the day with some of his good college friends. The rest of the weekend we spent at Oakdale. Jon and I worked at Oakdale before we went to Africa. We always love going there. Jon spoke at Oakdale's baccalaureate service on Sunday morning. Jon used this quote from G.K. Chesterton in his message:

A child kicks its legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough... It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again," to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again," to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike: it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.

Almost all the parents laughed at Oakdale. They know what it feels like to have your child say "do it again, do it again" until you are about to pass out. I thought I would post a few pictures of Kiah and Jacob in the things that they love to "do again."

Kiah spent all morning jumping from the couch
onto this ball and flying across the living room.

Jacob eats, sleeps and breathes trains. He
never gets tired of playing with them. He loves
to watch them go around and around.

Weeds

As you will be able to tell from the pictures below, our yard is a plethora of weeds. Although I have been annoyed by them, Jon is teaching me to see their beauty.

Trip to Keeneland

Very early Saturday, we headed to Keeneland for Breakfast with the Works. It is great, you get a nice breakfast and get to watch the horses warm-up around the track. The kids loved it. It was dark and raining so pictures didn't come out as I had hoped. The first picture is a horse farm on the way to Lexington, the rest are from Keeneland.

Weekend in Gatlinburg

This past weekend we headed to touristy Gatlinburg, TN to spend the weekend with Jon's family. Even though it rained everyday except the day we left, we had a great time. We rented a beautiful cabin with a great view. Here are a few pictures from the weekend.

Family Pictures