About a month ago my Mom and Step-dad were up for a nice long visit. One of the stops we made was Apple Charlie's Orchard and Cider Mill. Stelly was less than impressed w/ the animals in the petting zoo area. You'd have thought she sees llamas everyday! It was a fun afternoon though and... Continue Reading →

For those of you who have been asking for some video, here is a clip of Stella in her Halloween costume for the annual Jackson Dawson Halloween party. I explained Halloween to her tonight-I told her its a fun time every year where you get to dress up and get candy for Daddy. She seems... Continue Reading →

it sure can get messy! maybe the tossing and turning shown in the previous post is to blame! i was wondering how we would tame the mohawk since stelly just had a bath yesterday and wasn't due for another one until tomorrow. i thought maybe some pine tar would help. or then again, maybe a... Continue Reading →

the past few nights we've taken pictures of stelly sleeping when we go in to check on her before we go to bed. isn't there something so sweet about watching a baby sleep? stelly has been in some strange positions lately. last night she was on all fours with her bottom way up in the... Continue Reading →

we were in chicago from thurs eve - sun last week. the trip wasn't quite what we had planned. by some it might be considered a comedy of errors from car-sickness to a large rear dent (pun intended, will) to a flat tire to seeing hole in the wall apartments, but hey -- God's preparing... Continue Reading →

i wonder why?

Most of you know we're planning to do a team church plant with Will and Rachel P. in the Bucktown/Wicker Park area of Chicago. The area is an artsy, up-and-coming area that desperately needs God's fame to be proclaimed! There are countless details still in the works, but we are making progress. Here are a... Continue Reading →

stelly ate with a spoon for the first time this morning! she loved being independent and feeding herself (although she still needed some help "scooping")! oatmeal was a great food to start with since it sticks to the spoon so well. can't believe she'll be 14 months tomorrow!

stelly got her ears pierced this weekend. i'm not sure you can classify 3 mm diamond studs as real bling, so we'll call it baby bling. it was hard to photograph the earrings b/c they are so small and getting stelly to pose for a picture is impossible b/c she is such a mover! here's... Continue Reading →

stelly went almost a whole year with no teeth. now she has EIGHT that have popped thru just in the past month and 1/2! here she is brushing away so she won't need crest white strips down the road.

i would still think my favorite dessert in a springform pan is cheesecake,and that strainers were used only to drain pasta.

Everybody loves a birthday party. We celebrated Stella's this past July 28 (put that in your calendars and send cash in the coming years; we'll see that she gets it...) Erica had a ladybug theme (I mean if we did her nursery in ladybugs then we simply MUST carry the theme into the first birthday... Continue Reading →