fishing with daddy

here are some pictures of Judah & BJ fishing--Judah caught
his first catfish!

First day of preschool--I can't believe it!

I'm a walker now!

Look at my new shoes (thank you Wal-Mart, $10!) because I'm a walker!!

Shiloh started walking about a month ago, but now she's all over the place. I don't know if the pictures do it justice, but it's more like running at you than walking to you! It's so much fun. She's so great and we just enjoy her so much. Zoe & Judah are great with her, they get as excited over what she does as we do and she wants to be wherever they are. I love that. They are all great--how dull our life would be without them.

the oz arrival

I took this from my dad's deck a few weeks ago--what an

amazing reminder of God's promise and a reminder that

in the midst of everything, He is STILL and will ALWAYS

BE--GOD.

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Well, this started out as a "business" blog and the conclusion I've come to is this: I am much better at setting up all the details of businesses than I am at actually starting them :) But who knows, maybe this will be the launch of it all.

As much as I'd like to think I will e-mail everyone and let them know all about what is going on in our lives, I'm becoming more and more realistic so I decided maybe a blogspot would be the best. sidenote--I did once believe that blogspots, myspace, etc. would be something I'd NEVER do, why not just have a real conversation with someone and really enjoy one another? A husband, three kids, a move, a lost dog and much, much more later, I am a blogger.

So we're here in Kansas. It's been one heck of a ride, but we're surviving. I think we're on the brink of not only surviving but actually living. We came here to my dad's flooded house and it's so close to being put back together. We feel so blessed to be able to stay with him and cannot even imagine what it's like going from being the only people in the house to adding a family of five! BJ is loving his job and it's great being near our family. On the flipside, we so miss our family & friends in Georgia. We couldn't even have imagined the void that would be left. Well, we imagined it, it's just a lot greater than we'd thought. As I said to a couple of you, sometimes it's almost easier to not even think about it at all, it just hurts too much. But we have never once doubted or questioned our calling to come here so in the midst of the chaos we've had that to stand on. I don't know what we would've done otherwise.

So this is a short one, but it's better than nothing, right? Below are some pictures I thought would be fun.

not a great pic, but an example of bj's type of work

this is one of the kids on the drive here & if you can see in the truck, it's Rusty...man, we miss that guy

this is a picture of some of the flooding at my dad's...it's hard to picture it, but basically there is normally 8 feet or so below this deck and never any water on this side. You can see those vehicles in the far upper right...it was about halfway up them, halfway up the rails of the deck. Crazy

happy 5th birthday, Zigga!

yee-haw! We have most definitely arrived because we have attended the county fair & rodeo!! Zoe & Malachi were in the calf scramble (for all you city folk, picture an arena full of kids in their cowboy boots chasing a bunch of calves, the first one to pull a calves tail wins. yep, that's right, we let her run with calves-- next up Spain--with Uncle Dave!)