Growing Up

Little Anna Brooks is starting to give us some complete nights of sleep.
She's just the sweetest thing, she loves kisses on her
little pillow cheeks and her roll-y neck!


Carter's now expanding his sphere of influence, personality and boundaries!
"I really like your Horsey-Tail, Mommy." - complimenting Natalie's pony tail
"That's not the question!" - when he doesn't quite agree with our disciplining

Falling Leaves

Seeing the treelined neighborhood street with drapes of falling leaves streaming across the sunlit sidewalks, I love this season. I love football, chili, gloves, raking leaves even, walks with the kiddos, curling up... It seems like yesterday when Natalie and I were scrambling through our final preparations for little Carter. And now, suddenly, he's singing "I've Been Working On the Railroad" into an antique walking cane. And he's got a little sister who is getting cuter, and bigger, day after day.

In all things...

"He is before all things, and in him all things hold together." Colossians 1:17

We cling to this truth during this time. We know that the Lord honored the desires of our heart for our new home, and yet this truth becomes more foggy each day the "For Sale" sign remains in our yard, becoming more and more comfortable every day.

Natalie and I spent the formative years of our marriage in this house, we welcomed two precious babies to this world in this house, we've celebrated birthdays, Christmas's, Easters, Halloweens, we've seen one take his first steps and grow into a little boy. Great memories in a great house, I'm sure we will miss it.

In him, all things hold together...

Halloween's Past: '06 Puppy Gog

Halloween's Past: '05 Little Lion

Trick or Treat!

Always one of our favorite times in the Links is the annual Halloween parade where all little spooks and goblins gather in Gazebo Park and march around Blackburn, Pembroke and Windsor to begin the evening's festivities!

This year, we had a little Bunny (Anna Brooks) and a little Pony (Carter). We were joined by Eva Elizabeth and Matteson Sanderson as little lady-bugs. Carter enjoyed making a "Hee-Haw" sound in his pony costume, and our little bunny Anna Brooks tuckered out about two houses into the evening.