Chrstmas Banquet

The AWC Winter Wonderland!!!

It's Christmas!!!

Had a fun photo shoot... getting ready for Christmas cards!!!

Happy Birthday!

Julia turned one year old. It was so fun to have a little party just for her! Here is her cake... It was fun working with Stephen to make and decorate it!



So much fun with our sweetie!


Can't believe she's already one!


Tasting the icing!


Doing better now that she has her fork!



Uncle Josh made the trip from Florida!!! It was a great surprise! :)



Enjoying all of her gifts!

Autumn Days

I love Fall! The holiday preparations, sweater weather, candles, soup, the pretty leaves... it's just a woderful time of year!

Starting a New School Year!

It's so much fun to have everyone back on campus again! We were also excited to meet the new freshman class at AWC. Stephen has the priveledge of being their class sponsor. The first Fri. evening we invited some of them over for supper and croquet. It was a great time! God has sent us some wonderful young people to work with!

Nathan, Lynette, and Katie are trying to master the Bop-It Game...


Brandi is my faithful kitchen helper!


A view of our exciting game


Julia decided croquet wasn't her thing.


Nathan is concentrating real hard...


These ladies don't look impressed.



Mr.Troyer... he's off duty and playing with us!

Lancaster Vacation

Julia's first vacation! It was so relaxing and we found tons of neat stuff to do!



We realized that our little girl loves animals! She pulls at them, giggles with them and really enjoys herself!


We went to a petting zoo!


Wheee! Who do you think had more fun?


We visited an old mill. The tour was very interesing.




We got lost in a corn maze! It was huge... we wandered around for a little over two hours!




Hmmm... which way should we go?



I'm going this way!





A trip to Lancaster isn't complete without an Amish buggy ride!




We also got to enjoy a ride on an old steam train!



Uncle Josh introduces the famous Sight & Sound experience!



Aunt Christy and Julia are sharing a chocolate chip cookie!




My parents were delighted to be a part of Julia's first vacation!

Fun with Friends!

It's so much fun to watch Julia with people these days. She studies and stares and if you're really special you might get a smile!
Leigha is Julia's "little mother" whenever they get together! She loves to help take care of the baby!




One of Julia's favorite college friends... Susie is almost like one of the family! We love it when she makes time in her busy schedule to visit us.





Julia thinks Carlin is just the greatest! She loves it when "little people" come around. We are getting use to having Hansel and Danae as neighbors... we sure will miss them when they go to Haiti!




These three sure look like they could be trouble! Isn't Alendria's smile cute?




"Whew! All this excitement makes me tired!"

Cottage Hill VBS

We had a great time doing the VBS at my "home church." So much fun to spend time with family!

Cabin Run V.B.S.

We did two V.B.S.'s this year. The first one was at Dave and Dorcas's church. It was very enjoyable to spend time with the family! The two teeny cousins, Josiah and Julia, were hilarious to watch!



Here we are getting ourselves pulled together.


Having fun with the kids!


Stephen helps me tell the Bible stories.


sisters...


Our men working hard!


Leanne and Jonathan floating away! (not really)


Julia's first time to slide! Not sure that she was impressed...


Here we go!


Julia tasted the sand. She must have like it, cause she kept eating it! Josiah was smarter then that!


It was so pretty to watch the sun set over the lake!