just another week

Wednesday: finally made it all the way to the top bunk all by himself.

Thursday: got a little too excited about climbing into the top bunk all by himself and fell out.

Friday: picked bright orange for his very first cast (with a little help from big brother Shiloh).

checking things off...

One of the things on my list lately has been to update this old blog. A few weeks ago I wrote out Brynna's birth story to post, but it just hasn't made it that far. One of these days I'll give her an official blog introduction. For now, a quick update and a few beach photos will have to do.

Since my last post, we’ve had lots of funny, boring, everyday happenings, and we’ve also had some big ones:
finished semester number seven,
took a trip to Branson and met our new niece, Maya Reagan,
enjoyed a wonderful Christmas with siblings,
started semester number eight,
added sweet Brynna Rie to our family,
surprised with the gift of a new-to-us van,
enrolled Shiloh in soccer,
entered the wonderful world of the MacBook,
finished semester number eight,
received a visit from great old friends,
celebrated Eli’s second birthday,
and
said goodbye to Eli’s beautiful curls and hello to spiky hair,
just to name a few.

Now we're spending as many minutes at the beach with Daddy as we can before he starts his LAST SUMMER OF SEMINARY and we say goodbye to him until the end of June...

Eli rambling his way to our spot

Brynna soaking up some Vitamin D

"the crazies"

(as they are affectionately called by the one who knows them best)

and my new favorite

(this one may go up on their wall...)