I'll have to post more details later on, but here are a few pictures from our weekend trip to St. Louis. We spent the weekend at a reunion of some of our dearest friends. It was absolutely glorious to see them all, and exciting to introduce Ansley to all the other new babies! The first picture is the girls with the kids (minus one baby--it was naptime, and, especially after such a long weekend, you don't mess with naptime!) including two in-utero. The other pictures are of the babies closest to Ansley in age...she is the middle born of three. Micah is 11 days older and Mikail is 11 days younger! Also, Justus is about 4 months younger. I don't have an individual picture of the newest baby-Garreth-he's only a month old, but he's in the group shot. I get a kick out of thinking about our reunion here in a couple of years when we'll have 5 two year olds...that ought to be an exciting time! All in all, it was a great weekend, and we were blessed by our time with our friends and their beautiful families.

The rest of the year...

It's hard to believe that it is August already, actually we are a third of the way through August... Man time flies. A couple of quick notes for the rest of this year, as I am now realizing that in some ways I have wasted most of the year already and in other ways not.

1) We will be blogging more often. I want to be able to keep up with my friends and family and want them to know what's going on with us. Sorry we've been so horribly lax in this.

2) On that same note I've decided to start telling my friends and family how I feel about them on a more regular basis. So often we rob others of the encouragement they need just b/c we're too embarrassed, busy, or insert another excuse here to tell them.

3) I have got to take better care of my body. I want to be around for the majority of Ansley's life. Laurel even said that I could start pranking people again (like in college) if it would help me lose weight! Watch out world...

4) We are going to give more. I don't know exactly what this looks like yet but it's coming...

Jesus, help me not to waste these days and not to fail in these objectives.