so, thanks to my wonderful iphone, i actually get to take pictures of the girls when i don't normally have my camera. maybe soon, i will have some back-up (ryan) and we can go out and take real pictures so olive won't grow up thinking we didn't love her. so here's a recap of the past couple of weeks.



picture explanations:
1. olive wearing lucy's tutu...which lucy demanded she wear, and then pulled it off of her.
2. lucy wanted to be like mommy, so we made her a sling for her baby...and she wore it around for quite a while.
3. our new ride.
4. aunt ann got lucy a new black baby doll...which lucy calls "baby johnny," just like ann's boyfriend, johnny. hysterical! it's even funnier when she takes it out in public and people try to point it out all quietly to others they're with.

lucy is loving playing outside now that it's beautiful outside. she's very unlike her mother...since i am quite the inside girl. i found lucy trying to put a bug in her mouth today...i would NEVER do that, much less touch a bug. it's hard to get her to come inside these days. we went to the zoo on monday with holly, allie grace, and annie. we all had a great time! but the best part was our new ride. a wonderful friend has passed along her double stroller to us!!! so excited...it is fabulous! i'm ready to start walking and being able to take them out more.

ryan has been extremely busy with the Kairos weekend at the prison, last week, and this weekend is ONE. ONE is a leadership conference that he has started at camp formosa and leads and heads up and all that stuff. so he has been extremely busy these past few weeks, and we have not seen much of each other. i'm ready for it to be here, because it will be great...but then ready for it to be over and return to normal life! we have also had some great contacts of our church that we will be planting in little rock. ryan has had some very promising meetings here lately and things are getting more and more exciting! for more about our church, read the eikon blog.

olive had her check up this week and the doctor said she was on the "petite" side...hahaha. i thought that was hilarious, since that doesn't really fit in to our family. she got her shots and started cutting her first tooth all on the same day! it's been a busy week!

well, that's all for now. some kid is screaming...i guess i should go see who it is...

I finally found some time to get a few shots of olive when lucy was visiting the grandparents the other day. as you can see, she is a big smiler and is just so freaking happy! i also threw in a shot of the girls from the other day when we were outside in their little coats..so cute.

if you want to see more, you can find them on my flickr page.