Serve Medford

We had a team of 83 people, from 5 churches come and Serve Medford a week ago. What a HUGE blessing it was to have so many people to help us reach and serve our community. The teams did a variety of projects from cleaning up parks, to washing local store windows, to giving away granola bars at T stops. Some passed out door hangers to promote our Community Fun Night. On Friday night of the week they were here, we hosted a Community Fun Night at a local park. There was free food, games and give-aways. We had over 300 people from our community come and hang out that night. The week was amazing and we were so blessed!
It was great to get to spend some time with our friends from Ridgecrest in Durham. The kids had a blast hanging out with their youth. The Ridgecrest team worked in the parks, so we were able to spend a good bit of time with them. Their last day serving, they were in the park across from our house. They even kept our kids so we could enjoy a date one evening. What a blessing to have such sweet friends be here with us for a week!

Our Serve Medford Team

Ridgecrest Team (and our family)

Tom Buck worked hard replacing rotted wood on park benches all week. Cindy is here painting one of the benches in our park. They look great and are in much better condition now.

Ava clung close to Carly. It was sweet to see her connect with Carly and enjoy spending time with her. The Davis family even let Ava come and spendthe night with them at the hotel one night. She had a blast!

The Ridgecrest team spread wood chips at our park.
It made such a difference.

Capen Street Park

Emet's new BFF...he had a great time with Jeremiah and I think Jeremiah enjoyed hanging out with Emet. It was fun to watch them together. They are alike in so many ways...full of life and energy. Jeremiah was so sweet to let Emet tag along with him all week!

My sweet girl with her face painted at Community Fun Night

VBS

The kids participated in VBS at Hope Fellowship and I spent the week volunteering. It was a great week. The theme was "Big Apple Adventure." The kids had a blast learning, singing, doing crafts, eating snacks and playing games. I enjoyed seeing their excitement. We were blessed to be a part of this great week!

Acting out Bible stories

Don't let this face fool you!
(He really is sweet...just a hand full!)

Loving VBS!

Owen had fun in the nursery!

Emet and Brennan

A great week of VBS...lots of kids and lots of volunteers!

On stage for the performance!

Love this little man!

Sweet Family

These are for you Amy...sorry I haven't been posting enough pictures! We love you and miss you!

Owen has learned how to hold a bottle!

Ava is a great big sister!

Snuggle Buddies

My sweet girl

Soccer Nights

We were blessed to have a team from Open Door come and serve with us a couple of weeks ago. Soccer Nights wouldn't have been possible without them. Every night for a week we held a free soccer clinic for kids and had a blast! We had over 100 kids come out for this event. We were able to spend time teaching soccer, loving on kids and connecting with families. What a fun (but exhausting) week! Thanks to Open Door for serving and being here for the week!

Ava loved it!

The sweet girls from the team spoiled Owen. Here he is with Courtney.

Emet had a blast too!

Ava and Alana

Dribbling

Sweet kids

Double Trouble

My sweet girl

Jon and Zack
Thanks to Zack and Open Door for a great week!

Coach Mike

Group Shot

Catching Up...

I've been WAY behind and slacking in taking pictures these days. Here are a few of my favorites from the past few weeks. We had a crazy busy week last week with Soccer Nights and I will post pictures from that soon. For now, enjoy these!

Owen-5 Months
He is now almost 6 months...but these pictures are too sweet. We had him weighed today and he is now 13 pounds and 12 ounces...still a little squirt. He is in the 5th percentile for weight for a 6 month old baby. (He will be 6 months on the 27th).

I LOVE this kid!

On our way to see Cars 2

Cow Appreciation Day at Chick-Fil-A

Oh, my little Emet!!!

Vacation Pictures

Here are a few more pictures from our beach trip...there will be a post later from our photo shoot on the beach. We had a great trip and are thankful for our time with family!

Owen

Kelsey painted nails and then dressed the girls up in her clothes...what fun!

Sweet!

Sacked out!

Spencer and Owen
Owen is 11 days older than Spencer. It will be fun to watch them grow up together!

These girls love their baby brothers!