I want to be BIG!

K and Z gave me a wonderful Father's Day present! It is a book called "So Very Big" with pictures of Z telling me how he wants to be big like his daddy! Here are a few excerpts from it! Thanks K and Z - Love you!

Time for an update!

It has been so long since we posted an update that Grandparents are threatening to drive to ND just to see little E!

Baby boy is doing so well. He is gaining weight and height (though perhaps length would be a more apt term being that he can’t stand up yet!) He is now closing in on two feet and twelve pounds! I joked yesterday that he will be taller than his more by age nine!

Life is good here in the Buffalo City! The past several days have been rainy - an incredible blessing for the farmers. Many of the men in church were concerned about their crops this year. One farmer so wisely said that God would still be a gracious and loving God even if rain didn't come but he would sure be thankful if it did!

We are excited for the next few weeks! K's side of the family will be visiting next week for a few days and after that a good friend of K's will be visiting for a week! Company is especially nice for K and E because I have a busy next two weeks. On Saturday around 20 high school students will be coming to church from across the country to participate in our two week Mission Experience. After a week of training the students will lead a group of kids at VBS. Be praying that God will use this experience to deepen each student's understanding of grace and that they will be motivated out of thankfulness to serve God in all things.

Hope that you all are enjoying the pictures above! The one of his hand has a tiny camouflage bandage on it (Uncle J would be proud) - K barely nicked the tip of his finger with the fingernail clipper. He didn't even fuss but we thought he needed a bandage and a picture of his first "owee."
Well, Z is tired... so we are going to take advantage of that fact and get some much needed sleep ourselves!

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God!

~L, K, and E