Little Missy

Well, I guess we haven't posted pictures of our little missy for a long time! We sold our big camera and got a smaller point and shoot. Turns out I use it a lot more (still not a lot).

Helping with the black beans.

Silly face - YUP, our floor usually looks like that. Kaeda's at Joey's feet like always.

Hanging out with Papa and Nana.

Twirling hair - watch out, it's either hers or yours!

Peace, ya'll!

p.s. Did anyone notice the obnoxiously bright coral color in Joella's room? It's actually pretty sweet. Even better, we found it in the garage when we bought the house!

Holiday Ball

 Johnni and I hadn't been to a military ball since I was in ROTC, but tonight I had my Battalion holiday ball. We dropped Joella off with some of our friends and went on a date of sorts.

 

Since we had a military ball every year in ROTC, tonight sorta reminded us of being back in college. Good times. Here's a photo from the last ball we went to in 2007. A lot has changed since then. Things like, you know, I had more hair back then.

When we looked in the mirror tonight before going out the door we felt a lot older. I guess a kid, a deployment, and almost 5 years will do that to you.

No news is good news...

We are so far overdue for blogging...it just seems so overwhelming sometimes to think about all of the time we could put into keeping up this blog up to date. For today we're just going to do a quick post with a few photos -- hopefully we'll get back into blogging again pretty soon.


Here are a couple photos of our Thanksgiving. Johnni and I have really been enjoying our time here in El Paso. We feel like God is working on our hearts and changing our lives -- we are so thankful to have the friends that we have here and a family of believers in Christ who challenge and support us.

We had some of Joella's best friends over for lunch...it just so happens that their parents are some of our best friends here too! Here's Ittai, Joella, and Daniel before the feast.

 

We also got to catch up with Joella's grandparents back in Iowa. Sorry we didn't make the 24 hour drive back (ok, we're not that sorry!).

In other news....I've been working some really long hours lately at work, but hopefully that will slow down pretty soon. We bought a house down here, which is something Johnni and I thought would not happen for at least 10 years because of all of the moves we've had to do...but it felt right and we haven't regretted the decision yet -- ask us in a few years! We didn't realize how much we would appreciate the conveniences of a house after the 3 months of living in hotels.

That's all for now -- I don't want to get burned out after one post back!