Life Lately - The start of summer

We've started the summer off with a bang!  May ended with a youth pool party, graduation parties, and more church league softball games for Robert.  My work assignment has basically finished, so I've been finding new ways to fill my time.  One thing that is a daily must is an afternoon nap!  I spent one morning filling out some pages from this adorable baby book from Bethany and Jason.

I've been enjoying teaching the middle school girls' Sunday School class since our second week at South Gate.  Aren't they great artists?

Robert randomly found this old SG jersey when he moved into his office.  This was the last week it fit me...

 We went to Oklahoma in mid-May for Robert's former roommate and dear friend Josh's wedding.  On this trip we learned that the Oklahoma Department of Transportation will indeed accept checks when you don't have enough cash to pay for the toll.

It was such a treat to go to Bolivar for the day and see Michael!  We calculated that we'd only seen him twice since our wedding, and one time was for just a couple of minutes, so it was great to spend several hours catching up on life, going to the park, and playing Frisbee golf.

Robert and I decided that it was totally acceptable for us to celebrate Mother's Day and Father's Day this year even though Baby V is still on the inside.  Robert treated me to some delicious cheesecake, a nice note, and these pretty flowers.

Robert had the opportunity to preach at South Gate for the second time, and it's so cool to see God give Robert the words to say to speak to His people.

We celebrated our third wedding anniversary on May 20, and Robert took a day off from work so we could spend the whole day together.

Three years!

Mom came for a day trip to spend the morning with me, and it was so great!  We ran lots of errands together, made a Starbucks and Panera trip, and officially talked each other's ears off.

The car seat and stroller are ready for Baby V!

Mittens turned three on June 1.  It can't be scientifically proven that this is indeed her day of birth, but it's the first time we ever saw her and she was a tiny kitten so I think that's official enough.  She celebrated with some of her favorite things: her toys, lots of brushing, and her dry food - sister just won't eat fancy wet food.  Robert made her some climbing blocks for her present.  These will allow her to survey her kingdom from above.

June has gotten off to an incredibly busy start.  Our youth participated in Serve Springfield which is a local mission trip in which several area churches join forces.  Our youth had a service project each morning: working in a neighborhood garden, painting at Victory Mission, and performing random acts of kindness.  In the afternoon they would go door to door in neighborhoods near South Gate to ask for food and clothing donations and to ask if we could pray for them.  Each evening ended with dinner and worship at a local church.  It was a great experience and a cool way to show love to our community.  The very next night we took the youth to 417 Youth Night at the Springfield Cardinals.  We had front row seats on the third base line, and it was a lot of fun!

I had my eighth prenatal appointment on Friday, June 5.  It was kind of frustrating because I had to wait for about 45 minutes and then spent about 10 minutes actually being seen.  Everything is progressing well - healthy blood pressure for mom and healthy heart rate (150 bpm) for baby.

We had a bonfire for the youth on Saturday night, and we enjoy s'mores and lawn games.

And then on Sunday we had the joy of waking up to a broken refrigerator.  When I opened it up the inside was already room temperature, so we're thinking it had been out pretty much all night.  The maintenance worker was on vacation this week and really doesn't work on the weekend anyway, so it's been 60 hours and counting without a refrigerator.