Visit

Yesterday afternoon we were able to visit Steve’s great-aunt, Aunt Fannie, at the home (Brethren Village) where she resides. We enjoyed visiting with her, and as it was so nice outside, took her out for a few minutes to enjoy the sunshine and flowers. She cannot walk and does not talk very well, which she informed me, but appeared pleased to meet the boys.

Farming

The boys are starting to adjust to life here in the States and starting to greatly enjoy life on the farm. Nathaniel especially shows great promise to be the next farmer…he spends much of his time pushing toy tractors around and begging for rides on the real tractor. Zachariah prefers to ride his bike around the driveway and push his matchbox cars around. Here is a picture of Steve’s dad as he disks the garden. They were excited about several lambs that were born this past week on the farm, and helped Steve set a trap to catch a groundhog.

2 more weeks to go!

We are excited to announce that we have a date to meet our little one…April 22nd! The doctor’s appointment went well last week; the baby looks good and strong. While I continue to have contractions and pain throughout the day, they are not as strong or regular as they were, thank God. The doctors are considering giving me one more dose of steroids next week, to decrease the chances of the baby having respiratory distress upon arrival. Here is a picture of the latest and greatest.

Storm

We had quite the exciting time last Sunday. What started out as a beautiful Sunday morning and afternoon quickly turned into a massive hail storm with tornado warnings. As we huddled in the cold cellar, waiting for the storm to pass and hoping that the house would still be standing when we emerged, I chuckled at the irony of it all. Thankfully, no damage was done, just a few small dings in the cars. Here are a few shots we took of the hail storm. There are two pictures from hail storm.