Splash, Splash fun time at the pool!!

Ian and I went to the pool today. He did so good. I would be willing to bet he did better than amy other 18 month old. I know yesterday i said my boy is growing up so fast, well today feels like that even more... I am truly blessed to have my son Ian.... The only thing that would have made it better would have been if Chantal was with us. We miss her so much. We are ready to pick her up from the airport.

My little man is growing up

Time seems to go by so fast! My son has grown up into an amazing little kid.... There isnt a day that goes by that i dont give thanks to Jesus for blessing me with my boy.... And now He is blessing me with anothet kid!!! When he/she comes my life will without a doubt be blessed even more.

Christmas Day

What a day. This year my son was old enough to open his own gifts. Though he didnt quite know what to do with everything, he still had a good time. It made me happy to see my wife and son have a good Christms. All i can say is every day i get to be a father and husband i lovr it more and more. I am so blessed.

My little man

My little man is getting so big. It seems like every day he is years older then the last. It makes me so happy to see him grow, bit at the same time it makes me sad. I dont want to miss anything. It us for this reason rhat i do everything in my power to be home with my family.

My Beautiful Wife

Two days ago my wife and i found out that she was pregnant. We talked about try again but we thought it would take longer. So today i am blessed to have my wife. I am blessed to get to lay eyes on such a beautiful women.

a great wife

this morning my wife and i get up to get our son. we were a little worried about him cuz he was sleeping so long. well thankfully he was just fine. that is all due to Jesus keeping him safe during the night... well my wife has not been feeling well the last week or so. and today was the same. and even though she doesnt feel well she still started dinner and made apple cider... that is a great wife. one that does the things that need to be done even though she dont feel well. i love her with all my heart. and i am very blessed to have her as my wife.   

Speyer Christmas market

going to Speyer Christmas market was a cold wet adventure. as much as i like Christmas markets this one was cold and wet. though it was like this i found that this one had the most Christmas feel to it. as we walked up to the market we heard someone playing Christmas music. and when we went into the church when we were done we heard them play the organ (in Christmas music). all in all it was a great Christmas day with the family.

a laugh from the heart.

this evening when i was getting Ian around for bed i started making this noise with my mouth. as i was doing it Ian started doing it too. he was so cute while doing i started laughing. well as it made me laugh it made him laugh too. so for about 10 minutes Ian and i sat there making this noise and laughing at each other.... seeing my son laugh so deep and hard from his little heart made my day!!! i love him so much!!! (this was suppose to be wrote last night, but there were more pressing issues.)

lets try this again

so i looked to see when the last time i wrote in this blog. sadly it was almost a year ago!!! though i was deployed and didnt have good enough internet to blog, and i didnt see enough to write about. now that i am home let me begin to take the time to slow down and see the little things in life.....

my son tonight made the cutest face. he is at that age now where he wants to do what i do. or at least try. well at dinner i made a mean face at him, where i would show all my teeth. well he tried that but didnt quite make it. or shall i say he didnt make it scary... he made it cute.... seeing my son act silly and laugh made me so happy!!! it blesses me to have such a great son. 

Jesse's Christmas

tonight i got to skype my little niece Jesse. she is so cute. she got really big since the last time i saw her. i watched her open her presents that we sent her for Christmas. i think that she liked what we got her, but she asked for more. we sent her four items, and she said that she needed five. it was pretty funny. i wish that we could be a little closer to home just so we could see family a little more often..... i was really blessed to see such a beautiful little girl. we are blessed to have her apart of our family.  

Back home

Well I have been out of the country for about a month on holiday. And while on holiday no one feels like doing anything. Or at lest that is how I am. So now that I'm back let's see if I can get in the groove of bogging again. We will see if it works, because I have got other things that I would like to do. I want to learn Afrikaans. Which takes up a lot of time. I also want to do a bible study which takes at least an hour to do. So with those two things and trying to run a family I am not sure how the blogging thing is going to go. So until next time. Be blessed and may the Lord be with you.

catching a nap

so as everyone with kids knows they dont like to sleep at night. well Ian is for sure one of those kids (and i love it). well though he dont sleep much at night he sure does sleep during the day. i also thought that was a pretty good idea too. a little bit later during the day Chantal thought that she would join into the fun (of sleeping). so what we saw today was a beautiful gift of sleep.

Three Kids

Image by theAthena via Flickr

this afternoon Chantal and I took Ian and the girls out for a little walk. it was a beautiful evening. as we made our way down the street we saw these three kids jumping a trampoline (two boys and one girl). the funny thing was these kids had one in the middle while the other two stood there and hit the one in the middle. as we moved closer we saw the the two boys had convinced the girl that she needed to be the one in the middle..... all i could do was laugh. the boys we not hurting the girl it just looked funny as we walked by.... i guess what made it funny was the dialog between Chantal and I..... life looks so much different through the eyes of a parent.

What didn't i see last night?

Well yesterday we got to bring Ian home from the hospital. And let me tell you he came to life!!! He did lots of exercising. He exercised his small little lungs all night ;-).... So what I didn't see last night was sleep. But it wasn't so bad. Once I got him to sleep he would stay down for about 1 hrs. I think once he finally got to sleep he a slept for about 3 hrs. Although once the sun came up he finally took his Que to go to sleep. Which made all of us happy.

Ian's eyes

Today Ian started to open his eyes a little bit more. They are a beautiful dark blue. I know that they will probably change, but for now they are perfect. He doesn't like to open them both at the same time. He'll open one and try the other, but hat just doesn't work for him. So when he opens one eye he looks like he is giving you the "stink eye." who would have thought that someones eyes could be so beautiful.

1st poopy diaper

I saw my son's 1st poopy diaper. And I just want to say here that I was the first one to change Ian's stinky diaper..... Man it has been a good day. I love my son so very much!

My Son Ian

to day was the first day i saw my son Ian. he was born at 1255pm and weighed 9lb 3oz, and is 22.8 in long. my wife went through the whole 11 1/2 hrs of labor with no drugs. she is a real trooper.... there is more i could say but here is what it all boils down to: God gave me a beautiful health baby boy. there were no complications and i walk away at the end of the day a new dad.

Looks like an alien

His afternoon as the wife lay in bed I watched her stomach to see if the baby would move. Sure enough he did. I don't know if you have ever seen this before but man let me tell you it looks crazy. It looks like there is an alien life form in my wives belly.... Now speaking of the baby we are still waiting for him to be born. We are hoping that my wife will go into labor tonight. Which would be a total blessing. And man I can't wait for him to be here. Then I can watch him move without thinking he's an alien.... Anyway I am so thankful that God allowed my wife and I to get pregnant. This is I know for sure is going to be the best (earthly) gift He has ever given me.

The Passion of the Christ

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tonight my wife and i watched the Passion of the Christ. we have both seen it before, but for some reason we both wanted to see it again........ i am so thankful that my Lord Jesus died for me! so today i have seen (or shall i say been reminded) what Jesus has done for me.

Seeing that i am the joy

Every day I am seeing more and more that I really am the joy of the Lord. I love the song that is sung by Klaus "joy of the Lord." in Heb 12:2 we see that there was "joy" that was set before our Lord. i am starting to believe that I am that joy. I am starting to see that Jesus finds joy in me. And man let me tell you that is a hard thing to see. Because there is nothing in me that one should be joyful about. So I thank God that He is opening my eyes to see me as He sees me, and that He finds joy in me. Which leads me to find joy in Him.