Isaac is Born!

Posted by Matthew in Journal, Pictures on Dec 3rd, 2011 | 11 comments

After waiting 9 days past the due date, Isaac David is finally born! We arrived at the hospital around 3am. At 3:15 our midwife checked Dana and told us she was already 10 cm. dilated! The rest was smooth and quick and Isaac was born at 3:58am.

He is 8 lb 4 oz, 21′ long. Both mom and baby are in perfect health. We are thankful for this answer to many prayers beforehand. Here are the beautiful baby and mom:

Snow!

Posted by Matthew in Chickens, Journal, Pictures on Nov 29th, 2011 | 0 comments

The Christmas tree is up.

Snow is falling.

The chickens like it.

Still waiting on Isaac (5 days overdue) . . .

New Chicken Coop

Posted by Matthew in Chickens, Journal, Pictures on Nov 12th, 2011 | 0 comments

Today we built a new chicken coop for our much smaller flock and for winter protection. We bought all our supplies at the ReStore for less than $20. You can see the laying shelf inside, the door for collecting eggs, and handles on the sides for moving.

Baby Countdown

Posted by Matthew in Journal, Pictures on Nov 10th, 2011 | 0 comments

We have two weeks until Isaac’s due date (Thanksgiving Day)! I’m not sure what that means since he probably won’t actually be born on that day, and there always the possibility he is not a he. So . . . we are nearing the general vicinity of the time that our next baby will be born! If he is a boy, then we will be even with four boys and four girls. We are getting ready and excited around here. We are all grateful for God’s blessing of this new life.

But this addition will actually make #11 in our household. We have added another family member this year. Brock Buchanan is a young man who moved to the area to attend ASU and ended up coming to our church. The short story: he lived with us over the summer, moved into an apartment this Fall, but decided he liked living with us better! So now he’s back and part of the family.

And now for an unrelated, random, cute picture. Kathryn is three (front) and Samantha is one (back).

Back from Camping

Posted by Matthew in Journal, Pictures on Jun 25th, 2011 | 2 comments

We returned late last week from an almost two week camping trip. We are grateful to inherit a pop-up tent camper from my Dad. We had a great time at Timberlake Campground near Bryson City, NC (west of Asheville in the Smokey Mountains). Here is a picture of our camp. You can see a creek runs right next to it.