Thursday, May 31, 2001

May Moments

Just a few photos from the past month...

Annah's sitter, Sandy, likes to give her lots of choices of toys.  We try this sometimes at home too.  She's getting a growing collection.

We might need to start teaching her how to brush...?


Peek-a-boo!


Annah loves to play with her reflection in the mirror on our den door.


And, you might say she has great "taste" in music...?


It's time to start chewing...


Mmm...my first cracker...


Just hanging around with cousins Wilson and Charles at Grandpa and Grandma Lopshire's house...

Saturday, May 19, 2001

Jeremy's 26th

A birthday celebration at Don Pablo's with Andy and Julie

 "Me llamo Dumbo!" -- ??

 Nice hat Dad.

Wednesday, May 16, 2001

2 weddings, 2 teeth, and talking

First of all, we want to send out a big, Congratulations to Matt & Sheli Lopshire on their marriage May 5!  We were able to be home in Indiana to celebrate with them. 
       
Also that weekend we had our family pictures and Annah's 6 month pictures taken.  Watch for them to be posted sometime in the near future! 
     
 This past weekend we made the trek to Toledo for another wedding. Congratulations Niki and Russ Wight!! It was such a beautiful ceremony!  We wish both couples the best for long and happy marriages! 
      
Sunday the 13th was our own first wedding anniversary, as well as my first Mothers' Day.  We celebrated by watching our wedding video, looking through the wedding pictures and spending the day with Annah.  It seems like longer than a year, but it has been a pretty eventful one! 
       
Annah popped her second tooth through on the 12th.  Then, Sunday she started babbling some new sounds, including, "Ba ba ba ba ba," and "La l a la la la," which turned into, "Da da da da da...!"  She has now eaten and liked carrots, sweet potatoes, squash, peas, and green beans.  Potatoes are next and then we try fruit!! 
      
This weekend is Jeremy's 26th birthday!  Wow, he's getting old! ;) 

Thursday, May 3, 2001

A BIG CHANGE!!

Well, how to say this... We're moving to Illinois!! Jeremy has accepted a position as a Health Service Business Analyst for Policyholder and Agency Systems at SF Corporate Office in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois!! His first day will be July 9th! SO! We have an unfathomable amount of things to do in the next few weeks, including selling the house we just bought 8 months ago, finding a new place to live, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera! We are very excited about this opportunity! At least at first, I will be able to stay at home with Annah, which is an answer to prayer that we thank and praise God for allowing!

One of the things that makes this adventure bittersweet is moving away from all of the wonderful friends we have made here in Ohio over the past 6 years. We really love this area and everyone we know here. It will be very hard to leave. But, we refuse to say, "Goodbye," and we hope to be back sometimes to visit. It's about a 6 1/2 hour drive between Columbus and Bloomington, so we hope some of you all will come visit us too! We plan to keep in close contact with all of you!

 Along those lines, we plan to keep the website up and running, since now we'll have even more people to miss across the miles! However, I will obviously not remain employed by Capital University in order to have the space on their server. So, we are in the process of finding a new "home" for our website too! We'll be sure to update you when it moves.

 If we don't already have your e-mail address, make sure we get it so we can let you know when and where we move the site. We'll try to keep you posted during the next few weeks, but we anticipate being in quite a "whirlwind" state of mind as we make this move so quickly! We would appreciate it if you could keep us in your prayers that things will go smoothly. E-mail us or sign our guestbook.

Wednesday, May 2, 2001

Tooth!

       It's so hard to believe Annah is six months old now!  She popped through her first tooth last week!!!  It appeared on Friday, and she wasn't even fussy or crabby about it coming through!  She's still not quite crawling, but is really getting around by rolling tummy to back to tummy to back over and over, and by scooting herself around on her tummy.  It's time to get everything up off the floor--oh boy!