A Career for Sophia

It was beautiful weather here yesterday and we went down to the lake for awhile last night to enjoy it. I pulled out my camera and Sophia really wanted to take a picture of us. It turned out great. I think we have discovered her calling in life! You might actually start seeing photos with both of us in them more often now.

This is a good thing because exactly seven days from now we will be on an airplane to sunny Southern California. Maybe she could actually get some good photos of us at the beach!

And it begins...

Caleb got his first (of I'm sure many) stitches last night. I had to stay home and get some work done while Ben took the kids to small group with him. The kids were upstairs with the babysitter, Sierra, when Ben heard Caleb start screaming right at the end of the night. Sierra came running downstairs and Caleb's eye was bleeding like crazy. As far as they could figure out, one of the kids tried to give him a hug and accidentally knocked him over into the TV stand in the bedroom they were in.

Some friends brought Sophia home to me while Ben took Caleb to the ER to get a couple stitches. He said he did a great job. He cried while they did the stitches but then sat up, waved and said, "bye bye" to the nurse and doctor as they left.

The poor little guy has no chance really. Ben has all sorts of scars from where he got a few stitches here and there. Every one has a funny story with it....like hitting himself in the forehead with a tennis racket! Caleb just decided it was time to start following in his daddy's footsteps, at 16 months old!

Why we live in Duluth...

We went for a bike ride along Lake Superior today and it was awesome. It was my first time on a bike this year and Ben's second. It was a beautiful day - sunny and around 45 or 50 degrees. It's warm for Duluth right now, anyways! We started by the lake at Brighton Beach and rode up Scenic 61 (which goes right next to the lake) for awhile. Then we found a picnic table and stopped to have lunch. After lunch we continued up the shore a little until Caleb started to reach his meltdown point and then we headed back. It was a blast! The kids did pretty well in the trailer and each took at least a little nap in there. It was a good reminder of why we live in Duluth. You can't find that good of scenery for a bike ride many places. We even saw a few loons on the lake today!

Easter Weekend

We just made it through our busiest weekend of the entire year. We had two Good Friday services, an Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday and then 6 weekend services Saturday night and Sunday morning! It was exhausting but we had a lot of fun.

Just over a thousand people came to the Vineyard for our Easter services. It was nuts! When we first started coming there was one service and we had around 150 people on a weekend. I can't wait until we get our new building. I don't know how many more weekends like that we could handle. I did manage to get some good photos of the kids this weekend.


Sophia and her good friend Stella posing for the camera.

Sophia and Caleb each enjoyed the Egg Hunt in their own way. Caleb slept in Nichole's lap the whole time. Sophia loves the candy!

We put jelly beans in the Easter eggs and they loved shaking them. When Caleb's broke open and he discovered the jelly beans he was even more thrilled! He ate them as fast as he could.

Caleb's first encounter with the Easter bunny was not a very happy one. He was pretty scared.

Some New Photos

I just decided that I should finally download some pictures off my camera today. It turns out there were 135 on there from the last month or so. I'll share a few highlights.

After the big blizzard last month Ben and Sophia went out and bought their own snowshoes so we could all go together. Ben got a really good deal; there was so little snow all winter that they were all on clearance.

Sophia loves to dress up.

And Caleb loves whatever Sophia loves. This will be great blackmail one day!


We took a walk on the lakewalk a couple weeks ago when the snow started melting. It went great until I accidentally tripped Sophia on the way back to the car and she fell face first into a puddle!

At least she looks happy in these photos!

Caleb is always trying out new looks. His most recent was the mohawk.