Kristen's Baptism Service!

This past Sunday, August 17th, Kristen was baptised at church. To begin the service, some of the youth performed one of the dramas they did for our summer mission trip. Kristen accepted Christ as her Saviour while we were on the mission trip. Aaron led her in prayer that night and she decided then to be baptised.


Aaron's band, Against The Current, led the music for the service.

This is our youth pastor, David speaking before the baptism.

Kristen's best friend, Olivia, was also being baptised that day. They asked to go in together. Stephanie, the third girl in the picture, has been one of the leaders for the small group that Kristen has been going to for the past year. Kristen and Olivia asked Stephanie to help David baptise them.

Olivia...

Kristen's baptism!

This is our pastor, Bro. Jeff.

It was a wonderful day! We are all so thankful and praising God!

Backtracking Just a Bit!

I am going to back track just a couple weeks. I have some pictures I wanted to share from the last few weeks before we started back to school. Ian has learned some new things this summer! First, he has learned how to swim and was actually confident enough to jump off the diving board alone! He was very proud about that. Not long after, I had been out one day, and when I got back home, he had something else to show me!! He had asked Randy to take the training wheels off his bike! Now look at what he can do! I am trying to figure out what has happened to my baby, so if anyone has any info for me, please let me know!!

I know!! More pictures of Jacey but she is so adorable, I just can't help myself!

Baby toes!

Big baby blues!

I love her expression here, she was watching Yo Gabba Gabba!

They love each other so much!

Hello world!

Sweetness!

Ian grabbed my camera and was taking some self portraits. We were laughing so hard at him taking these, that I had tears running down my face! Look at these gorgeous eyes though!!

Another self picture!

Alison, this one's for you! You just can't understand these eyes until you see them in person and they just melt your heart! Just ask Alison!

Kristen has been teaching herself how to french braid. She has been practicing on me and I think she is doing really great! This was one of her first attempts!

This is just a random picture taken by Ian, but I thought I would share it just because it is kind of neat and it shows a little bit of him...his hot wheels car and his blanket!

Ian also took this one!

More Jacey cuteness!

Crashed

Now some of Kristen's photography!

I love this picture!! She is really showing an eye for photography I think!

Our neighbor has banana trees and they have baby bananas!

Momo Monkey swinging on the fence!

A self picture by Kristen!

Ian enjoying some grapes one night!

Momo too!

Like I said, these are from the last weeks of summer, but I didn't want to miss out on sharing them! More summer end pictures coming!

A New Year! A New Blog!!

Hello again from Eagle Star Academy! It has been a great summer and we are officially back in the swing of things. Monday, Aug. 17,2009, was our first day of lessons for the new school year. I decided to start a new blog to keep everyone updated since the old one is almost full. I hope ya'll will come by often and let us know you stopped by. I am going to try really hard to keep this updated frequently.

The summer has been a busy one for us. There has been lots of fun, friends, swimming, church activities, hanging out, good food and great memories. Aaron and I went to Student Life Summer Camp in Daytona Beach for a week. That was an amazing week and really made an impact on many lives...including my own. We were home for a week, then left again, this time with Kristen, for a week long mission trip to TN. That was another awesome week that we will not soon forget. While we were away, Momo and Ian spent some fun days with Papa at home. They went out to eat a few times, went fishing, made special trips to the store for neat things like a slip -n- slide, and also went to the beach. Randy and I also escaped for a few days of r&r together. We have one more little vacation planned next weekend to Edisto Beach, SC. I could write more, but that is just a quick summary of our summer.

We started the day off Monday, measuring all the kids height. They just continue to grow and grow and grow!! Aaron is in 10th grade this year and he is starting out at a TALL 6 feet 2 inches! Kristen is in the 7th grade and she is also getting to be almost as tall as me at 5 feet 4 inches. Morgan is in the 3rd grade and measured in at 4 feet and 3.5 inches. Ian is also a "student" this year, starting some Pre K work. He is 3 feet 5.5 inches tall! So, there you have it! The class here, just keep getting taller and it seems nothing is going to slow them down! I snapped a few pictures of the kids working Monday. I also had Jacey here for our first day of school too so of course I had to get some pictures of her too! She is just growing sweeter and sweeter every day!
Here is Ian building a track while everyone was finishing up their lessons for the day. Sorry, I didn't get these pics uploaded in order.....they are backwards from the end of the day to the morning! OOPS!

I think Kristen was working on her science. She is doing Life Science this year.
Morgan was working on Reading and Aaron was working on Geometry!

While we were all sitting here at the table working, we happened to look over and Maggie had decided she needed to join us! She was actually sitting in the chair watching Randy practicing golf out in the back yard. She just looked so funny sitting in the chair. Don't worry, she is not really allowed to be up in that chair, but we had to get a picture this one time

My Jaceybell is just getting to be such a big girl now! She is starting to sit up alone!

Aaron was reading the first pages in his history book.

Kristen reading her literature book.

Momo was working hard on her first math lesson of the year!

Kristen is excited to be doing Home Ec as an elective!

Jacey trying to figure out what we were all doing!

Aaron is doing Chemistry for his science.

Momo, proud to be in 3rd grade!

Ian was very happy to have his own school work to do too and pulled his books out as soon as heard it was school time!

Just before I woke the kids up, I had this little visitor on the bird feeder! A pretty cardinal, stopping in for some breakfast.

That was our first day! It was a good day overall, it did take us a little longer to get finished but I was happy nonetheless!