Celebrating 4 months with our Katelyn Joy

Everyone said having a baby would "change everything". Well, it has! For the absolute best!! We are completely loving parenthood and consider each day a gift from God. Katelyn is such a happy and easy-going baby, full of a million different smiles each day for us. She loves to be talked to and listens so intently when we speak to her. She is full of stories to tell....babbling on and on all day long. We look forward to the day when we will hear her stories in English :). Each day we praise God for his goodness and for the most precious gift of this baby girl. We stand in awe, yet again, at his marvelous creation!

Katelyn and I (Jeanne) spent one afternoon last week with my close friend (and amazing photographer), Brenda Hondorp. Thanks for the sweet pics, girl!!

C'mon summer!

Those of us that are stuck in the northern hemisphere are starting to wonder if summer, let alone spring, will ever reveal itself to us again. Every year at this time, winter starts to take a bit of a stronger hold on me. At the start, we all can't wait for the first frost (to kill the misquotes). Then the first snow, in anticipation of Christmas and holiday gatherings. Then we have time to play in it for awhile, then.... I wish it would leave. Adios. Show me the sun, grass, rain!! Don't get me wrong, I love the change of season. I don't think I could live somewhere where the seasons didn't change, but winter seems to be lasting forever once we hit February. Maybe the warm weather is like anything else, if you have to much of something good, you'll get tired of it. For example, if you live on Lake Michigan and always felt the cool breeze off the lake in July, or hear the gentle lapping of the waves as you wake up in the morning, or see the bright orange sun settle softly in the lake at the end the day, you might just get tired of it. Um..NO!! I don't know about you, but I was just there! Just hang in there my fellow snow people, we have only a few months left.

Favorite Top Ten Pics of our "Joy"

Pictures say it all!!

Katelyn's New Pals

Brooke Copeland, Isaac Pazdur, Abby Brogger, Reed Osterink, Hailey Zondervan,  Andy VanderMaas, and cousin Emma Perez. 

Catchin' ya'll up on Cutie...

Our best gift this Christmas was our Cutie!!!

More pics

Ya'll want some pics, here they are...

Sweetness is here!!

Real quick. Baby is good, dad is good, and mom.....has been better. She is having a hard time walking after separating some cartilage. Today she had a fever and went to the emergency and found out she has mastitis in one of two. She is on antibiotics and the fever has broken. I will post more later. God is Good!!!!