The Waltons

Wow, life has been hectic lately! My living room usually looks like a toy store exploded and Jeremy has been gone a bit so the boys are starting to drive me nuts. I am really looking forward to my older sister, Mari, coming to visit me for the month of March! Jeremy has his advancement test on the 5th of March and has been trying to study a lot and then as a reward he gets to go on the men's retreat that weekend. I am excited for him. I am praying he is able to connect with some of the guys and start forging some strong godly friendships. It has been hard for us here, but we were so spoiled in Okinawa with our wonderful church family! :) God has a reason for everything, though, and we know that it is through hard times that we grow stronger, so we continue to look forward to what God has for us.
I finally have a nephew! Brittani and my brother Tom had their first baby boy, Aiden James, on February 19th! His picture is at the bottom. I hope I will be able to make a trip out to Texas sometime soon so that I can meet him and my new niece Isabell, and my soon to be new niece Kaitlyn (not sure of spelling). Goodness, our family produces a lot of girls! I have 6 nieces and one on the way and only one nephew. The girls outnumber the boys 7 to 4 :D We're very proud of our family and love all our precious babies!

Oh! and Joshua is finally potty trained! I say 'finally' but really it is a blessing because this is 6 months sooner than James was trained.... it just took Joshua much longer once we started, but it has finally clicked and we now only have one in diapers... for the time being anyway!