Tornado

You may have heard about the tornado that hit the Little Sioux area, killing 4 Boy Scouts. Little Sioux is about 60 miles south of us, in between Sioux City and Omaha. This picture is not of the Little Sioux tornado, but is a real picture of another tornado that hit in Iowa...pretty amazing what nature can do.

New employee

Some of you may know that we have been searching for a middle school pastor since December, when the one we had got married and moved away. Yesterday, our candidate was voted in by the church and accepted the position. His name is Mike Henry and he will be moving here from Lodi, California, along with his wife and dog. I am super excited for him to get here and boss him around - wash my car, get me lunch, etc. :-). Mike will be my first employee that will report to me - lucky him!! The plan is for the Henrys to be here by August 1. But seriously, I am really excited that he is coming and look forward to working with him.

Facebook

I (Eric) entered the 21st century's social network by joining Facebook. If you are a fellow Facebooker, look me up and, if you're lucky, I might just make you one of my friends :-).

Everyone is Healthy Again!

Wow it has been a while since we last posted so let me catch you up...let's see on Mother's Day Eric got sick and ended up going to Urgent Care where they put him on a Z-pack for Strep Throat. We figured that by Monday he would be fine. Well Tuesday he was still sick...really sick. So that afternoon I took him to the Emergency Room. They hooked him up to an IV and gave him fluids for dehydration and some pain medicine. After several blood tests they figured out that he had a virus of some kind and there wasn't much to do but wait it out. So we went home and he laid on the couch for the rest of the week. He missed all week of work!! By last Friday he was feeling good enough to play 2 softball games (of course he is miraculously healed in time for the game :).

Then Monday, the 19th was our 6th wedding anniversary. We didn't really have big plans, but were going to go out to dinner and leave the girls with a friend. Well Maddie woke up crying with a fever. She seemed OK for most of the day but then after her nap she was burning up! I took her in and she had a fever of 104.3 and ear infections in both ears! So much for a romantic evening. We laughed and said, "6 years ago would you have ever pictured this to be our life??" So after Maddie got on medicine she went to be early and we put Ella down early too and Eric got Apple Bee's car side pick up for dinner instead!

Maddie was much better the next day and is done with her medicine now. So we are all healthy and feeling good. Unfortunately, my Mother's Day and my anniversary didn't go as I planned...such is life :)

Dummie of the year!!!

HANDS DOWN, ERIK IS NOW THE OFFICIAL DUMBEST PLAYER IN SURVIVOR HISTORY!!! Even if you haven't been watching this season, you need to watch this episode when it is put on cbs.com tomorrow. It will be episode 13; how ironic for Erik that it is unlucky episode 13. I hope he can earn a million dollars scooping ice cream.

DONE

Well during nap time today Eric and I worked for 3 hours straight. The swing set is finished and it looks great! The girls have been enjoying the warm weather and their swings. I am sure that this is just that start to a lot of time spent in the backyard!!

Almost Done

Eric spent a good part of the day working on the swing set again today. The swings are the only part left to attach. The fort, rock wall, and slide are in place and Maddie and Elway were both enjoying it earlier!!

Progress!!

We are making progress...unfortunately it has been raining all day so we have had to work in the garage but here is where we are now...

Swing Set

Well we bought Maddie (and Ella) a swing set a few weeks ago...some assembly required :)
The box said that 2 people could put it together in 5-7 hours. Eric and a friend worked all afternoon a few Saturdays ago...but it is still a work in progress. Eric is hoping to get it done this weekend (as long as it doesn't snow again like last weekend). We will keep you posted (ha ha..get it posted :)

Softball

Softball season is officially here and I am so excited! This year, I hooked up with a city team and will be playing more competitive ball. We played in a tournament yesterday and lost all 3 games. However, it was our fist time playing together and at least we got to play. We were supposed to play on Friday night but got snowed out (at the end of April :-)). I played a little outfield but mostly first base. My ankle is still bothering me from when I sprained it almost 2 months ago. I went to a chiropractor from our church 3 days last week and have an appointment on Wednesday. Hopefully I can be back in the outfield when city league starts in 2 weeks.