Leaving the Light on For You...

We love nothing more than when the home God gave us is alive with the sounds of people. When we lived at the beach our stream of visitors left us wondering if they were coming for us or the shore. Since moving to our new town, we’re reassured that we might actually have more of the influence as we’ve been blessed with several sweet visits in the past month. :)

Our good friend Andrew kicked it off by coming to run a marathon in the nearby big city. He did awesome and quickly won his way into Hope’s heart by bringing her (and the new baby!) stuffed dogs. We seriously lost count of the “MWAs” she gave him afterwards. Thanks for those and our Bodo's Bagels t-shirts!


Next our dear friends the Hightowers made their move here after lots of prayer and a great web design opportunity! Thanks to all those who participated in their “Cadan’s Crib” welcome; they were so touched. They’ll be living with us while they look for a new place to call home, so we’re in perpetual slumber party mode for now.



Hope is BESIDE herself to have a baby and another dog in the house (two of her favorite things), but what good practice. Just see for yourself… giving Cadan kisses and, well, a little something else. (Such true pictures of our girl... so tenderhearted, yet so full of life; notice the purse in one hand and the finger of the other! Whew, it's exciting to keep up with this fun loving gal some days!)


We can barely wait till the end of the month for a visit from Uncle Dave (Joe's "little brother"... at 6'7" he gives us a lot to look up to); unfortunately, the Scotts won’t be able to make it as planned (though we’re so excited about the cool job opportunity that Jon landed!) And all this to say that we love all you visiting people... come one, come all and we'll leave the light on for you!