My blessings are growing up!

2003--Joshua, age 2

**Pictures are from the past, descriptions are from the present.**
 

I can hardly believe it...the boy in this picture
is growing up before my eyes!

He LOVES to play sports
and he LOVES watching NE Husker games!

He has a Fantasy Football team
with his daddy.

He helps to pick out the best players to use
for the week's games.

Maybe he'll be a future stats analyst!

2004--Joshua, age 3

He loves playing in the snow...

scooping snow...

playing flag football in the snow...

HE LOVES THE SNOW!

He is also really, really silly!

He absolutely LOVES to make
anyone around him laugh.

And he LOVES joke books!

Joshua is really such a good big brother...

he is a wonderful teacher...

And, he is learning how to look beyond
the need to tell little brother when he is right or
wrong :)

2005--Joshua, age 4 and Austin, age 1

Austin, you have added a sweet dimension to our family! 
You like big brother LOVE to play sports!

But you also love to build with LEGOS, write books, and draw or paint pictures. 

You are a very creative boy!

at Calamus Lake

 

This fall, Joshua, you read the entire Narnia series!

Austin, you have read SO many different books

and the love for reading has been passed on to you :)

2006--Joshua, 5 and Austin, 2

In the past year, Austin, you authored several books AND

you have plans for many more!

Our lives are forever blessed

because of your presence in them.

Each day is nothing like the other

before it.

You are both such a blessing

to us!

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Lord,

Thank YOU for these dear boys...

for their passion 

for life,

for learning, 

and 

for loving You!