Zachariah likes to "wear" Naomi in "the ultimate baby wrap." He loves being the big brother. 

Naomi...sleeping in Great Grandpa's cradle 

She is so precious! Here's our beautiful, 2 month old Naomi Joy. 

Happy birthday, Andrew! This week marks two years since our baby boy was stilborn. We miss him. 

Zachariah and Samantha performed in our church's preschool musical this weekend: "The Hot, Hot Furnace," the story of Shadrack, Meshack, and Abednego, from the book of Daniel in the Bible. Here they are saying, "They didn't even smell like smoke!" 

praying before the musical starts 

"Our God is AWESOME!" 

"Daniel had three friends. One, two, three!" 

Here's our new hammock, a gift from several friends to welcome baby Naomi Joy. David especially enjoys relaxing with Naomi in it. 

David's 30th birthday homemade chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting! It's huge! When I asked Zachariah and Samantha what they wanted to do for Daddy's birthday, they said, "Make him a cake!" It was important to Zachariah that it have two layers, but I didn't have any round cake pans, so I made two sheet cakes. Needless to say, it took us several days to finish eating all that cake. And, of course, since I made it, it was pretty healthy... whole wheat flour, organic maple syrup replacing some of the sugar, etc. (The part without frosting is for Melody, who's not eating dairy, since she's breastfeeding Naomi, and cow's milk makes our babies colicky.) Happy birthday, David!