Reverend Thomas Mirabella!

It's official! On sunday night we had Tom's installation service at church...it was a neat time of celebration with new church friends, new little rock friends, and old seminary friends. We are excited about this next season of our lives here in arkansas and can't wait to see what God's going to do!

(from L to R: John-seminary friend, Ed-seminary friend and pastor in our presbytery, Ron-elder at TFC, Tom, Darrell-elder at TFC, Ed-elder at TFC, Kevin-pastor in our presbytery, and Steve-retired pastor of TFC)

Normal life in AR....

M's pbj and strawberries, L's smorgasborg

AJ getting a foot washing. :) she said "take my picture!"

Sick twins on our 2nd mother's day out day. They both threw-up in the van on the way. :(

Sock #1
Sock #2

Still playing catch up - July 09

We stayed at Cricket Cottage in Harrisonburg for several nights before we drove west.... the kids loved the Marsh dogs....here are the 3 littles with Whip, their favorite of the 2 (Scout was a bit rowdy for them). Sadly, Whip died recently....our family will always have fond memories of that sweet dog. Tom remembers him as a puppy back when we were in college!

the boys in the barn

the girls in the barn

we grilled out one night so that we could see some families that we really wanted to see

The kids even got to take turns riding!

Kylie best Harrisonburg friend, Allison

The 3 big loved sleeping upstairs in the loft.

From H'burg we headed to Lexington, KY to visit with my brother and his family!
Playing on Micah's skate ramp. My nephew Micah was on a Disney XD show called Next-X. He got to go to California the week after we left and watch some of the X-games (and skate there).

all of the cousins just after having some delicious Grater's ice cream. mmmm.

playing some guitar hero...my bro sporting the awesome willy wonka glasses.

Twin time...

playing at the playground with no older siblings.

First day of Mother's Day Out!

They were very excited about their backpacks and lunch bags...and they had a great time!

1st day of school 2009!

4th, 3rd and kindergarten this year....hard to believe it!
silly pics...

all five crazy kids. the twins love to walk around with their backpacks feeling really big!

AJ's kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Moseley!

E-I-E-I-OH!!

for some reason the twins, instead of singing "old macdonald" they sing "farmer jeddy"...which actually comes out sounding like "farmer jenny". (farmer jed is the name of the "little people" farmer) anyways, they are always doing some cute fun thing....they wanted me to take a picture of them singing, so here it is!

We got to see Anners!!

Our good friend, Anna, was stateside for a little bit this summer so we had a chance to see her at a mutual friends house in Pennsylvania. The 5 kids and I drove up on monday and back on tuesday. Way too short of a visit but so nice to see her! Our friend, Julie, and her kids drove up too....so it was a house with 5 adults and 11 children! Chaos and fun. :)

4 of the girls decided they wanted to sleep with Miss Anna in her bed. They actually fell asleep all in bed together....but i'm not sure if they woke up that way.

Anners and her kids :)

The Mirabellas and Anna.

Most of you know that Anna lived with us for the summer 2 years ago when we just moved to Florida. She is currently at language school in France with plans of returning to Cameroon and continuing to work with Wycliffe Bible Translators.