A Long Overdue Update

A lot has happened since our last post, so I’ll try to get things caught up to speed. Sonja quit her job and is now a full-time mom. She’s enjoying it and we can’t imagine how families with children still have both parents working – they must be super human or something. We’re very thankful that we have been blessed with the resources to be able to have one of us stay at home. Thank you, Lord, for providing. And, once again, thank you Dave Ramsey and FPU for teaching us how to best manage the Lord’s provision.

I’m still working (although we’re scheming on how we can BOTH be stay at home parents – so far winning the lottery is our best option). I have a training class all next week where I will be learning Red Hat Linux. I’m pretty excited about it and have been trying to get up to speed with where the class will be starting. It’s going to be challenging, but I’m grateful for the opportunity.

Next weekend we’ll be down in Oregon visiting the Stafford side of the family – should be a fun and relaxing trip.

Now for the Boy (I call him “the Boy” a lot). Levi is doing really good. In fact, on Monday the little pooper had to have surgery for a hernia. He did so well! They kept him overnight for monitoring, but he really was back to his normal self later that day. They just had to make a small incision and that should heal up nice and clean. He was something like 9.5 pounds and is just really healthy. While we were in Children’s Hospital for the surgery we really were reminded of how fortunate and blessed we’ve been with him despite his early arrival.

Somewhere since the last post we bought a mini-van. I was going to do a full post on it, but I think I’ll just say that we got a great deal on a great van (99 Ford Windstar). We recommend Bickford Ford in Snohomish, WA – they were great and even did some work on the van after we bought it even though we didn’t get a warranty or anything. Low pressure and easy to work with - ask for Jeff Wing or Darren Smith. And, once again, thanks to Dave Ramsey and FPU, we had the tools to save about $500 on the van and pay cash for it. We plan on selling my car sometime after my training next week. *sniff* I’ll miss my little Accent…but we really don’t need it. I’ve been driving it to work a lot lately due to all the Dr. visits, and am quickly being reminded of how expensive that can be! I need to get back into my routine of riding the bus using my company paid-for bus pass.

And, finally, now for the real purpose of this blog post. More pictures of Levi! And a video. The video is extra fun – it’s of our little guy smiling and even laughing a bit. His first time doing it was even better, but we only caught the second one on video. There's also a couple of pictures of it near the end of the album. I know that there are a LOT of duplicate pictures…I just didn’t feel like weeding them all out.

Levi - 10 Weeks Old and Growing Strong