This week-it was a big one!

Big things happened in our little world.

The kids and I have been talking about decreasing (not eliminating) our electronic time and what we can do with our free time instead of defaulting to turning on a screen.  They suggested a little challenge to help us reach our goals and after 3 weeks, we went to Sky Zone to celebrate.

The biggest news is Alison joined the church!  Since the church we are going to here is a baptist church (and we are not baptist), Ben talked with the elders of Hope and they agreed to interview Alison via Skype and let her join Hope.  She professed faith, took vows and they prayed over her.  Now she can take communion with us at our current church!  What a sweet day it was.  

Seeing George and Dale talk to her brought tears to my eyes.  We may move all over the country, but we have a solid foundation of people behind us everywhere we go.    

We celebrated with ice cream sundaes and Alison got to pick all of the toppings.

Colin lost another tooth!

One day Ben picked him up and he told him that his muscles felt a lot bigger.  Colin said, "Yep.  It's because I ate A LOT of pretzels."  Ha!

He told me to snap this picture because his Spiderman pj's are too small.  sniff, sniff.  Seems like just yesterday that his little tushy couldn't hold up those pants.

Eli has been building Legos like crazy!  It's good to see that all the money we've spent on Lego's over the years has been put to good use.

You can check out his masterpiece of the week on our homeschool blog.