A City Life For Me

I never got a chance to finish blogging about our trip to Florida, because life just got away with me!  Traveling every weekend means catch-up each week.  It’s lots of late nights and early mornings, and I haven’t been able to think clearly enough to get this caught up!  So, here is the rest of Florida in one shot… :: Friends I was so excited to get to spend an evening with my best friend Danielle and her family.  And though it doesn’t show much in this picture, Danielle is expecting their first baby – a boy! Libs, Me, Elaine, Nehemiah, Ben, Nolan, Darren, Danielle, and Baby Wells! :: Family My Grams was along on this trip.  She let Elaine and Nolan sleep in her hotel room.  They obviously loved it! Grams made a special presentation to my Dad while we were all together.  She gave him a picture album with his childhood pictures in it.  It was a project she had wanted to start with my Gramps, but he passed away in 2010 before th...

Last week found us in Virginia Beach for a Mission’s Conference at Tabernacle Baptist Church .  This is the church where Ben took some Seminary Hebrew classes in 2008 and 2009.  We didn’t attend Tabernacle for church, so we had a great time making new friends.  We also haven’t been back to Virginia Beach since moving to Brooklyn four years ago, so we enjoyed seeing a couple of “old” friends too! Virginia Beach has a lot of farmland.  One thing we enjoyed during the 2.5 years we lived there was the strawberries!  I picked my own berries and made jam, and we also attended the annual Strawberry Festival.  On our last morning in Va. Beach, we headed out to Pungo in search of some strawberry fields.  It didn’t take Ben long to remember the roads!  Though the original forecast was for rain, God granted us a beautiful morning to be outside! I was really excited to pick strawberries this year because it’s been over two years since I did any canning, a...

Eeeek!  It’s been a year?!? Yes.  It has.  A whole year with twins.  We’ve had so much fun, and I can’t even  {hardly} remember the rough pregnancy days or the sleepless nights of those first couple of months {well – I remember the first night }.  I finally got a chance to snap a few pictures of my twinsies to celebrate one year.     Though Nehemiah took his first steps a couple of months ago, it wasn’t until April 17th that he really started walking.  It was as if he just stood up and decided to walk everywhere.  Liberty does a hybrid of walking and crawling – one leg up and on one knee.  It is humorous to watch, but she can really move, and transport whatever toy she wants in this manner! Both of the twins are all.about.food.  Strap them into their seats and they won’t shut up until they have food in their mouths!  Nehemiah is a slow-and-steady-I-eat-anything kind of guy.  Liberty is…picky.  Re...