Where it all began...

A friend sent this picture to me not too long ago & I just love it! It's not a great picture by any means but what it symbolizes is pretty neat. Ben & I met at eFree church in St. Louis. One fall day in 2003, a group of 20 somethings went to an apple orchard. Ben & I (having never really talked before) talked the entire day. I found out later from Ben that it wasn't just coincidence that we sat beside one another on the hayride! I remember going home that night thinking, hmmm, he's a pretty neat guy...

How life has changed...4 yrs later we are married and have a son. Thanks, John, for sending this picture!

Playtime for Samuel

Here is a video of Samuel playing & I even caught a smile.

Visitors

We have had many visitors since Samuel was born. My mom was here for his birth & for a week after his birth, Jim & Alisha stopped by on their way to Beaver Creek, Molly flew out from Philly & Ben's mom was recently just here for a week! It was great to have so much help and for everyone to love on Samuel.

Samuel & I are traveling to St. Louis the first week of March to see my family and some more friends. I'm really looking forward to it but am anxious about traveling alone with him. Ben will drive us up to Denver and from there we will have a direct, 2 hr flight. It is pretty late at night so if all goes well, he should sleep.


Grandma Watts


Jim & Alisha


Molly


Grandma Sola

Samuel - One month

It's hard to believe that it has been a month since we welcomed Samuel into the world. We are truly blessed by him!

Samuel has been a great baby. He only cries when hungry or when he's "taking care of business". We have settled into a little routine as much as possible and even ventured out into the world again as of a week ago. It was really hard to not participate in our normal activities for awhile. We definitely missed going to small group and church for a month. This past week we went to church for the first time and also to small group. It was great to re-connect a bit with friends and to celebrate the first Sunday of Lent.

We have been blessed by friends who have brought us meals off and on for the past month. It was a nice break in my day to have friends stop by, meet Samuel, catch up and not have to cook! I think I could get used to that! :) Thanks everyone...you know who you are!