The New Zoo

On Saturday we took Elijah to a county zoo that is about 20 minutes from our house. The zoo is small, but it was really nice. It has a small children's zoo where Elijah was able to feed some goats, and Elijah had a great time. There is also a fun Giraffe exhibit where you can feed the giraffes crackers. Unfortunately though Elijah was too afraid to feed them. So Dustin held Elijah and Eli watched as he fed the giraffes. Elijah's favorite part of the zoo were the monkeys. He loves monkeys!

Family

I am very grateful to be able to live here in Green Bay. I feel blessed that Dustin has a good job that he enjoys and that enables him to provide for Elijah, the baby and I so that we can live comfortably and so that I can be a stay at home mom. I also feel very blessed that I can live so close to my family. It is nice that all of my immediate family and some of my extended family live within only a few hours of us. I am especially grateful for this blessing because for the two and a half years before we moved to Green Bay we were over 13 hours away from them, and I missed them immensely. I am very happy that through divine circumstances we ended up where we are, and I look forward to where we will be in the future. I hope that we will be able to live near family (either Dustin's or mine) wherever we are sent to next. The comfort and support of having any family nearby is a great thing and is something that I am glad that Elijah can experience now, and hopefully will be able experience in the future.

Fun with Grandpa and Daddy

We went down to visit my parents and Erin this last weekend to celebrate a late Mother's Day. Grandpa, Dustin and Elijah went for a ride on Grandpa's tractor/lawn mower. They went for a ride around the neighborhood and all around the yard. Elijah had a great time with his "Tampa and Daddy." While we were down in Illinois we were able to see Uncle Frank, Uncle Jim, Aunt Marge and Grandma Charlesworth. It is really great to be able to see our family, and extended family as often as we do.

Love You Mama!

Every night before Elijah goes to bed I tell him that I love him. For the last month or so I have been trying to get him to say that he loves Dustin and I back. Elijah always just smiles and blows kisses back at us and says "No way!" when I ask him if he loves us too. On Mother's Day that all changed. When we put him to bed that night I told him that I loved him, and he said "love you mama." It was the best Mother's Day present that I could have received! I am very grateful that a little over two years ago I was blessed to become Elijah's mom!