Marie's Early Birthday Gift

Yesterday Marie received an early birthday gift in the mail from Grandpa Ardee and Grandma Penny. It's called a "Strider Bike." It doesn't have any pedals so it teaches kids how to balance better than starting out with pedals and training wheels. Marie was so excited she could hardly wait for her Dad to put it together! She's really going to enjoy it.

Her first ride! 

We found her helmet! :) 

Love the corn field behind her! 

The rest of us cooling off in the shade. 

Dad had to give it a try! Haha! :) 

Marie asked Dad to get out his motorcycle (that's what she now calls her bike).

She can't quite keep up yet! 

It's so wonderful having a nice big back yard! 

Dad showing the kids bad things! :) Just kidding! 

And they are off! Bet you can't guess who won? 

Cole giving it a try. He loves it too! 

The seat is too high for him though. 

She's getting better! 

Thanks Grandpa and Grandma! 

Our First Sunday in Indiana

On Monday, June 27th we arrived in Indiana at our first church with Village Missions. I will hopefully post some pictures of moving and arriving later but for now I wanted to write a post about our first Sunday here! Church went very well. The people were quite friendly and made us feel right at home. Derek did a great job with his sermon. We are so excited to start our ministry here and see how God uses us!

Here's some pictures from the day.

Woke up to a beautiful sunrise this morning. We sure didn't see this in STL!! 

Pastor Derek! :) 

The kids saying bye to Daddy. 

The kids first Sunday as "Pastor's kids."

I'm now officially a Pastor's wife! :) 

Derek preaching.

The best part was when Derek was walking out the door and a little boy says "bye new pastor!". :)