Father's Day 2006

We went up to Hurricane Ridge today after church. The sermon today was awesome, talking about how much influence fathers have in the lives and hearts and perspectives of their children in relationship to God. God loves us so unconditionally, it's hard to know how our kids could ever clearly see His face thru us- but hence the clay pot glory to Him, when it's so obvious that the One who walks, carries, leads and loves us through this life is Him Alone. I love God so much! He is crazy awesome, and as we played with Caleb after our day full of adventures (and "sledding" with papi!:), I just held Cae in the sweetest bear hug (steve did too!) and thanked God for our sweet little boy. He is the greatest gift to us- thank you Jesus for the precious osito you have given us. What a powerful light he is to us- may we be good stewards of His love. Proverbs 14:26 "Those who fear the Lord are secure; He will be a place of refuge for their children."
luv u all,jc

Back from Canada!

So, here are some fun shots of our first time taking Caleb swimming. We *all* had so much fun! Cae did so well, and was totally cool with the water (thank goodness for heated pools ;) and relaxed baby!). This was not, however, his first time touching big water. He stood in the surf at Kalaloch, on the west coast of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and at a campground on the Pacheedaht First Nations Reserve on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.