Loving Your Neighbor

What does it look like for a graduating Cru student to love his or her neighbors?  We're working with Apartment Life to help train and equip our graduates to do just that in apartment complexes across the country.  Learn more about this exciting partnership as well as see what Aiden says he will be doing when he turns 100 in our March prayer letter here.  Thanks so much for your prayers!

Fun with a Vacuum

Living far away from our families can be very sad, but one happy thing is getting fun packages in the mail around holidays.  And what is sometimes more fun than the presents . . . the packing materials.  After a particularly fun morning involving a box and building a fort from styrofoam pieces, my sweet Aiden saw me pull out the vacuum cleaner, and he wanted to do the vacuuming.  The kink in this otherwise brilliant plan is that he wanted to do the whole thing with the hose part instead of the regular vacuum sucker-upper-thingy.  It took quite a while, but I was HAPPY to have him do it.  I had to commemorate this occasion with a video to remind him when he's 16 that he USED to want to help me!

Where to Begin?

So, it's been a long time . . . My mom was recently visiting us and said everybody is wondering when you're going to do another blog post.  I think by "everybody" she probably means herself and Blair's mom :) but even if those are the only 2 readers ... here goes!

Lots and lots has happened, but I figured it would just be easier to start out where we are now.  That way I don't feel so overwhelmed to the point where I will never post again!  We've had a couple of birthdays (mine and Blair's), field day at school, and a Kindergarten performance of "On the Farm."  So, that's where I'll start. 

One of my fun birthday activities was dinner out with my sweet family.  I could not resist making a video of sweet Addy singing "Happy Birthday."  I will forever remember that her 1st version of the song was pronounced something along the lines of "atta bert day to youuuuuu."  I'm biased, but it's adorable.  I hope you can somewhat hear her version here . . .

Lastly, this past Tuesday I went to school to help out with Aiden's field day.  I figured it would be like a friend of mine described Kindergarten in general to me as "herding cats."  It was a little like that, but his teacher is GREAT, so not too crazy.  I was impressed with how far field days have come since I was in school.  The whole day had an Alice in Wonderland theme and every game had something to do with that story.  Here is a pic of Aiden at the water game station.  Not too sure what it had to do with the story, but it was THE hit with the kids.

 I had one more video to post and somehow couldn't get it to upload, so I'll do another quick post to show you . . .