Wow.....
Wow. I knew it'd been a long time since I updated the blog, and I apologize. I did not realize that it'd been 3 months!! I am so sorry, guys!
Those three months have been incredibly busy. Joseph graduated from preschool, I went to Arizona for Life Teen conference, and Nicholas learned how to roll over. We're all doing well, and having fun enjoying a relatively laid-back summer (many less preschool meetings for me this summer, but they've only been replaced by youth group ones!).
So, a quick update from all of the gang, and then I'll do millions and millions of pictures!
For me, I'm incredibly excited to say that my parish is adopting the Life Teen curriculum for our middle and high school students. I'm so excited to kick off this great program, and have been working pretty much round-the-clock to get myself trained, train the other adults, and get plans all situated for a great year. It's tiring, but incredibly exciting! We just recently took our youth group camping and created some movies and a brand new website. Check it out:
http://web.me.com/stbartsym
On Mike's end, he's been working a ton (like usual!), but has officially passed the half way point of residency this month. He's getting excited to see an end in sight.....albeit slightly far away still!! He's been interacting more and more with our youth group as well, and has really found his place in youth ministry. It's been great to see! His research paper was just recently accepted to be presented at a national conference in Orlando this October, so it looks like we'll be on our way to Disney this fall! Yay!
Joseph graduated from preschool in May, and will be headed to kindergarten in about a month (eek!). He's very excited, and has been working on new skills (like reading!) to get ready for kindergarten. He's getting so old and big - it's hard to believe that he'll be five in a matter of weeks!
Graham is doing great. He's getting ready to go to preschool this fall, and is very excited about being in Mrs. Durgin's class! We hit a major milestone this past month with Graham, as he attended a Vacation Bible School WITHOUT me in tow. For our shy middle child, this was a HUGE step!!
Nicholas is growing like a weed. He's now 20 pounds, and is sitting up and rolling all by himself. I caught him up on all fours a couple of times these past few days, and even managed to video some of it! He's going to give us a run for our money, I think!!
Alright - I'll start with video and then move to pictures!
Nicholas getting ready to crawl:
A slide show of the past three months:
The boys in the tub:
Those three months have been incredibly busy. Joseph graduated from preschool, I went to Arizona for Life Teen conference, and Nicholas learned how to roll over. We're all doing well, and having fun enjoying a relatively laid-back summer (many less preschool meetings for me this summer, but they've only been replaced by youth group ones!).
So, a quick update from all of the gang, and then I'll do millions and millions of pictures!
For me, I'm incredibly excited to say that my parish is adopting the Life Teen curriculum for our middle and high school students. I'm so excited to kick off this great program, and have been working pretty much round-the-clock to get myself trained, train the other adults, and get plans all situated for a great year. It's tiring, but incredibly exciting! We just recently took our youth group camping and created some movies and a brand new website. Check it out:
http://web.me.com/stbartsym
On Mike's end, he's been working a ton (like usual!), but has officially passed the half way point of residency this month. He's getting excited to see an end in sight.....albeit slightly far away still!! He's been interacting more and more with our youth group as well, and has really found his place in youth ministry. It's been great to see! His research paper was just recently accepted to be presented at a national conference in Orlando this October, so it looks like we'll be on our way to Disney this fall! Yay!
Joseph graduated from preschool in May, and will be headed to kindergarten in about a month (eek!). He's very excited, and has been working on new skills (like reading!) to get ready for kindergarten. He's getting so old and big - it's hard to believe that he'll be five in a matter of weeks!
Graham is doing great. He's getting ready to go to preschool this fall, and is very excited about being in Mrs. Durgin's class! We hit a major milestone this past month with Graham, as he attended a Vacation Bible School WITHOUT me in tow. For our shy middle child, this was a HUGE step!!
Nicholas is growing like a weed. He's now 20 pounds, and is sitting up and rolling all by himself. I caught him up on all fours a couple of times these past few days, and even managed to video some of it! He's going to give us a run for our money, I think!!
Alright - I'll start with video and then move to pictures!
Nicholas getting ready to crawl:
A slide show of the past three months:
The boys in the tub: