We have just finished a GREAT week with (most of) the Morrison Family here in the Hills. We finished the week of family fun with Sunday Morning at our church, Dove Christian Center, and a special moment during the service for Liv to be dedicated.
Liv wore a new outfit given to her by our friends, the Roisums -- a sweet sky blue sun dress with matching sandals. I think the grandma's thought maybe Liv should have been in the traditional white frilly dress... I guess we're just not as traditional as we used to be! But the morning service was lovely - Pastor Gary shared about the precidence of Hannah dedicating Samuel to the Lord, and that when we dedicate our babies in the church we are bringing them into the extended family of believers. Pastor Gary challenges the congregation to support the family and the new little one, to pray for them and encourage them in being raised in the Faith. Liv was a perfect angel during the service, mostly because she had fallen alseep in my arms right before we started... but she is usually a good baby all the time. We have been so blessed by our Dove family -- so many gave us gifts for Liv, I'm still writing the Thank You notes!!
Let me go back and start at the beginning of our family time, last Monday. Lance, Gretchen, Tori, Logan and Grandma Lillian took a ROAD TRIP from their northern home. They arrived much earlier than I expected that day, and found that travelling west across ND was much quicker for them than driving south on I-29 through Sioux Falls. When we got home from Zion School with Thor, they were just pulling into our driveway!! What timing!!
On Wednesday evening Justin arrived from Astoria - with plans for turkey hunting Thursday and Friday (maybe also Saturday) with Lance and Dirk (if he could get out of work). Our little house was filled to the maximum... thankfully my mom and dad have an extra bedroom too, so Grandma Lil slept at thier home each night. It was also nice for her to have a little quiet space away from all the children ... having 5 kids under the age of 6 in one house can tend to get a little crazy!!
Gretchen and I got to have a little "GIG" time, (girlfriends in God) taking in my last MOPS meeting for the year, as well as our first MOPS outing to Bear Country, one latenight grocery store run when we just happended to find a DQ along the way.... It was so nice catch up with Gretchen, just mom to mom... (no kids!!).
The boys did get in a few turkey hunting attempts, but no dead turkey's this time. The weather was much hotter than usual this week, which might be part of why they weren't visible. But we did do some family fun stuff too -- went mini-golfing at Pirates Cove (big hit with ALL the kids!), watched Thor compete in the Annual Christian Schools Track and Field day at the School of Mines Track, and watched Thor's first coach-pitch Baseball game; not to mention hitting two of our favorite places to eat - Fudruckers and La Costa (mexican).
Liv wore a new outfit given to her by our friends, the Roisums -- a sweet sky blue sun dress with matching sandals. I think the grandma's thought maybe Liv should have been in the traditional white frilly dress... I guess we're just not as traditional as we used to be! But the morning service was lovely - Pastor Gary shared about the precidence of Hannah dedicating Samuel to the Lord, and that when we dedicate our babies in the church we are bringing them into the extended family of believers. Pastor Gary challenges the congregation to support the family and the new little one, to pray for them and encourage them in being raised in the Faith. Liv was a perfect angel during the service, mostly because she had fallen alseep in my arms right before we started... but she is usually a good baby all the time. We have been so blessed by our Dove family -- so many gave us gifts for Liv, I'm still writing the Thank You notes!!Let me go back and start at the beginning of our family time, last Monday. Lance, Gretchen, Tori, Logan and Grandma Lillian took a ROAD TRIP from their northern home. They arrived much earlier than I expected that day, and found that travelling west across ND was much quicker for them than driving south on I-29 through Sioux Falls. When we got home from Zion School with Thor, they were just pulling into our driveway!! What timing!!
On Wednesday evening Justin arrived from Astoria - with plans for turkey hunting Thursday and Friday (maybe also Saturday) with Lance and Dirk (if he could get out of work). Our little house was filled to the maximum... thankfully my mom and dad have an extra bedroom too, so Grandma Lil slept at thier home each night. It was also nice for her to have a little quiet space away from all the children ... having 5 kids under the age of 6 in one house can tend to get a little crazy!!
Gretchen and I got to have a little "GIG" time, (girlfriends in God) taking in my last MOPS meeting for the year, as well as our first MOPS outing to Bear Country, one latenight grocery store run when we just happended to find a DQ along the way.... It was so nice catch up with Gretchen, just mom to mom... (no kids!!).
The boys did get in a few turkey hunting attempts, but no dead turkey's this time. The weather was much hotter than usual this week, which might be part of why they weren't visible. But we did do some family fun stuff too -- went mini-golfing at Pirates Cove (big hit with ALL the kids!), watched Thor compete in the Annual Christian Schools Track and Field day at the School of Mines Track, and watched Thor's first coach-pitch Baseball game; not to mention hitting two of our favorite places to eat - Fudruckers and La Costa (mexican).
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