Growin' Boy

Arkansas was recently hit with a major ice storm. Thankfully, our area was relatively unscathed. Mostly, the ice just made for a beautiful landscape of shimmering trees. Here are a few pictures from our yard and the mountain by our home.

And of course, we couldn't post without adding a few pictures of our pride and joy. Isaiah will be six months old in just two weeks. Enjoy!

Happy New Year

We wrapped up 2008 without too much excitement. We enjoyed a low-key, relaxed Christmas here in Arkansas with Meredith's family. We spent 4 days staying at Mom & Dad Tucker's house. Isaiah got lots of great gifts for his first Christmas and of course was spoiled rotten by everyone.

Isaiah started eating "solid" food just a few days before Christmas. So far he's enjoyed rice cereal and green beans...yummy! He's growing so fast and is very busy. He's gotten two teeth already and we're sure more are on the way with the amount of drool that he's producing! He's in the stage of putting absolutely everything in his mouth and one of his most favorite things to suck on are his feet. As soon as you take his socks off, his toes go right into his mouth. Quite the acrobatics!

The weather has been beautiful lately with the temperature hanging out between 50-70 degrees during the day. This has allowed us to finally work on raking up all of the leaves in our back yard. We took Isaiah outside to play with us in his excer-saucer. He absolutely loves being outside.

We do have some exciting news to share regarding our future. The Lord has prompted us to start the application process to become career missionaries. We are applying with WorldVenture (http://www.worldventure.com/). We are not sure at this point exactly where we're headed, but we know that God is leading us to take the next step in our journey. The process from here to our final destination may take 2-5 years. We covet your prayers as we move forward. It's exciting and a little overwhelming as well. God is so good though and it is a joy and a privilege to serve our King.

Happy 2009! May you experience God's richest blessings in this new year.