In early June we spent a week in New Jersey. On Sunday, the 13th, I was ordained at my home congregation in Oak Ridge, Holy Faith Lutheran Church. It was a wonderful celebration. It was such a blessing to share this day with the family, friends and members of the congregation that have helped get me to this point. It was a beautiful service and excellent time of fellowship. Beyond the Ordination Sunday, we did not do too much else while we were in NJ. Unfortunately no day trips to the Jersey Shore, baseball games, or anything like that. We just spent the week in Vernon visiting with friends and family. My parents and the rest of the family had plenty of time to entertain Isaiah despite only being there for a week. But quite honestly, Isaiah did not sleep well the entire trip so it was probably for the best that the trip was not any longer. Thankfully, as soon as we were back home and he was in familiar territory he was sleeping through the night like normal.
After we returned home to STL I had to make a trip up to Sun Prairie for a home inspection. This was the most recent of several 6-hour trips we have made up north to Wisconsin in search for our future home. We originally thought that we had found a nice home for us; we even had an accepted offer and started dreaming about what we would do first and how we could decorate. But after the inspection, for a variety of reasons, it looks like that house won't pan out after all. It's unfortunate because now we have to start at the very beginning, looking at homes and searching websites. But we do have a wonderful place to stay in the meantime so we don't have to worry about living out of our car or being homeless.
As Calie has been busy working and getting ready for the National Youth Gathering down in New Orleans in just under 3 weeks, Isaiah and I have been stuck inside. In fact, today was the first day in over 2 weeks that we have been able to spend time playing outside. The last couple weeks STL has been under serious heat advisories. The temperature was daily in the upper 90's with humidity nearing 95% most days. That meant the heat index every day was well into triple digits. Luckily, the next week looks like it will be much like it was today, so I'm sure Isaiah and I will log many hours outside on the playground and chasing after his multitude of balls. If we're lucky we'll get to the zoo a time or two also. We actually spent a couple hours there this past Saturday morning. We spent most of the time in the 'children's zoo' where they have little fountain/geysers of water that shoot up from the ground. Isaiah LOVED them! We spent almost an hour there as he would just run through them and splash, sit down in the puddles and laugh. Calie and I started to feel like he was another exhibit at the zoo as people would just walk past smiling and watch him having a blast in the water. Unfortunately, we did not have a camera but next time we will try and remember Calie's video camera as I'm sure he'll put on a similar, adorable show.
Calie will be off from work on Friday and Monday for a long Independence Day weekend. No exciting plans for us though as we are going to use the weekend to pack as much as possible. The more boxes we can fill this weekend the less we'll have to worry about when Calie comes home from New Orleans. So hopefully by this time next week, we will have a corner of the house with a good junk of boxes piled up high and ready to be loaded onto a U-haul! I know that will make us both feel much better concerning our pending move. Calie will be gone for 10 days when she leaves for New Orleans! Isaiah and I have enjoyed our guys days and nights in the past, but this will be a bit too long to be without Mommy--for both of us! So while she works and sweats away in the Big Easy, the boys will head up north to spend some time with Grandma and Grandpa Seitzer on the farm. I have a pretty good feeling that they are super excited to spend time with their grandson, even if it does mean having me there too.
That's all for now. Oh wait, there is one other thing. For those of you that don't already know... Calie is pregnant again. Isaiah is going to be a big brother! I'm not sure that he is able to comprehend it, but he does touch Calie's stomach and say, "baby, baby". Baby #2 is due on our 5-year anniversary on November 5th. This past Wednesday we had our 20-week ultrasound, but decided not to find out the sex of the baby so it will be a surprise! In the picture to the right you can see baby's head and arm.Hope you are all having a wonderful summer and keeping cool. Not sure when our next update will be, but we do have some pictures to share below. Enjoy!
