January 12th (or about 12 weeks)
Mama and happy Eloise at a family photo shoot in Seattle.
Lola (or Grandma Durias) began helping us with Eloise each week. It's a joy to have her share her life with our daughter.
Santa's helper (David Bordner in red) spoke at our high school winter camp. He is a youth pastor in Slovenia and challenged everyone with his teaching. Click here for more. He is a dear friend and a missionary from our church.
We couldn't get enough of our high school volunteer staff that we had them over to our place the night after we got back from camp.
One of the junior highers got so excited about a new game on a wednesday night that he hugged me, which in turn pushed the mic into my mouth and chipped my tooth. All in a days work :)
Eloise surprised cousin Pia for lunch.
The junior highers reached a goal for our group, which resulted in me dressing like a chicken and making a fool of myself with our intern/farmer Nick Ippolito.
Friends from church met together at the Vankers to celebrate life.
