I meant to mention this earlier. Dear friends, I have an urgent prayer request for you. Please keep Paul and Vanessa Martin and their family in your prayers. Vanessa and their two children were involved in a very serious car accident this past Tuesday morning, which happened to be Vanessa's birthday. Their daughter is recovering from surgery, while their nine-year-old son has passed away. Vanessa is said to be okay, physically. Please, please keep this family in your prayers. This is so heartbreaking. I know you will lift up this family in prayer.
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The weather was so nice today that we decided to take our one year old out to play. It's been so cold lately so we really hadn't gone out much, but today we didn't even have to bundle up. So, we grabbed Benjamin's car and his Pup, and we set off to play outside.
We had a lot of fun! Benjamin loved being pushed in his car, and he visited with our neighbors for a little while before heading out to the backyard to walk around in it for the first time since he's started walking.
So far, we had only met a few of our neighbors (and we've been here a whole year so that's kind of sad), but today Benjamin met some new friends. On the other side of us, a few kids were playing in the backyard, so Benjamin went over and started yelling at them. The oldest one was 8, and the youngest were two twin girls who weren't school-aged yet. In between, a 6 year old boy and a girl who was only there until her parents picked her up. They were so cute. They enjoyed talking to Hubby and to Benjamin and showing him their football and blanket.
Today was a really good day. I got some birthday stuff done and Hubby tackled the mass amount of laundry we had piling up in our room. Thanks, babe!
Oh yeah, and I almost forgot:
Yes. Ew. I saw this after I took the picture, and immediately made Benjamin move. Hubby scooped it up with a shovel.
Don't worry, Benjamin didn't touch it.
But I gotta wonder... why was there a dead bird in the middle of our yard?
