Claire is 1!

Claire is such a happy baby! She is always smiling and giggling. She brings so much joy into our lives. We just love her!!! She is now on the move and is walking everywhere! As you can see by her belly, this baby loves to eat!!! She is a great eater and loves to try new things! Claire loves to dance and will find a way to groove to any noise she hears! She is so full of life and we are so grateful for her! Our family wouldn't be the same without her.

OUR GIRLS!

It is really fun having 2 little girls! Elin is finally coming around to being a big sister and really loves to play with Baby Claire. She wanted to rock Claire in the chair the other day and I got this adorable picture!!!

Claire smiles all day long and is such a happy baby! We just love her and can't even imagine life without her!

Sweet Little Claire

Our friend gave us these cute little bloomers for Claire and I couldn't wait to put her in them and do a photo shoot!!!!

Baby Claire

Here is sweet little Claire Lynn! We just love her and think she is so precious! She is such a good baby. More pictures to come soon!

Fun at the Beach

We are alive! It is hard to believe our last post was Christmas...where does the time go? Here are some pictures of Elin enjoying our break at Myrtle Beach. She had such a fun time walking up and down the beach. She loved the waves, she would point to them and giggle...until one knocked her over. So needless to say her happy relationship with the waves was over for the rest of our trip. Most of our time was spent walking up and down and up and down and up and down the sand. Elin also loved eating the sand and napping in the lazy river at the hotel. It was the only way she would take a nap...she hates to miss out on anything. She has a rough life!

She is so much fun and very full of energy! She makes us laugh everyday. She is walking all over the place and her favorite word to say is OUTSIDE! She puts a special accent on the end of it to make it sound like outsiiiidetttt. It is so cute. She pretty much talks and plays all day long. She has seven little teeth and loves to munch on cheerios. She isn't a picky eater at all...she will eat anything we put in front of her. As you can see from the pictures, she is quite the messy eater too!

Jenni is now on weekend day shifts at the children's hospital and enjoying every minute of it. SO LONG night shift!!! whoohoo!!!!! She seems to have much more energy now! Night shift was rough! Corey just finished another semester of seminary and is taking advantage of summer break and giving his brain much needed rest from all of the reading he has to do in the school year.

Jenni is going to Haiti next week to work in a children's hospital and orphanage! She was able, by the grace of God, to raise her support by selling hair bows! It was so neat to see God provide for her trip through so many people...perfect strangers that wanted to be a part of something greater than themselves! So amazing and encouraging to witness! Please pray for her safety and opportunities to share God's love with her team and Haitian patients. She will be there for 10 days! Also pray for Corey as he will be taking care of Elin while mama is gone.

We hope this post will help satisfy cravings around the world for pictures of Elin...especially for our friends "Lonely in China":) and our friends in Utah. We love you and miss you all!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! WE LOVE YOU! LOVE, COREY & JENNI & OUR BEAUTIFUL SANTA BABY!!!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!!! We are so grateful for all of our family and friends that show us so much love! We are especially thankful to the Lord for all that He has done for us and continues to do. We serve an amazing and unfathomable God!!

Elin had her first turkey experience and boy did it knock her out. Right after she ate her first Thanksgiving dinner, she fell asleep in her high chair. It was so funny! She loved Thanksgiving though. Jenni's parents and sister Kristi came and spent the holiday with us. Jenni's mom is an amazing cook and does such a great job with Thanksgiving dinner. It was delicious! We had a good time and we are so happy that we could spend Thanksgiving with our family. Does anyone want to come all the way to Kentucky for Christmas?

A Rough November...

This month has been a rough one to say the least. After Halloween, Elin had a high fever and was struggling to breathe. We took her to the Dr, and sure enough she had croup. Of course she couldn't just have normal croup though....nope she had a croup that wasn't responding to any treatment, which landed us a 3 day stay at the children's hospital. Elin was really sick and our experience was very scary. We want to thank everyone for their prayers. We felt them and we knew that the Lord was taking care of us. We have never felt so helpless. Our little Elin was just sooo sick. It's hard to see your child like that. A couple of things helped Elin get through her difficult time... BABY EINSTEIN. I think we have Baby Einstein memorized. It was on repeat for 3 straight days! Jenni's boss Darla was so sweet...she brought Elin a Teddy Bear while in the hospital and then sent her gourmet cupcakes as a get well present. This teddy bear made Elin smile, which made us smile! Elin's nurses were incredible and they took very good care of her. After leaving the hospital, it took a good week for Elin to return to her normal, happy, full of energy self.

If croup wasn't enough, Jenni caught the SWINE FLU and it took her out for a good 10 days. Even after isolating herself and taking extra precautions, Elin got the swine flu and so did Corey. We all got on Tamiflu and we all felt better. Then once off Tamiflu, Elin got another high fever. The Dr thought that she might have a hidden pnemonia, so Elin had to get another chest x-ray and then she was put on high dose antibiotics. Poor thing!! We are hoping that we had our share of illness all in the month of November. We should be good for a year right?!! We are hopeful:)

Elin's First Halloween

We endured the cold and went to a trunk or treat for Elin's first Halloween. Elin hung out in her stroller most of the time trying to stay warm in her very insulated lady bug costume....she did have a small resemblence of an obese child!! Super cute! We ended up with a big bag of lady bug treats to take home. It was a fun night and we are glad that we did her first trick or treating at a local church. It was a fun and safe environment. We will return for another round of trunk or treating next year!! By then, Elin will actually get to enjoy her treats instead of her treats being graciously eaten up by her parents:)