Today is Becca’s 31-week birthday! It’s hard to believe that it’s been 31 weeks since Becca’s unexpected arrival on Thanksgiving day. This week I took a picture of Becca in one of my baby dresses to match a picture taken of me when I was about 5 months. Josh and I are enjoying our play times with Becca. During the day, we have different times each of us takes turns playing with Becca . . . it’s much more fun than working on our research.

We’re had an exciting weekend and enjoyed spending time with some of our friends. On Friday, we had lunch with Mr. and Mrs. Olson (photo to left). They met Becca for the first time and she enjoyed being with them as well. Friday evening, we had René and Yani Rodriguez and their daughter Amaris over for dinner (photo right). Amaris is about 5 months old and it was neat to see our two babies interact. When we put them on the floor together, Becca took Amaris’ toy away from her. I don’t think either girl had any idea what was going on, but we all enjoyed watching them. (Photo of the two at the bottom of the post.)

Sunday night, we attended a Concert in the Garden by the Fort Worth Symphony. We were able to bring chairs and sit on the lawn of Fort Worth’s Botanical Garden and enjoy a night of music by Russian composers. They ended the evening with Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, using fireworks instead of cannon fire. I wondered how the fireworks would affect Becca, but I didn’t have to worry . . . she slept peacefully through the entire fireworks show.

This past Monday, Josh and I celebrated our 2nd year wedding anniversary. Josh made me a beautiful poster with photos surrounding our wedding program. I am so thankful for my husband and the 2 years of marriage the Lord has given us. I am blessed to be married to my best friend and look forward to many exciting years ahead.

As promised, I’m including more pictures from our trip. We visited some of our friends at Bob Jones University while in Greenville (on the left you can see Becca with Mrs. Eby, Mrs. Johnson, Dr. Guthrie, and Dr. Eby). It was good to see them for a few minutes. We saw both Dr. Jaeggli and Dr. Bell (photo right). We’re hoping Becca can take Hebrew from them someday. We also spent some time with Rebekah Pringle — both Becca and I enjoyed the delicious lunch she made us! (See photo at bottom.) Next week, we’ll post pictures from our time in Charleston.

Today is also my parents’ wedding anniversary! Happy anniversary, Dad & Mom! Thanks for being a wonderful example of marriage and parenting to us.