What a Weekend

This weekend we spent taking care of Natalie & Ruby (Jordan & Lindsey Barkel's little girls). We stayed over at there house since Friday. They are just adorable and it was lots of fun "practing" parenthood. We give credit to all you parents out there because it truly is a full time job. They kept us on our toes all day long. We even had an intersting experience this morning when we were trying to get ready for church. Natalie was playing in her parents room and decided to shut the door, somehow she also ended up locking it......So trying to get a 2 year old to unlock a door is not the easiest. So we tried to take the door knob off from the outside but that did not work. So next step we looked to see if we could climb through the bedroom window and sure enough, there Aaron went climbing into the room through the window, he unlocked the door but for some reason it still didn't open.....so we disassembled the knob but STILL could not get opened.....So finally we gave up and hooisted Natalie out of the window and Aaron jumped out too. God must have stopped time or something because we made it to church on time too.

Then after church we headed to the airport to meet my family as we welcomed home Al, Lisa & their new baby Gideon Kiful Alan Gemmen. He is just adorable and we are so thankful to have him be part of our family. We are thankful that the adoption process went smoothly and he was able to meet our family and his new big brother,Josiah. He was so happy and full of smiles when they came off the plane. Here are some pics of our adorable new nephew, Gideon!