8 months old

Here are the latest pictures.

Last Saturday Stacey and I were at church for a primary activity and we met a girl named Natalie. Natalie is 18 and she just moved to Nashville from Indiana to start college. She had read the whole Book of Mormon and she came to the church looking for someone to talk to about it; she has so much faith! She has friends in Indiana who introduced her to the church, and she seems to already have a testimony of the restored gospel. Her parents are very opposed to her coming to our church so she is afraid of alienating them, and she wants to make sure she is doing God's will before she commits to anything. The missionaries taught her in our home on Monday. We feel so lucky to be the ones who can share the good news of the gospel with her! She has quickly become a good friend.

This week Evelyn had 2 teeth come in. She is becoming very mobile even though she isn't really crawling yet (her belly still touches the ground). Now Evelyn can fall asleep on her own after screaming at bedtime, that's a blessing.

School started again. I'm only taking one class so I can (hopefully) finish my masters research in about 6 months. I'm also excited to go to a workshop in Miami this December but Stacey isn't too happy about that.

After thinking and praying about it for a long time we decided Stacey should get a part time job. She searched and interviewed for a few weeks, and we were very blessed with the job she got. It's only two 8 hour shifts per week, from 3pm-11pm, working with old people at a hospital. It's a lot like a nursing home except the people are only in for a couple days. She visited the floor and the nurses really liked working there, in part because they only have 3 patients each. The old people are in because they forgot who they are, or they stopped taking their meds and had problems, etc. The hourly pay is good, and she even gets health benefits. Stacey starts orientation this week.

Here's a video of Evelyn playing the piano. Someday we'll get a camera that doesn't take such dark videos.