Mary's Moments

Christopher is almost 5 months old now and I can't believe it! Time flies by so fast. I brought dinner to a friend tonight who just had a baby and it seems like yesterday that I myself was at home and people were blessing me with meals. Amazing how time flies when you become a parent and start watching your kids change so much day-to-day. Well Christopher is somewhat eating rice cereal now and that has been lots of fun. He is a spoiled baby and won't really take bottles from anyone, but he's doing great at giving the cereal a try. While I was feeding him, he kept sneezing, and as you can imagine, it is quite messy afterwards. But at least it makes for a good picture:) So today has been an interesting day. This morning started off a little rough with us forgetting to set our alarm clocks from coming back late from Bible Study last night and in turn Katherine missing the bus this a/m. So we hopped in the car and took the shortcut route we normally take, but it happened to be

This weekend we went to Houston to celebrate my parent's 60th birthday. My Mom's birthday was in August and my Dad's is in October, so we decided to throw a combined party for them. We had a great time and it was fun to have everyone there! We drove down from Austin and Will and Alison flew down (he has his pilot's license so he flew down with Alison). The rest of the gang are from different parts of Houston. We met at El Caporal Mexican restaurant and had a yummy cake from RJ Goodies:). From left to right, in the picture, are Shawn and Elizabeth Simme, Pat and Gail Cook, Linda and David Farmer, Mary Farmer and Christopher, Daniel and Matthew, Alison Mainord, Katherine, Will Hermann, Bill and Esther Hermann.