Puppies!!

The puppies are here!!  Grace, our pure-bred boxer had puppies on Thursday, and we are all excited to see them!  :)  We had 4 males and 1 female.  They will be ready to be weaned sometime close to Thanksgiving! :)  If you are interested let us know.  We will be selling them for $200 for the males and $250 for the female.  They are absolutely beautiful puppies, that's for sure! 

Check out the pics at this link for all the pics.  I've included a few pics here.  :)

Pictures! :)

Well I told you I would post pictures, and it may have taken me some time, but here they are. This week is going pretty good. :) Blessings! -Mark

Keith sitting up on our bed!!
Doesn't he look peaceful! :)

Ray can be pretty sweet. :)

Ray and mommy :)

Don't mess with me and my brother, or I'll take you out! :)

You can view more pictures at http://gallery.me.com/dalevillechristian and click on the "Landis Family Jun and July" album. :)

Back at school...

I don't know how much I'll have time to blog, but I want to at least try to do it! :) I enjoy getting out some of my thoughts, and getting to brag on my kids. Ray and Keith are awesome! :)

Keith is now 4 1/2 months old and now weighs in at 8 pounds 8 oz. He is 27 inches long!! He is officially a big baby! :)

I must run now, but I will try to get new pics up. You can also check out the gallery page for more pics.

http://gallery.me.com/dalevillechristian

Blessings!

PICS! :)

Wow is Keith getting big or what!  He is about 20 pounds already if not more (we have difficulty getting him to stand on the scales!) LOL!   J/K!  We stand on the scale, weigh ourselves, then weigh ourselves with him in our arms...and we get about 20-22 pounds.  Not sure how accurate, but it must be close.  (Not that what we weigh is correct when I see the weight by myself!LOL!)  

Here is him sleeping in his car seat at church.

Here is Ray with one of the youth group kids.  

More pics soon hopefully.  Mommy has been really busy, and so has daddy.  

We've been staying with my parents to help out since my dad's surgery last Wednesday.  He had his ankle fixed AGAIN, but this time by a new doctor that actually did it right this time!  The last doctor messed it up and didn't fix everything that he should have fixed.  So, we're busy taking care of our 2 kids, the 3 dogs, plus helping out my parents with chores that my dad normally would be doing, ie mowing the lawn and taking out the trash! LOL! :)  It is a blessing to be able to help though.  

Well, I'm going back to bed, couldn't sleep, so I thought I'd blog! LOL! Hopefully I can get to sleep now.  

Blessings!

Mark

I know...

it has been a long time since I posted.  So, in just a few sentences I'll share what has happened since I last posted, and I will get some pics up here soon.  

1.  June 14th I broke my left foot riding on the Tour de Cure bike ride.  In a cam walker until it is healed..hopefully soon!  It makes it really hard to do a lot of things! :(

2.  Church pulled me on full time and that is going great!  We've had kids at the youth center every day we've had it open!!  Praise the Lord!

3.  Keith is getting huge, and stands up to the bottom of Ray's sternum already!!  He is so tall!

4.  Really busy at the church, but loving it.  

I'll write more later, but I've got kids in the youth center already!  :)  Praise the Lord!

Blessings, 

Mark

Almost...

Well we're almost done with school for the year. Just 2 more days and we're outa here for the summer. I love my job here at school, don't get me wrong, I do, but I'm ready to be out for a while. Enough running around like a chicken with the head cut off. :)

As we come to a close on the school year I am reminded of some special people who I work with that I will not see again for a while. Kelli and Amy, whom I work with are awesome, and I appreciate their friendship greatly. Also Kelly is a great friend, and I will miss you over the summer too. Thanks to all of you for being there when I needed someone. :) Hopefully we can get together over the summer, but perhaps we all will be plenty busy this summer and if that is the case, see you next year.

2 more days!!
Praise the Lord!

PS I'm preaching tonight at church, so feel free to say a prayer that I make it there safely and it goes well. I have a detention until just before 6 and then the service is at 6:30. With a 25 minute drive I should make it in just enough time. :) Thanks!

Blessings,
Mark

Praise the Lord!!

Okay, so I didn't get this written up until now, but it still is exciting news!! Starting June 1st (YESTERDAY!) I am full time at the church!! I will continue to be full time until August 9th when I will revert back to part-time status. This will allow me to focus fully on the youth this summer, and pour my heart into the ministry. I'm praying that the Lord leads in the direction needed to make this summer a productive summer. I would love to have some grants that I could write that would help the church open the youth center full time AND perhaps pay me so that I can continue full time next year. :) Would you join with me in prayer for that? Thanks!

Keith, Ray and Tina are all doing fine. I'll have some new pics up soon, I promise. This is the last week of school, so I look forward to finishing up the finals week and starting up the church full time. :)

Blessings!
Mark