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"I Saw God Today"

This morning, like most mornings, I woke up to the sound of the monitor buzzing to life as Grady woke up a little earlier than usual. I decided that I would leave him for a few minutes to see if he'd fall back asleep (as I was crossing my fingers for). But he was wide awake and ready to tackle the day, so I grudgingly dragged my lazy self out of bed to get him out of his crib. When I walked into his room, he looked up at me and gave me the biggest Grady smile that comes from the bottom of his toes and fills his whole body with happiness. In that moment, I felt more love for that little boy then I knew possible. He has a joy within him that blows me away. At almost 6 months, he is already the best person I know - and I have full faith that his life makes this world a better place. I know that everyone probably feels this about their own children, but to me he is an amazing miracle. When I look at him, I see that God is at work in this world. The gift of Grady gives me hope.

"Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever truly has" - Margaret Mead

We did it! Family Camp 08'

Well, as the title states, we decided to go ahead and tackle family camp. For those who don't know, that means camping for nine days... with a 5 month old. We were blessed to be able to spend this years camp week in my parents brand new trailer. Despite numerous spit ups, stinky diapers, and muddy river feet we did our best to keep it as clean as it was when we got it. Compared to our previous stays in the slightly less luxurious "scamps" (no offence Chelle and Alex, we love it but it just doesn't compare :D) we felt like we were really living it up! That mixed with all the fanatic meals that were brought for us, we had a really relaxing and lazy week.

Grady did amazing, which I am sure comes as no surprise to anyone who knows him. He slept nearly as well as he does at home; even through the HUGE lightning storm, the insanely sensitive middle of the night fire alarm, and all the lovely Karaoke - "Turn Turn Turn". Dan and I have such a special place in our hearts for Harmatten and we felt very proud to have our beautiful little boy there with us this year. He had lots of fun playing with (OK really looking/meeting/squealing at) his friends Jackson, Carly, Finlay, and Gabriel.

We also really enjoyed one of the speakers this year. The Irish accent was entertaining - and I personally really felt touched by his sermons - especially his very first one. For the first time in a LONG time, I wanted to stay to listen to him speak, and was slightly sad that I had to leave every night to put our little man to bed.

It was nice to come home at the end of the week - but we did have a really good time and are pretty proud of ourselves for tackling camping!

(By the way - has anyone seen Evan Alminght??? Kidding! Too funny)

The life and times of the Falk Family

I decided to go ahead a start up a family blog. I'll do my best to keep this updated with all the exciting (or not so exciting...) happenings of our little family.