Jake's Birthday!

Yesterday we celebrate Jake's 14th Birthday! It is hard to believe he is 14. It is true what everyone says about how time flies. Seems like we blinked and he went from baby to 14. We are so grateful for Jake who is a kind and caring young man. He is sweet and helpful around the house and with his new baby sister.

This year Jake has learned to play the keyboard and is helping almost every week with our times of singing and worship at our church.

Chocolate cake!

Apparently one of his brothers tipped him off to one of his gifts but he tried to act surprised ;-)

More video games...

A little bowling to celebrate!

Caleb Turns 10!

It is hard to believe that our baby boy is 10! We had a fun time celebrating. We also were able to get away for a few days to the beach and rest earlier this month. This was long overdue. It is Levi's last time going at least while he lives here with us. We have started a lot of lasts ;-(

He wanted to go putt-putting for his birthday...so we found the best we could in Guate ;-)

He got about 3 different treats!

We actually  had a couple of pretty sunsets

Best part was naps with Grace in the hammock

 Grace does real well in the water 

Grace's 9 Month Pictures

We are so in love with Grace Christina and enjoying every moment with her. She is crawling and starting to get into everything and developing more and more personality. It is fun to watch each stage of growth. We recently took her 9 month pictures that you can see below and some other pictures of her. Thanks for your prayers for her and us.

Stateside Trip

Carlos, Ben and Joel made a quick trip to the US. They went to a conference for the church planting network that New Life Church is a part of. We also connected with supporters, family and friends. Here are a few pics from the time there.

 Catching an Indians baseball game.

Carlos and Joel doing a little fishing.

The conference.

Carlos sharing about the work the Lord is doing through Iglesia Nueva Vida in Guatemala.

Family times.

Grateful for time with family!

This was taken the day we left. We ended up getting to Indy a day late because of a cancelled flight.

Weddings, Prayer and More

It has been a full summer. We had weddings, teams, visitors, trips stateside etc. We just finished up a time of focused prayer as well. It has been full but a great summer. We have attended a few weddings and participated in one of them. See some pics below of all these activities and more.

This is a special place that we hike up to for prayer time about once per month with people from our church.

Ben, Levi and Jake at a wedding

A celebration with one of our discipleship groups with New Life Church.

A recent outreach we did at a public school and a team serving with us from Columbia.

Caleb and Grace. Love how our boys enjoy their sister.

Carlos and Ben at Pabel and Naomi's wedding.

We just finished studying the books of Colossians in our schools and a few weeks ago our students presented what they learned during this time and did a great job!