So this is the first time I have ever done a blog. I've been asked by several friends if I would ever consider doing so. I figured for the longest time that I wouldn't since I had Facebook...but you can't status update whole stories at a time about your life. Well, you could, but those would be really long status updates! :)
Anyone who reads this blog will know all of the preliminaries about me as well as my family. But I'll go ahead and share a few things anyway, because I'm quirky like that! I am Melinda (duh) and I am 26 years old. I am married to my wonderful husband, Nathan (27), and have been for 7 FANTASTIC years. We have 4 healthy and beautiful children. Makenzie, who will be 7 on April 4, Ashley, who will be 6 on April 6, Alexander, who will be 3 on April 29 (I know what your thinking, ALL APRIL BABIES??!!) and to throw everyone off....Danielle, who just turned 1 on February 8.
Nathan just graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana on May 20, 2011. And we are currently faithfully serving a Lutheran congregation in Rader, Missouri. We bought our first home this year, and so we have spent the better part of the last 8 months making this our HOME. We'll start at the beginning of this journey...
In June 2011, we departed Fort Wayne with many heart-wrenching good-byes to head to the small town of Conway, Missouri. We hadn't quite finished the house buying process, so Nathan stayed with a family from our new town, and I embarked upon Quincy IL for a week. At the end of June, Nathan was ordained/installed into Immanuel Lutheran Church. We moved into our new home the very next day!
August soon progressed upon us, and our two older girls started school at Eleazar Elementary School in Conway, Missouri. Makenzie, my oldest started 1ST GRADE!! And Ashley, started KINDERGARTEN! They ride the bus for the first time ever!!
I must say that I forgot to mention that the new house came complete with 7 hens. We were getting 6 fresh eggs a day. YUMMY! Then, September came, and we picked up a stray dog from Rader, who only lasted 6 days by the way. In the short time we 'owned' him, he chewed the cord to my electric blanket, and killed 2 of our chickens. We took him back to Rader! A couple of weeks later, we got a Rooster from a member of our church. We named him Jack. We let him out of the coop too soon, and he 'flew the coop?' (Is that the saying?) Needless to say, Jack was no more... A few more weeks later, that same family gave us a second rooster. We named him Jack Jr. He stayed, though he is terrified of us, and his crow sounds hideous. Hmm...
We'll skip ahead to the current, meaning the last two weeks or so. We added to our colony of chickens... we bought 16 chicks for Cackles Hatchery. 3 of them are Easter Egg chickens!! They will lay blue, pink and green eggs! How cool is that?! We installed new storm doors to match the windows (white), bought new furniture...and are raising 4 children 6 and under. I think this keeps us busy enough. Oh, and Danielle is slowly learning how to walk. Alex is mastering potty training now that he has the basics. And Makenzie and Ashley are zooming through learning how to read.
I COULDN'T BE HAPPIER! I LOVE MY FAMILY!!!!!
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