Summer days and not feeling well..

Lovin Family Pictures in Grandma's Garden!

Good morning,
Hope everyone is staying cool in the heat.  We cooked up some yummy treats this summer while inside.  James made a strawberry shortcake snake (a.k.a.  Strawberry Short"snake"), that was yummy. My favorite is Ice cream though.  I get spoiled every Tuesday night when I go to my Me-ma's house, they give me Chicken nuggets and ICE CREAM!

Enjoying some Ice Cream... Looks like we need to get more!

James creation..Strawberry Short"snake".  Yumm!

Our Garden loved the Rain!  You don't even see the
Onions, spinach, squash, cucumbers, Zucchini, Watermelon,
Cantaloupe or Pumpkins... The Lord has blessed!   

We have stayed busy, as usual. As most of you endured, we had many many weeks of no rain.   Hannah, said that she thought God needed to repaint the grass. :)  Well, He heard our prayer and we have had many days of rain and now our grass in green again. Our garden loved it too. We have a pumpkin almost as big as me. We have picked onions and frozen peppers, canned relish and ate yummy zucchini bread, tomatoes, cucumbers and more. We also caught a skunk (smelly..) and a raccoon eating our corn.


We continue to work on our new house and love it more each day. The Lord has blessed and we got Cabinets in last week (shared a picture at the bottom). Also, my uncle Marc has been working on the tile and making it look so pretty. Many projects to go but things are getting done day by day, so we might get to move in soon.

Iron man Josiah

Some of the fun things we got for our birthday are getting put to good use. I love James' Iron man mask. When I can steel it from him I love playing pretend and saving the world. Boy, do we need saving too, so glad that Jesus came to save us and that gives us all hope.  I also LOVE playing ball! So the basketball hoop that Grandma and Grandpa got us is used everyday. Also, James got a new bike that he rides and .... sometimes shares. So much fun.

James' new ride

Josiah made a basket..YAA!

Mommy was planing on posting that I was going to have some test done, so please pray for my sedation to go well.  We have waited 4 months to get these tests done and I have pretty much stayed healthy... till today.  Cozy in mommy's bed is where I like to stay on days like this. Got a fever, runny nose and bad cough.. no tests today.  Please pray I feel better soon so I can enjoy my days and have my tests soon.

Van Carman Family singers! :)

I also love to play instruments. Leah is learning to play the guitar and I love playing too. James loves to sing (like his grandpa :), so we all play well together. Momma calls us the Van Carman family singers... we just need a little more practice as you will see from James video, but we have so much fun!

This video mommy wanted to share. She is so very proud of me.  I am learning to sight read.  I tend to learn things a little slower so when I came and started to read words on the TV screen they didn't believe it. Mommy got some flash cards out and I would pick it up and read it to her. Now I love it when someone will sit and write words for me to read. I love showing what I know and learning new words.  Of course some of you might not understand the video because I sign most of my words. So when I see a word I know I usually say the beginning sounds as I sign it.  We thank the Lord for the ability to learn and can't wait to see what else I will surprise everyone with!


Hope you all enjoy your summer and stay cool.  May God bless you all. Thank you for stopping and checking on me, I love sharing my days with you.

Josiah

P.s. My first photo at the top is from family photos we had done at Grandma's.  Mommy is putting together cards to send out for all our friends and family. If you don't think mommy has your address (or even if you do :), please e-mail it to   jimandrachael10@yahoo.com   We would love to send you our family picture and you to send me yours... I LOVE pictures!! Thank you!

The Island.. can't wait to use that!

Cabinets CAME!  Still in progress but had to share!