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Hello!

We are excited to finally get a blog started. Pretty soon, we will be entering one of the busiest times of our lives and still want to keep everyone updated on what's going on with the Andes and their adventures. Our most anticipated adventure coming up is of course the birth of our first daughter, Callie Christine. She is due on the 21st of this month and we are playing the waiting game, trying not to wish away any of the time we have left as a couple. God has been wonderful though this pregnancy and we praise him for a healthy baby and His perfect timing(and now much cooler weather...yay!)

Our most recent adventure happened last Thursday night...happened to be my dad's birthday, so I blame him. Hee hee! A "micro-burst" (I think it was a small tornado) blew through our neighborhood, and thought it would be fun to knock down a few huge pieces of our trees in the backyard. We had also lost power at 2AM (I really loved trying to sleep with no air and no fans being 38 weeks pregnant), but were blessed to know that our house had not been damaged in the storm and that we were safe. Jamie and I worked for 3 hours Friday morning to start the clean-up process. God even sent us a beautiful sunrise to help make getting started easier. Yep, very pregnant and hauling branches around. The strenuous exercise gave me a sore back, sore and swollen feet and legs, but didn't start up any kind of labor. Callie is pretty comfortable in there. We ended up with a pile of brush taller than Jamie and about 10 foot wide. After a few hours of resting, went back out and spent 2 more hours to load it all on a trailer to take away, thank you Cathy and Randy for your help that day. We still have quite a bit of wood to do something with, but it can wait another day. Now we have to figure out what to do with our damaged trees in the backyard. They look horrible and need to come down, but what an expense!!! We just thank God that it wasn't worse. And we firmly believe that God is good all the time and all the time, God is good! One of the good things that came out of this is that we reconnected with our neighbors that we never visit with. Who knows what other good things will come out of it, but we'll keep you updated. Until the next Andes adventure, blessings to you and yours!