Round 'n Round and the Rise of a New Power

Hey everyone. We went out to see Spiderman 3 a few weeks ago (best Spiderman, although that really doesn't say much), and I was just thinking of all the superheroes out there. And none, not even Batman, compares to the Mighty K. Welcome to the rise of a new powerful superhero - Mighty K. As you can see from some of our pictures and videos, she has several superhuman strengths.

One is the ability to run the "round 'n round" with no sense of stopping. The round and round is Grandpa and Grandma Smith's house, which is built so you can run round and round in circles. Whoever designed that place originally should be given a Medal of Honor.

Mighty K's second ability is "bubble-blowing". We broke out some of the bubble blowing gear in the last few weeks, and Kaelyn and I sat on the couch blowing bubbles for a good hour. Some would pop in her eyes, and all over the place, but she didn't care. When momma got a hold of us, there was soap everywhere. Now that's a special ability.

The last ability is her fearsome roar when she says the word "muscles." "Mussssssosss!" I can see the fear in your eyes already.

So these last few weeks we've spent away from the house as much as possible. I left you with a bit of a cliffhanger that we were facing at the time, and because of the public nature of this blog, I didn't feel it was appropriate to share all that's going on. Now I can.

We've been working through one major issue in our lives - our senior pastor has resigned, effective June 17. As a result, my job description is vastly changing to more preaching and less student ministries. We're trying to keep that in balance, and I am certainly feeling the weight of many sermons at this point. Oh well, should be fun. I also have fully realized my total lack of desire to be anything senior pastorish. So that's a good confirmation. In fact, several people have asked me if I would step into a senior pastor role, to which I reply, "Yeah right. No."

So that's mostly what we've been dealing with. With that, we've managed to hole up for a bit because of the weight we've been carrying. We got away a few times to Michelle's parents, and a couple of times to my parents, so some of these pictures are from those visits. We've really enjoyed being able to hang with grandparents (and uncles and aunts too!), and it is really huge to my heart to be able to see Kaelyn play with kids her age (her buddy and cousin Tristan).

So we're still waiting on a few pieces of news - whether Michelle gets into school, what our summer will look like, and a bunch of other things that could help to dictate the outcome of our next couple of months of our lives. Good times.

The weather is finally warming up around here, which makes me pretty happy. We've been spending a lot of time on the swings at the park and listening to Kaelyn exercise her vocabulary (which is huge now).

All that to say, summer is finally here! Yay! We hope the weather is nice in your area, and we'd love to hear from you! I'm excited to share my growing backlog of pictures with you - I've been holding out - so here are some more of our Smith Scene. Have a great day!