2nd Anniversary and Swimming

So I can't believe it but today we celebrated the 2nd anniversary at the Arthur Center. Our church finally has an official name and is registered as Christ Believer's Fellowship. To celebrate we had church outside in order to hold the larger crowd and had lunch and games following the service. It was wonderful to see not just some people who had come for the first time but to see how the core people in the church had stepped up to help with crowd control, making food and serving the food. I would be lying if I didn't say it still seemed like a huge chaotic crowd to me, but I am starting to get used to larger crowds being fairly unorganized by now. It seems like anytime we have a large gathering there are always kids and people all over the place and at first you would think no one is listening to the message until you see most of the crowd turning to read whatever passage the pastor is reading. I guess the chaos is just normal to them and not quite distracting like it is to me.

In other news, I have taken JoAnn swimming a few times this past week since the sun was shining and making the temperatures start to rise. I was a little shocked to see that she had gotten so much taller since we left that she could touch in the shallow end of the kiddie pool. Officially she has grown to 34 inches and 21 pounds since we last saw the doctor in November. I guess she is slowing down...growing only 1 inch in 3 months compared to 3 inches in about 4 months. Here is a picture of her standing in the pool. She was a little scared that she was away from the handrail, so she would not let go of my hand, but I promise she is standing all on her own.

I have to say sometimes I feel a little spoiled when I think about the fact that I live in a place where I can any day of the year walk out my back door and have two swimming pools lined with beautiful palm trees and other tropical plants. This isn't the best picture of the trees and plants but I think JoAnn looks so cute in her swimsuit and hat and you can definitely tell the sun is shining.