6 Months and Counting!!!

Here he is, ladies and gents!  Levi turned 6 months old at the beginning of the week!  With 4 teeth in, rolling front to back and back again, and starting solids, he came in at 20 lbs 5 oz and 28.5 inches long! Big kid, so they say.

His shirt says "Handsome just like my daddy"…I agree!

How big is Levi?  Soooo big!

Remember the bear?

Hemlock Point 2014

Once you graduate from high school or college, things never stop changing.  While in school, you are somewhat secluded in your own environment with worries mainly encompassing schoolwork and relationships at school (and extra-curriculars of course).  Then, life moves pretty fast and many of these things are pretty monumental: finding a suitable mate, marrying said mate, perhaps having kids (and buying houses, dogs, and other various purchasable things).  But not only does your life move, so do the lives of everybody else close to you!

So we stop at Hemlock Point this summer, a cabin in the middle of nowhere, PA, with Jonathan's family, for a brief interlude in the middle of the ever-changing circumstances.  This yearly family vacation is a point at which the changes are much more apparent…the vacation used to be at the beach, where we were young enough and without children that we could all drive 8-12 hours to South Carolina (and the house just large enough for adult children, but that was it); where I went the first two years as Jon's girlfriend, and stayed in a room with his little sister Christina; where each year came and went with either a new marriage or a new baby coming or having come.  There's no real conclusion to this thought, just a rambling and processing of all of the continuing excitement!

And a chance to post pictures of Hemlock Point 2014…enjoy!

A visit to Gma Reimer! 

Mom and Levi! 

Dad and Levi, at the real cabin...

This is what uncles are for! 

Tom and Adeline for a boat ride!

Levi really does like Adeline!  Sweet cousins!

Goin' fishin'!

Classic Levi look…always interested in the camera, not necessarily smiling.

Mid-day walk-about with Charissa and Sophia

Grandma Reimer!

Perhaps our Christmas photo this year?

Maybe not the best picture of the Reimer men, but Levi's face...

Reimer Family 2014!

Catching-up on catching up...

Friends and family, I'm sorry we are so far behind in our updates.  Partly, things are busy with a little nearly-6-month-old at home, but also partly, we've been back and forth visiting family so much since Easter, it seems like the main people who need updating have been updated!

In the beginning of June, our pastor baptized Levi Jonathan into the covenant community at McLean Presbyterian.  It was an enormous blessing, especially to have most of our family there as witnesses.

Levi's face is not a look of glee…when James turned to him, he actually started to cry!  Thankfully, James, veteran father of 4, didn't flinch.

Infant baptism is a new thing for us, since we both grew up and were baptized as believers.  We spent time in prayer and study, considering what the Lord would have us do.  R.C. Sproul, in a debate of sorts with John MacArthur, had this to say (which helped me to better understand infant baptism):

"In the Old Testament, circumcision does not convey redemption; its the sign of redemption.  In the New Testament, baptism doesn't convey redemption; and its a sign of many things.  It is a sign of our cleansing.  It is a sign of our regeneration.  It is a sign of our sanctification.  It is a sign of our being baptized with the Holy Spirit, and… it is a sign of our being buried with Christ and raised with Christ.  It is a sign of all of those things that are part of the content of salvation, which sign does not automatically communicate the reality by the outward sign. What it does communicate is the reality of the promise of God to all who put their trust in Him, that they would receive the fullness of redemption that is promised in the gospel.  In a word, the sacrament of baptism is a dramatic object lesson, a visible sign of the spoken promise."

(You can listen to the debate, 2 parts, here.)

More updates to come later…thank you for your patience!