Sunday, June 29, 2008

Random Pics....






Keeping it updated


Hey everyone, we are giving this blogging thing an honest effort so here is another post for every ones viewing pleasure. By the way we are eating Eddy's Butterfinger Blast ice cream as we type this and it is fabulous, we really recommend it, you should get yourself some.


Well our life is still going good, we have recently gone through some interesting trials. Per our last we were hoping for Nicole to be pregnant right now, but unfortunately that didn't quite workout. Thanks for all of your prayers for peace and joy through this time we have been stronger than either of us thought we would be and are more and more getting to understand how big God is and how his plan works out for our good and His Glory.


Anyway, moving on... We have been busy as normal enjoying the princess Faithy, and most recently got a membership to the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI). It is really cool, it is like four stories and very hands on. Faith loves it, so we plan to be there a lot this summer (that is what some of the pictures are of). Chris recently bought Faith some new toys he wants to update everybody on, the first is a puzzle of the United States of America. Faith knows how to put this entire puzzle together 100% by herself. Now just so you understand this puzzle is hard and has no defined slots for the pieces to go into, you literally have to memorize where all 50 of them go, which my beautiful and intelligent daughter has done at 2.5. She also knows the name of probably 20 of the states and can point out where her uncle Abu and aunt Lola live on the map, IT IS AMAZING... She also has a new basketball hoop in her bathtub, in which she can sit on the other side of the tub and shoot a jump shot (with 1 hand) and make the basketball in the hoop. I know this sounds amazing, but the girl is crazy with her hand/eye coordination. She gets the b-ball skills from her daddy Chris and the smarts and good looks from her mommy Nic. Anyway, enough bragging, I'm sure all your kids do cool things too.


Nicole is continuing to be the worlds best wife and mom and is finally settling in here in our new crazy life. Chris is working a lot, but spends all weekend with the family and quality time every single evening. The Sloope Group is doing amazingly well, Thanks to God.


OK, well we hope you enjoy this post and we will keep them coming. LOVE ALL YOU GUYS and we will see you soon!!!

Sunday, June 1, 2008

New picture of our baby.


Here is a recent picture of our princess. She is getting so big, and talking a ton. She is more and more fun every day and is really growing up to be so sweet, smart and very polite. Even when we get her in trouble she says "no thank you". We don't have any new pictures of Nicole or I available right now, but do not fear, we are just as hot as ever.

Enough Jokes - Our blog has been updated!

Ok everyone, it has been a few months since we last updated our blog (8 months exactly) and we have been given a hard time by all of our friends and family. So it is with great pleasure that we add this, the 2nd of many, posts to this blog for your reading and viewing pleasure.

Well a lot has happened in our life since the last post. We have moved to Tampa, FL for Chris' new job, which is going great, and we are all settled here in Tampa. We found a wonderful church that we love with a great staff and one of the smartest people ever as the lead pastor. We all stay pretty busy, Chris with work and he has started helping in the youth at church, Nicole with having to be a mom, going to MOPS, bible studies and taking care of her 2 children Faith and Chris (well I am her husband, but act often like a child). Faith is staying very busy with GymBoree, frequent trips to the park, and her favorite place in all of the world... THE MALL. Now for all of you who know Nicole, the apple did not fall far from the tree with that activity.

As many of you know, and most of you have contributed toward in many different ways, we are starting the process of trying to grow our family through fertility treatments. This has been a very long journey for us that we have been thinking, praying and freaking out about for over a year and we both feel now is the time to just go for it and see what God does in this situation. We are both hoping for a miracle and for Nic to be prego very soon. She has started some of the things she needs to do and so far everything is going great. With help from the good LORD and the doctor we should know something pretty soon and this will be a huge step in our lives, either a huge blessing or a closed door (which is also a huge blessing, just differently). Anyway, we will keep you all posted on what happens. If you know us real well that means in 10 months we will let you know if Nicole had the baby. :-)

We are going to be adding some pictures here soon so keep a close eye on this blog as you know it will be jam packed with great pics and info in a very timely manner.

We love you guys and are glad to be back among the world of the bloggers!

Monday, September 3, 2007

The latest

Hey everyone, this is our new blog. Hopefully with this we can keep in better touch with everyone. There has been a lot going on with us lately, we have had a very busy summer with all of Faith's friends having birthday parties and we are looking forward to slowing down this fall. Faith just turned 2 on August 28th and we had a great pool party where all of her friends and our friends came out to swim. She had a blast and got more presents than we did at our wedding. Hope you like the pictures, we will keep you posted on any new changes.