Park #3: Pere Marquette

On May 14th, Katie and Amanda took the kids to Pere Marquette and they enjoyed a day of Playground and Beach!  Titus was interested in the water, but would back off as it rolled up on him.  He and Eden seemed to enjoy the sand more than the play equipment, and fun was had by all.  Enjoy a few pictures below!

All in all, a day worth remembering!

Park 2/30: Smith Ryerson Playfield

Sometimes in life we realize that great things have been so close by for so long, but we never knew.  Today, we visited our second playground in our journey to play on 30 playgrounds.  We found the Smith Ryerson Playfield which is only a few miles from our house yet we have never taken the kids there before.  Certainly this will not be our last visit.

We kicked off the afternoon with a "Healthy" picnic in the pavilion

Then it was playground time!

We finished off our time there with a few runs down the sand dune!!!

All in all, it was another fun trip to the Park!!!  2 Down, 28 To Go!

A 30 Park Summer: Mullally Park in North Muskegon

As an attempt to document and enjoy our summer we are going to take the kids to 30 different playgrounds.  Saturday May 2nd, Katie and I got our first sunburns, so it is only appropriate that we also started this journey.

Mullally park is a sports complex that we visited in North Muskegon to play frisbee golf.  They had some really nice play equipment for the kids as well!

In spite of all the great equipment, 

Titus' favorite toy were the rocks

Meanwhile, Eden was making friends like she always does!

 

Here are a few more pictures from the day:

More parks to come!

Heath Edward Redeker

Team Worth is proud to announce the arrival of a new Nephew/Cousin: Heath Edward Redeker.  He is the third child of Jess and Steve Redeker, he was 9lbs 1oz, and he has dark hair.  Mark was a third child, he has dark hair, and he was 9lbs 1oz at birth!!!  Coincidence? I think not!

We are thrilled to get to meet the little guy in 2 weeks.

Doing his best Clay Matthews impersonation!

The Feb 5 for '14

With 8.3% of the year already complete, Team Worth already can use a refocusing on our goals.  Here's a short update of how they are going so far:

EPC = Estimated Percent Complete

• Deny ourselves one thing each month
• Mark gave up secular music and Katie gave up chocolate in January.  We did surprisingly well.  Mark actually didn't put on any secular music this month, and Katie (who had the steeper mountain to climb) only accidentally ate chocolate twice all month!  We are chalking this month up as a success!
• This month, we both are denying ourselves pop.  
• EPC = 8.3%
• Blog twice a month
• This is pretty straight forward:  Since you are on our blog right now reading this, just look at the left hand side of the screen and see where it says we have 4 blog posts in January of 2014.
• EPC = 8.3%
• Lose 15 and 10 Lbs
• Katie is well on her way towards losing the 10 lbs, Mark on the other hand has yet to even weigh himself once...  He hasn't started exercising yet either, so even if he weighed in there isn't much optimism.
• EPC = 8%
• Timely
• Our word for the year is dependable, and being on time is a huge part of that.  We aimed to be on time to everything but one thing each week.  We have been bad about keeping an exact tally when we are late, but we believe we are averaging around 2 to 3 times late a week January.  It is a big improvement over being late to virtually everything, so we are encouraged!
• EPC = 8.3%
• Devotion
• We aim to spend at least 120 minutes a week (each) getting to know God's word better.  Again this is a goal we haven't been precisely measuring our times, but we have done well.  Katie is in a discipleship group which gets her into the word often and Mark has been studying Acts and Galatians for Youth Group.
• EPC = 8.3%

Since it was only the first month, we won't celebrate as if we have accomplished something great... but the goals are going fairly well so far.

4 Months and Many Changes

Titus William is already 4 months; time is flying right by us!  He has so much more personality, so many different expressions, and a whole new bag of tricks.  Also, as a consequence of having a photographer mother, Titus has a whole new set of pictures as well, enjoy:

 Rolling over is one of those new tricks!

 He really is such a smiley little man!

I am a huge fan of all his smiles!

Ok Mom, I'm all done!

4 Months and we couldn't love him more!  We could, however, wish for him to not wake up 4 times a night... :)

Looking forward to his continuing development, especially to see how he and Eden interact more and more as they grow!