August

August is always a hard month for us and it's been a stressful month this year too. We celebrate lots of birthdays this month. Our nephew Jesse would have been 17 years old this month. Our daughter Kendra would have been 8 years old this month. We know that they celebrated in heaven together. We also celebrate our God daughter, Maddi's birthday. We remember Jesse this month too for the fact that his 2 year born into heaven anniversary was on the 21st. We miss him every day yet. My kids talk about Jesse on a daily basis. He was a great kid and he touched our hearts in more ways then he knew. We love and miss you Jesse.

We also pray for my nieces little baby, Johnnie. She aspirated meconium when she was born and is in Sioux Falls yet. Please pray for her so she gets better. Her mom and dad want her to come home very bad. She's getting stronger, but has had some set backs. So say a little prayer that she gets healthy and strong and grows up to be a healthy little girl.

Twins Game

Every summer Clay, Jay and I go to the Twins game with our church. Our chuch gets a charter bus full of members and we go cheer on the Twins. We had a lot of fun. The Twins played the Indians and they won. We got to see a very good game. This year Clay's friend, Andrew went with us. Every year we go in August. This year happened to be on my nephew, Jesse's birthday. In memory of him, we wore our Jesse shirts. He loved the Twins too. Go Twins!!!

Having fun swimming

A couple of weeks ago we went to Lakefield to there cool new pool. The kids had a blast and it was just fun to relax and play with them. Their all a bunch of fish. It was a great day.

Camryn

Camryn is a happy go lucky 3 year old that loves to play dolls or in the dirt. We have been doing daycare this summer while Im off of school and she just loves the fact the she gets to have a couple of play mates to play with every day.

Chance jumping off of diving boards

Baseball pictures

Chance's swimming lessons

We put Chance in swimming lessons this summer and he loved them. He is quite the little fish in water. I think he liked jumping off the diving boards the best.

Summer Baseball

Clay had a great summer of baseball. It was very fun to watch him every Tues and Thursday evening. He was on a traveling team that would go to nearby towns. His team consisted of 4th, 5th and 6th graders. By the end of the season it was fun to see them click and actually play as a team. His last tournament was last weekend and Clay played really well. He was proud that he hit a infield homerun. Enjoy some of the pictures and video from his tournament.

Welcome to our Blog

Hi everyone, Ive been wanting to do this for awhile now and finally got the courage up today. I figured because we are far away from each other that it would be nice to share some things that happen in the Elness house. Hope you will enjoy and I will try to add things on a weekly basis.