Watch out world! Helena is now almost 9 months old and she started to crawl a few weeks ago. Now she is unstoppable - pulling herself up, climbing things, and getting into everything in our apartment.

In other news, Aaron and I graduated from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago on Sunday, May 20th with Masters of Divinity. We are now hanging out in Chicago for the summer until Aaron finishes work at Christ Hospital. In the fall, we are moving back up to Minnesota to be co-pastors at a four-point church called Prairie Land Lutheran. We are so excited to start this new adventure.

Helena was baptized on Sunday, March 18th at Zion Lutheran Church (Aaron's home church) in Buffalo. It was a wonderful day. Aaron's dad did the baptizing and Aaron and I preached together. We had a brunch afterwards with this lovely cake that my dad made. I didn't get any pictures of the actual baptism on my camera - I only have pictures of Helena with the cake. She is pictured here with Grandpa Paul. She is wearing the same baptismal dress that I and my siblings wore. Sorry I was so late in updating the world on this wonderful happening. We thank you for all the prayers that surrounded this special day. Yesterday during chapel at the seminary we all remembered our baptisms by walking through the huge font at the seminary. As I walked through the water I dipped Helena's feet into the water and she cried. She thought she was going to have to take a bath. Silly girl!