G'ma Joan is the BIG WINNER!!!

My MOTHER called to let us know that the blog pictures on the last entry weren't showing up. My MOTHER. This is the lady who asks Jeff to download her pictures when we come to visit and checks her email via my dad. She fills every ounce of her day doing all sorts of things, and just hasn't found the time to deal with technology...so you can imagine my surprise, hearing my mom ask me to check on the blog! Way to go, G'ma Joan! Of course we fixed it, and because of her vigilant blog support she gets the BIG PRIZE...the homeless Lochheads get to move in with her and Dad for a whole week! :)

Could we PACK any more...

...into June? I am sitting amidst a tornado of packing boxes, wondering what just hit us. :) My downloaded pictures tell a crazy June tale...

My cousin Nathan got married! I have no pictures of the bride and groom (alas!) but have a plethora of our family...it was so fun to have everyone come to Spokane for the festivities--even Ben and his girlfriend Kelly flew in from Anchorage for the weekend!








We sold our house! (hence the boxes stealing focal attention on our carpets...we're moving out this weekend!)


And we bought a new house... (it's so great! We can't wait to move in on July 6!!)


Gracie had her last day of school this week...here she is with her teachers, Miss Jessica and Miss Debra. They took SUCH great care of her! It's so fun for me to see how others are blessed when we share little Grace--they love her so much.



We got to host a baby shower for our friend Rachel--it was such a great time! No belly shot of her, but I'm trying to convince her to turn from the "dark FACEBOOK side" and become a "good BLOGGER guy" so that I can have access to those cute pics! We are so excited to meet Little Girl Edmondson in September (but not on Labor Day weekend--we've made out of town plans...did you hear that, girlie in the womb?)


Other highlights of the month (without pictures to accompany) would have to be...
...getting my classroom boxed up and moved for the second time this year--yay, construction!--but it will be all worth it when I move into a NEW room for the 09-10 school year
...Jeff getting his rehire letter from his school district today! Laid off no longer!
...G'ma Caroline thriving after a surgery that removed one of her kidneys...

And in between, a few relaxing moments...




So I'm thinking that these overflowing moving boxes sitting in the living room could hold some symbolic meaning...(besides the obvious meaning that we need to simplify!!!)...God's love and blessing in our life is always overflowing...sometimes it takes a month like this for our simple minds to be reminded...

Our One Year-Old

My friend Melissa's sister-in-law, Charcie, came to Spokane to take these pictures of Grace at 12 months. We fell in love with them and have been having a hard time choosing which ones are our faves... Here are just a FEW...of our sweet one year-old girl (who just happened to WALK ON HER OWN today for the first time...what a big girl!)
















Thanks, Charcie, for some great pictures! Good thing we have the disc--we only have to choose which ones to PRINT!

Facing Forward

Grace is very excited to have her new BIG KID car seat! Facing forward is opening up a whole new world for her!


Thanks for the cute bows, Heather!


This is Gracie's latest trick--whenever anyone leaves the room or whenever she drops something, Grace puts her hands up like this and says, "Wholo?" (which means, "Where'd it go?")