The Hills Roll On

Well everyone, the word may have trickled out to you already, but it’s official, the Hills have a ‘little mound’ (that’s a little hill, you see), only a blueberry size right now, but come April Fools Day 2007, will be welcomed out into this world as Hills Baby #2!!!We’re just thrilled to bits (as you can imagine)! Eden doesn’t seem to quite grasp the reality, but soon enough she’ll have plenty of opportunity to bond with her first sibling. She’s so ready for this: since we moved onto campus in May we’ve shared an apartment with a wonderful German couple who have a 5 month old daughter who has us all wrapped around her little chubby fingers (Eden included!). Every day Eden wakes up and invariably asks for two things: ‘bee-bee’ (baby Jocelin) and ‘ash-ur’ (Asher; her 2 year old best friend on campus). Such a relational little girl! When she’s mildly hurt we ask her “do you want a hug” and she toddles over to fall into our arms. I just love that she’s finding safe comfort in the context of loving relationship…healthy foundations in the making. What a privilege to know, love and raise Eden into the woman she is becoming. That God would bless us with another moves us to happy tears. Thank you everyone for your loving prayers and cheering us on as we walk by faith this year. We wrote in our last newsletter about our plans to stay on at Bethany College of Missions as live-in married mentors. Assuming a healthy pregnancy (so far just a bit more nausea than last time) we’ll fulfill our commitment to stay at BCOM until Aug 2007. So our ‘lil mound’ will be American-born (hello dual citizenship!). I’ll be connecting with a Catholic charity service here in the cities that other BCOM international students have used (full service hospital, midwifery, the whole nine yards) which is quite affordable for prenatal and delivery. We’ll sort things out to see the exact details, but for now, we are confident that God will provide all this baby needs to thrive. Maybe even jobs after graduation (wouldn’t that be sweet…after 5 years of no paychecks, wow!) More on that later, for now, we just wanted to share our happiest of happy news with you.

His and yours,

Gavin, Tara, Eden and ‘lil mound’

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