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Welcome Home Joshua!

Great news! Joshua has come home and sooner than expected! We received the call from the nurses just as we were stepping out the door to head to the hospital. We thank God for his healing and blessing in Joshua's life. We are so happy to have him home. More pictures and a video to come

Introducing Joshua Mark Estes

It has taken us a while to get this post up, but our family is so excited to introduce Joshua Mark. He was born on August 20th, 6 lbs 9ozs, 19.5". Joshua is doing great and so is his mama. He came a little early and had a successful post delivery surgery. We thank God for his continued recovery and for the great doctors and nurses that have cared for him. Right now we're just waiting for him to get stronger and eat well on his own before we can take him home. He's doing very well and making us very proud.

What we are even more thankful for is that our Triune God has sealed Joshua with His Name; Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Since we were unaware of when he would have his surgery Eric performed a short baptismal service before he was transferred between hospitals. We thank God for His work of forgiveness, life and salvation in Joshua's life earned by the redeeming blood of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!

"We were buried therefore with Him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life." Romans 6:4

Come see more pictures of Joshua (and one of Benjamin being silly) here.

Getting settled in St Louis

Well we had a great move up here and are finally getting everything arranged in our apartment. We had a cool front move in and we took advantage of it today and went to the St Louis Zoo in Forest Park with the Troesters. The weather was perfect and Ben and Rome loved seeing all the animals. I'm at 35 weeks now and feel like I should be at 42! Eric registers for classes on Monday and has started an on-campus job with the game room. He'll be doing field work at St Paul's Des Peres again this year. Ben loves looking for bunnies outside the apartment and is excited to have his "godbrother" Rome to play with. We're happy to be settling in and readjusting to life in St Louis.