Meet Hadassah Marie Golackson!

Welcome to our family Hadassah!

Daddy's Introduction:



This video was taken a few hours after Hadassah was born. We are so thankful for our little healthy girl. Hadassah is the Hebrew name of Esther (Esther 2:7) who changed her name to conceal her identity in order to save the Jewish people from extinction. The life verse that we have picked for her is Proverbs 28:1, "The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion." Our prayer is that she will have the boldness of Queen Esther to follow the Lord and in doing so many people will be saved.

Since we are thousands of miles away, we thought you might appreciate this little slide show. As you can see, Lily and Caedmon are absolutely thrilled to have a baby sister. Lily would hold her all day long if we let her. It took Caedmon a full day before he realized that there is not a baby in mommy's belly anymore, but now he understands and loves his little sister!

Here's a few family pictures that I couldn't get to work with the slide show.


Our Surprise Guest:

Since Brett Favre retired this year and Hadassah will never get to see him play, he stopped by to celebrate with us. He was pretty excited that another Packer fan entered the world! :)

Ok, so Lily was born 7 days early, Caedmon 9 days late. Since tomorrow is my due date with number 3, and I'm sitting here comfortably uploading pictures, my guess for the delivery is either Monday, right in the middle, or in 25 days to keep the continuum. Ha ha. That's what it feels like. But praise is on my lips and in my heart for whatever circumstance is pleasing.

In the mean time, here are some pics from June.

One Sunday after noon we decided to have a picnic at a nearby park. Within minutes, a Chinese college student was excited to ask us if we celebrated the same holiday. UH?? What holiday? It was National Kids Day! The explains the balloons and popsicles and hundreds of people.


It was a gorgeous day and our family had a yummy picnic, a nice rest, and then a little boat ride.

Caedmon checking out the ants under his shoes

water painting... too bad this doesn't work as well indoors

Josh picked out a verse from Proverbs for our second little girl (hopefully coming soon :)
"The righteous are as bold as a lion."

My really good friend is graduating this summer! Congrats sister!

A few loaves out of the oven and a bun still in.

A trip to the Aquarium

the kids weren't super up for pictures this time

A picture of our weekly trip to the grocery store. It's about a fifteen minute walk when there's no construction. This time I let the kids bring their doll/ Tigger strollers which worked really well for about twenty minutes and then really bad for the remainder of the trip.

Once one kid started a 'bike' wash outside, all joined in!

This kid is really good at riding his unicycle.

This one's good at melting a heart ;)

Caedmon and his cars

Cade's favorite spot after a nap

Bus rides are more fun with friends!

Summer Time is Here!