Have you heard the exciting news....

We are going to be missionaries to South Africa. God is using our talents (Scott -Media/tech and Erin - accounting/bookkeeper) to teach and reach the people of South Africa! We are so excited and now the fun part of traveling to raise all our support. Please remember to pray for the Pongratz family and would love for you to Partner with us. Soon we will have a website up and running... http://www.reachingsouthafrica.org/ I will keep this website updated often. Here is a link to our Assemblies of God World Missions site http://worldmissions.ag.org/search.cfm?Display=Yes&churchdetail=AGFM5007 for a search on the Missionary Directory which will give you links to support us. Please email us if you have any questions. scott@reachingsouthafrica.org and erin@reachingsouthafrica.org (above are the two pics on our prayer card). Please email us with your address if you follow our blog and would like to receive a prayer card with our info. Thank You for all your prayers. May God Bless You!

Where in the world did u go on your summer vacation?

No excuses for the boys to tell there teachers at MMO they have plenty of favorite places they have been this summer....the boys were spoiled. The boys and I had a lot of fun traveling this summer...due to mostly scotts business trips. We were tagalongs..and went to the pool everyday and had fun.

Conner's first airplane ride to Florida in June. Visited with my BF Jess and her two cute boys. It was Hot...but fun! On the last day we got free tickets to Disney thanks to Scotts friend. We were literally home for a week and ...
Then we took a road trip to MO for a few days in July. While in Branson Conner learned to swim on his own (with swimmies of course)..He is a Fish! We stayed in Branson, visited with great friends, and then spent an extra night at my Aunt Susan's house. The boys loved my Aunts house...Tyler loved the apple pie...and conner loved all the fruits and veggies he could eat all day and night. We stayed up till almost midnight watching the fireworks in there backyard! Thank you to the neighbors of Ozark July 4th was memorable.
The boys are TAN with white bottoms...LOL!

In August getting ready for another new road trip adventure to Wisconsin for a family reunion with the Pongratz side and then hoping for another road trip adventure to Jersey again to visit Grandpa Youngling and family...

I literally have over 500 pics to sort thru in these trips alone.
Posting Pics soon....I promise.

Conner is in a Big Boy Bed!

Over Spring break...Conner climbed out of his crib twice! So it was time to transition him to a big boy bed. I can't believe it already. Time is flying bye! Now both boys are in twin beds! Time to take the crib down....for awhile anyways! Tyler in his bed with out rails...first night put a body pillow just in case he rolled over...
Conner loves his big boy bed!

First night and OUT!

Tyler and Conner cuddling on his new bed!

Oh yeah jumping on the bed!

working on posting more pics and Easter photos too.

Sorry for the delay on events.

Spring Break...in IN! The highlight a trip to the museum again!

Spring is here...The air is chilly but the flowers are blooming!
On our way home I snapped shots out the window of the trees blooming ...this is the Gov's House
Playing with the boats is a must....
The kids Love to play the "HUGE" Connect four game...

Everyone on the Carousel....

Snugglin with the dragon

Tyler as the knight and Conner as the Dragon

Tyler and his cousin riding in the wagon

Conner loving the trains.

So we decided to go to the Children's Muesum on spring break...bad idea...everybody else went too! Here is a pic of the line to get in...a 15 min wait! Since we had passes we were in and out shortly.

Keeping Busy Busy Busy

Tyler pretending one day they were riding on a train and got the idea to put there elmo chairs on the couch....
Story time with Daddy!

Tyler loving his letters...
The boys playing Madden Football on the "huge" tv...that God blessed us with this month when our tv died.
Sippie break...

A day at the museum with there fav cousin...

Conner wondering if he can eat this rubber ice cream...LOL!

They love the new addition to the Museum...THE LEGO CASTLE!!!

Tyler and there cousin as the dragons and Conner as the knight!

The boys playing at Lego World...

Conner playing peek-a-booConner saying, "Here I am..."

Prince's and Princess of the castle

Too cute...

Playing with big lego's

The boys on the big train ride...

Love the Trains!

This is the boys idea of helping with the laundry...

Whoa...conner trying to hold on.The boys Laughing

Does your chili family nights look like this?

This is Conner who loves his food! Rice in the hair and all!

Today we hit a milestone....

This week we really focused on potty training. Tyler has been wearing underwear all week ...Yeah. We have had only a few accidents. But I am so proud of Tyler he finally gets it! To be honest I was very nervous sending him to school today in underwear. But he did it...stayed dry and NO Accidents. GO Tyler...he is a big boy now! And is very excited about it too. Already...Tyler is talking about going to summer camp this year because he is a big boy! And he wants the latest Thomas video now because he's working the reward system!
I have some pretty gross potty photos but I won't post them!
Last week we had a couple of warm days and Scott put the new bike together...here is a cute video of Tyler riding his big boy bike for the first time.