Like Alison said, we’ve been taking turns writing posts around here. Well, last week was our turn, the Yoakums. I’m sorry to say that we dropped the ball and didn’t put up our post. But, I hope everyone will be understanding… I think that this time we have a pretty decent excuse.

Meet the newest team member…

Derek Steven Yoakum

Derek was born on Thursday, July 3rd at 1:01 pm by Caesarean Section. He weighed in at 7 lb 8 oz and 20 inches. Both mom and baby are at home now and doing great.

Derek says he’s really excited about moving to Costa Rica in just over a month. For more information you can check out our personal site: www.theyoakums.net, for posts specific to baby Derek, click here. You can see lot’s more pictures of Derek here.

That’s right, we’re leaving for language school in Costa Rica in just 39 days! And I know you can do the math, Derek will be just about 6 weeks old. So, as we are at home now trying to figure out this family of four life, we’re also still in full swing of getting all of our ducks in a row and dotting all of our “i’s” and crossing all of our “t’s” and minding our p’s and q’s and what ever other idioms you can think of, for going to Costa Rica. At times the thought of this is somewhat daunting… and at other times it’s just exciting… and a lot of the time it’s both. We can certainly use your prayers!