Tim and Kelli

Here is a fun pic of Tim and his fiance. Wes went to his surprise 40th and got a cute pic of the two of them!! We are so excited for them!!

8 YEARS

Happy Anniversary to my sweet husband. I cannot imagine my life without you. You have taught me joy, strength, selflessness, sacrifice, humility, faithfulness, adoration, and perseverance! I look forward to how much more God will use you to teach me about him. I am thankful God brought you to me when he did to make me more like Him. I love you for challenging me, encouraging me and loving me to change and become a better mother and wife. Thank you for loving me like Christ loves the Church! i love you

Sweet Lauren

After such a special Saturday last week, I got to have another special weekend with my sweet friend Lauren! We were so happy to have you with us, thank you for filling our home with the joy of the Lord!!! Justin we missed you too! We love you guys!!

10 Years of Friendship

Cindy, Neish, Vanessa, Becca, Mer, Michele, Me, Sarah, Michelle, and Chrys... Words cannot express the gift God has given me in each of you (Sim you too). You have each been such an essential instrument in my life over the course of ten years. God has used each of you individually to bring me joy, challenge, truth, encouragement, struggles, tears, tons of laughter, memories for a life time. Thank you for coming to encourage me into a new stage in life as each of you do so well! I love you and am so thankful for each of you!

Which one is the Grandmother?

Bammy came to see us last week too! We went to see Peter and the Wolf and before we went Mia came out like this!!

My cute nephew

Caden came to see us last week and I had so much fun holding him and watching him discover new things that his mommy gets to see all of the time! Thank you for coming to visit us Caden!

Who is perfect??

This week we have really buckled down some ongoing issues in our home. ..

We as a whole watch too much TV. So Lent seemed like an appropriate time to address where we spend some time that could be put to much more use...like His Kingdom!

We also have addressed some issues of obedience with Abbey and attitude with Mia. I began to re-read Shepherding a Child's Heart which i forgot how much i loved. He defines obedience as without challenge, without excuse, and without delay! I have tried to create open communication with Mia which seems to have turned into manipulation and trying to get her way by questioning me quite often. Anyway he also addresses making an appeal, which is really what i wanted her to have the freedom to do. Sometimes I do speak before thinking through something so i really could change my mind. He addresses how to teach children to appeal to authority which i so appreciate because apparantly it has become a very fine line to cross.

Mia and Abbey need far more consistency than i am designed to give so I look forward to seeing how God is going to grow and equip me in this area because really i suck at it. Sorry but there really is no better word! Mia summed it up last night!

Mia last night was praying and said, " thank you God for Mommy, thank you that she is my mommy and my teacher... (pause)... no one is perfect... but thank you that she is my mommy and teacher. I was laughing so hard inside because it did not flow at all but apparantly needed to be said!!!