Tuesday, September 25, 2012

the big day in pics

birthday-donut-wakeup call!



it's a bloomin' boomerang, mate!

"I could get used to this sugar high
every morning..."

dinner @ 5 Guys


"hmm...lego or nerf wish?"



how absence makes the sibling heart-love
grow fonder. so glad Ali could be here for 
Quinn's big day!

miss Diane!!!!!!!

lego wish...granted

thank you Grammie & Grampie!

  thank you Aunt Sue...my birthday buddy!

nerf wish...Bam!

Monday, September 24, 2012

eleven

today our
handsome
funny
adventurous
compassionate
daring
smart
loyal
lego-lovin'
nerf-totin'
Spirit-filled
baby boy
turns eleven!!!!!

happy, happy birthday Quinn Samuel!!!!!!

Friday, September 21, 2012

twenty-one

today Brian & I celebrate 21 years of marriage.


really?
that makes us sound so...old!

old enough to have a child in college?  check
old enough to both need reading glasses?   check
old enough to both have gray hair?  check
old enough to not get upset over the "little things"?   check
old enough TO get upset over the "little things"
because "he/she should know me by now"?   check
old enough to know exactly what the other person
is thinking or about to say?   check
old enough to have been through more
better/worse, richer/poorer, sickness/health
than you can begin to count?   check.check.check.

we feel blessed beyond words at how Father
has loved and cared for our marriage over the years.
He is the Source of our love, the Giver of the lives 
of our children, and the 
Sustainer & Master of all we have.


Happy Anniversary honey!!

Monday, September 17, 2012

Justice

Read THIS article
and praise our Heavenly Father 
for an amazing act of justice
on behalf of the unborn in China!!

God has acted on the prayers of those
crying out for the unborn.

Hallelujah!


Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. 
Defend the cause of orphans. Fight for the rights of widows.