the evils of...Anxiousness!)

Philippians 4:4-7

"Rejoice In the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice! Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; do NOT be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication WITH thanksgiving let your request be made known to God. And the peace of GOD which passes all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus!" (ESV)

  So these are my thoughts…. As I was lying in bed awake for the 50^th time anxiously awaiting for my water to break so the impending birth of our first son can begin. Well, ok the verse was not my first thought, the Lord so graciously reminded me of this verse repeatedly throughout the night.  I know its seems so trivial and like such a small matter to so many other things to worry about on such a grander scale but this is the season that I am in and though little to everyone else its pretty big to me…no pun intended=) ok well, like too big for my clothes to fit, big to me!! But the Lord because HE IS GOOD and HE DOES CARE and LOVE me reminded me that I have had a fabulous pregnancy. OK maybe not fabulous, but a healthy pregnancy. Which is a God given thing considering I have hypothyroidism, a history of preeclampsia and also spent the majority of my pregnancy chasing around a 1 and 2 year old...(They have both just graduated to 2 and 3..sniff sniff) but believe it or not I have felt good even to the end. I’m not exhausted or miserable, I still have energy and am enjoying my day to day chaos….well most days=) It was a pretty humbling thought in the midst of my complaining, I truly do have so much to be thankful for!

  So… here I am one week out and as I like to say, “large and in charge”=), and, well, we all know that I am not! Abigail’s birthday has come and gone (her due date was a week later than Elijah’s ;) and I’m still trucking! I really don’t know why I am trying to rush this thing anyways, I’m sure that having 2 kids out and 1 kid in is going to be easier than having 3 out, 3yrs and under! But of this one thing I am sure, the Lord’s Grace and His peace will get me through one day at a time and though I am most assured that I will have to be reminded to trust in Him several times again, I WILL TRUST IN HIM!

  I know that not everyone is in the same season that I am in, but I want to encourage you that no matter the season you are in, that this “Life verse” does apply to you too!! That’s what so awesome about our Jesus; he came for us ALL so that we may have Life and have it more abundantly! Amen! Don’t worry, Be happy my friends!! xoxoxo

John 3:16

Sorry sideways!! just figuring out the bloggie camera!!

Easter!!!

     We had Easter here in Kansas, sad not getting to be with family but we still had a great day!! Our girls are not really old enough to understand the true reason for Easter and we still like to do special things so i had them repeat John 3:16 after me before we opened our "baskets".. They were cute. I don't know how to post videos but maybe I'll have the hub figure that one out! Anyways hope everyone had a blessed day! Jesus is the reason for the season, not just on Easter but also every other day of our lives!! I pray and hope to make this evident in our day to day lives and in the shepherding of our children!!

The dyeing of the eggs!!!

 we so excited, we so excited!!!))

finished product after we dropped them on the floor of course!!

Easter "Baskets"

sweet ducky love!!!

sweet bubby love!!

love my girls!!

they love each other dearly!!

Big thanks to grandma and grandpa for the attributed outfits! Mommy and daddy forgot about getting Easter outfits!)

HAPPY EASTER!!!



Kansas party!

pre-party fun!!

Happy Birthday!!

it's my party and i'll eat how ever i want!!)

Present time!!

 

Thanks to everyone who came and helped us celebrate our babies!! We love you all and feel so blessed to have you in our lives!!

Birthday fun!!!

  Emma and Abigail's birthday are close so we celebrate their birthdays together. They are 12 months and 3 weeks apart, surprise surprise! We love it though. They fight a lot but also are best buds-such a blessing! We wouldn't change it for the world. Elijah is also due sometime within the month between their birthdays=) so we will have all 3 kids birthdays within a months span ...not planned and prevented in some cases but that's ok. God's ways are not our ways but His ways are perfect and we feel super blessed!
 Anyways, we did 2 parties for the girls this year, one in Oklahoma where all our family lives and here in Kansas! Here's some pics...

This party was actually on Emma's birthday so this is the first birthday pic we took for the day....we were at mimis and papas farm and she had already been outside, in case you couldn't tell!) Emma has some sort of magnetic force that attracts dirt to her face... happy birthday sweet girl!

What better way to start a birthday than a pony ride....wait that's not right?!?!?

That's better!



Rides all around! Cousins Tori and Prestyn.

   Princess smiles!

Not so smiley princess..

Sweet Ab's face! Lol!

Blowing out the candles!

Yummo! Cake time!

Either enjoyed the cupcake or has been bitten by a rabid animal!!) We heart Seffers!

Presents!!!!

 Abigail did smile, I promise!

A Little Blessing...

1 Peter 2:3-10

  "if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

  As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious,

  you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

  For it stands in Scripture: "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."

 So the honor is for you who believe, but for those who do not believe, "The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,"

  and "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.

  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

  Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy." (ESV) 

   I just wanted to take a moment to say how good it is to be in the body of Christ. And oh how good it is for the Spirit to dwell within! The Lord reminded me of this when the girls and I stopped by to visit Daddy at a packaging event. (Ryan works for a nonprofit called Numana that packages food for starving people all over the world. If you want more info on it here is website www.numanainc.com) I had the honor of experiencing a true working of being the church while I was there. A brother, Ryan works with that I truly have only met once or twice came up to ask me how I was doing in my impregnated state; I told him fine and he asked me right then and there if he could lay hands on us and pray for us, our family, and soon to be birth of our son Elijah... Wow, to feel the radiating love of our Christ used in such a powerful personal way by a willing servant of His! What a blessing! I know that there are a lot of people praying for us and that the Lord is watching over us; it’s not as if this man said something magical or had something special that all of us as His children don’t have. I think the difference is when we as believers learn to walk in the Spirit in our day to day lives, not just to learn our memory verses or be a member of a congregation. He is calling us to BE the CHURCH, not just go to church!  I want to be the CHURCH!!!



Happy Easter!!!!

Oh church, come into the Light!!!  CHRIST is Risen from the dead!! He's Alive!! He's Alive!!