Just want to tell my mother, mother-in-law, and all other mothers out there...

Happy Mother's Day!

I hope it was wonderful and filled with lots of love.

This is my AMAZING sister...

She celebrated her 24th birthday on Wednesday. She is one of the most amazing women I know. She loves Jesus with all she is, and it is evident in every conversation we have. She is kind, soft hearted, compassionate, loving, independent, encouraging, upfront, honest, helpful, respectful, and absolutely BEAUTIFUL! I feel so completely blessed to have her in our lives and be able to share my deepest hurts and greatest joys with her. She is one of my best friends, and I love her. We celebrated her birthday this week with dinner, cake, and games, but I neglected to make a post wishing her a "Happy Birthday" on Wednesday. So I hope she knows just how much we love her and forgives us for posting this a little late. I hope she can also find it in her heart to forgive me for posting the next picture, but this is the side of my sister that I love the most. The FUN side. The side that always makes me laugh. I love that about her. We can joke, make complete fools of ourselves, and have a blast doing it! We just enjoy being retarded together, and who wouldn't want a sister like that? Thanks for bring the party wherever you go. You truly are an amazing part of our lives!

Happy 24th Birthday Lou!!

I (we) love Beth too - always and forever!

Family Worship

We have been reading this book for our small group at church, and all I have to say is WOW! We are only about halfway through the book and it has already challenged me in so many ways about how I parent as a Christian. I'll keep all my nuggets of knowledge for another post once I finish the book, but I wanted to share something we've started in our family. Part of the book talks about family worship. Family worship is basically just what is says - time during the day when the family worships the Creator together. We do ours in the evening for about 10 minutes. We read a devotion, a passage or story from scripture, pray, and sing songs. It has been a challenged to do this every night because of our schedules sometimes, but realizing the importance of it we try to schedule everything else around it. Our favorite part of family worship is the music. Thanks to some friends we've found these awesome songs from Seeds Family Worship. The videos are lots of fun, the tunes are catchy but not annoying as other children music can be, and best of all it is straight scripture. Be sure to check out their website. They've got lots of great tools and ideas for teaching little ones the Bible. Here's a video of one of our favorites so far. Hope you enjoy! Be sure to scroll down and turn our blog music off before you start the video :)

Happy Day to Bay!

Happy Birthday Bay!

I didn't get a chance to write this post yesterday, so I'm a day behind in officially wishing my sister a happy birthday via blogger and all other electronic devices. However, yesterday was her birthday and I spent the entire day with her celebrating her big 2-6. We took Beth on a tour of Turner Field (if you didn't know Beth is now a HUGE Braves fan...a ridiculous fan really). All three of us had a wonderful time on the tour - probably because we had the most awesome tour guide ever! Thanks Bill! The tour was actually pretty awesome and we got some awesome pictures. After living it up at the stadium we headed to the Varisty for lunch. We celebrated the rest of the day with dinner, presents, ice cream, and hand and foot. Hope you had a wonderful birthday Beth! We love you!!! The birthday girl herself.

Aaron is taking his pre-engineering license test tomorrow. He has been studying 8-10 hours a day for the past week to prepare. Aaron hates tests and this test is an 8 HOUR TEST! Say a little prayer for him tomorrow that the Lord will see him through and give him peace throughout the day.

I Do My Own Stunts

I'm not sure where he learned this...

I Serve A Risen Savior!

I am grateful and in awe as I reflect on the season of Easter. Jesus - without sin, guilt, or blemish - gave his life to me. The Father sacrificed His son for me. I look at my own son and I'm amazed at that sacrifice. How amazing his grace is. I'm overwhelmed as I realize that Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice for me to commune with Him. Not only did He die for me, but He did it willingly. He is holy. He is living. He overcame the grave and tore the veal of separation. He defeated Satan and conquered death. He is unchanging. He is my provider, healer, and protector. He is above all and knows all. He is God, and He is coming again! Praise the Lord!

We had a wonderful Easter and we are still celebrating it. Friday night we went to the second annual Good Friday concert hosted by Passion City Church. It was awesome to say the least. A reflection of the cross and the victory that came through it. Saturday and Sunday were times of celebration. We spent time with family, went to Easter services at church, and of course hunted a few Easter eggs. We hope you all had a wonderful Easter and remembered why we celebrate it.