Celebrating our 7th Anniversary

Many things have changed over the past seven years of marriage.  There's been the miracle of having and raising our kids, which has been the most influential part of our maturing, I think.  As a wife, it is the ongoing thought of how to continually be the helper to my husband that Christ is wanting me to be.  At times I know Brian has doubted the path in which God has had us on.  Even I didn't want to always accept where we were at.  Yet it is through hardship, through failure, through uncertainty that we have relied on trusting Jesus as our Lord.  And in this we are finding that the path is not always smooth or straight.  Sometimes it may even feel like walking on quick sand.  Yet through it all, we are trying to keep our eyes on Jesus...and clinging to His outreached hand that seems to pull us up out of the pit every time, without fail.  We have learned the preciousness of togetherness, of prioritizing our days, and embracing the moment. Though we are running the race as individual racers, being married has expanded my view of this journey.
Your support and encouragement has given me
 the endurance to embrace the moments that have brought us
deeper revelation and understanding of God's design for our life together.
Brian, it has given me great pleasure to know you as my best friend and husband.
It is even more of a blessing to me to see you as a proud and loving father.  

May our journey continue to give all the glory to God! 

Happy 7th Anniversary!!!

(and to many more)

Despite being in the midst of moving, you treated me to a day at Hollyday Aesthetics spa.

I got to have a manicure, pedicure, facial, and sugar scrub massage.

I honestly can't remember the last time I sat that long during the day.

We enjoyed a date night in Waldo where we ate at Remedy.

The food was really good and we got to watch the opening ceremony of 

the summer Olympics in London.

Then we went to the movies to see the new Batman movie: The Dark Knight Rises.

The theater we went to had comfy, recliner seats...the kind with the feet rests.

We had fun playing with the buttons.

Thank you Brian.

The whole day was a special blessing!!!

Summer 2012 Milestones

This summer has been very productive and fun. 

Both Anna and Micaiah have excelled in swimming.

Anna has improved her strokes and kicks and is learning to do tricks off the diving board.

She is so brave jumping off the high diving board.

 

And its just amazing that Micaiah is swimming.

He sometimes wears his "muscles" but he really likes to put on his goggles and just swim on his own.

I think he could be an Olympic swimmer if he keeps it up!

Anna and Micaiah are also riding bikes, but the weather has just been 

too hot that we haven't been doing that much.

This summer Anna had the nickname "Toothless" because

she lost all her front teeth all at once.

Anna really enjoys drawing and coloring.

She drew her first family portrait.

Notice she wrote the ages above each person.

She even included Hosanna.

And Papa is the one with the big bumps on his arms.