St Patty's Day Dinner

Wise Words

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
–Elizabeth Elliot

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
–Corrie ten Boom

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
–C.S. Lewis

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.
–Oswald Chambers

Some Musical Encouragement This Sunday

You can imagine how difficult story time can be.

in every pose she squints her eyes...not sure why...
Still Super Cute!

too cool for school!

Say What?

Will and I had an impromptu date this afternoon and while sitting down to order our lunches the server took a double take at my tummy and said...

"Oh!" Huge eyes look. "You're pregnant!"

"Yeah..." I avoided eye contact at that moment.

"You're what?" She nods knowingly. "Seven or eight months along?" Waits expectantly while I sneak a glace across the table at my snickering husband.

"No," I answered as casually as possible. "Just six months." Thinking, barely six months! Whew! She looked at me like I had suddenly grown an extra ear or eye. So I felt compelled to stammer. "Ye-eah, I'm just big." I am pretty certain I was red as a beat while Will on the other hand was nearly ready to spit his water all over the table!

So ladies, when you reach the multiple birth mark, remember it's okay to look like a house for months! I do!

Snails and Puppy Dog Tails or Sugar and Spice?

Yeah we are all happy to announce that our newest inductee to the house of CRAZE will be.......


Drum roll please.......

A BABY GIRL!!

Bring on the pink and the drama! We are still running the name poll on the link for Crazy-five-O, so head over there and vote for your favorite. We will unveil the name when we introduce our newest girly!

She Thinks What?

"There's a baby in my belly..."

Showing us her belly!

Because her momma is showing that bellies distend in an unnatural way, this little girly thinks she is has a baby in her belly after every meal. She says she is going to the hospital to get the baby soon! We all get a good laugh!

Why Our Kids Are The Cutest...

March 2011

Your Turn To Guess....

In about 2 weeks we hope to find out the gender of our next admitee to the crazy house. Now you can cast your own vote for what you think we will be adding to this 3 boys to 1 girl roster. Enjoy!

Quizzes by Quibblo.com

Weak Things Of This World--Via TGC

A Year Ago...

Easter 1986

No one ever tells you what it feels like to loose a parent. No one says what loss and death bring into the life of those of us still living. We never stop to think that death touches us all because death is as Universal as birth. And no one ever tells you the grief that follows the end of a relationship. I am not thankful that my relationship with my father has ended, but I am thankful for the lesson that I have learned about this intimacy that exists with humanity and death, no matter how much we try to pretend it doesn't. I will never forget how important time is, how fleeting, how easily we become lax and forgetful. I will never again down play the importance of the gospel, because I have seen it rejected at the end of the path. I will also never forget that "as long as there is life, there is hope." I know my life has not been marked by separations, but this loss was/is still the most devastating to me personally. Loving someone who was unwilling to flee to Him and being helpless can really put life into prespective. I don't enjoy my education into the world of death and loss, but I am thankful to no longer be personally ignorant to the far reaching effects our choices of sin make not just on this life, but into the next as well. My father has taught me much at the close of this relationship which I know has and will have far reaching effects into the future of my life and the lives of those that I go through this life with. I pray that the Lord will continue to redeem this sorrow in my life and even when I cannot be thankful for the eternal loss of this love, I hope that it will bring glory to Him all the same.

D.M.B
1948-2010

Party Time!

"Guess what, momma, I'm as many as you are now!" -Gresham on his fourth birthday! So glad you think I am only four and that you have arrived, son. I pray that every year will be a joy for you! I know you are a joy for me and daddy every day! We love you, g-man!