After 8 Years and....

 Five children....

Five moves....

Five cars....

Three years of seminary....

A cancer scare....

Death in the family....both sides....

Kace's Broken arm....

Silas' neutropena....

Living in three states....

Driving across the entire country....with our children...

Many Many movies....

Date nights a plenty....

Thousands of kisses....

Child birth times four....

Morning sickness.....

Turkey Season.....

The pastorate.....

Making our biggest sacrifice to date (albeit relatively small in comparission to many in this world today)....

Working together.....

Encouraging one another....

Raising our family....

Like you said last night......I'm still kinda STUCK on you!!!

My Baby Did It....

This is a picture of my girl and her constant companion. She and this baby sleep eat and play all day together! But then today while cleaning the house it was discovered twice after the boys and I had been mostly cleaning the living room that their sheets were stripped twice. My second son was very upset about this since he was the one who ended up putting them back on...twice! So after asking my boys, who never do this btw, I looked at my girl and ask her quite insistantly if she had taken the sheets off. Without making any kind of eye contact and acting VERY guilty she wouldn't admit she did it. Even after facing her brothers and knowing she would get them all in trouble if she didn't fess up she still would not admit to anything. Finally I asked her, because I knew she was simply afraid of being in trouble, "did baby do it?" She immediately admitted that "Yeah, baby do it!" and then I asked her "Did you help baby to do it?" She then finally admited to taking all the sheets and blankets off the beds of her brothers. I could hardly help laughing as she was so glad to admit that "yes she had participated in the distruction, but was not the leader." I don't know why I allowed her to tell me that baby did it, save the reality that she is still guilty if she helped, which she was very much willing to admit to! I told her that lying is never an option and the next time baby wants to do something bad she needs to remind baby that she does not help doing bad things! Man! After all that I never imagined that this baby would not only be a friend, toy, companion, training item, but also a problem solver?!?!

**Note: This baby is one her brothers chose for her birthday, they thought it the most beautiful of the babies at the store and so this is her favorite baby for awhile now! We love this sweet reminder of how much her brothers love and think of her!

Reading Together, Well, Sort of...

Our hearts have room for only one all embracing devotion and we can only cleve to one Lord. Every copetitor to that devotion must be hated. As Jesus says, there is no alternative--either we love God or we hate him. We are confronted by an "either--or": either we love God, or we love earthly goods. If we love God, we hate the world, and if we love the world, we hate God. It makes no difference whether that love be conscious and deliberate or not; in fact it is morally certain that it will be neither, and that our conscious and deliberate desire will be to serve two masters, to love God and the good things of life. We shall indignantly repudiate the suggestion that we hate God, and will be firmly convinced that we love him, whereas by tryng to combine love for him with love for the world, we are turning our love for him into hatred. And then we have lost the single eye, and our heart is no longer in fellowship with Jesus. Our deliberate intentions make no difference to the inevitable result; Ye cannot serve two masters, if ye be followers of Jesus Christ.

-Bonhoeffer "Cost of Discipleship"

** Seriously if you call yourself a Christian you MUST read this awesome book for yourself! You cannot but profit from the wisdom of this suffering saint who really knew what the fire was like! And what the COST really meant! For him it meant everything! As it also should for us!

Nights At the Crazy House

Rocking out to a little metallica! Yes, she is a rock baby!

A little beauty school action while daddy checks email!

Can you feel the love? Tell me these two don't look alike!

And after all that work a little rest and relaxation!

Ready for bed time! Cute kiddos!!

Mornings At The Crazy House!

My "BIG" Girl and Me

Some days I wonder how a little girl could be any sweeter and more of an encouragement to my heart! I Love her so deeply, especially when I understand why she does the things she does. She will spend a long time trying to wipe herself clean. Make me read the same books over and over to her and then insist on reading it back to me. Care for her babies daily in a very motherly way.  Loves ponies and religiously sleeps with her babies and her "my little pony" from her Auntie Jess. She is simply a HUGE reminder that the Lord is so very gracious to me! We have our spats and honestly she is hard to discipline because she is a toughy, but somehow this little female and I get along in a way I could never have imagined before having a girl! I constantly tell Will "these boys are yours you know, you can never deny them since they are so much like you!" yet I would never have understood the similarties within the gender roles until now. I hope that we are able to sustain this relationship through the years and see it grow and blossom in new and deeper ways, all that lead us more toward the cross. Maybe someday she will remind me more of me (which honestly she does not!) and less of my husband, but honestly he's my favorite person and so I am cool with having our daughter be more like him!

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