February Birthdays

Tina's 40th Birthday Celebration!

We had a great girls night out in Atlanta. Happy Birthday Tina, We love you!

The Therapy Girls!

Buzz Saves the Train

As I mentioned in my ice week post.  Toy Story is one of our favorite movies at this time.  William loves Toy Story 3.  The following pictures re-enact his favorite scene.  Can you guess what it is?

When we first started watching the movie.  William would request this scene over and over again.

Micah's Celebration

Micah's 4th Birthday Party!

Super Heros

We had a great time celebrating Micah's 4th birthday. The kids loved the inflatables. I think the adults did too.

Happy Birthday!!!

Working, working

This is William working away with his tools.

This is Bella working away with William's tractor

Trusting God

During our Wednesday night women's group, we discussed the 17th chapter on fear in our book. We are doing Beth Moore's So Long Insecurtity. I have really enjoyed this book and have learned several things about myself and other people. However, I love any reason to get together with this amazing group of ladies. They are from various churches and backgrounds. I love hearing the wisdom that exudes from their lives. Their life experiences and how different things have shaped them.

Like I said before, we discussed the 17th chapter in our book this past Wednesday. It was my FAVORITE! I highlighted so much in the chapter. Things I am afraid of. What trusting God should look like vs what I want it to look like.

I have always thought I trusted God for the most part. Trusted who He is, what He has done for me and his plan for my life.

After reading this part in the book:

I really started thinking about my trust in the Lord. I realized I always put conditions on my trust in Him. Like, I trust you Lord if .... Which means I am only trusting Him if he does what I want Him to or under my terms. Ouch!!!

So, I have really started to think and pray about this. Listening to my prayers and trying to make sure I am not putting conditions on my trust in God.  It has been very hard.  I have to catch myself frequently before I add a condition onto my prayer.  Then there are times I don't want to continue praying because I don't want to fully trust God with that particular prayer or area.

Have you ever really listened to what you are praying for and how you are praying?  Are you truly trusting the Lord with your prayers?  

Week of Ice

So you would think I would have made time to catch up on some blog posting this week. However, I was totally unprepared to be stuck inside all week without planned activities. The kids really did not care for the ice which meant I didn't either. On our first adventure out. Isabella said, "it is like... ice." I thought giggling to myself, "yes it is dear." No snow angels for us. The kids even practiced making them inside on the carpet that morning. Oh well. Maybe next time we will have fluffy snow instead of ice.

We finally ventured out of the house Wednesday afternoon to go to Lowes and Target. We really needed to get out. When we got back home, I could not get the van back up the driveway. I pondered for a few minutes while sitting at the top 2/3 of the driveway about what to do. I decided it would be best to roll back down and park on the street and carry the kids up. When I backed down I got stuck at the end but was finally able to maneuver around and make it down.  Matt ended up being our hero that night when he got the van up.  The kids kept saying "Daddy is our hero" over and over.  Too cute! 

Here is a little of what we did during the ice.

Watched a lot of movies

Specifically Toy Story 3

Practiced making snow angels 

Getting static in our hair

Crawling around on the floor

3 inches of snow!

William wore Isabella's old tights since he didn't have much to chose from in the way of cold weather clothes

Learned to wash dishes or play in the water

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Here is our Christmas documented in pictures and captions.

We pray you had a wonderful Christmas season.

Sunday morning before Christmas

Excited to get a good picture of both of them

Family Christmas pictures

William and Isabella dressed for Christmas Eve service

Helping Daddy with the fire after the service

Christmas morning

Both of our parents were able to be with us on Christmas morning

Big girl bike

Trampoline- to help get much needed energy out during the cold winter months

Big boy bike

Doggie hitching a ride

Enjoying the rest of Santa's cookies

Christmas morning

Maybe I can find one for me

Both of them loved my new jogging stroller

Andersen measuring Isabella

The girls with their dolls

4-wheeler

The Nativity

Isabella was Mary with baby Jesus

Riding the donkey

Snow in Christmas?

My cousin David and his wife Christie

The older girl cousins

All the girl cousins

My beautiful sister, Jennie, and her husband Patrick

With my crazy Daddy

My parents and sister

Aunt Beth, Mimi, Mom, Dado, & Aunt Sandy

Can you say Ford F150?

They can literally ride these for hours at my parents

We spent New Year's Eve at our house with the Mays and Moons. The Garretts also stopped by for a while. We had a great time hanging out and letting the kids play. Isabella and Micah ended up staying up until after 1:00. Check out the Mays and Moons blogs for pictures.