Wednesday, January 29, 2014

SNOW

All day long we played in the snow! School was canceled and the kids were beyond excited. :) We all played in the white cold fluffy powder until our toes and fingers were cold.  We then came in and drank warm hot chocolate and colored some art work.  After a few hours the kids and I were itching to go back to our sledding hill on the greenway-daddy stayed in to work and keep the house warm and toasty for us. 
We had a wonderful day...what a treat to have snow!




Wordless Wednesday



Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Art Show

Katie had her first art show today.  She was jumping up and down with excitement and we were happy to go! We picked Justin up and made our way to school for the kindergarten exhibit.  
Way to go sweet girl, your art was colorful, creative, festive and we know you worked hard on each project! Love you, daddy, momma and Owen

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Mesmerized

Whole Foods. Cake Decorating Department. Saturday Morning.  Nothing more to say. :)

Friday, January 24, 2014

What If...

you had three girls (princesses) and one boy (tiger), Robin?
You look like a natural!
We love these friends!!



Thursday, January 23, 2014

Welcome to Our Photo Shoot...

Taken by the creative, joyful, talented and always laughing-KristinShyla. (go on over to her blog, you won't be disappointed!)
Kristin-Thank you, Thank you, Thank you-for serving, loving, laughing, smiling, enjoying, believing and photographing!
Here are the some of the rest of our shoot, I mean Kristin took about 500 photos.  :)  
I don't want to forget these days.  
And these days that are flying by...
I want to remember that we do have more laughing, smiling, joyful days then challenging, fall on the floor in despair days (though they do exist).  
We have GREAT kids that love each other and us and anyone that comes into our house.  
We are still in love, best friends and want to be more so! after almost 12+ years of marriage-meeting when we were the wee age of 16. :)
The Lord has put us in Raleigh and we really enjoy this city.
Our life is FUN!  We do fun things.  We explore the outdoors and indoors of Raleigh and the East coast. What a blessing!
We enjoy being silly/crazy and need to do it more often.
Our little boy is 4.5 and growing up way to quickly for us. He's honest, a natural helper, struggles when he can't get things right, he's full of energy, creative, loves to give hugs and wants to wrestle or work with Daddy as much as possible-after all Daddy is his first hero.
Katie, oh Katie Grace...why are you growing up too?  You are 6.5, creative, love to sing songs, twirl around and create a story, you're intuitive, have a million and one things going on at once, detest putting away your clothes, love to read, love to color/draw and could snuggle at anytime of the day or night.
And finally, I want to remember who freely gives joy and life, thats what makes us honestly happy.  May we all find JOY in Jesus for life that is truly life and for freedom that is truly free.