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.