Happy New Year’s Eve everybody!  I’m so excited to share these pictures  with you!  Every year (like many people) I like to do family pictures. What I want to capture is my family like it really is – not stiff and posed and unnatural – but us enjoying each other and being ourselves!  Well this year (thanks to some Pinterest inspiration) we did something totally different 🙂 I told the…

Tomorrow is a big day for my littlest sister – she’s getting married!!  Tonight we had her rehearsal and spent some time with family.  In the morning, we’ll make our way back to the church and watch her make some very big promises to a guy she loves 🙂  It’s crazy to think of her all grown up!  I think about marriage, about all that I’ve learned from it and…

I know I’ve been absent around here lately.  That wasn’t my intention.  I honestly hoped to be blogging a lot more in December, with holiday festivities and catching up.  But alas, today is the 19th; Christmas is right around the corner!  Then the new year will begin and we’ll tuck this one away.  Man, it seems like time is going by faster and faster! I can’t promise much more blogging…

A few weeks ago, as I sat with the Lord, he gave me a phrase – “Run with Me!” I thought about where we had been, our situation, feeling like we had been waiting, stuck.  Waiting for opportunity, for change.  I had heard myself time and time again saying, “I know the Lord has a plan.”  My voice was heavy, not hopeful.  But now the Lord was saying, “Run with…

I know this will seem like rambling, probably because it is.  But hey, it’s my blog right?  🙂 It’s after midnight and I’m working (still 🙂  Trying to finish up some things, listening to Ethan trying to get settled upstairs in his bunk.  Poor baby has had a fever for a couple days now.  I’m waiting for the hubs to come home.  He’s actually out with a friend tonight, probably…