His grace

it's hard to believe we are approaching the end of the summer already. school starts in 8 days-yikes. daniel had his 1st grade orientation this evening, and met his teacher. can't believe that my kindergärtner is now a 1st grader! the first thing he said to his teacher was "do we do division in 1st grade?" :) i warned her that D would not have a problem with any of the work. his problem (or hers rather) is letting the teacher teach, not him. that's just his personality (gets it from his dad.) ;)


in august, we celebrated elijah's 2nd birthday. his "talking" cracks me up. we joke that he's either fluent in chinese or jibberish-not sure which. he loves veggie tales, and torturing the cat. yes, i said cat. we are SO not cat people, but we found this abandoned kitten and fell in love. well, i fell in love, begged abe, then abe fell in love. we voted on names and abe remembered who he sleeps with at night, so he voted with me. "peyton" it is! we're still teaching the boys-specifically elijah- that it's a living thing, not a toy.


this past sunday we celebrated abe's 28th birthday. we played a guess his age game in sunday school, and one of the girls guessed 36. ouch! he handled it well. i may have jumped across the table and smacked someone-church or no church. let's face it, the man does not look 36. granted, these boys are aging us a bit faster than we would like-seriously! i think abe liked his birthday gift. we tested it out this evening, and it works great!



today, we celebrated our 8th anniversary. hard to believe it's been 8 years. and here we are, 2 kids later and still very much in love. i am beyond blessed to have abe in my life. God sure was good to me when he picked out my husband. he is loving, kind, giving, a provider, a wonderful father, and the list goes on. i am so thankful to have him by my side. i pray we have 8(0) more blissful years. i am blessed indeed!

1 love made possible by one perfect sacrifice

2 sweet blessings

3 moves

a family of 4

now a family of 5 (including kitty ;)

6 years of parenting

7 hundred thousand "I love you's"

and 8 amazing years of marriage

it's been far from perfect, but I wouldn't change a thing! happy anniversary to my Love!