My Babies

My Babies

Friday, March 23, 2012

Growing Up and Out

This go around Erica has had a pretty rough pregnancy.  She has been really sick and is still throwing up occasionally.  She has been plagued with colds and sinus problems.  Every time I reach for my camera to snap a quick picture this is the look I get.


Sweet huh???




When she turned her head I took a quick photo.  She is really starting to blossom.  This baby girl is now the size of an acorn squash.  All I know is that she is growing and thriving each day.  I can't wait to meet her!



I finally got a good picture of Erica and Blake.  They are so cute.  They really do compliment each other.  She is quiet, serious and just so sweet.  He is loud, funny and just as sweet!  You can't help but giggle when you are around them.  I think they make wonderful parents.  Both of them are growing in the Lord and striving to make their family strong and secure.   It is great to watch this young couple grow up with their babies and to grow in such wonderful, positive ways.




I know this little one appreciates that!  She is crazy about her mommy and daddy!  Even her shirt says so!!

Monday, March 19, 2012

Where is Jack???

We don't watch a lot of tv around our house.  But there was one show that Piper really liked to watch.  Nick Jr's "Jack's Big Music Show".  For some reason they have taken it off there lineup and I am so sad!!  This was a really funny and musical show that Piper, Kelley and I just loved.  The puppets were great and the themes were always good and funny!  Jack was surrounded by his great dog, Mel, and his super-swell best friend Mary.  Nick Jr. really messed up taking this off the lineup.  When Piper is tired and wants to rock it was kinda nice to sit back and watch Jack and his friends sing and dance.  In the words of Jack..."Nick Jr. what in the la-de-da were y'all thinking???"

Friday, March 16, 2012

Summer Came Early

Winter seems to be gone!!  Double-Yay!!  Even though it wasn't really super cold and we had only one light dusting of snow I am really glad to see warm weather show up.  I adore summer.  It is never too hot for me and I stay outside as much as possible.  This week it got to about 81 degrees and it was just so nice.  I finally put sand in Piper's sandbox and when I showed it to her she was thrilled.  She had been digging around in my mulch beds and I felt so bad I made her wait so long.  She is a real outdoorsy little girl and that makes me one happy Mimi.  These are some of the best photos I have gotten of her in a very long time.  Over the last few months I have taken great shots of the top and back of her head!!  These are a nice turn around!!


Is this really for me, Mimi???



Oh boy!!  I can throw it all in the yard!!!





Wow, I can throw even more when I use a shovel!!


This is what she has done so far.  Just sling it all over the yard.  I could care less.  She was just having a great time.  That is one of the many, many blessings about being a grandmother.  I don't sweat the small stuff.  If she wants to shovel all her sand in the grass I will just zip to Lowes and get some more sand.  Watching and playing with her is so fun and I know how quickly it will fly by.  Next summer I will have two little girls to play in the sandbox with!!  I can't wait.

Monday, March 12, 2012

The Journey

I just got home from having dinner with two old friends.  I met Debbie and Kathy when I was fresh out of school and joined the work force.  29 years ago!!!  Even though each of us have journeyed different roads we are still close friends.  Debbie married late in life (47)!  She promised herself she would never settle for just any husband.  She got a jewel in Doug.  Kathy and her husband struggled with infertility for years and then had their hearts broken with an adoption that fell through in the United States.  They turned to Romania when communism fell and God placed two babies in their arms born just three weeks apart.  A boy and a girl.  They are now 21 years old.  They have been the most supportive of friends.  We have been through major surgeries, trauma, deaths, divorce and some fabulous times together.  God has carved our friendship journey with His very own hand.  Of this, I have no doubt.  They know without a doubt that when one of them calls, emails or sends up smoke signals the other two will pray for them.  I can rely on them for my own prayer concerns too.  Is that not what this Christian fellowship thing is really about??  The journey we take on this walk with Christ is a hard road.  How much easier is the journey with Godly sisters in Christ to help you and at times hold you?  For me, it is just a God-send.  Literally.  I believe that  God places the people in our lives to establish His will.  On my own journey I am trying to handle these gifts with the utmost care.  Afterall, they are His children on the same journey that I am.  We are all journeying for the same place....this is not our home.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Someone needs a bath...

This is what happens when you let someone eat chocolate pudding by herself for the first time!




Do you think she needs a bath????  Thank the Lord we took her shirt off before supper!!!!

Friday, March 2, 2012

Looking For A Fist In The Sky

This past week has been pretty busy.  I had a birthday last week and mt sweet girls took me out to dinner.  It was so fun and so good!!  I have been trying to play catch-up with my housework since I had that awful virus.  Yucko!!  I really, truly do not like housework at all.  I also had to play catch-up with my Bible study.  This weeks lessons really struck a chord with me.  It focused on the dry times with God.  Just like a farmer with his harvest our walk with God is very similar.  When God sows seeds in His children and they start to grow He also sends water.  These are the times in our life that we really "feel" God.  Every time we open our Bibles it speaks to us.  Every sermon we hear is made just for us.  Things are just clicking along.  We are very satisfied with our walk, our life, our prayers and with God.  But...then comes the dry times.  The times when God seems distant.  We don't "feel" Him.  Sermons do not apply or they hurt our feelings or dredge up things we don't want to remember or think about.  Prayers seem unheard.  It is a drought of the soul.  I learned that these times are so very necessary in our walk with God.  If trees and plants are rained on all the time they drown.  Their roots stay shallow.  they are just plants on the surface with zero foundation.  It is the dryness and the drought that forces their roots to dig.  Deep.  To seek water.  To reach toward the heavens with limbs like hands to touch the heavens.  I am in a dry season right now.  Drought-stricken.  As hard as it is to hold fast and keep digging, seeking...it is so easy to quit.  To just stop.  Stop all the praying, the praising, the worship, the reading.  But, I am not going to stop.  That would just please Satan.  He is the last thing I want to please.  So, like Elijah in 1 Kings 18: 41-46;  I am looking for a fist in the sky.  Elijah told King Ahab to continue on eating and drinking for the sound of heavy rain was coming.  Elijah climbed Mt Carmel and bowed down and put his face between his knees.  Prostrate before the Lord.  He sent his servant to go look toward the sea.  His servant came back and said he saw nothing.  No clouds.  No sign of rain.  Elijah sent him back 7 times.  Seven.  That, my friends, is a good servant.  The last time he reported that a cloud the size of a man's hand was rising from the sea.  The sky continued to grow black, the wind picked up and then a heavy rain came down.  King Ahab rode off to Jezreel but Elijah...the power of the Lord came upon him and he tucked his cloak into his belt and he ran.  He ran ahead of King Ahab all the way to Jezreel.  Can you imagine??  The power of God is so strong and consuming.  Like a storm.  It can consume us in it's power.  That is what I am looking for.  A fist in the sky..I may be dry right now but....the rain is coming.