Fourteen Years!

Today my hubby and I are celebrating fourteen years of marriage! It's amazing how time flies! Thinking back and reminising about our wedding day and looking back at how young we looked.. because we were eighteen and nineteen years old! Wow, we were young! We spent the day together, went to Fireworks resturant for a wonderful lunch and then shopped around. It was a wonderful day! I am looking forward to many, many more wonderful anniversaries! We talked today about what anniversaries 16-20 will look like in Italy! What a blast those will be too! But we are off to clean the school tonight...now that's romance. :)

Thanksgiving!

Oh, what a wonderful day we have had! We woke up around 8:00 and put in the turkey, we watched the Macy Thanksgiving parade in our jammies, drank coffee, ate donuts, and had an all together merry little thanksgiving! Had all the fixins about 1:00; turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, warm rolls, and if I do say so myself amazing gravy! I made two pumpkin pies, that we will enjoy after the Christmas tree is up.. it's in the process right now! My wonderful hubby is an amazing lighting expert and has put about 800 lights on our little 6 and 1/2 foot tree.. he decided to add a bit of red to our gold lights, and wrapped them around the trunk of the tree and hung gold all around! It's gorgeous! My heart is full! I am thankful beyond words, thankful for a warm house, wonderful family and most importantly in awe of God's amazing love! My son and daughter made me cry as we prayed today at the table.. Caleb prayed for blessing on Michael who provides the roof over our head, the food on our table, and is a great daddy.. Faith prayed for the people down at People's City Mission in Lincoln, we served together as a family last night at the homeless shelter with our Oasis Youth and Faith prayed for those who had no table of their own to sit around.. and we prayed for Italy... reflecting on all we have and how blessed we are.. all Glory to God! This is one of my favorite days of the year for sure! Family, great food and laughter! Blessings to you and yours!

Favoring Friday!

Oh how I love knowing the weekend is only one day away! There is something about Fridays that makes my heart sing! I love that I get to have a lazy Saturday tomorrow with my kids and can sit around in my pj's and watch cartoons with them! Snuggling under a blanket and eating cereal in the front room.. weekends are so wonderful! Michael is working this weekend, but it's his opening weekend, which means he gets to be home with us in the evenings.. I don't mind these kinds of working weekends so much.. it's the closing ones that are hard! I am just feeling really pumped about having time to just veg tomorrow! As I am preparing to head to the store and figure out our weekend meals, I just wanted to share how much I am enjoying my day! Dreaming of lazy couch time and snuggling with my kids!

Thankful it's Thursday oddities edition

I am feeling the need to just be thankful for Thursday! This is a day that reminds me weekly to sit down and share what I am most thankful for... there are so many things in my life that are great blessings; good friends, amazing family, awesome husband, wonderful kids... So I thought how about sharing some quirky things that I am thankful for? That's what I am thinking for today, the strange little things that I really appreciate... should be funny! :)


yeah.. nuff said


I am a sucker for limited edition anything :)


I carry this everywhere


Love spraying this on my sheets or when I want to freshen up the linen closet...

Just thought I'd share some funny things that I am thankful for... next week will be more serious.. maybe :) Enjoy your Thursday!! :)

Conversing

(the picture in my kitchen fits the mood perfectly!)

This weekend was filled with laughter and fellowship! Nicole came and spent Saturday night and Sunday with us and we had the most enjoyable weekend! We caught up and dreamed about all the things the future may hold. It is always so wonderful to say things that are in your heart and watch them take wings in conversation! This weekend was all about that! It was about being amazed at how God works! Only He could have orchestrated the meeting of Nicole and I... we both allowed that to sink in and just laughed at the way in which things can come together! How grateful I am that our paths crossed, how grateful I am to call Nicole friend! It was a wonderful weekend that went too fast! I am still basking in the joy of our time together!

A Word from Our Kids Part II

Caleb's Viewpoint

I am very exited to get to be a missionary. Knowing I get to be used to do God's work is great. Even though he doesn't need us he uses us anyway. That's pretty cool to think about. Although there have been some struggles. There are some times where people think we're going just for fun or that it is going to be tough living in Italy (which is said in sarcasim). Which make's me very upset. We are going for one reason and one reason alone. To reach the unreached and to expand the Kingdom of God. We also want to feed the hungry and help the poor!

And Now A Word From Our Kids Part 1

A Word from Faith~

In my life some cool things have happened, but not as cool as what I'm going to do. I'm really excited for what's to come of my family in a new country. Yes I will be scared of some things there but not as scary as going into a plane for the first time. Yet I'm really excited to try new foods, and get a dog too! This isn't all about us this is about God using us to make a difference in the world, by telling others about Jesus dying for our sins. The Lord loves everyone, so we should try to tell everyone about his love. God has given us many things in our life, we are blessed with great things, but what about the people who don't have God or aren't as blessed as we are? We are going there to help them and to serve the Lord. I don't need an all American life, I'll do just fine in a different place. I might not have the same schooling system but I'm really excited to see what other schools are like. I can't wait to go and I'm excited to see what the future brings.