He is Risen From the Grave and He is Lord!

 

He is risen from the grave and he is Lord! Or as my son goes

around singing, GOD's NOT DEAD he's surely alive!

A few highlights from our 2014 Easter...

On a whim this year I decided to offer Easter mini sessions.

 After a few were booked, Jon and I talked about how we would just put the money aside, let it add up and then take whatever we ended up with to the store and buy stuff for our local Samaritan house.

I am not even kidding that the following day I sat down at the computer to check emails

and there were a page of messages asking to book a session.

Session after session is what I have done for over a month now, and they just

keep coming. And we did as we said we would do. We took the cash and

made a trip to Sam's Club and Wal-mart and loaded up on items

we knew they could use.

Upon delivering we met Katie, the girl that is over the pantry side of

the Samaritan House and she was thrilled that we had included

men's deodorant. She said it's an item that they barely get in. 

So we are now stock piling men's deodorant and will make

another trip later this week. We are currently at 42 sticks!

In our area the Samaritan house is about 5 minutes from the Sam's Club in

Bentonville. I challenge and or encourage, whatever word triggers

you to take action :) - The next time you go for your weekly stock up trip to

Sam's Club, grab a few extra items and run it down to the Samaritan Center. It's a right and then a left down the road.

This one speaks to me pretty clearly:

Romans 12:2 NLT
"Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect."

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The Foundation's Easter Egg Hunt was our main egg hunt this year due

to our schedule on Easter day of taking Jax home. 

Bayleigh is cracking me up over on the left with her pout. She

was unhappy with her egg count. These kids are a hoot.  

Patience and Halle are Kellen's buddies. I think the three 

of them stir up a ruckus in their mission friends class together.

:)

This corker has said some of the funniest things lately and I could kick myself square in the

teeth for not writing it all down.

We have some hilarious talks about working and earning money and how one day he'll marry the girl God has planned for him and they will live together. He just can not comprehend that Jon and I will not be in this house with them. ha

'When i get married to that wife I'm just gonna get in the car and drive to your house and she'll say where are you goin?!' -- KPD. I just love these talks with my son

We made it through terrible twos, rotten three's with noooo issues and now

that four has hit we are just now seeing some fits and some

testing the waters on discipline. I don't care for it one bit!

ha

Just when I think he is rotten to the core he will say something completely

adorable and remind me why he is my world. What will I ever do when

he no longer pronounces it ' ring around the rosie, pocka pulla posey'

or he calls the tub 'slippy' instead of slippery,

or says ' I think that's daddy's truck 'ahind' us' = behind

Oh sigh sigh sigh.

the power of the praying parent is tops on my list to read next!