Living Simply to Please Jesus while Simply Loving One Another
Christmas Eve and Christmas 2017 will forever go down in our family history as probably one of the rowdiest, funnest, craziest ever! The memories made were absolutely priceless! I’d dreamed for forever of having matching onesies and jammies and this was the year! Of course the men in our lives were less than gung-ho (or…
As an adoptive parent of older little ones, I remember being so sad to have missed all the “firsts”: first smile, first bath, first tooth (which in this mama’s opinion might actually be a perk. Teething is so not fun for anyone!), first crawl, first step…. BUT seriously, no doubt, every mama longs to have…
An extraordinary capture!! This is the very moment our son found out he had a family coming for him! It was taken about a year ago. The picture, no doubt, captures the elation he had after watching so many sweet friends leave with their forever family while he continued to wait. In the picture above our…
A long time ago we read that “traditions” are important to keep families thriving together and we have attempted to keep some traditions very alive as we parent all these treasures still at home. So for the last 38 years married we have held the often wild and crazy tradition of hiking acres of land…
Phoenix First, the church we attend, has the largest Christmas play that we have ever had the privilege of being a part of. Although I didn’t count them all, {haha} the rumor is that 77,000 people {approximately} attend each year. It is also rumored that it has been mentioned in the national media as…
No doubt, just like everyone else, our “to do” list can seem endless this time of year…. After many years of wondering how Christmas came speeding upon us with little thought to Christmas and the reason we celebrate it, we’ve come to understand that if we don’t Selah {rest} and allow God’s peace to bring us…