Trust His heart!

Such a heavy heart today. And a mind that would not stop praying for friends of mine today. My friend Shelly from high school put her baby down for a nap yesterday and he never woke up. I am sitting here fighting back the tears as I type this. There are no words for this tragedy. As I talked with my mom today the song Trust His Heart came to our minds and its message keeps ringing through my ears. Especially these phrases, "God is too wise to me mistaken, God is too good to be unkind, so when you don't understand, when you don't see His plan. When you can't trace His hand, trust His heart." It is hard to understand something like this and we cannot see a plan at all right now, but we have to trust His heart. He is holding on to this family so tightly, because they cannot hold themselves up. They cannot handle this, but He can.

Right now my prayer for Shelly is that she has the strength to take another breath. I cannot imagine. As she put it they are in, "unfathomable pain" right now. Please take as many minutes, hours, days as you can to pray for this family, I have used almost all of mine today, most covered in tears. Here is a picture of their family so you can hold them up with faces. Luke, Shelly, James, Lauren and baby Graham. Pray hard and long!!


All things work for our good
though sometimes we can't see how they could
struggles that break our hearts in two
sometimes blinds us to the truth

Our Father knows what's best for us
His ways are not our own
So when your pathway grows dim, and you just can't see Him
Remember you're never alone

God is too wise to be mistaken
God is too good to be unkind
So when you don't understand
When you don't see His plan
When you can't trace His hand
Trust His heart

He sees the master plan
And He holds our future in His hands
So don't live as those who have no hope
All our hope is found in Him

We see the present clearly
But He sees the first and the last
And like a tapestry He's weaving you and me to someday be just like Him

God is too wise to be mistaken
God is too good to be unkind
So when you don't understand
When you don't see His plan
When you can't trace His hand
Trust His heart

He alone is faithful and true
He alone knows what is best for you
So when you don't understand
When you don't see His plan
When you can't trace His hand trust His heart

Gingerbread (Graham Cracker) Houses

After seeing many of my friends do gingerbread houses either for themselves or with the children I was inspired to have a gingerbread making party of my own. By party I mean making them with the fam, much more of the family tan I thought, even Grandpa got involved. He helped Wyatt make an "out house" my dad's version of a manly gingerbread house. Kelly gave me the idea for the graham crackers around the milk cartons which for me worked great and Katie made hers around a box. It was really a lot of fun and Wyatt loved it. Hardly ate dinner because he was on such a sugar high from all the candy he snuck.

Katie's house (of course)

Wyatt's house

My house

My favorite part of my house. The body is marshmallows, the eyes and mouth are jimmies pushed in, the nose is a tiny bit of orange frosting, his hat is a chocolate chip with a little bit of white frosting on it.

All three lined up.

These pictures were taken with my phone. My camera is broken and has been for a while, so I borrowed my sister's, and now her's is dead. I just can't win. So I am thankful for my phone so I can take some pictures of the kiddos and have a few of Leah's life these last few months.

Leah is 7 months...Almost

Holy cow! Time is going by way way way to fast! I want her to be little longer. Geesh! But she is determined to grow up and way to quickly. We went for her checkup yesterday and every time the Dr. mentioned she should start being able to do things, she was already doing them. Crawling, sitting up, using a sippy cup, eating solid foods, trying to pull herself up. It made me realize how fast this is happening! She was 17lbs 13oz, just above the average, 28in long, top of the charts and her head was 17in, just average. She is smaller than Wyatt was in size which is nice, she is wearing jammies that he wore at 4 months and she is almost 7. Guess that proves how HUGE Wy was.

She really is such a joy (aside from the occasional separation anxiety on Sunday's) and I love being her mom! I praise the Lord for blessing me with two healthy, amazing kids!

p.s. I would have more pictures, but Wyatt broke mine a few months ago and I was using katie's, but now hers is dead and I don't have the charger. Hopefully I get it soon!

Christmas is coming

That a phrase that has been uttered around here quite often the last few weeks as Wyatt has realized that he will soon be getting presents one of which he already found. The conversation usually goes like this..."mom I want to play with my KITCHEN, well Wyatt, Christmas is coming." . I know there is more to Christmas than presents but too a three year old not much more is getting through. We have a Christmas book that tells the story that we have been reading to him every night to try to help with the true meaning of Christmas. This is the first year that he has had an awareness of Christmas and it is so exciting. We walked into my parents house Sunday night and they had their tree up and Wy's eyes just lit up and he looked and looked at it for quite some time! So special. I know there is more to Christmas than presents but to a three year old not much more is getting through. We have a Christmas book that tells the story that we have been reading to him every night to try to help with the true meaning of Christmas.

My mom bought us an Advent calendar for this year so each day we are opening a day and there is a verse we are reading to go along with it. A lot of fun. I am excited for Christmas this year!!

Leah is 6 months!

Holy Cow! I cannot believe I just typed that. It seems like just yesterday I was in the hospital having her! Wow! She has been such a blessing to our lives, and she is in way to big a hurry to grow up. I think the last update I gave on her was when she was 4 months so here is what she has done in the last 2 months, some have happened earlier some have recently happened.

• Started food. Girlfriend loves to eat, we are up to two times a day and she has had cereal both oatmeal and rice, green beans, peas, carrots, pears, peaches, applesauce and there may have been others I just cannot think of them

• Army crawling. She is everywhere. No more laying her on the floor and walking out of the room. Yikes!
• Up on all fours to crawl. She rocks and projects herself forward but hasn't taken the "steps"
  
• Says "buh buh buh" when she sees her brother. And an does she LOVE him!!! He is pretty much the only one who can make her laugh.
  
• Sleeps in her own crib in a room with Wyatt.
• Got her bottom two teeth.
  
• Had her first ear infection
• Sleeps 10 hours at night again!
• Went trick or treating as a cute little flower ( a costume I got for 1.99 thank you very much!)

That's all we can think of at the moment. Its been busy but we are loving them so much.

Wyatt is doing great also. Still learning the "rules" but is mostly a great, funny, loving little boy!

We are blessed!