Sunday, December 11, 2011
Polar Express 2011
We got to go ride the Polar Express this weekend with some our our sweet friends. Getting ready to see Santa!
Eskimo kisses on the bus.
Silly faces before the show began:)
Riding the train, sweet babies!
Meeting Mrs. Clause and singing Christmas carols
SANTA!!!
Santa gave all the kids a bell to ring for Angels to get their wings
The Conductor punched their tickets... THIS was the highlight of Luke's trip! (He watches Dinosaur Train and punching tickets is a big deal... same with time tunnels- we went under a bridge and Luke asked if it was the time tunnel) He held this punched ticket and had the sweetest smile when the conductor left. It was magic.
Arriving back at the train station
We had chicken spaghetti at the house for dinner... Braelynn re-arranged the nativity scene to this... I think this is a MUCH better arrangement.
Merry Christmas!
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Durdle is BACK!
Durdle returned to our house Dec 1!!!
And he brought Luke a new pair of shoes from the North Pole!
So we better be on our best behaivior this year since he reports back to Santa!
Potty Talk
I woke up one Saturday morning, looked on the monitor and Luke was not in his bed. So I made my way down the hall and saw his bathroom light on. The conversation that commenced went like this:
Mom: (knock on the door) Luke, are you okay?
Luke: (washing his hands) Hi Mom, I am just washing my hands
Mom: Do you need to go potty?
Luke: I just did Mom (points to his disheveled potty on the floor).
Mom: Are you sure, I don't see any pee pee.
Luke: Mom, I cleaned it. I flushed it down the toilet.
Mom: Gasp, squeal, hugs, kisses... you get the point.
My big boy.
Mom: (knock on the door) Luke, are you okay?
Luke: (washing his hands) Hi Mom, I am just washing my hands
Mom: Do you need to go potty?
Luke: I just did Mom (points to his disheveled potty on the floor).
Mom: Are you sure, I don't see any pee pee.
Luke: Mom, I cleaned it. I flushed it down the toilet.
Mom: Gasp, squeal, hugs, kisses... you get the point.
My big boy.
Thanksgiving 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Thanksgiving At Stepping Stones
Luke's Day Care had Thanksgiving dinner this past Friday and they invited the parents too... here is their pre-dinner movie. Mrs. Blanca is in the yellow shirt... I love how she gets in there with the kids!
Sitting at the table with their name plates :)
My turkey:
Daddy Date
Daddy took Luke to the movies to see Puss in Boots... Luke had a ball... the next day, I look into the kitchen and here is what I see:
Luke was getting water everywhere when he was pretending to drink like a cat :) These boys!
Challenge of A Lifetime!
Luke,
When I hear things that make me look at Jesus differently, I want to share them with you. I think when we grow up in a Christian home, we forget how BIG God's grace is to us and how undeserving we are of Him. An easy tendency we can fall into is making Jesus an accessory in our life to help us "get through" it-- picking Him up when it is convenient or when we have time, or when we are in trouble, or when the stakes for speaking out are low. Luke, I challenge you to make Jesus ALL of your life and then it won't just be "getting through" to the next thing, it will be a ride of a lifetime! We talk about Moses, and David, and Paul and what courageous men they became in life, but the truth is, they are no different than you are- their God is our God. Be bold, be different, walk in the Lord, have secret moments with him, share your heart, cry out to Him, question Him, make the most of the time you have here with Him and KNOW Him. Find a man who does this well and practice faith like he does... it isn't easy and it isn't our nature, but you can find practical ways to "put on your new self" if you are just willing to work for it. Do it for no one else but you, and I guarantee you a life worth living!
I love you, Luke-- you have no bigger prayer warrior on your side than me! I want my family for God because I want you to be blessed!
When I hear things that make me look at Jesus differently, I want to share them with you. I think when we grow up in a Christian home, we forget how BIG God's grace is to us and how undeserving we are of Him. An easy tendency we can fall into is making Jesus an accessory in our life to help us "get through" it-- picking Him up when it is convenient or when we have time, or when we are in trouble, or when the stakes for speaking out are low. Luke, I challenge you to make Jesus ALL of your life and then it won't just be "getting through" to the next thing, it will be a ride of a lifetime! We talk about Moses, and David, and Paul and what courageous men they became in life, but the truth is, they are no different than you are- their God is our God. Be bold, be different, walk in the Lord, have secret moments with him, share your heart, cry out to Him, question Him, make the most of the time you have here with Him and KNOW Him. Find a man who does this well and practice faith like he does... it isn't easy and it isn't our nature, but you can find practical ways to "put on your new self" if you are just willing to work for it. Do it for no one else but you, and I guarantee you a life worth living!
I love you, Luke-- you have no bigger prayer warrior on your side than me! I want my family for God because I want you to be blessed!
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Gay Unless You are Crhsitian Response
Luke, one of my friends found this article and asked what the Christian response should be... I am burying my response in this blog so that when you come against these moral issues, that you will know where your Daddy and I stand.
The original article was written by a non-Christian man who had a gay friend. His charge was that Christians are the most hateful to his gay friend when we spout ideals of love. The article can be found HERE.
It may surprize you that I agree with many points in this article. I think society, Christians and non-Christians, hold being gay as a far worser sin than others. The fact is God doesn't have differing degrees of sin- in His eyes a sin, no matter how small or big we may quantify it, is a sin and it seperates us from his presence- that is the whole reason he had to send Jesus to earth to take our place because he truly wants a relationship with his creation. I think some Christians may look at being gay as a lifestyle of sin- where you can't break out of it because you continually go back to it. You can be sorry for your sin, but not repentant. God wants repentance. In 2 Corinthians 5:17, the Bible says "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" When we make Him Lord of our lives, he gives us power to stand against sin and be a new creation by his standards. We can't go back to the former way of life because we don't want to. In Romans 6:2 it says "What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" It is a constant fight to "daily die to our sin" nature and truly make Christ Lord in our lives, and honestly it is easier to let sin rule us- I think this is the state where a lot of "Christians", especially in America, sit today. 2 Corinthians goes on to say in chapter 6:3 "We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, so that our ministry will not be discredited..." This is where Christians miss it. We can quickly go from love to judgement. The love we are supposed to have for non-Christians is to love them into salvation-- to show Christ in our lives-- when all they see is tearing down sinners, fighting in the church, church leaders leaving the ministry because of sexual sin, it makes Christians look weak. If we aren't set apart as God calls us to be, there is no reason to join us. The picture of a true Christian response to the artice about loving gays is this: we should hurt so badly for them that the sin they are in entangles them and grips them. We should pray they trust in God to pull them out of their sin. We know God hates homosexuality, so if they are Christian, they are in a perpetual state of seperation from God because of their sin. An awful place to be to taste God's mercy and then be distanced from it. When I read the article, I kept feeling sorry for the Author--his definition of love is to let go of the need to be better than others, he has searched religions and found them to all be phony. He wants to love, but has no moral basis with which to do so. My mind went strait to 1 Corinthians 2:14, that says "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned". It may not seem fair that God hates homosexuality, but it is God's perogative. He created the world and everything in it and he is the only one righteous to make the rules. It is a hard one to swallow because it does seem unfair that some poeple are born into harder lives with harder sins to overcome, but when they do, it shows God's power in our lives and gives him the glory... if we could do this life on our own, we wouldn't need Him.
The original article was written by a non-Christian man who had a gay friend. His charge was that Christians are the most hateful to his gay friend when we spout ideals of love. The article can be found HERE.
It may surprize you that I agree with many points in this article. I think society, Christians and non-Christians, hold being gay as a far worser sin than others. The fact is God doesn't have differing degrees of sin- in His eyes a sin, no matter how small or big we may quantify it, is a sin and it seperates us from his presence- that is the whole reason he had to send Jesus to earth to take our place because he truly wants a relationship with his creation. I think some Christians may look at being gay as a lifestyle of sin- where you can't break out of it because you continually go back to it. You can be sorry for your sin, but not repentant. God wants repentance. In 2 Corinthians 5:17, the Bible says "Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" When we make Him Lord of our lives, he gives us power to stand against sin and be a new creation by his standards. We can't go back to the former way of life because we don't want to. In Romans 6:2 it says "What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?" It is a constant fight to "daily die to our sin" nature and truly make Christ Lord in our lives, and honestly it is easier to let sin rule us- I think this is the state where a lot of "Christians", especially in America, sit today. 2 Corinthians goes on to say in chapter 6:3 "We put no stumbling block in anyone's path, so that our ministry will not be discredited..." This is where Christians miss it. We can quickly go from love to judgement. The love we are supposed to have for non-Christians is to love them into salvation-- to show Christ in our lives-- when all they see is tearing down sinners, fighting in the church, church leaders leaving the ministry because of sexual sin, it makes Christians look weak. If we aren't set apart as God calls us to be, there is no reason to join us. The picture of a true Christian response to the artice about loving gays is this: we should hurt so badly for them that the sin they are in entangles them and grips them. We should pray they trust in God to pull them out of their sin. We know God hates homosexuality, so if they are Christian, they are in a perpetual state of seperation from God because of their sin. An awful place to be to taste God's mercy and then be distanced from it. When I read the article, I kept feeling sorry for the Author--his definition of love is to let go of the need to be better than others, he has searched religions and found them to all be phony. He wants to love, but has no moral basis with which to do so. My mind went strait to 1 Corinthians 2:14, that says "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned". It may not seem fair that God hates homosexuality, but it is God's perogative. He created the world and everything in it and he is the only one righteous to make the rules. It is a hard one to swallow because it does seem unfair that some poeple are born into harder lives with harder sins to overcome, but when they do, it shows God's power in our lives and gives him the glory... if we could do this life on our own, we wouldn't need Him.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Halloween 2011
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| The cutest Buzz Lightyear THIS year has ever seen |
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| Trick or Treating is always better with friends! Clayton really showed thses boys how it is done! |
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| All ready to go with his glow necklace from Memaw on! |
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| When Luke walked his jet pack bounced up and down... melt my heart |
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| The boys were troopers and filled their pumpkins full! |
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| A late night sampling |
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| Carving pumpkins with Daddy |
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| Being scary with Daddy |
Painting with a Twist
One of my girlfriends from work is getting married, so we had a girls night out to paint matching pictures!
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Me, Kathy (the Bride), Margaret, Jennifer |
I was looking on Art.com last night to see what else I could paint and Brent walked in on me- he asked what I was doing and laughed that I now think I am an artist :) Don't hate.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Happy Happy Happy Birthday to You!
Sweet Luke,
As I sit here and write this, I can't remember back to life before you... in three short years you have rocked my world and made me appreciate life so much more than I could have ever imagined... you have made me understand a "mothers love" and you have made me so much less selfish than I ever could have been without you in my life. You have made Daddy into this creative and funny guy who thinks up cool games with any household item he can find, you have brought entertainment into our home and you have challenged Daddy and I to a walk in the Lord we may have never found without you holding us accountable, without even knowing it. So happy third birthday Lukey... may you enjoy many more!
Here is what you are up to these days:
-You think it is so funny to tell me how you are getting big like Daddy and love to tell me you are not my baby anymore. Like I always tell you, no matter how big you get, you will ALWAYS be my baby.
-These are all of the items currently in your treasure box. Luke, the Bible says "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also" I hope and pray one day you understand what that means and that you treasure a life in Christ and hope for an eternity spent with Him. Until then, I think you have picked your treasures really well! You find more feathers and money on the ground than any person I know!
I am learning to check your pockets... here was what I got out of one load:
-You LOVE dinosaurs. Your favorite TV show is dinosaur train. Your favorite dinosaur is Buddy (the T-Rex)
-You are completely potty trained and we are SO proud of you!
-You call all Boston Terriers "Allie Girl"
-You enjoy a clean house and fresh sheets (you got that from me!)
- Favorite Sport is football
- Favorite animal is giraffe
- You LOVE picking flowers (the little yellow weeds in the grass)- you pick flowers every day on the playground at school and in our neighbor's yard
- Favorite Sport is football
- Favorite animal is giraffe
- You LOVE picking flowers (the little yellow weeds in the grass)- you pick flowers every day on the playground at school and in our neighbor's yard
-You love to cuddle at bedtime... oh I soak those moments in. When Daddy is at school, I get the best hugs or a sweet little hand on my face as we wind down and tell stories.
- Your favorite Bible story is David and Goliath... you and Daddy plunk each other on the head to act like David killing Goliath. One day, you were playing with Drew at a baseball game, I looked over and you were throwing a rock at him-- I ran over and pulled out the David and Goliath story and you haven't thrown a rock since :)
-You are strong willed which gets you in trouble from time to time at school, but I know these are qualities we will want you to have when you know how to manage your emotions. Right now, we celebrate "green days" and have only had one "red day".
-You love to swim-- you are trying to hold your breath under water which makes bath time messy but full of laughs. You will be ready for swim lessons next summer for sure!
-Favorite color: Red
-Best Friends: Drew and Josiah, Girlfriend: Braelynn
- Weight : On the veterinarian scale you were 34# but we will get the real weigh in soon :)
- We asked you what you want to be when you get big- you said be a Construction Worker
- We asked you what do moms do- you said hug their babies
- We asked you what dads do- you said knock over our towers
- Favorite food- pizza with sausage, hamburger and "rockaronis"
Happy Birthday to you sweet boy... and MANY more. Daddy and I love you.
- We asked you what you want to be when you get big- you said be a Construction Worker
- We asked you what do moms do- you said hug their babies
- We asked you what dads do- you said knock over our towers
- Favorite food- pizza with sausage, hamburger and "rockaronis"
Happy Birthday to you sweet boy... and MANY more. Daddy and I love you.
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