My Baby Girl is 2!!!!

Happy Birthday Kimberlin!!

Happy Birthday sweet baby girl!! You bring so much joy to our little family and I am so excited to see how God uses your energy and determination for His glory:))

This and That....

One night when I got home this is what I came home too:

Jon said she got into some lotion so Isabelle decided to do her hair!! What those three do when i am not here:))))

Uncle Tyler putting Kimberlin to bed:))) so sweet Uncle Ty

Kimberlin and her faces!!! Totally shows her personality!!

I walked in the living room and Isabelle was out with her buddies!!

Moore Spring Bash 2011

All six of us were together(yes I do realize that this post is late:) It was a great time!! Family time is so important and always fun to see everyone and all the cousins growing up!! God has been good to our family!!

Granny and Poppy (with the aid of Dyllann and Micah) kept all the grankids so that all of us kids and our spouses could go out!

My Beautiful Sisters!!!

ZOO DAY!!

We tried to take a funny picture and we kept laughing!!

There we go!!

To my siblings: God has blessed me greatly with the relationships that He a blessed me with through you and the guidance and love you guys have given me, has shaped a lot of who I am. You guys laugh with me, cry with me, challenge me, irritate me, and most important you love me!! I pray that God uses me in your lives as much as He has used you all in my life!

Mom and Dad: for us to love each other and enjoy each other this much you guys did something right!! Thanks!!

Adventure Time with the Fosters!!

The Fosters surprised us with a little getaway and it was a great night of relaxing, great food, and most importantly a lot of laughter!! Thanks friends for a great relaxing time!!

Just Being Honest

I sat nervously waiting as I sipped my iced latte, what was today going to look like? How would this affect our relationship? What does "community" after this meeting look like? Do I be real and honest with her? Or fake and keep things surface? These are all thoughts as I waited on a lady who I have a ton of respect for to come and meet me for mentoring, as a wife, as a mom, as a believer, as a follower, and as a leader. I thought about, since I know how to keep someone from getting to close to me, was to just ask her questions about her and then it would keep her at bay. Maybe this way we wouldn't have to deal with the harder, or should I say more personal, issues I am dealing with (just in general, please do not jump to any conclusions that something terrible is going on in my life). Time passed as we talked about who had our kids, and what sort of day we were having and then....she asked it. "So what are you hoping to really get out of this time of mentorship?" It was a good question, after all I had pursued her originally, I just never thought she would pursue back, but she did and now here we sat. The meeting went on and I shared some of my struggles and thoughts and what God had been chipping away at in my life, she was honest with me, and that alone made me feel safe. I learned that we shared the same struggles, it is just that she is older and has figured a little more out than me. At the beginning of the meeting I thought about just "pretending" which I can be good at, but why?? Why do we pretend? Why aren't we real with other believers about what we are struggling with?? You see, I have found that in the moments we choose authenticity with another believer about "insert issue here" then God usually provides someone to help us, to walk beside us, and to point us to Him. Being honest can be scary, but if we are always pretending then we will never really change what is really going on...the deeper issue.

Yesterday and Today....

Yesterday was a rough day...just all the way around it was rough. Jon had a rough day, Kimberlin was running a fever, I lacked some much needed motivation and in the end, my head finally hit the pillow around midnight-thirty and Isabelle woke up afraid the fire alarm would go off and "burn her long beautiful blond hair" (her thinking of how fire alarms work is a little whacked, and this was mainly a ploy to sleep in our bed, because after all fires cannot burn grown ups according to Isabelle!) After we got that taken care of, Kimberlin started crying at four am, where she moved into bed with us and that always equals a rough night of sleep, due to her random kicking and squirming. SO after all that I am just grateful that today is a new day (and tonight hopefully a better night)!!!!! I came across Psalm 104 and found it breathtakingly beautiful....here is to yesterday being done and to today being new!!

Psalm 104

Praise the LORD, my soul. LORD my God, you are very great; you are clothed with splendor and majesty. 2 The LORD wraps himself in light as with a garment; he stretches out the heavens like a tent 3 and lays the beams of his upper chambers on their waters. He makes the clouds his chariot and rides on the wings of the wind. 4 He makes winds his messengers, flames of fire his servants. 5 He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved. 6 You covered it with the watery depths as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 7 But at your rebuke the waters fled, at the sound of your thunder they took to flight; 8 they flowed over the mountains, they went down into the valleys, to the place you assigned for them. 9 You set a boundary they cannot cross; never again will they cover the earth. 10 He makes springs pour water into the ravines; it flows between the mountains. 11 They give water to all the beasts of the field; the wild donkeys quench their thirst. 12 The birds of the sky nest by the waters; they sing among the branches. 13 He waters the mountains from his upper chambers; the land is satisfied by the fruit of his work. 14 He makes grass grow for the cattle, and plants for people to cultivate— bringing forth food from the earth: 15 wine that gladdens human hearts, oil to make their faces shine, and bread that sustains their hearts. 16 The trees of the LORD are well watered, the cedars of Lebanon that he planted. 17 There the birds make their nests; the stork has its home in the junipers. 18 The high mountains belong to the wild goats; the crags are a refuge for the hyrax. 19 He made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down. 20 You bring darkness, it becomes night, and all the beasts of the forest prowl. 21 The lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God. 22 The sun rises, and they steal away; they return and lie down in their dens. 23 Then people go out to their work, to their labor until evening. 24 How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. 25 There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number— living things both large and small. 26 There the ships go to and fro, and Leviathan, which you formed to frolic there. 27 All creatures look to you to give them their food at the proper time. 28 When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are satisfied with good things. 29 When you hide your face, they are terrified; when you take away their breath, they die and return to the dust. 30 When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground. 31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever; may the LORD rejoice in his works— 32 he who looks at the earth, and it trembles, who touches the mountains, and they smoke. 33 I will sing to the LORD all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live. 34 May my meditation be pleasing to him, as I rejoice in the LORD. 35 But may sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Praise the LORD, my soul. Praise the LORD.

Living with Intention....

The definition of intentions: 1-a determination to act in a certain way : resolve 2-significance 3- what one intends to do or bring about Have you ever been driving along the road and realized after a couple moments (or minutes) that you haven't really been paying attention that much? I mean, sure you are stopping at lights and you have a final goal, but you aren't really fully there, fully present? Well I found myself there the other day and as I brought myself back to reality, I realized at times I had often done that in my christian walk, just kind of journeying along but with no real focus, no real intention, just going. I realized in that moment that our lives must be lived with intention, with a determination to act in a certain way, with significance, with focus of what one intends to do or bring about. So my question to myself was this... who am I pouring into to? who am I disciplining? how am I growing? Relationships are a part of life, no matter what, they are there, good, bad and the ugly of them, they are there and I will impact the relationships I have, but will it be good, bad or ugly? Without intention it (my walk as God's daughter, my relationships, my life) could just be nothing, never pushing, never growing, never challenging, never changing. OUCH!! That sounds...well... worthless. Pursing on to living with intention....