the big day in pics

birthday-donut-wakeup call!

it's a bloomin' boomerang, mate!

"I could get used to this sugar high

every morning..."

dinner @ 5 Guys

"hmm...lego or nerf wish?"

how absence makes the sibling heart-love

grow fonder. so glad Ali could be here for 

Quinn's big day!

miss Diane!!!!!!!

lego wish...granted

thank you Grammie & Grampie!

  thank you Aunt Sue...my birthday buddy!

nerf wish...Bam!

eleven

today our

handsome

funny

adventurous

compassionate

daring

smart

loyal

lego-lovin'

nerf-totin'

Spirit-filled

baby boy

turns eleven!!!!!

happy, happy birthday Quinn Samuel!!!!!!

twenty-one

today Brian & I celebrate 21 years of marriage.

really?

that makes us sound so...old!

old enough to have a child in college?  check

old enough to both need reading glasses?   check

old enough to both have gray hair?  check

old enough to not get upset over the "little things"?   check

old enough TO get upset over the "little things"

because "he/she should know me by now"?   check

old enough to know exactly what the other person

is thinking or about to say?   check

old enough to have been through more

better/worse, richer/poorer, sickness/health

than you can begin to count?   check.check.check.

we feel blessed beyond words at how Father

has loved and cared for our marriage over the years.

He is the Source of our love, the Giver of the lives 

of our children, and the 

Sustainer & Master of all we have.

Happy Anniversary honey!!

Justice

Read THIS article

and praise our Heavenly Father 

for an amazing act of justice

on behalf of the unborn in China!!

God has acted on the prayers of those

crying out for the unborn.

Hallelujah!

Isaiah 1:17

Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. 

Defend the cause of orphans. Fight for the rights of widows.