We have been in the Philippines for one week now and we are happy to be getting back into the swing of things. Daniel received a special welcome home from his office mates that involved 16 rolls of toilet …
I am currently stuck on this beautiful song by Delirious called How Sweet The Name – listen. Every thing is perfect, the solo piano at the beginning, the lyrics, the end. This is what I love about Delirious, the honesty and …
I love birthday parties. The kids, the chaos, the decorating, the cake, the pure joy of it all. And I love it when they all go home and I can crash on the sofa and say, “It was good”.
For Isaiah’s 7th …
Recently Daniel and I decided to set aside the first Saturday of each month to go on an outing with our family and dubbed it “Adventure Weekend” to give our children something to look forward to each month. To start things off right, we …
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What do little girls want for their birthday? When asked, Elanor declared that it must have “balloons, cake and pink”. Pink what? Pink everything…and a little bit of princess to go with it. So Mommy started planning early this time around so she wouldn’t be up until midnight the night …
What do little girls want for their birthday? When asked, Elanor declared that it must have “balloons, cake and pink”. Pink what? Pink everything…and a little bit of princess to go with it. So Mommy started planning early this time around so she wouldn’t be up until midnight the night before.
We sent the invitations, we found the princess dress, we bought pink snacks and pink punch, we found pink fabric to decorate the tables and chairs, we found pink and white balloons to hang around the room and we raided the windows, closets, and beds to make a royal tent for Princess Ela, Princess Mari, and Princess Sarah to have their party in.
When the little girls arrived they received tiaras, wands and necklaces to complete their costumes and ate their pink snacks in the princess tent while the boys made crowns to be their princes. With three year old girls, we kept it simple. After tea time was over, we headed outside to blow bubbles. As the bubbles were winding down, Daniel and I snuck inside to bring out the Castle Cake bedecked with marshmallows and towers. We sang Happy Birthday and Elanor blew out her candle and then we all headed back inside to open shiny pink packages, which Ian pronounced were “what Ela always dreamed about”. As I cleared away the debris, Daniel served the cake and then we let the girls play with pink glitter play doh while the boys snuck away to watch the Sword and the Stone. Wait a minute, Elanor is in there too
All in all, it was a fun party. I loved the tent. Daniel loved the Red Velvet Cake. And Elanor loved having a Birthday. We love you Elanor! Thanks to all her friends who shared in this special day. You helped make it a day we will all remember.
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My art professor in college always said that bigger is better. She would look at our tiny canvases and tell us they were too small and give us examples of abstract expressionists like Robert Motherwell …
Every week we have several children who stop by our house asking for food, water or plastic to recycle. In an effort to learn their names and pray for them more often, I decided to take a photo of each one and write down their names and ages. I am …
Click each picture and you can see their name and age. Leave a comment for which one you are praying. Post your prayer here. Post the words and vision that God places on your heart for them.
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Lately it seems like a lot of people have been asking us what we are going to do next. Our usual answer is that we will stay here until God tells us to move, and we firmly believe this. It has been three …
A couple of weeks ago on one of our trips to the supermarket, Isaiah and I had a discussion of possible party themes for his upcoming birthday. I suggested the usual…pirates, jungle safari, space adventure; and then Isaiah informed me that none of those would do, he wanted a …
I don’t even know where to begin. The past two weeks have gone by in a blur and I’m still not sure when life will get back to normal. The whirlwind began as Batman, Kaptain …