A beautiful Thanksgiving Hymn from Light Shine University.
This is such a lovely season.
Baptism Day!!
What a lovely day for Miss “T” because it’s finally, finally her Baptism day!
She asked me to give the talk on Baptism beforehand. Good old Beckham helped me by putting up all my pictures and stepping stones.
Next we went from the chapel…
to the font room for the actual baptism performed by her dad. Elsey and L got to be official witnesses.
Even Aunt Laurie was there for this awesome day.
What a sweet girl. What a wonderful family. What a perfect day!!
We love you so much honey.
The Elm Tree
This time of year I come to appreciate our pretty little–or not so little–
Elm tree.
Every time I pull into the driveway it looks just a little different.
It’s like having my own personal weather station right in my back yard.
It’s beautiful and full all Spring and Summer long…
but in Autumn it’s like a flip book, changing every day, until at last…
the leaves turn brown and start to fall…
and our little Elm prepares to rest for the winter…
so the cycle can begin again.
Could It BE?!!
If you know me–AT all, you know I’m always checking the weather for rain. I positively love rain!! I love the sound of it on my crazy metal roof. I love to see it pouring out of the rain gutters and flooding the grass. So, of course, I was pretty dang thrilled to see not one, but TWO days of rain in the forecast.
WAHOOOOO!!
Rainy days are the perfect baking days–don’t you think? Mmmmm….bread… cookies… brownies…. Yum!!
Scrolling down just a tad further it got even better…
when I saw…
SNOW!!
Wahoo! Wahoo! Wahoo!!!! Now we’re talking!!
Bring on the sweaters. Bring on the hot cider. Bring on the soup.
Bring on the snowwww!
My Little Men
When my boys were about 9 and 7 they became the official “men of the house.” I think it’d be fair to say they took the job very seriously.
For a while I had been frustrated with the loose and missing boards in our fence, that constantly seemed to need repair. I woke up one morning to the sound of hammering and came out to see this. Rhen was holding the boards while Dane hammered them into place. I was so touched at their sweetness to want to do the “man job” that hadn’t been done in a long time.
Later, we had several guys offer to redo the boards and make them straighter and more aligned across the top and more professional looking–but I wouldn’t let them touch a thing.
Every time I looked at that sweet, perfect fence my heart just melted. This was the offering of my two little boys who were so young and yet trying with all their might…to be men.
What great men they’ve become.
And I couldn’t be more proud.