Pictures-I Love....

I love a Daddy with his child.........especially ours ;)

I love Gabe's endless imagination and creativeness.....

I love how sometimes at naptime/quiet time he konks out on the floor with his stuffed dog Snoopy.....he really is this boy's best friend ;) (can you see him tucked in next to him?)

I love Lil Miss Ellie's personality......and i most certainly didn't teach her to run around topless ;)

I love to watch Jason with our babies....

I love purple....and I love our girls in purple ;)

I love our 2 nephews and the fun they have with our kids.....cousins are so special!

I love how Aubrie is growing out of her newborn clothes.....and her legs are so long....

I love to breastfeed, but I love it when someone else gives a bottle too ;) Thanks Aunty Em!

I love how Aunty Em does fun things with the monkies....making sand creations.

I love it when Gramma S comes to play and babysitt ;)

I love it when they stick their little bottoms up in the air to sleep.

Which God Do You Choose?

http://itsalmostnaptime.blogspot.com/2010/04/designer-babies-designer-god.html


Read this today and it made me sick to my stomach to think this hibity bibity is actually
going on. Seriously......we need to kick the devil where it counts!!!!

Which God do you choose?

Spring

Outside our front door.....proof that spring really is here!!! What a loooooong winter.....

It will Set You Free...

http://lysaterkeurst.blogspot.com/2010/04/truth.html

I read this post this morning then I grabbed my monkies and hugged them tight.
All of a sudden, their constant bickering and my tiredness didn't bother me anymore.

"Whatever we are facing in this moment we can choose to grab on to the truth. Let everything else go. Let go of the anxiety- fear- uncertainty- and frustration. Park our mind with what is true. "Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free," (John 8:32). "
~Lysa TerKeurst

It will set you free....The Truth.

God's Still Speaking

"1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." Romans 12


"I knew I needed to be transformed. I need my situation transformed, my perspective, my outlook. I need transformation-- how do I get it? By renewing my mind. I renew my mind by reading God's word, hearing from Him as I do and then applying it in my life.

I thought about how we all need transformation in our lives. It might be our situation that needs to be transformed-- a rocky marriage, a job loss, a wayward child. It might be our attitude that needs to be transformed-- how we feel about being a full-time mom taking care of our children's endless needs, the way we treat our spouse, how we handle where we are in life. It might be our perspective that needs to be transformed-- how we see ourselves when we look in the mirror, how we receive God's love, what we see when we peer into the future.

No matter who we are, we need transformation because God didn't create us to stay the same. He whispered change into the fiber of our being, knowing we would struggle with it, resist it, and embrace it at different points in our lives. He wants us to be transformed, changed a bit more with each passing day. To leave us where we are would be boring and stagnant. My transformation requires more transformation, a chain reaction.

Right now I am not loving the changes in my life, the transformation that's being required of me. And yet, I know that transformation is necessary. Stagnant water stinks and so does a stagnant life. And so I keep seeking God as I allow Him to transform me, clinging to His word and letting Him guide me through the transformation, step by step, one truth at a time."

~MaryBeth Whalen

God is still speaking to me about my "life aroma". Tonite I came upon MaryBeth's devotion. The verse in Romans caught my eye because I'm reading Crazy Love by Francis Chan right now. Today's chapter was about being more like Jesus. BEING TRANSFORMED....okay God....I really do hear You! Then at the end of MaryBeth's devotion she talks about stagnant water stinking as well as our lives when we become stagnant. Wow........Can I just tell you how excited I am to hear God speaking?!?!?!?!?

Now.....for the transformation season.......

Pictures-Aubrie-8 wks

I love my Daddy

Look at that double chin!!!

Peek-a-Boo....I see you ;)

Our Life Aroma

Yesterday I had posted the question about the aroma of our life. Is it sweet or burned out?

This question has been going around and around in my head as the past 8 weeks we have adjusted our lives to change. That beautiful change came in the form of Aubrie Grace. Our sweet baby girl that has been such a blessing. However, with a new baby, comes adjustment and change to the life you knew before.

For me, this 3rd baby has more more of an adjustment than the other 2.
Monkey #1....Gabe....was our first, which of course it's a HUGE adjustment, but yet the anticipation of it being your first makes all else fade away.
Monkey #2....Ellie....began growing in my womb when monkey #1 was 8 mths old.
So naturally, adjustment came......but we were already in "baby season" so it really didn't seem much different.
Monkey #3....Aubrie came along when older monkies were ages 3 and 2.....not really babies anymore. We had gotten into quite the groove of life, they were both pretty self sufficient, were best buddies.....we just had a nice routine going. Imagine my surprise that 3 monkies ARE actually more work than just 2 ;) I am loving every minute of it.

HOWEVER.....I find myself so much busier that my prayer life and times with Jesus have been few and far between. And when this MamaMonkey doesn't put this into her schedule of life....
her life begins to have not such a sweet aroma anymore.

So this question keeps going around and around in my head: Is my life still giving a sweet aroma to those around me and is it a sweet offering to Jesus? Or is it stinky? and burned out? Well......to those in my immediate household......they would tell you stinky. I have been impatient, angry, short-tempered, grouchy way too many times in the last 8 weeks.

Today, I came upon this devotion:
http://proverbs31devotions.blogspot.com/2010/04/attitude-adjustment.html
I don't believe in coincendences.....I believe in God communicating to us in all the
little details.....because He loves us that much. If our ears and eyes are open...we will
see and hear what all He has for us.

And as far as adjustments go......the best part of the harder adjustment is that the 2 older monkies are actually quite a help..... they are so good at running and sticking Aubrie's passy back in her mouth when she's crying. WHAT.A.BLESSING ;)