Happy Birthday to our Church!

{source} Today, our church is celebrating its 3rd year of existence! After two years of praying, worrying, asking God and other people if we were crazy,- oh, yeah, and a hurricane on our original launch date- our baby church opened its doors October 12, 2008. If you’re part of an established church (as we had […]

Five things Thursday… Travel

I’m linking up with Abbie today for Five Things Thursday, Travel Edition!  Here are some of my favorite places we’ve traveled.  {The view from our beach house in February of this year. One of the best vacays EVER!}  {East Texas. Not an exotic locale, but my fam is there and that makes it a great […]

family update

What have we been up to lately? This one is busy being a first grader. This is him on our first day of school. Yes, he gets fully dressed for school, even at home.  Here he is on the first day of the class he attends once a week. She has been busy dancing, and […]

Our tenth anniversary of being ENGAGED!

September 15, 2001Ben picked me up. Took me to Olive Garden. We shared the Tour of Italy. Ben did not eat his half. If you know him, you know this is in no way normal.Drove back to our little town. Went into the church. Ben got down on one knee, at the altar, and proposed. […]

family

I love this family of mine… We are not perfect…. {had ya fooled, didn’t we? 😉 } In fact, we are far from it. These two fight… {thankfully, not while under a replica of the cross. but shortly before. and after.}                        We all have […]

Follow up from my lovely sister

If you missed last week’s post by my sister, make sure to go back and catch up. Here, she gives several practical tips to get by during the lean times.  ———————————————— So how did we survive not having the money to pay our basic bills, and pay off all our medical bills and stay credit-card-debt free? Here […]

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