A Salvation Story

Our last night in Texas we had the most wonderful surprise, Jonah our five and half year old, gave his life to Christ. His Paw-paw had the privilege of praying with him and you could see the sparkle in his eyes. We had thought Jonah was getting close to making a decision about Jesus since he has been asking tons of questions about salvation and his older sister has been doing a fine job of witnessing to him. So on May 17th, 2012 we will now celebrate Jonah's birth into Christ. What an amazing gift. We look forward to watching what God has planned for his life.

and so it begins...

We are officially a Soccer family. Grace had her first soccer practice yesterday through an organization called upwords. Her coach seemed nice and best of all made it all fun and weaved Christ in the practice.
We took the whole family to the first practice and it was sort of mess so we will be looking for a sitter for at least Titus since he doesn't quite understand boundaries quite yet. I gave the kids on the sidelines a speech on supporting our family and being there and that this wasn't about them or playing at the park but cheering Grace and being there for her. It is something I believe is important in our family because with the kids so close in age they all fight to be number one. Thank the Lord we are diving into this slowly I can only imagine what it will be like when all of them are into an activity. YIKES!

The Haircut

Grace has been growing her hair since birth minus a few trims a long the way. Over the holiday weekend we took her to get it cut since she has been asking for a hair cut since she started first grade. It turned out nicely and she is caring for it a lot better.

Grace is enjoying first grade. She is also looking forward to playing soccer this Spring. It has been fun watching her grow in her faith and set a good example to her siblings. She is a treasure.