Home Sweet Home!

Really next week is Thanksgiving?  

exhausted!     I let the girls rotate in my bed and the other an air mattress in my room on the floor.   They loved it and it did make Daddy being gone a little easier. 

Sleeping beauty!   Last night before Daddy comes home! 

We have loved having my Brother and his family staying with us this week while their house is still being finished.   Ellie of course is adorable and we all love her to pieces!   Of course my brother and Katelyn are wonderful too!  

This stinker has stolen our hearts!  She would come in after the girls were asleep and wait for Auntie Rach to take her into to give them big kisses before she went to bed!   Ellie we all love you!

Jimmy wrapped up his last full week of the First Tennessee Emerging Leader Program (ELP) and got home late Friday.   We were so thankful to have him home!   We did well with him gone but its never the same!  

Jimmy got home late Friday and was welcomed by very special friends of ours, the Simpsons.   Thomas was the best man in our wedding, Jimmy’s dearest college friend and we adore their family.    They have spent the past several years as missionaries to Uganda and are now back in states wrapping up their “tour” before they head back.   We were thrilled to have a weekend to visit and share life.  We are so honored to be able to pray for them, support them and watch their ministry grow.   They challenge our faith consistently and no matter how many miles away we know they are always there to lift us up in prayer.   Friends like this are gold to life!  

Raynah and Maggie (with Bella watching) play tea party!  These two quickly after just a few hours were fast friends like their parents!     

Maggie said all evening "where is my best friend" any time Raynah was not with her!   

Josiah, Maggie, Gracie, Raynah and Judah.   It is so heart  warming to watch our kids play and make memories together.  (November 2014)

Our kids (November 2012- exactly 2 years ago)   

The house over the past month has hosted many special family and friends and we have made many memories and teachable moments for the girls too!   Moments including giving your room for others, sharing anything you have, serving guest before yourself and most important the reminder that life is about relationships near and far and for that we are richly blessed.