{sweet moves}

Check out these sweet moves. This kid loves to dance! Should I be worried?

{blessed beyond words}

I have been traveling a lot lately for work and have spent 10 nights during the last month in a hotel room away from my husband, kids and home. What I have learned during our time apart is that absence truly does make the heart grow fonder!

I have missed them all the way to the core of my being! I have missed the dirty diapers, bath time, cooking dinner, doing the laundry, tucking them in bed, reading them stories, and every little task that we as mothers perform on a daily basis. It sounds so silly but those mindless, mundane tasks remind me of all the wonderful things im blessed with! They mean that I have been blessed with clothes to fold, and a beautiful house to keep clean, and food to feed us. More importantly I've been blessed with the most beautiful children in the world! I don't want to miss a minute of time with them because they are just growing up too fast.

I am also blessed with the most amazing husband! He is the most important person in the world to me and I cherish our time together. All in all I'm not trying to brag but I think I have the best life! I wouldn't trade it for anything!

{love our walks}

We love our evening walks! The kids love to be outside and want to go on walks every night! Tonight Hayes wanted to ride in the wagon but decided he wanted to pull it. That kid about wore himself out pulling that wagon all the way home!

{looooooongest stairs ever}

Heading into the Atlanta americasmart building from the MARTA you have to go up one of the longest escalators I've seen in my life. Unfortunately it was not working and I had to walk the stairs! Check this out...

{away for a few}

The next 5 days I will be spending my time here...



Top of building 2 on the 18th floor at Atlanta market. I'm sorry I won't be able to post because they are working me to the bone. Well, that and I am exhausted by the time I get out of here. I'll be back next week. Don't miss me too much!

{submission}

This past Sunday we heard a sermon on submission that has really spoke to me in so many ways. I have never heard it put in such a way and for the first time the light bulb went on and something clicked inside me. I am still processing but I wanted to share a few points. (I was going to try and put a link for you to hear it yourself, but it's not uploaded yet)

"3Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as braided hair and the wearing of gold jewelry and fine clothes. 4Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight. 5For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to make themselves beautiful. They were submissive to their own husbands, 6like Sarah, who obeyed Abraham and called him her master. You are her daughters if you do what is right and do not give way to fear." 1 Peter 3:3-6

What Submission is: The divine calling of a wife to HONOR and AFFIRM her husbands LEADERSHIP and help carry it through accourning to HER gifts. A HEART to follow and an inclinations to yield to his leadership.

What Submission says: I delight when you take INITIATIVE for our family. I am happy when you take RESPONSIBILITY for things and LEAD in love. I can not FLOURISH when you are PASSIVE and I have to make the family WORK by myself.

I have been repeating these statement and reading them over and over again. I hope to continue to process and grow in my submission to Zac. I know it is only possible when I fully eliminate all anxiousness and worry in my life. I hope to be "clothed with strength and diginity; [and] can laugh at the days to come." Prov. 31:25

{Hayes the worker}

Hayes is one of the hardest working kids I know! Anytime he sees Daddy and Mommy working he jumps right in to help.



Cleaning up the floor after he made a mess.



Then I took away the 409 and I caught him using his OJ to clean up. Good intentions but not the best choice.

I love Hayes's heart and his servant attitude.