phone photos...

pics from my phone this week... but they aren't showing up for me to annotate them.

in no particular order (it's like a guessing game for you!!!)

a dress i got from old navy, but hated the length of. i think the dress was like $6, too! so, i cut the bottom off yesterday and threw in a quick hem before church. hopefully no one noticed how sloppy it was!!

first day of soccer practice... or soccer lecture with no soccer ball and weird drills. she actually was happy... that is her "posed" smile!

nora told me the mountains with the sunset the other day looked like heaven. i couldn't have agreed more!!

christopher's room.... just waiting!

38 weeks... and counting!!

new packaging for pink hydrangea shop. thanks to paper krush. if i could get blogger to do links, i would link to her. is anyone else having problems with blogger right now??

rapunzel was sleeping. on the landing of the steps. but she was just so cute!!

showing off his new "cars" bike helmet. he was given a new bike (used, but new to us) recently! his feet don't quite reach the pedals... we are trying! again, weird "posing" smiles!!

we met daddy for lunch the other day. so fun!! taking advantage of being able to do that!!

this was how i found james the other day. he told me he was hiding from the man on the ceiling. given the recent scares about attempted abductions in our neighborhood, i was slightly nervous. thankfully, i haven't noticed a man on the ceiling...

brotherly love...

so, they might be near in the right order... we'll see!!

waiting... waiting sucks. (sorry mom, i know you hate that word!!) there are so many things we wait for. and we live in a culture where we just don't wait well. i mean, if there is more than like one person in line at the grocery store, we are getting impatient, and they are calling another checker. it's one of the things i remember (and hear so often) from being overseas. there is no rush to get your order taken, placed, food brought out to you, check to you. (i wonder how all of our rushing/anxiety relates to our high blood pressure rates and heart disease...)

anyway... waiting. i am waiting for christopher. and trying to really enjoy these last few hours, days, weeks with my two kids. they have been so fun. and i feel so boring. (i CANNOT keep my eyes open at times to save my life!!!) i have NO ENERGY! but i know that i will lack energy in a different way as soon as he gets here! but each day i wake up, wondering if this is going to be the day. and each night, i lay in bed, a little sad that it's not. i have a hard time planning more than a day out, just to be safe.

and yet, i am thankful that he is still inside me. that he is alive and kicking. ALL. THE. TIME! and i know that God is in control of the timing, and there couldn't be anything more perfect than that. and so i try not to be so impatient. and love that my kids want to snuggle me. and make a great dinner, complete with chocolate cake, just cause i can. and do random fun things with the kids (albeit a little selfish), like take them to the beach for 3 minutes just so i can put my toes in the water, because around a full moon, that's supposed to help!!

and more on waiting... or instant answers from God. i feel like so often, it's easy to see direction. or at least it has been recently. some of that is david. when we are making a decision together, and we feel differently, i state my case, we discuss, and then if he still feels differently, we go with him. there is so much peace in knowing that even if i don't agree or would do it differently, still, God has placed him as the head of our family, and i submit to him. it's made decision making so easy recently.

except for finding a church. don't get me wrong. the ones we have tried were good. good preaching. or good children's programs. or good friends attending. but not "our" church. not the right fit for us, for a variety of reasons. good friends recommended a church before we even got to the island. and we tried other things first. all the while, praying about where God would have us. and i was so frustrated and so impatient that it had taken so long. and then we tried the recommendation. talk about eating a little bit of crow! it has been fantastic. great preaching. great kids' program. and a true church family. for the five weeks we have been there. from the first week. we have felt so welcomed and loved. and reached out to. and a part of it. i know i mentioned it last night, but as i thought about waiting today, i thought about this. i wanted an immediate answer from God. i wanted the first, or second, or third church to be the one. i didn't want to keep looking. i didn't want to wait. but, for whatever reason, God wanted us to (because, i THINK we were being sensitive to his leading, and not ignoring him...). and it is SO MUCH FUN to see his plan. because it's better than i could have imagined!

what are you waiting on???