Our New Home

 The 2 month blog break was because of what this picture holds. My amazing husband bought the sprouts and I our first home. The past few weeks have held house hunting trips, paperwork, inspections, appraisals, phone calls, money, and last but not least, signing our life away! That was followed by packing, cleaning, address changing, moving, unpacking, etc. Then a week and a half after we moved, we opened the doors for our family to come celebrate with us. The Sensel's, Grams & Grandad, Crowdad & Lambie, Punkin & Granny, and a Pastors' conference in Maryland fit somewhere in there. This house has been a gift from God and we are having a wonderful time putting it to good use. 

 This is the welcome you can expect after the front door is open.

So come visit!

 Beautiful & Handsome

 Liz is acting prim and proper while Sydney is enjoying watching Noah's sideshow.

 Silly.

 Goofy.

All done!

A Memorable Life Update

• We have now lived in Seguin as long as we lived in Maryland. It's hard to believe that 2 years ago we were in Frisco at Grace Church, last year in Maryland at Covenant Life Church, and now in Seguin at Lifegate Church.  God has richly blessed us with wonderful church families during our life together, and we are looking forward to the future with anticipation as to what God has planned for us here at Lifegate.

• Noah has been experimenting with Newton's law of gravity over the past few weeks. His main point of study is "what goes up must come down." Balls, sand, sticks, rocks, dead birds, fall at different rates of speed, and he is gladly up to the task of testing each one over and over. The only one that makes him cry is rocks (poor guy!) and the only one that makes me cry (in disgust), is the dead birds. I now make a sweep of the backyard before he is let out to play.

•  I have officially received my first black eye. Lizzy Grace woke-up early one morning last week and Joshua brought her into bed in hopes that she would go back to sleep. But instead she began to play and roll around on the bed which led to her slamming her noggin into the bone over my left eye. A knot proceeded to come up, making me look like a two year old that had just run into the corner of a wall. The days that followed brought many color changes to try and cover up with make-up, but overall I think I was pretty successful. ;)

• We are sad to announce that Lizzy Grace is a kleptomaniac when it comes to recycling.  Remotes, books, toys, coasters, etc, disappear on a regular basis and can always be found in the recycling bin. She goes a little overboard when it comes to saving the planet and we can only hope that she will grow out of her extremism.

A Wonderfully Busy Season

It has been an incredibly busy season with Joshua being in school and caring for three little ones. The daily tasks of running this home and caring for those in it can at times be a daunting task if God was not in the picture. And now the time has come for me to carve out that extra time I have on my hands to start packing up for the trip home. Hmm....the only time I don't multitask is when I sleep, so maybe I can start packing then. =)

Please pray for us over the next couple of weeks as we pack, Joshua finishes up school and for the sprouts to make the transition to Seguin smoothly. God has been so faithful to us thus far, so we can only hope and anticipate for the future grace that He has in store for us in this coming season.