journey to 30 #2 again

after talking about my man I thought maybe you needed a reminder of how cute he is. So here he is, with Max just to up the cute factor.

have I ever told you how much I love him? cause I do.

journey to 30 #2

Slow starting on these journey to 30 posts. It's the start of a new school year and I am up to my neck in college students. I LOVE it, but it means less time for life.

#5. I want to be a submissive, supportive, helpful, and encouraging wife

Adam and I are entering a season where we are trying to be super intentional about our relationship. Our wonderful community group is studying Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas. We've just begun, but I've already enjoyed talking as a group about the purpose of marriage. Thomas states that God designed marriage not to make us happy, but to make us holy. I've been challenged by this line of thinking. Whenever I get frustrated with Adam because he doesn't understand my thoughts, my heart, or my needs I try to remember that those moments can cause me to throw myself at the foot of God to find what I seek. Instead of hashing it out with Adam so that I'm better understood and thus more happy, I take my heart to the throne of my Savior and ask Him to simply remake me to make me more like Him. It is a very selfless view to take, and completely contrary to my nature, but by the grace of God I can be transformed.

Each Friday night Adam and I are having "marriage night." We're discussing Sacred Marriage and then doing something to intentionally build our relationship. We've played a super fun little marriage mad lib game and we took a really great quiz about perspective in marriage.

I'm excited. I can't wait to look back in two years to see the glorious work God has done in our hearts. I expect big things from my Jesus and big things from my marriage. Truly, my heart's desire is that our marriage would make us more holy, that our relationship would serve as a fashioning tool for God to make us like His Son.

the one that's funny

Sorry its been a few days since I posted. My life is insane right now: it is the start of the Fall semester and my life is overtaken by college students. Which I LOVE. But, it makes for super late nights, no sleep, no time with my beautiful family. It'll all calm down soon. I don't have much energy to give you a thoughtful post, but here is a funny post.

Adam was comforting Chloe Belle when she was really upset. Jimmie and Max decided they needed to be comforted, too. They just hopped up in his lap for a little loving. It was awesome.

the one with the painting

Beth's little Joey will be arriving soon. I painted him a little something for his nursery. It's meant to match his bedding. So fun!

the one where I love mornings

I love mornings with Chloe Belle. When I get her out of the crib she only wants one thing: milk. She's pretty uninterested in me. But I love that about 10 minutes into nursing, she gets enough milk in her belly and is ready to love me. She'll roll back on the boppy and put her little hand on my cheek to say good morning. She'll play with my hair and stroke my cheek then go back to eating. She repeats this little cycle every few minutes. It's as if she doesn't want to go too long eating without stopping to say, "I love you mommy!" It's precious.
I love my baby girl.

journey to 30 #1

At last. My first Journey to 30 post. I've been thinking and mulling over these things for over a month now, and I'm glad to be getting them out. Here's my list:

By the time I'm 30 [July 9, 2012] I'd like these things to be a reality in my life:

1. I want to be an obedient, fruitful disciple of Christ
2. I want to have a intimate, abundant, authentic prayer life with the Lord
3. I want to commit more Scripture to memory [for reals-not just rote memory where it's forgotten a month later]
4. I want to share the Gospel once a week
5. I want to be a submissive, supportive, helpful, and encouraging wife
6. I want to be a godly, encouraging, inspiring, and nurturing mother
7. I want to become more involved in matters of social justice; including praying more for social justice issues around the world, educating myself more on needs and how I can meet them, and most importantly...
8. Adam and I want to begin the process of adoption to graft a child in need into our loving family.
9. I want to be more healthy; including cooking and providing healthy meals for my family and making exercise an important, habitual part of my life.
10. I want to learn how to sew and crochet so I can make little pretties for my children.

whew. This is alot, but I'm so excited about living with intentional purposes. I'm going to be talking about these goals alot on my blog. Please leave comments and let me know how you're pursuing your own goals. Let's keep each other accountable to grow and flourish as we're lavished with love and grace from our Father. Yay! So excited!

the one with the winner!

Thanks so much for participating on my last post. I thought it would be fun to have you join in, but it was more than just fun-I really enjoyed hearing what you wanted to be different in your life. I have written down what you said, and I will be praying for you as you seek to see God work in your life and make you more like His Son!
Praise God for good friends!

I was very sophisticated in selecting a winner-I just asked Adam to pick a number between 1-6. He picked 4! Yay for Meryl! I picked you out a lovely prezzie last night and I'm popping it in the mail tomorrow.