Growing and Learning...

We see our sweet little 'babe' growing more and more everyday! She amazes us daily with new words, expressions, her imagination, and her abilities. She LOVES to sing! We have taught her how to do the 'Hokey Pokey' and she wants us to do it with her. She calls it 'Pokey Pokey'. She LOVES for us to get in the floor and play with her and for us to sing and dance with her. We have been teaching her songs with movements and she LOVES that! She is so cute to watch and listen to her. She can do 'This Little Light of Mine' and she will do the hand motions including 'hide it under a bushel.. motion' :). I will have to try to get some video of that some time. She also loves singing the ABC song but doesn't sing all of the letters.

Since she got her kitchen at Christmas, she has showed an even bigger interest in watching me cook or prepare food. She wants me to hold her so she can see what I am doing on the counter or at the stove, etc. It is quiet hard to hold her some times and prepare food so the other day, I just pulled up a chair and let her stand in the chair and watch me. She was very intent on what I was doing just watching me. :)



Today, she started really LOVING to color. For months now we have been showing her how to color and she would ask to 'cuder' every so often but she really wouldn't stay very interested in it for long. She use to not bare down hard enough with the colors to really show up good on the paper. Today, she was doing really good and was impressing herself with her ability!:) She would get another color crayon and color some and then show us every time she did something new so that we would praise her. This kept her entertained for a while this morning and really colored her first 'real' pictures today.

Here is a video of the action:)... If you notice in the beginning she says 'WOW' :) This is because we kept saying 'wow' to her artwork:)..



More random pics from the past week of our little darlin':)

NATIONAL CHAMPS!!

Well, I haven't said it yet but.. we have to give our big ROLL TIDE ROLL!! We are very proud of our team for getting our first EVER Heisman Trophy Winner-- Mark Ingram, winning the Butkus award, SEC champs, and NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

It has been a great year and this is actually this first time I personally remember winning a Championship. In 1992, I apparently wasn't very concerned with football and I don't even remember winning it then. So ... fun times!

With this said, we got a package in the mail yesterday from Adam's parents. This is what it consisted mostly of......

and shirts for all three of us...:)

Thanks you two!!

Random... and Winter is Here!!

The cold weather is officially here and apparently it is just about everywhere else in the U.S.:) We got about 4 inches of snow on Thursday into Friday. We have had periodic light snow showers since then and even tonight. The snow has lingered here in Louisville because it hasn't got out of the teens of 20's in over a week. We haven't really got out a whole lot with Grace since it has been so cold. When we have she has been bundled up..





We did go outside and play in the snow a little with Grace. She really didn't know what to think about walking in the snow. We didn't really stay out long but I made a small snowman very quickly so Grace could learn about building a snowman with the snow. The snow didn't pack very well and it was VERY cold so it was a rushed job:)

When we went out to build a snowman I put Grace in 2 layers of clothes with the jacket, hat and hood. She was walking like she was a mummy and couldn't move:)

In other news, we have been working on support letters for our Mission trip to Zimbabwe, Africa. We went to another interest meeting last Sunday night and found out more info on it. It is truly amazing how the Lord is confirming our decision more EVERY DAY and the random things that have been happening to gain support for our Mission trip. Each time He reminds us that He is in control and to really TRUST Him!

Please continue to pray for us..

Here is a random pic before Church last Sunday..

Mission in 2010

We have done a lot of things in our lives, especially in the past five years. We have left our hometown, moved again, gone back to school, lost loved ones, and gained new ones. One of the things that God has increasingly showed us is that there is a world outside of America who is hurting and is in need of help.

We have always been happy to pray and give to international missions and always said we would like to go. It seems like such a huge task that we could never do it. We have come to realize that that attitude will never do anybody much good. The hard things in life are hard because it takes work to get them done. Reaching the world is a hard task.

We have set out to go on mission with our church this year on a trip to Africa. I have wavered on it, even today and said we won't be able to do it. But with the faith of my wife and a nagging feeling that won't go away we are pushing forward. The trip will be for about 12 days. It is not a cheap thing to do either, the vast majority of the cost will be flying there and back. We are a couple that doesn't have much money, with school and part time jobs we barely get by. But as my pastor said this week, God owns it all. If God owns it all and He has a people who have never heard of Jesus and has put us in a church who wants people to go there and He has laid it on our hearts to go, than He will get the funds for us. That does not mean we can just sit on our duffs and wait on the cash to flow in from Heaven. We will be BUSY. We are going to pick up what hours we can, sell things if we have to and write many great friends and family who have been so good to us in our lives. God does His work through people most of the time and I believe He will now.

We will be going to see a people that have been separated by the damming up of a river. They have been largely neglected by their government and are unable to grow their own food and have a good supply of clean water. HIV/AIDS is also rampant there. While we seek to provide help for them in their physical health, we know that the greater need is one of eternity. These people need a Savior who can rescue them from their sin.

We are so excited to see what God is going to do this year and how He will bring all the pieces together just as He has planned. We covet your prayers as this task is so big that my faith in God is being shown weak today. Pray that we will trust Him, will raise the funds to go, share the Gospel with those who have never heard and have a safe time doing it and returning. Thanks so much for your time. If you would like any more information or would like to help in prayer or any other way please message me and let me know. Thanks again!

-Adam

Christmas with Granny and Papa

Grace's Granny and Papa arrived from AL on Christmas evening. They were here for the remainder of Christmas and through the weekend. I cooked dinner and we spent some quality time together at home on Christmas evening. Saturday we got out and went to Walmart and lunch and had dinner at the house. It was very cold while they were here so we really didn't want to get out too much. :) On that Saturday night we drove around and looked at Christmas lights. Grace is actually able to see them now and recognized Santa and a Snowman when she saw them all lit up. Sunday morning we all went to church and decided on eating at Logan's Roadhouse for lunch. Church was great and lunch was too! They had to go back to AL after lunch.

We really enjoyed our time with them!!


Quality time at home....

Grace was showing off all her new things to Granny (and Papa)..

How sweet.. Grace with her Daddy..

Grace was having a BLAST doing 'Ring Around the Rosey' for them.. she was getting so excited and cheering for herself!! She didn't want to stop:)

Mommy and Grace :)
(this is the outfit Aunt Marsha sent Grace)

Our family!!

Grace playing her keyboard with Papa

More cheers for 'Ring Around the Rosey'!!

Cuddling with Granny... very sweet!!

Grace wore her new outfit sent from my cousin Kim to church on Sunday! Just look at the shaw:) and the boots from her Nana :)

Great pic with Granny and Papa

Our family again!!:)

Christmas Eve and Christmas Morn.. in Louisville

I ended up being off work all of Christmas this year. On Christmas Eve Adam unexpectedly ended up getting off early and we were all home as a family to spend Christmas Eve together. We were also very happy to be able to go to the Christmas Eve Service at our church (Highview) at the Fegenbush campus. It was truly wonderful. We all sang Christmas songs and families from the church (including the kids) took turns going up to the front of the church and reading the Christmas story straight from the Bible. We ended with a song all under candlelight. It was great to stop and truly reflect on the amazing story of Jesus/ why we celebrate Christmas. Later we got Grace in her Christmas p.j.'s and to bed.

Going to Christmas Eve Service..

Ready for Santa..:)

Grace ended up sleeping till after 9 am on Christmas Day and she was pleasantly surprised when she came down stairs. She spotted her kitchen and she was so funny, all she wanted to do was to play with it and just explore every thing on it before moving to any thing else. I was trying to get her to move on and open her wrapped gifts and to later look at her stocking. She kept stopping and going back to her kitchen. She was very cute!:)

The first video she had just came down stairs so she was not totally awake:)

This cart was from Nana and Paw Paw too..

Grace enjoying her sucker from her stocking:)

This is a video of Grace 'playing' and singing!!:) Her Nana and Paw Paw sent this to her through Granny and Papa when they came up on Christmas evening. They knew how much Grace loved playing her piano..



More later on Granny and Papa visit on Christmas, and the weekend..