Kinda Cute Jealousy

Adah, Daddy, and Tory

Adah adores her cousin... but I don't think she'll ever like sharing her daddy. If looks could kill...my goodness!

**thanks Hayley for the hilarious picture! I love it!**

Hope you all have a great Monday,

Rachel

Watching Amazing Grace ... and Faith

Evan


I have had a draft of this post sitting in my "Posts" tab for awhile. How do you write about something so serious when you just wrote about something "trivial"? I have been, though, kinda overwhelmed with amazement reading the words of a family going through the fight of their life.

Evan, a family friend, was diagnosed with cancer a few weeks ago. Could I ask you to join with the many many people already lifting him up to Jesus? I have been in awe of his hope and eyes fixed on Jesus. The Lumpkin family is trusting Him for the grace they need daily, and how amazing it is to see. Evan's story is reaching and encouraging so many people -- me included.

So here's the link to their site if you want to get to know this amazing family, be encouraged by their faith, and to pray along with us for Evan's healing.

Thanks guys.

With love,
Rachel

ps. "Trivial" and serious are all a part of life. I don't want to compartmentalize life or faith. May our lives be His, no matter the circumstances. Thank you Lumpkin family for being such a testimony of this truth. We admire you guys so deeply, and we are praying for Evan and your whole family.

Amen Lord.

Encouragement from Isaiah

a verse to soak in this morning.

With joy you will drink deeply from the fountain of salvation!
--Isaiah 12:3

Let us drink up dear friends!!!
Thank you Savior!

enjoying the drink,
Rachel

a happy little nugget

I love how this picture shows how tiny she really is.
I love how her smile still lights up any room...or hallway.
I love how easily that smile comes.

I love her :)

"I'll love you forever,
I'll like you for always,
As long as I'm living
my baby you'll be."
-Robert Munsch

So true Adah Belle.


Love,
Mama

October Ends...

Our Pumpkins....

Pumpkin #1

We were proud of this little guy. Clay designed him. We sipped a homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte while we carved him. Adah napped. It was fun. When Adah met him she cried. That was sad. He did a good job welcoming the throngs of trick-r-treaters. Then he met an untimely death the next day when Clay used him for knife throwing practice.

Pumpkin #2

We never got a good picture of this little pumpkin. Maybe it's because she didn't like to stand still like Pumpkin #1. Maybe it's because the night kinda got crazy :) Adah Belle was a "Blue Belle" flower. She bore the burden of fluff beautifully. She cried when scary people came to the door though, and that made her mama not like Halloween very much. She enjoyed watching her daddy throw knives at Pumpkin #1 the next day.

(ps. The first picture was Adah trying to eat dinner cleverly disguised as a flower. Poor baby! In the second picture, the cute little orange guy behind Adah is her studly cousin Owen... they are buds. Have I mentioned how much fun it is to be an Aunt?)

Thankful for our pumpkins this year,
Especially Pumpkin #2 :)