Outnumbered and Overjoyed

So we're back in the game, and this is a new league for us. Not only can the kids steal bases (actually, they steal a LOT of bases), but...

Romans 5:1-5  Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2  through whom...

So yesterday's game was a good one for another reason, totally unrelated to Eli. His coach asked me about a week ago if he could get a...

Eli has been back in the Fullers Park fields for less than a month, but it feels like we never left (we took an 18month break to try soccer)...

This morning I did something that I have not been able to do with Ruby since before she started walking. I took her to an open gym at a plac...

Ruby's school had a mini-carnival today. When the classes attended their 'movement' session, the gymnasium was set up with diffe...

When Ruby eats at home, we put her in her booster/high chair. She has a tray snapped on in front of her, keeping her safe and secure in the ...

"Do not be weary in well doing for at the right time, if you do not give up, there will be a harvest."  Galatians 6:9 I should...

Such a cool event. A few weeks ago I wrote about Brave The Shave . Since then, Eli, Lehr and Aunt Megan signed up to shave their heads as...

I took Ruby in for a small outpatient surgery yesterday morning. (I say small because after the little bit of medical stuff we've been e...

Especially when their kindness makes them not strangers. When it makes them some sort of extended family that you may not see regularly. ...

Grandpa Jim came to our house for a few days on his way to visit some friends. Ruby never missed a beat, calling him "Um-pa" and...

Deep breath. That boy. Lately there have been so many good things surrounding him and the tween he's becoming: he volunteered to par...

This is not to say that the gifts that I haven't blogged about individually are not 'special gifts'....there are just too many t...

Yet another one. Another one of the many special gifts Ruby has received from what I can only describe as her adoring fans. Just before...

  Joshua 24:15 "...as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord .” At the end of each calendar year, I put all of my blog pos...

The cool stuff keeps happening... A few weeks ago I received a message from someone asking if we would mind if their son shaved his head i...

For the last several years, Maddux and Lehr have attended a father-daughter dance, either at a local church or at Maddux's school. This ...

Psalm 71: 23  My lips will shout for joy when I sing praises to You; And my soul, which You have redeemed. Ruby is OU...

If you know Ruby, you know she makes friends everywhere she goes. She walks through Publix, school, the hospital, LIFE, waving to people and...