Today

Oh...it has been a good week for us. Feeling as if I need to pray more and speak less right now. Looking forward to praying a great deal more in this new year and anticipate what the Lord has in store. We will update in the days ahead what is going on in our hearts, but like I said right now I am praying that my voice will first be used to communicate with the One who breathed life into us and then the overflow of this will been seen and heard in a much clearer fashion. Thank you for praying for us.
Eli is growing up so fast...we are grateful for his health. We are in awe of how his mind works. He was so excited last week to run in his first Polar Bear run...one lap around a track. Wish I could describe to you his excitement leading up to this event. He was precious and his recount is a little different than how the events went down, but he did complete the race and wears his Polar Bear shirt with such joy and pride. It was just a reminder of how life doesn't always happen the way we might have envisioned, but that as long as we keep going the Lord is going to allow us to complete this race...and He is our prize.
Thank you for all your sweet encouragement and prayers. We are grateful for our friends and family more than we can express.

New Beginnings

Well thought since its a new year we could update the look of the blog. This might inspire more frequent postings. I do have a new passion for it as of today. I hope that it can be as transparent as possible as this year unfolds. Please feel free to comment this year as that will only encourage this process! Surely excited about the year ahead....

New Year

Well....I lied again....I need forgiveness from the few people that read this. It has been a roller coaster of a year and for our lives a new beginning of sorts. We are grateful for a new year and for what feels like a new start with a lot of things. Chris and I are looking forward to what adventures might transpire in 2011 and are grateful for your prayer as we move forward from a pretty emotional 2010. Our hearts still hurt and I still have rough days. My heart is healing...our families heart is healing. We do thank you for every prayer, hug, action.....we can't tell you what it has meant to us to have people praying and loving us through 2010. We are forever changed by your love and selflessness.
We look at Eli and are completely amazed at the little man he is becoming. Some days he looks like he is literally twelve while other days we are just grateful for the time we have with him at this age. It's such a fun age because his mind literally only rests when he is asleep. He is always talking about something it seems. We are more aware each day of how many little things he just picks up. He really is a sponge right now and again we are grateful.
Right now Chris and I are praying about a great deal of things and we look forward to sharing it all with you soon. We know the Lord has great plans for our family and we are trusting that He will reveal them to us in His time. We are learning a great deal about trust and faith. We look forward to learning even more in the days ahead.
Thank you for being patient with me this year. I pray that this blog will be filled with words this new year....but not empty ones....honest words that are from lessons learned from the One who is allowing us to take this journey....pray that our steps will be His in this new year.