A much needed break...

 Hello all!  

Not sure if you've noticed, but we've been going a zillion miles an hour these last few months and I have got to take a break and catch my breath and get our life back in order!  All of the busy has been so, so good, but before the next whirlwind of summer starts, I must get our life back together and take care of some home stuff :)  

We'll be back in a week or two! 

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Church conference!!!

What a wild weekend!  It was so wonderful, full of worship, teaching and fellowship!!

We were blessed to host some of the events and started the weekend off with a special dinner with one of our speakers...

There was a Friday night session that I was unable to attend because of my little men, but I was watching via Zoom and bustling around getting ready for the Saturday morning men's breakfast...

It was such a joy to see godly men rising up to their calling in Christ! 

The rest of the pictures are totally out of order, but show the JOYFUL time that the rest of the weekend was...

Impromptu worship times...

Even a few animals made appearances...😂

Rich table fellowship! 

The teens even snuck in some dancing!!  

Wonderful teaching and worship!! 

So, so thankful for this wonderful man of God!!  We were so strengthened and encouraged by his messages! 

Games, games, games!! 

More impromptu worshipping! 

🙌🙌 Lots and lots of talk time!! 🙌🙌

Games on into the night....

And the weekend ended with lots of laughter and the teens heading up their own worship gathering, which was SO SO SWEET to see!! 

Praise GOD for the great work of HIS AWESOME SPIRIT!!!

Busy, busy & out and about!!

My older three had State Testing this week, so we stopped by and visited some friends near the testing center for some play time!  

 😁💪💞 My how the pile has grown!!! 😁💪💞

Andrew and I got back early to pick them up and started our picnic lunch... 

Then we were joined by our kiddos and our wonderful neighbors for a picnic after the testing was finished!  

Costco for errands and snacks!  

Springtime reading outside! 

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We have a church conference this weekend that we are hosting events for and Natalie and I got VERY BUSY cooking up a storm!!!  What a joy to serve the Lord in these ways!! 

Andrew was our faithful supervisor...

James  and Andrew made some decorative artwork while we worked! 

YUM, YUM, YUM...looking forward to feasting on God's WORD!!!  

Life, life, life! SO FULL these days...

We got to visit with the baby goats this week and they were ever soooo cute!! 

Andrew wanted in on the action...😂

The buds are blooming and we are quickly losing our winter sunset view 😕

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One of their favorite devotionals written by Daddy's "adopted" grandpa...

Toddler probs...

😂Piano practice... 

James and mama went to the eye doctor for our yearly check ups...

Whew...this was not funny business trying to drive after having your pupils dilated!! They should have warned me not to try to spend the afternoon doing errands 😳 I literally couldn't see!! 

Handsome haircut man!! 

😍Reading time with Daddy😍

More sunset farewells...

And these two!!! 

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Best-of-buds!!! 

Totally inseparable.

We are thankful that Natalie got the brace off of her arm after a small ski accident!!! 

Another great week!